Each night, my six-year-old and I dip into Penguin’s ‘Pocket Jokes’ book to go to sleep on a laugh (it’s life-affirming – try it). Current favourite: What did the 0 say to the 8? ‘Nice belt!’ The other book I’ve got on the go right now is about depression, the antithesis of a book of […]
Give Bipolar UK your coffee money – please!
OK, so times are hard and very few of us have avoided being hit by the recession in some way. For us journalists, it’s the shedding of jobs and the ever-shrinking pot available to pay freelancers (one of my editors described us journalists as being ‘on top of a shrinking iceberg’). When you’re at the […]
Man bites dog: tell me things are changing…
After such a ‘ta-dah!’ announcement of my blog, I have been pondering over what my first ‘proper’ blog entry should be. As a health journalist, I know that any given day offers up so much material by way of worthy mental health discussion topics, as well as all the soapbox issues that I’ve been racking […]
Madness and sadness – let’s discuss…
Welcome to my blog. Once upon a time, not that long ago, I was Deputy Health Editor on a national newspaper and an award-winning health writer (I also co-wrote a book but I think my mum bought all the available copies). I was doing just fine. But then life happened and now – in addition […]
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