Author Archives: walkamileinmyshoesuk
28/09/18 U.K. to host Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit on World Mental Health Day
Are you taking the fucking piss? This is like the child catcher out of Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang chairing a summit on best child care practices. This is the same Government who’ve reduced the number of beds in psychiatric hospitals by nearly 30% … Continue reading
26/09/18 Walk a Mile: The Return
This year…BOOM!! coming to a coastal path near you…KERBLEWY!!!! Walk a Mile is back…THE SOUND ONE OF THOSE REALLY CHEAP FIREWORKS MAKES IN YOUR BACK GARDEN!! After a significant period of pillocking about, after a cacophony of distractions, Walk a … Continue reading
13/09/18 Man Up Snowflake!!
#OneEmptySeat Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 50 in the U.K. Suicides in all young people aged between 10 and 19 have doubled in London since 2013. That increase has been 25% across the rest of the country. … Continue reading
10/09/18 World Suicide Prevention Day
It’s world suicide prevention day. I fucking hate awareness days like these – especially since EVERY day should be suicide prevention day. Why? Because it’s the biggest killer of men under 50 in the U.K. That’s right – more men … Continue reading
10/09/18 Stephen Fry ate my Gerbil!!
Close friends of the beloved actor, author and voice over guy to the stars tell me he vociferously denies the heinous… It’s world suicide prevention day. I fucking hate awareness days like these – especially since EVERY day should be … Continue reading
09/08/18 Euthanasia and mental ill health
****mentions suicidal ideation*** I read this article today, ‘The troubled 29-year-old helped to die by Dutch doctors’ with a mixture of feelings from hollow sadness, to anger, to frustration, finally settling down on, good God, that could have been me. … Continue reading
04/08/18 Borderline (Bastard) Personality Disorder
So, you’ve survived your Hellish childhood. You’ve been abused either sexually or physically – sometimes both. You may have experienced neglect, poverty, bereavement… You may have found yourself on the periphery of your world – your family – your fellow … Continue reading
Walk a Mile, Tales of a Wandering Loon review
Originally posted on Outdoor prescription and me:
It’s funny how trails can lead to things on the internet. As a service user of Mental Health services I have found the Masked AMHP blog to be helpful in answering some of the…
#42Days A #HungerStrike in protest against #UniversalCredit #SevereDisabilityPremium
One of the great claims of the supporters of Universal Credit at it was rolled out around the country, was that it would target those in greatest need… Well…NewsFlash…it has…but it may not come as a great surprise to you, … Continue reading
#42Days A #HungerStrike in protest against #UniversalCredit Day 42
This is it folks…this is the big one…the last day of the hunger strike. You know all the whys and wherefores behind it – and together we’ve made a bit of a noise – and I can’t thank you enough … Continue reading
Walk a Mile in My Shoes 