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Powerless over Covid
I don’t suppose that title will make this article a best seller. It certainly doesn’t seem to fit with a culture of self-empowerment and I don’t suppose it would sell many books! But bare with me; I’ll try to explain why admitting I’m powerless over this wretched disease is actually a positive step. It isn’t […]
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Crushed
On the table was a school exercise book; it was a book my Dad was writing about “gymnastics”. In it were were photographs of the young girls he was teaching, wearing tight fitting leotards in “athletic” poses.
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The Cold Cure for Depression
In October that year I felt I was drowning in pain and I went out to kill myself. For some reason survival mode kicked in……I began to run
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Bipolar In The Family
Around the time that I was born, he had a severe breakdown. My mum spent a week in hospital with me and all the time had no idea where my father was.