Showing posts with label depression. Show all posts
Showing posts with label depression. Show all posts
Wednesday, 21 August 2019

BULLYING

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I thought to be a disabled child and in mainstream school was bad during the ’70s and ’80s before the Equality Act 2010 and its predecess...
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Saturday, 11 May 2019

THE DAY THE WORLD NEVER CHANGED

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A lot happened since I last sat down to write anything. The idea had been to start doing news pieces still around disability and mental h...
Wednesday, 3 May 2017

Home truths – despair settles in

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It’s been a while, dad has been moved into a care home due to his dementia getting worse and then was rushed into hospital where we were t...
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Saturday, 11 February 2017

Disabled Access vs Disable friendly - there is a difference.

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There are times when you just get so fed up of trying to fit in to peoples boxes or ideas of what being disabled is supposed to look like,...
Tuesday, 23 August 2016

Discrimination I tick all the boxes aren’t I lucky?

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I have often heard the word “discrimination” being bandied about, a lot, in the last ten to fifteen years. I never saw myself as being di...
Sunday, 20 March 2016

THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS

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Nearly at the end of March already, who would believe it. I still maintain that this year will be my year for things to work and the last t...
Sunday, 31 January 2016

IS THIS THE LONGEST AND WORST JANUARY EVER?

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Being an amputee one of the biggest issues I have apart from not having access to places is the weather. I wasn't steady on my feet bef...
Sunday, 27 December 2015

THAT IN-BETWEEN STUFF

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Christmas means different things to different people. To most it's supposed to be a time with family, to have fun, over eat and be joll...
Tuesday, 17 November 2015

THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE WHOLE TRUTH

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The thing I hear the most often is how am an inspiration. That's good, am glad. To have some one to see you as the reason that they get...
Sunday, 13 September 2015

NEW START - NEW ACADEMIC YEAR

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Back to University next week.  Getting broke in gently as there is only the welcome back meeting on Tuesday for an hour, but there is a cat...
Friday, 4 September 2015

FROM THE HIGHLIFE TO THE LOWS IN LIFE AS WELL AS THE GRITTY BITS.

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And the world moves on…   Just had some devastating news regarding my dad this week. He has been diagnosed with mixed dementia, wh...