Why I Write What I Do

Sally A Mortemore
7 min readSep 21, 2021

A little bit about me, first written as part of A Dis-orderly Mind, but I thought it deserved a section all of its own!

Having a mental health disorder is now being discussed more, and more openly in the UK, and is a subject I find fascinating, which, if you have been reading my work, you may have picked up on already.

I have suffered with mild depression, and anxiety for years, made worse recently by the current pandemic, and the fact I was attacked by an American Bull Mastiff 2 weeks prior to the UK’s first Lockdown. I landed up in hospital for 3 days with half of

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