My first night on 1mg of Valium went fine. I'm 95% of the way there! Only one more cut and i am NOT AN ADDICT for the first time in 25 years. Enjoying Bo Burnham's new comedy special "INSIDE" on Netflix, about his experience in lockdown. There's stuff about mental health in it. He's a survivor and advocate. The last thing in this hour-long film is a referral to an online mental health crisis site which i found really moving.

Mental health is getting such a high-profile now! When i was diagnosed 30 years ago it was a dirty little secret. Now it's the third point on our Conservative party's five-point party-platform-pamphlet as we are in a federal election (Canada). The Conservatives have historically been very hard on the mentally ill so this is quite a change!

Carl Sagan said in his conclusion to his book "The Dragons of Eden" which was his speculations on the evolution of human intelligence that the fate of the human race lies in better co-operation between the left and right brains thru the "brain-bridge" between them, the corpus collosum. Now it seems that this is getting some attention and the human race may just be saved!