It was an accident. A headache, a load of illicit painkillers, I was still sick with rage at getting fired so treating myself far more roughly than usual, I knocked back a few pills a bit like I’d yank on a hank of my hair in frustration, a sort of ‘get your shit together’ and then a couple more. I truly, truly had no idea that would happen. I’ve taken more pills than that in one go just to get to sleep.
I don’t want to write or think about exactly what followed. I want to scrub the next four months completely from my life but […]