Diagnoses

Me and you and our diagnoses

A perfect match in a bag of explosives

Catch of the day in a toxic ocean

Nothing wrong with us, it's the world that's broken

Two tokens short of the rollercoaster

Ancient conditions, with brand new solutions

In the old days they’d be doing ablutions

I’d be a prophet and you’d be a seer

Or, you'd be a healer, I'd be a freak, run away with the circus

And we'd meet after work for a barrel of beer, yeah

Me and you and our diagnoses, all cosied up but it’s hard to focus

Me and you and our trauma flashbacks

Relaxing at home with a Horlicks

Backpacks stuffed full of my dysphoria, your dyspraxia, off exploring

Panic attacks to get the heart rate up, good cardiovascular

We’ll get back to you, after a short psychotic episode

If I even leave the house, I'll forget to close the door

I’ll forget what I went out for and come back with a random object or four

Quetiapine, Lamotrigine, Fluoxetine

You wash it down with Listerine

I’ve never felt so at home

since methylphenidate and testosterone

CPTSD

ADHD

OCD and PMDD

Anxious attachment, TBI

But it's the world that's sick, baby, we're alright

CPTSD

ADHD

Anxiety

Bipolar, addiction, Neurodivergence

I’d be more worried if we weren’t disturbed

We've got our own alphabet, big bunch of letters between U and I

It’s the right response to a world gone wrong, and we’re getting on just fine

Me and you and our diagnoses

Out for a wander with coffee and oat milk

The posher the roastery, the more you want it

'Cause you came from nothing and you're out for the summit

So, we go hard but it's softly, softly

And we’re so scarred but it’s not a problem

There's a lot of good reasons to stop what we're doing but my disassociation means I've forgotten

Overwhelmed and overdiagnosed and overexposed, I suppose

with all these letters we’re dragging around

It's lucky I turned that MBE down

We just take it day by day

'Cause staying doesn't mean you never want to run away

It means you weather it, whether it's pleasure every minute or a bit of hard graft

Dig in, hold fast

CPTSD

ADHD

OCD and PMDD

Anxious attachment, TBI

It's the world that's sick, baby, we're alright

CPTSD

ADHD

Anxiety

Bipolar, addiction, Neurodivergence

I’d be more worried if we weren’t disturbed