I am going to stop blogging here for a while.
Anyone who knows me personally knows that my mental illnesses have been affecting me very intensely over the last few months. The feminist blogosphere in general is very full of drama and I have been finding myself getting into discussions and arguments which are not only emotionally draining and bad for me but which are having a knock-on effect on my mental health in real life. This just isn’t on; I have a lot of things to deal with in real life and the people I love, particularly my son, deserve better from me than this spread-thin emotionally fragile being I am rapidly becoming. So I’m taking a sort of break for a while. I’ll still blog at my family blog The Orion Chronicles, and also at Mothers For Women’s Lib and probably at Crazy Like Us? because those two are still engaging, fun and feel like safe spaces for me, but as far as this place is concerned, consider it suspended indefinitely.
My real life, my mental health and my family have to come first. My partner said to me this evening “If it’s affecting you this badly, why are you doing it?” – and that kind of flicked a switch in my head. I used to do this because it was stimulating, it was thought-provoking, it was enjoyable and it felt like the right thing to be doing. These days it is none of these things, and I have to admit to myself that it is no longer good for me, and to stop doing it.
I have turned off the Delicious automatic blog posting for now as well. I know some people found those posts enjoyable; may I suggest joining Delicious and adding me to your network to keep updated on the links I save there, if you are one of those people.
I am closing comments, the reason for which should be obvious from all of the above. You are welcome to email me if you’d like to talk to me. Also I still keep a personal journal at LiveJournal; if I consider you my friend you probably have access to that already. 
Cheers, everyone, it’s been a blast while it lasted and I think a semigraceful exit now is better than burning out, screaming about little green men, a few months down the line. Thanks to everyone for making this such a great experience. 
