Tag: mental-health
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SECTIONED – Part 10: Psychoactive
Bi-polar is a common misdiagnosis for autism and something I do not recognise from my youth, sure I’d been depressed but manic highs were not something I knew. I’d known my brain was different from a young age and when I discovered autism, I felt I had found the explanation. I carried it with me…
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SECTIONED – Part 8: I’m fine
It is generally accepted that to be sectioned you must be a danger to yourself or others, but they have a clever catch all of “has a medical condition that needs to be managed in hospital”, which allows you to be taken with little justification if you are known to the services. I once heard…
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SECTIONED – Part 6: Psychosis
Left without any footholds, over the next three months I spiralled until after a frustrating work meeting where I was once again denied a return to the office, on a weekend in Bootle, I first experienced extreme psychosis and maybe nearly died. My frustration was doubled by my gorgeous heavy drinking friend disapproving of a…
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SECTIONED – Part 4: Sectioned
I’d gone to my parent’s rural house after the arrest on the express promise they drive me home by 1pm the next day in time for a dear friend to come visit, take me to IKEA and hopefully finally release some of that sexual tension, for while my mind was clear I was still hella…
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SECTIONED – Part 2: Dating profile
This story starts in 2016. I had recently split from my husband who I had loved since childhood, meeting at 4, parting at 8 and pining for, for 20 years till we were together again. Losing him emotionally to my best friend, a girl who, like him, enjoyed gardening and watching TV, two things I…
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