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do for me. The entire system has been restructured and
if I want psychotherapy I’ll have to go to the beginning
of another 2 year waiting list ( a 2 yr. waiting list I’ve
already been on for 2 n half years - go figure?! ) My next
step is to go to a voluntary service at Primrose Hospice
for counselling Once again the voluntary sector plugging
the gap that should be filled by government......
Meanwhile how many mentally ill people have killed
themselves or at least done massive damage to
themselves trying to self-medicate with alcohol, drugs,
self-harm, unable to hold down jobs, maintain tenancies
etc. What a disaster. "I am the 1 in 10, a number on a list.
I am a 1 in 10 - even though I don’t exist. Nobody knows
me, but I’m always there, a statistic a reminder of a World
that doesn’t care...”
20 January 2015
I had my last round of chemo therapy yesterday and
feeling pretty rough but seeing the light at the end of the
tunnel. Just got an operation in February and then I hope
I can put this cancer behind me and get my Art show
back on the road
20 January 2015
Overheard 2 women in the chemo ward! One was telling
the other about Lion King the Musical. After she
described it the other woman piped up "Is that based on
a true story then?" I took it as 1 more sign of an over
capacitated mental health service!
20 January 2015
I’ve ran out of clean pyjamas and the physical capacity to
