When I was in my youth I thought that’d wouldn’t make it to my 21st birthday, the day I turned 21st I felt weird & strange that I hadn’t committed suicide by then. My childhood; what I remember was not fun.

Now, I’m a year away from being 50 & I’m in awe that the planet is not dead yet & that I will make it another year around the sun. It feels surreal that in a few days I’ll be 49. I remember the 1990’s & how far away the 2020 seemed to me.

For my birthday I wanted to celebrate by walking up Fløyen with my friends. I like it because we’re outdoors & we can walk any speed we want. The best is the view from the top. Getting up there isn’t that tough & the reward of carrot cake & coffee is pretty hard to beat.

I’m also halfway through editing my book, something I’m very excited about. I feel that 23 will be a transformative year but a good one.

Stay tuned for updates on my book.

When I moved back to Norway 6 years ago, I mistakenly thought the universal healthcare would be top notch. After dealing with 6 doctors in 4 years & the unprofessional police departments that send you off to psych eval & blame you for things you can Actually prove you haven’t done.

I’m no longer impressed, I caught COVID in the early part of December last year, I didn’t contact my young, incompetent doctor that I had it again. I just wore a mask & dealt with it. Even my therapist of the last decade who’s out of the country has told me not to bother.

They’ve also CUT the beds in psychiatric institutions & wonder why the chronically ill lash out in violence??? Without proper treatment many people will become a statistic. As for me I think the healthcare system is stuck somewhere in 1989 or 1995, doctors are rude to their patients & I have first hand experience with this & it happens constantly.

How the police treated me last Summer is a symptom that the police blame victims rather than help them. That’s why they call Bergen*the wild west* because of this people don’t report crimes. Also, last year there was a national report that found that the Bergen police are the laziest in the country.

Something I have first hand proof of & why Norway is seriously behind the times when it comes to their malpractice able doctors that are so incompetent in the psychiatric hospitals that patients kill themselves. In the 2020’s that should not be happening. I’m disappointed & saddened by how flawed the universal healthcare system is in Norway.

The government & the healthcare minister need to wake up to the reality that more seriously mentally ill need actual follow up care & not to be discharged after 24 hours in a psych hold. Wake up Norway your electric cars won’t get you out of this.