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		<title>Red Bargain: Onwards?</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2013/07/red-bargain-onwards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2013 02:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, over the past several months I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time thinking about what I want to do with my life.. about what I can do with my life.  To be honest, part of me would love to be able to go and get a job and just work like a normal person.  But I&#8217;m not [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>So.. now what?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 23:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My fantasy novel, which is now renamed &#8220;The Harbinger Rises&#8221; &#8211; Book I of The Red Bargain has now been completed.  Or at least, the first draft has been. 116265 words including the glossary, which is about at the level I expected it / planned it to be. So; now I need to get a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Meds.</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/04/meds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medication is apparently a perfectly viable way to treat depression and anxiety, provided it is accompanied by appropriate therapy&#8230; It wasn&#8217;t long after this current episode of psychological issues began that I was advised that Cognitive Behavioural Therapy may be helpful to me.  Unfortunatly though it was close to four months between my first visit [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Opening My Mind</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/03/opening-my-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 23:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my main goals with writing a blog detailing my struggles with both writing and depression was to document my progress in both so that maybe others might gain insight from my journey.  However, I&#8217;ve been a little too apprehensive to make my thoughts and feelings public.. but then I realised it wasn&#8217;t actually [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking about Thinking about Things</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/02/thinking-about-thinking-about-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a method for treatment of mental health disorders such as depression and anxiety. I&#8217;ve been waiting for my referral to a CBT counsellor for what feels like forever, with my GP changing me from drug to drug, increasing my dosage, all the while telling me that what she thinks I really [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Delusion</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/02/delusion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I worry sometimes whether I&#8217;m deluding myself. These are often my darkest moments, when the muse has gone quiet and I&#8217;m sitting with a notebook or an app of some sort in front of me, and the thought presents itself: “I&#8217;m not actually any good at any of this”. At these points I start to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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