CBC News - Montreal - Depressed woman loses benefits over Facebook photos
CBC News - Montreal - Depressed woman loses benefits over Facebook photosOk, so i'm paranoid enough already about the DWP & feel like i'm a fraud etc etc but stories like this..... well actually i'm not sure how it makes me feel. I look at the photo in the article and to me that doesn't show severe depression. I take the woman's point about being happy in the moment and the problems still

Itchy Scratchy Itch
Why are adhesive dressings so damn itchy?!Change it after 3 or 4 days the nurse at the out patients unit said - yeh right! she gave me 5 spare dressings for 2 different wounds, that i was only supposed to change once before i go back. But the dressing were so crap, that after a slight itch, i scratched right through the dressings! and in fact the one on my stomach seemed to wear through during

Undecided
I don't know what to do. I sat and made a list of my choices and options running through my mind during my lunch break at college today. I was there in body but certainly not in mind for most of it.The list ranged from doing things that would most likely get me sectioned and admitted to the hell hole that is, S ward. Or admitting myself there, because i simply don't know what else to do to stop

Damage Control
I want to cause harm, i want to cause damage. Not pain necessarilly - just damage. I want to do the same damage i did in 2006, trouble is i almost killed myself and got myself sectioned in the process. Thinking about it now i actually feel kind of sick, but there is still that part of me that wants to order the stuff i need and go ahead with it.Or i just dose myself up again and knock myself

Let me go
I'm trapped. Trapped in a life i should be grateful for, but that feels like punishment.I want to stop hurting you, mum. But i fear there's only one way i can do this.I wish you'd give me permission and let me go.