Chronic pain can negatively affect a person’s mental health and lead to thoughts of suicide. Factors like stigma and being dismissed by doctors can heighten this risk, which is why speaking out about this issue is so important.
Category: Mental Health
The cost of living crisis really screwed us, we’re better off living apart than together
Carrie and her husband Aiden have been married for nearly three decades. However, for the last 11 years, the couple has had to survive on a single income and constantly fight to make ends meet.
‘If I died, Aiden couldn’t afford to bury me,’ Carrie tells Metro matter of factly. ‘The only way we could get by without really, really suffering is if we got divorced.’
The disability employment gap
When an employer began stripping away duties and relegated her to a tiny desk in the kitchen unit of the office, Barbara Stensland knew her recent multiple sclerosis diagnosis was behind it.
This was an attempt to push her out of the workplace.
Eventually, after repeated requests for accommodations went unmet – with the exception of some limited flexible working – Barbara was let go from her role as a community outreach worker, a job she loved.
I was a ‘sex addict’ – now I’m healing from the damage my hypersexuality caused
“Have you always been such a slut?” says my friend. “Yup,” I reply with a grin.
In my life, some people called me a sex addict and some – like my friend – have called me a slut. But years after this particular friend queried my supposed promiscuity, a therapist offered up a different descriptor: hypersexual.
