What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
The Christmas decorations have been taken down, the parties are over, eating what you want without guilt because ‘it’s Christmas’ and having a mince pie for breakfast being ‘perfectly acceptable behaviour’ has come to an end. You’re significantly lighter in the pocket, the weather’s bleak, you can’t seem to get
Endstigma leeds Please click link above for more info. A film crew came to my flat about 2 months ago and filmed me talking about depression and dementia. It’s the first time I’ve seen the edited film this morning and I put onto blog. I’m afraid it brought a tear
Although this article is about me being diagnosed with dementia, there is a crossover with me being also at an earlier stage been diagnosed with depression. I will explain later. I was first diagnosed with depression in the year 2000, millennium year. I still have it today 15 years on.
I think it must have been in honour of World Mental Health Day last Friday that my depression flared up again this week. It was the French philosopher Jean-Paul Satre that said “Hell is other people” and I frequently agree. Of course avoiding people isn’t a great strategy for
I was first diagnosed with depression in the year 2000, millennium year. I still have it today 14 years on. Major depression in the UK at any one time is about 5%. Many as one person in three may experience an episode of depression in their lifetime. The
Ed Miliband’s been in the news this week calling for a change in attitude to mental health. Good, this is a subject that needs to be talked about more. It is ridiculous that mental health is such a taboo when one in four of us will suffer from mental health