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Tag: Broken Britain

This Time Last Year

This post is a thread of tweets I posted earlier today, hence the terse style (280 character limits!) This time … More

Broken Britain, doctors, government, health, help, mental health, mental health awareness, mental illness, NHS, one year, psychiatry, psychosis, shambles, support, writing

Sholver

My body is not a temple, it’s a sinkhole council estateĀ in Oldham: unless someone is mad enough to invest in … More

analogy, Broken Britain, gov, health, help, housing crisis, madness, Manchester, mental health, mental illness, recovery, suicide

Fancy F*cking Flowers

And on the bench outside the pub, you can’t sit down. The bench is full of family. It says SON … More

Broken Britain, crisis, death, family, friends, grief, homeless, London, memorial

Totin’

[TW: suicide] I’ve been in this waiting room for over two hours and I am glad that it’s not summertime. … More

Broken Britain, crime, depression, government, gun culture, healthcare, hospital, life, medicine, NHS, paranoia, poetry, prose, sexual health, suicide, writing

Choose Life

Choose life. Choose living below the poverty line straight from birth. Choose tolerating the parents who spawned you against your … More

#PigGate, addiction, alcohol, Broken Britain, death, drugs, family, food, friends, home, housing, life, London, philosophy, real life, truth, writing

Any Excuse

Monday = Monday Club (UK’s biggest pub chains and others cut the price of drinks), sometimes a Bank Holiday Tuesday … More

AA, addiction, alcohol, alcoholic, alcoholism, booze, Britain, Broken Britain, drinking, drugs, life, UK
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