Red Economist's Blog

Things have started to get easier for depression and anxiety recently. Things aren't perfect but I've had a couple of times when I've realised I may actually be more emotionally healthy and open than many of the people around me. On Saturday I went out to town and bought a few dvd's. The guy...

I'm currently trying to write out many of my ideas in to a kind of essay form. This is really for me to examine what is actually there and whether it makes any sense. Some areas are good, whilst others are pretty much non-existent and rely on rhetoric or snippets of ideas and events from...

I was/have been a Communist for about ten years. For the most part, this meant discussing politics online, although I was briefly a member of the Communist Party of Britain. I left when my doubts became hard to avoid. The only lasting consequence of party membership is that under US Law I could...

Yesterday I posted about my mum going in to hospital. I had come back from the hospital with my dad in the car when I wrote it and despite being a non-believer, felt that sharing it on CF might be a good thing to do. Sometimes a little bit of social support is all that is needed. I don't think...