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Losing Friends to Depression

I've been reflecting a lot lately and to be honest this post is a little bit of a brain dump. Hopefully you see the message behind it though.

14 Aug 2016
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The disability benefit cuts you haven’t heard about

Jacqueline Bell spent 28 years working and stopped, with great regret, when she was made redundant by two successive employers for missing days because she was unwell. In her last job as a chamber maid in a hotel, her lung condition made it impossible to find the breath needed to make the beds.

14 Aug 2016
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Post-Brexit: A United MS Community is the Only Way Forward

The recent UK Referendum vote to leave the European Union has caused great uncertainty for people living in the UK. There are many unknowns about our future, or how the UK's relationship with Europe will eventually look. It is extremely complex - many of us cannot begin to comprehend what it will actually mean, or understand the negotiations that need to take place. But I do know that for people like myself living with MS, it is crucial that the UK continues to collaborate with our European friends and partners.

14 Aug 2016
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What will it take?

Yesterday saw a complete and utter tragedy in Japan when a man decided to attack and slaughter nineteen severely disabled people in a care facility outside Tokyo for the despicable crime of - being disabled. That was it, they were disabled. A cowardly attack by what sounds like a disgruntled employee, perpetrated against people who were unable to defend themselves against his blows and slashes and murderous assault purely because, to his eyes, they were not worthy of life. He attacked and mutilated and killed at least nineteen people in a frenzied knife attack before going to a police station to hand himself in, allegedly stating as he did so: "It is better that disabled people disappear."

14 Aug 2016
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