q-sputnik

I have identified the blogs I will be looking at, i have moved from mental health to illness/disability in general. I have listed these blogs under the ‘dissertation’ blogroll category and am now on my way to letting the authors know that I will be looking at their blogs as a researcher.

I haven’t prepared my outline yet which should be in in two weeks so a lot will change during this time.

Meanwhile, summer has settled in Brighton, naked people strech on the grass outside my window so I decided the view and sound were too upsetting for me and moved my desk to another room. While doing that I reflected on my study patterns and habits-I can’t be disturbed, I can’t listen to music while studying, i can’t really study in public spaces, noises can break my nerves completely- and I thought about definitions -where does pathology start and where does idiosyncracy end and where in this continuum is identity?

reading definitions of all kinds of conditions, from vaginitis to depression, from flu to arthritis can be like reading a horoscope: i can find a little bit of me in everything and tend to believe it. which is funny if you think of it as pleasure derived through identification.