Nom de plume

Pen name. Pseudonym. Yes. Please. A shield for my identity so that I can be completely honest in this blog.

Without my anonymity here, I will be unable to be as nakedly bare as I need to be, to be as honest as I must be. Once the burden of identity sets in, then I will be constrained to censor my words, to "protect" the people who know me (as I invariably end up doing when I post about my illness in my personal blog), to be less than true to the vision behind this blog. My words could easily belong to anyone - this is my place to talk about my illness and my reactions to it as something more than myself, to be Everywoman in a sense instead of (name with-held) from (location unknown) limiting my scope.

I could be anyone with a mental illness.

Here, I am the: the Girl Anachronism, signing off for the moment.