In many previous blogs I’ve complained a lot about the annoyances, of my mind constantly traveling into the past. Despite it being perfectly true that it’s a very distracting issue which requires a lot of work, there are of course...
Storms and other unpredictable weather events definitely have a strong effect on my mental health. These can be thunderstorms, heatwaves, cold-snaps, or cyclones (as was the case for me last week). Brisbane sits in a subtropical region, and cyclones are...
Since the age of three I have been receiving fortnightly psychotherapy, and last week I had my 35th birthday. So despite not being a psychologist myself, there has not been a single mental health exercise that I haven’t practiced (over...
As I have previously mentioned, I had no idea that I had HSAM (Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory) until I was diagnosed with it at 23 years old; nor did I know that the condition even existed until I was 21 years old. It was my firm belief that every person thought, felt and remembered in exactly the same way as I do.
Yet regardless of whether I knew about my style of memory being somewhat rare or not, there was always an activity (which I now know to be related to my HSAM) that I enjoyed doing since I was a preteen.
