suicide cairns
You may not be aware of this, but across Scotland there are surviving cairns which mark where somebody who had taken their life was once buried. Generally the names have … Continue reading suicide cairns
Tag: Powerful Embrace
Dr Marigold’s prescriptions
Dr Marigold’s prescriptions: To play this short film please click here or on the image above Music credit: ‘Intruder’ by Peter Gabriel. ‘Dr Marigold’: from the writings of Charles Dickens. … Continue reading Dr Marigold’s prescriptions
20/20 vision – right to reply [an edited transcript]
Without sharing a little of the backdrop, and some of the thoughts that inspired it, this film risks being misunderstood. My last day as a doctor was on 20-1-20. I … Continue reading 20/20 vision – right to reply [an edited transcript]
Parma Violets
If you have read some of my writings, you may have come across me sharing one of my earliest memories: it was from a Silvercross pram that my mum used … Continue reading Parma Violets
It is by living that we learn
The following account of my experience of trying to stop an antidepressant features in today’s Daily Mail. This did not feel a comfortable thing to share in a national newspaper … Continue reading It is by living that we learn
Lilias Hogg
words from Hame graphic by Peter.
‘I had to stay in hospital for almost nine weeks’
This is how ‘Lucy Barton’ introduced her fictional story My only experience of hospitalisation began here:
A Black Box
A passage from ‘A Far Cry From Kensington’ by Muriel Spark.