Essay: Blessed with a Curse

Guest post from Philip Halton

A powerful guest post from Philip Halton, creator and editor of goblin Skateboard magazine, on mental health and his journey.

My good friend Mahon recently had a podcast of very personal and heartfelt messaging on loneliness. Within the podcast, he speaks openly of his own problems and those of societies at large, which brought me back to what is 3 years this month from the lowest point of my life. Knowing how difficult these last 12 months have been for everyone, I hope this story may help someone in need that hasn't been able to reach out yet, or may not understand what they're going through.

To cut to the point.

It has been a fucking shit year. For just about everybody in some form or another, it's been a shit year. Still, you'll always have shit years or extended periods of bad luck and a feeling of being down & out. Though usually they're not collectively with the whole world, so at least we're actually in this together in that regard.

My extended down period came at the horizon of t…