Category Archives: story

I feel no shame about my mental breakdown: it helped make me who I am – David Harewood

Posted on October 14, 2017 by

This week’s World Mental Health Day saw the global mental illness industry work itself into lather: Twit-storming wave after wave of stats and scary numbers at us of just how many of us are diagnosed,  have yet to be diagnosed … Continue reading →

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Listening as Healing – Margaret Wheatley

Posted on July 12, 2017 by

This one of my favourite articles, one of those I try to make a point of reading again every now and then. Margaret Wheatley on listening- such a simple act, an act of generosity. Listening is healing for both the … Continue reading →

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There’s so very, very much more to it than popping pills.

Posted on July 9, 2017 by

 Opinion piece, and personal account,  from Guardian columnist Deborah Orr on her experience of being prescribed then first taking “anti-depressant”. After five week process she was prescribed by a doctor she never met with no conversation about what to expect … Continue reading →

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The danger of a single story – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Posted on June 30, 2017 by

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at TED on the danger of a single story and how, as she says: “That is how we create a single story: show a people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and … Continue reading →

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