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Tag: health

Custody Conversations

  Excerpt from History of Present Complaint by HLR (Close to the Bone, 2021). To read more, get a copy … More

CNF, health, hospital, life, memoir, mental health, mental illness, NHS, poems, poetry, prosetry, psychosis, sectioned, writing

20 Years in The System

Response to NaPoWriMo Day 19: a rant. * A few years ago they madea change they say I am no … More

depression, health, medication, mental health, mental health services, mental illness, NaPoWriMo, NHS, poem, poetry, rant, therapy, treatment, writing

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

The Swim

leaving depression in locker 8E grief wrapped up in a towel heartbreak trembling on the lip of the pool I … More

coping, depression, exercise, health, journal, lit mag, mental health, poem, poetry, reading, recovery, suicide, writing

14 Days

14 days of self-isolation, not because you are infected with the COVID-19 virus but because you: are seriously depressed // … More

addiction, books, coronavirus, covid19, depression, health, humour, illness, isolation, life, list, mental health, mental illness, poem, poetry, reading, sickness

Bones

[Part of the Body Series] Skull: frontal cranial bone: a neat linear fracture: above right eye, below hairline: wish I knew … More

body, body image, experience, experimental, health, injury, life, pain, prosetry, reflection, self, self portrait, series, writing, youth

Body Series

I’ve never thought much about my body; I just know that it’s there, it’s here, it belongs to me, I’m … More

body, body confidence, body image, chronic illness, discovery, experience, fibromyalgia, health, injury, life, mental health, self harm, self portrait, truth, writing

Out Of The Mouths Of Doctors

Your blood is highly uncooperative. If you were my daughter, I honestly wouldn’t know what to do with you. I’ve … More

doctors, health, hospital, life, London, memoir, mental health, NHS, nurses, poem, poetry, psychiatry, quotations, quotes

The Great Escape

Accidentally OD’d. Honestly, it was an accident. Remember going downstairs. Remember going out the door. Remember speaking to a man … More

blackout, breakdown, health, Hijacked Amygdala, hospital, life, memory, mental health, NHS, overdose, poem, poetry, psychiatric, writing

150518

Apparently “devouring an 800 page novel, a bottle of 2011 Chablis and a shitload of codeine” is not the correct … More

blackout, books, diary, grief, health, journal, life, NHS, pain, parenting, parents, recovery

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