My name is Heidi Pedersen. I am a Danish woman, and I am 39 years old. I have a University degree in History and Nordic literature but I have never been able to put it to any use because of my recurring depressions and my anxiety disorder which has been controlling me more or less since my early twenties. I used to be a fiction writer too but I lost interest in this when I started to be modestly succesful and it stopped being fun. I have no children, I am single and live alone in an small rented house in Aarhus, the second largest city in Denmark. I am unemployed and my income is social security. Thank God I have a loving family and some very good friends.

On the good days I recognize the fact that I all in all have more free time than most people and therefore other possibilities, like writing this blog. On the bad days I think my life is wasteing away leaving me nothing but pain. And on the very bad days I just want to die. But recently things have changed and there are more good days than bad ones. I am starting to understand new things about myself and life and the next logical step for me has therefore been to try and share a little of the harsh lessons I have learned with the world. If this can make a difference for just one single person I would think that it is worth it.