http://slow.writerscafe.org/rachelgeorgina The original writings of author rachelgeorgina en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1776070592 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 A short, rather morbid collection of words. The description of an end, of a moment, of a whole (yet short) life passed. A form of farewell, if you will. Or, perhaps, simply the description of one final moment. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rachelgeorgina/314346/ One sixteen year old's experience of psychatric "lock-up" and her attempt to gain control of herself in an enviroment where she was stripped of any - left staring out from behind bullet-proof windows. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rachelgeorgina/314050/ The flooding of memories - when sent away, to be locked up behind glass, bullet-poof doors one lives, later, with feelings of longing and of disgust. Here we find the character's reminiscence of her first hospitalisation at sixteen years of age where she http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rachelgeorgina/314033/ From inside the walls of a hospital, incarcerated for an eating disorder, this character describes the experience of having to share a room with others, of the groggy nights of medication without sleep, the mornings of standing on the scales in a skimpy h http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rachelgeorgina/314032/ The clawings of a mind trying to change and stay stuck at the same time. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rachelgeorgina/314031/ A reflection on the meaning of life - trying to find a reason to live, to care - to change. Often, those bogged down in mental illness and struggles attempt to bear the weight of the world of their shoulders and more often than not, collapse under the wei http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rachelgeorgina/314030/ Prefaced with a small extracted from Sexton's "Letter's to Dr. Y" to highlight the nature of dying - of disappearing and of disconnecting from the world, this extract explores the ambivalence of change with some borrowed likenings to images from Carrol's http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rachelgeorgina/314029/ A description of what it seemed to be like to "fall" into illness. Into instability, darkness, confusion - to fall away from life. &, the beginnings of crawling back up, of clutching for the light. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rachelgeorgina/314028/ A reflection on the experience of psychatric medication. Here, the character discusses the physical and emotional responses to and concquences of psychatric medications and the impact of the ingestion of these drugs on life - living, even more so. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rachelgeorgina/314027/ A reflection on the nature of eating disorders - the addictive nature... in fact, the desirable nature of the posssesion of an eating disorder to many sufferers. & a perspective of anger to those that seek out more dire consquences on the illness, despite http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rachelgeorgina/314025/ What will eventually (hopefully) become a 'memoir' of sorts - the journay through one young girl's experience of bulimia nervosa, of mental illness and of life as something that you 'do', rather than observe and fall slowly.. fragementedly away from. Thes http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/rachelgeorgina/314023/