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post-election meltdown 2023

Writer: Amanda RiddellAmanda Riddell

Well, this applies to pretty much all my manias. In this particular instance, I had trouble with my prescriptions after moving to Johnsonville. The pharmacy gave me an emergency prescription, and I wasn't aware that those were limited to one-time only. As for the polyphasic sleep... That was a panic reation to running out of meds and then I wasn't able to find my Zopiclone, so I couldn't sleep, and I get paranoid when I'm sleep-deprived. That time I wasn't high, but most of the other times I was. I'm not kidding when I say that Jane taught me how to do such things. She taught a range of meditative practices that I often use. When I was staring up at the wall on Wednesday at Parliament, I was doing that: This is a good one. Find your energy and concentrate it on the soles of your feet. Find the mauri thread, then gradually pull it upwards, consciously relaxing each muscle. You should feel a gentle broadening or opening up in your body, particularly the spine. It takes a few minutes, and should be done with conscious slowness. - I really do make my friends try these, by the way. Michelle and Amber would remember me trying these meditative techniques with them, plus Amber was one of Jane's students too. - Anyway, from the outset of my first mania in 2020, I was using the word 'performance art' to describe what I was doing on Facebook, and in my much more famous mania after the 2020 defeat, I also added the word phreaking. The trolling was a deliberate and conscious reaction to being surveilled. However, after a few days without sleep, my brain begins to believe the lies. This is why I call it those things. I'm aware that I'm manic or that I'm depressed, and emotional self-awareness is something that my doctors have remarked upon, which suggests that most people aren't so aware. So, from a legal perspective, I was trolling people and they were intentional trolls, but they weren't intended to be taken at face value. How long did I have 'NB: profile is performance art' on my main profile?? several years. Obviously, I drew on real feelings of anger, but the stuff that I said was half-nonsense. However, my belief is that it's the half that was true that generated the real controversy.

 
 
 

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
18 feb 2024

Cheers to Gordon Lehany for suggesting that I emphasise that it was performance art.

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