by admin | Apr 22, 2022 | Guest Blog
The first stepShe hands me the prescription.“Sertraline 50mg, Once daily”I stare at it. Numb. Exhausted. Hopeless. Helpless. I bundle my 6 month old daughter back into her pram and wheel her out, clutching theprescription and some leaflet about talking therapy. On...
by susannahB | Sep 16, 2021 | COVID-19, Guest Blog
“Hi I’m Kerry. I’m 44, Pre Covid I was as fit as a fiddle, ran 3 times a week, I’m a nurse, a mum of two, active and healthy. I started displaying Covid symptoms last March 2020, not the ‘typical’ symptoms at first the cough and temperature arrived many days...
by admin | Aug 5, 2021 | Guest Blog, Poetry & Creativity
A fragment from a recent conversation with a frontline worker, ‘…I just feel unable to come out of shielding…. I don’t think I’m ever going to feel like myself again…’ There is a profound sense of hopelessness in her and as we sit quietly I can feel not just her...