Musings on suicide: love might save a life

by potofcallaloo - June 10, 2018June 10, 20184

…every day I decide to live, another person, someone, chooses to die. Their struggle is my struggle, but they have now gone while I still have a chance…

Reasons to stay alive

by potofcallaloo - May 17, 20184

Some of us I think are prone to revisiting the same dark places. Maybe down to past traumas that stay with us, genes that we inherit or God knows what is responsible. I don’t actually think thoughts of suicide are uncommon.

When living is hard …RIP Avicii

by potofcallaloo - April 27, 2018April 27, 20180

For some of us, it is because we are searching…searching for something, some place that we are not quite sure of or how to get to. And sometimes it is because some of us have never managed to be truly happy.

What was that? (Sweating, short stories, squats …and oomph)

Challenges

by potofcallaloo - April 15, 20182

This is one of those 'What was that?' posts - a series on 'what the crap is going on?' and it contains affiliate links* Dear friend, How have you been? I've let life get in the way of my blogging again. Sometimes, you know, when I cannot cope and my mood is low,

Organic vs non organic: what’s in our non organic produce?

by potofcallaloo - November 23, 2017November 23, 20170

We've always known that organic farming offers produce far healthier than non organic foods. But new research by Newcastle University, and published in the British Journal of Nutrition, has highlighted significant differences between organic and non-organic farming. 87430

Review: Unrest, a powerful story of life with ME

Challenges

by potofcallaloo - November 20, 2017April 15, 20186

Jennifer Brea was an active, well-traveled Phd student at Harvard, about to marry her love, when she fell ill with a high fever. After the fever went, she realised that something was wrong. She’d started experiencing debilitating fatigue, pain, loss of muscle control, sometimes the inability to speak coherently and

Pain

Challenges

by potofcallaloo - November 14, 20170

I feel like my insides are falling out. I'm sorry, this was supposed to be a happy post, but for the past four days I've had the most awful pain on the right side of my tummy. 87413

Who’s listening? The extraordinary happened to me

by potofcallaloo - October 28, 20170

This was supposed to be a post of how unfeasible many of our GP practices are run the the UK. But instead, something extraordinary happened that I must tell you about. 87362

The messy side of mental health problems : what the media & campaigns don’t show

by potofcallaloo - October 13, 2017October 13, 20172

I was surprised to find myself largely neutral to the widespread mental health campaigns being run to raise awareness. I’ve seen many of these, encouraging people to talk about mental health and problems like depression and anxiety. Awareness is good, don’t get me wrong. I’ve seen media coverage featuring stories of

The real take-away message behind Lady Gaga’s fibromyalgia diagnosis

by potofcallaloo - September 23, 20174

We may have missed the real message behind Lady Gaga's fibromyalgia diagnosis. News that superstar Lady Gaga has fibromyalgia has brought this still little known and often misunderstood chronic condition to the fore. The media is now widely reporting it; it is trending on social media, and people are probably finding out