Your Pizza Express gigs always sell out before I get to the webpage. I really must try to be more organised.

And as a result I’d just found out my whole backstory and birth name. I’m still here - I’m amazed that I am - but was very cautious for many years to “admit” to any negative mental health, to my great detriment.

(Easier said than done in terms of waiting lists etc.) As he was someone I worked with he even, in front of everyone, ordered me to leave a social event we were both at, because he refused to be in the same place as me. FWIW I was suicidal after my birth family had tracked me down…

Years ago I messaged a friend to ask if he would keep an eye on me because I was feeling very low. His response was to block me on everything on the basis that “other friends may not have given up on you, but I have.” He told me I was unstable (I already knew this!) and needed help…