The other day my eight-year-old son caught me dancing in the bathroom. “Not that you’d ever want to, but if you did that in a nightclub you’d probably catch a man.” Hilarity filled the house, as it so often does. His daily pint-sized views on life generally guarantee that. As it’s Mother’s Day today, I’m […]
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Mental health diagnosis: relief or millstone?
After my last blog entry, one of my good friends commented, “I reckon you should say whether you mean losing friends before or after diagnosis. Now you’ve got a diagnosis, it explains why you were a bit random and crazy before.” Fair point. I would imagine there’s something very different about seeing a friend’s ‘random […]
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 […]
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