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Jonny Darko

Can you be born ‘woke’?

A while back during a drunken session on Twitter, scrolling through people’s fears of their cultural identity being eroded, I came across a…

3 min readFeb 2, 2021

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Can you be born ‘woke’?

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Jonny Darko

What it feels like to be 50!

Well firstly, considering the last 3 or so years of severe mental illness and 4 attempted suicide attempts it’s kinda of amazing to have…

2 min readFeb 5, 2020

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What it feels like to be 50!

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Jonny Darko

Thoughts on the forthcoming movie version of The Goldfinch.

I’ve read and loved all of Donna Tartt’s books but by far and away I love The Goldfinch the most, in fact it’s my favourite book of all…

2 min readSep 8, 2019

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Thoughts on the forthcoming movie version of The Goldfinch.

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Jonny Darko

Gilet Update

Still not cool. That is all

1 min readSep 6, 2019

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Gilet Update

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Jonny Darko

“Project Get Better” — an update!

For those of you that have read my previous articles and, in particular those about the failure of the Mental Health Services, in the UK…

6 min readAug 23, 2019

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“Project Get Better” — an update!

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Jonny Darko

The dawning realisation, that in the UK, you cannot rely on the NHS to support you with your…

I for one highly relate to the above image, as I’m sure many of you do also, to the point where I almost became agoraphobic for a time and…

5 min readJul 7, 2019

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The dawning realisation, that in the UK, you cannot rely on the NHS to support you with your…

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Jonny Darko

A life long affair with anxiety

I’m not sure I ever remember a time not facing anxiety. From early childhood being made to be play GAD in Joseph and His Technicolor…

4 min readJun 14, 2019

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Jonny Darko

Wow that was brutal

And believe me I was.

4 min readMay 1, 2019

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Wow that was brutal

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Jonny Darko

Thoughts on Normality

Hello I’m Jon, I live a strange life — I think any of us that suffer from any long term physical or mental illness know this, but maybe…

3 min readApr 7, 2019

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Thoughts on Normality

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Jonny Darko

Dear Noel Gallagher, please stop being a dick and fuck off back to obscurity.

Some of you I’m sure love him for his self-deprecating wit and challenging remarks, but when he makes statements such as “There’ll never…

2 min readMar 7, 2019

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Dear Noel Gallagher, please stop being a dick and fuck off back to obscurity.

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Jonny Darko

Jonny Darko

Anxiety driven since 73. OCPD sufferer, progressive thinker, dot connector, sense maker, art / book / music lover and ever so occasional gobshite.

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