Posts by Sue
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Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to Dylan Reeve,
I don’t really understand depression as I’ve never suffered from it, but what I am fairly sure about is that it doesn’t really obey the simple rules of logic and reason that we’d like to imagine it does. I
a great way to understand is to spend a little time at depression.org.nz
and yes there is no logic, but there is logic to a lot of it, the thing is depression is not just one thing, it's a bit like saying cancer is one thing. there are things that work across the board to treat cancer and depression, but each person who has cancer/depression responds differently to treatment and has different variations.So for example a pill that fixes my depression might not yours
The best practise for treating one type of depression is different for others -
Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to giovanni tiso,
if it's relevant i think yes
i mean if he's advocating personally for something he's being paid to do then yes please -
Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to Russell Brown,
yes disability blog! i was very excited to ready that as a potential
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The thing i’m stuck on
is how ‘media’ appear to be discouraged from reporting on teen suicide or usually reporting, writing about suicide. But because of Charlotte Dawson reporting and opinion pieces about suicide is out there.Now that means there is maybe, a really lovely window created by a very tragic thing (regardless of your opinion of a person suicide is never not tragic) where journalists are free to report about teenage suicide, and suicide in general in a very meaningful way. Instead of the normal brush this under the carpet in case kids get ‘ideas’ there is a chance to make a difference. I’m not sure how but imagine an articles about the whys of suicide, the stats, the final things that have pushed people over. What we as a society and as individuals can do.
I don’t know and honestly i’m only alive at the moment because when i was at my blackest 2 weeks ago it would have broken my mum for me to kill herself and a friend was awake and on twitter at the right time while i'd been staring at my bottle of sleeping pills for the last 2 hours. But there were so many things that had me at that edge and i dread to think what the final thing was for Charlotte Dawson.
I also have ‘gold standard’ of treatment with a GP, a psychiatrist and a clinical psychologist all paid for thanks to mum and her retirement savings . What happens to those who can’t afford, or die waiting to get access to those treatments? that is a story, what happens to those who live on the fringes because there is no help or they have used up their allotted amount of help for a year.
Would it not be great if this time was used to tell those stories, to teach, to learn and to help. And i suspect many an excellent journalist out there, would leap at this reporting if they weren’t going to get shut down in case it cause a suicide.
I don’t know i’m fragile and weird at the moment. Today is a good day so i can write this. I suspect i’ll delete this post in about an hour because i don’t want some people i know coming across it by mistake. I love that PA is 'you own your words' but sometimes it’s not so easy
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yes to something in the disability sector!
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Much love russell
For me it's not that it gets easier it just gets different
For us we totally Changed christmas and spend it at Te Papa or going to the movies -
it's not just an issue NZ faces.
In LA they have created a 'film Czar' to try and stop the flow of productions being made outside LA.
Breaking Bad as an example filmed in Albuquerque because tax incentives offered were impossible to turn down.It's not a uniquely NZ problem
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+1 for penis beaker
it was one night of glorious fun watching it travel around the internet -
twerking
and Lordedoes a Person count as a word, becuase so
Lorde -
gigatown - despite this being something that happens all around the world, i'd never heard of it before so if the hashtags are enough to go by
oh and
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