Category: My Recovery

Blogs about what I do to assist recovery

Mental Health – The Career Destroyer ?

Previous Post:  The Soldiers Hole I looked at the date on my last post and realised that there was a lot missing in the world of Michael Cartwright.  I could sit here […]

Back to Pragmatism

Previous Post:  Jigsaw As I have said in Jigsaw I wasn’t really prepared to go back to police work.  I hadn’t recovered and as I headed towards it at a rate of knots that […]

Jigsaw

Previous Post:  What Routine ? As I sit here and write this post I start to wonder where I have gone wrong over the last few months.  I’m trending upwards but the road […]

The Others

Previous Post:  What Routine ? To “the others”…..I just want to say thank you. What of them ! And who are they ? For me they are Katrina, my family, friends and […]

What Routine ?

Previous Post:  Rocky Road She’s a tough road when you are trying to fight depression and it was even harder for me because I couldn’t even put my shoes on and tie […]

Rocky Road

Previous Post:  Decision Time ? In August 1978 I left New Zealand as a fresh-faced naive 18-year-old male out to explore the world and see what it had to offer.  At the time I […]