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Marriage equality despite Turnbull
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About me
After 30 years of very physical full time work in the printing industry our print dept was outsourced and we all lost our jobs. As I'd gotten HIV beforehand and was having trouble attending and doing work I discussed with my HIV doctor whether I should apply for the Australian Disability Support Pension. He agreed,and I became a DSP pensioner under the new Gillard rules of adherence that now sees 75% of DSP applicants rejected.
Have been diagnosed with PTSD, severe depression, chronic kidney failure, and of course HIV. I'd become suicidal in 2009 after 3 extreme life events in a row; My best friend killed herself in the US (I don't make friends easily BTW), my teenage/young adult daughter had me charged by the police with a minor problem, and I was diagnosed with HIV. All in three weeks.
Some say god won't give you more than you can bear, my reply is "Well what happened to me?" If not for the HIV support here in Australia and me being able to have access to it I'd likely be dead by now. Unbearable pain often causes suicide, no matter physical or mental.
Today I've not worked since being made redundant. I remain with episodes of depression and panic attacks, sometimes severe. I may be fine and happy to leave the house, at times I'm paralised in bed, secure and safe and not willing to face the world.
Have been diagnosed with PTSD, severe depression, chronic kidney failure, and of course HIV. I'd become suicidal in 2009 after 3 extreme life events in a row; My best friend killed herself in the US (I don't make friends easily BTW), my teenage/young adult daughter had me charged by the police with a minor problem, and I was diagnosed with HIV. All in three weeks.
Some say god won't give you more than you can bear, my reply is "Well what happened to me?" If not for the HIV support here in Australia and me being able to have access to it I'd likely be dead by now. Unbearable pain often causes suicide, no matter physical or mental.
Today I've not worked since being made redundant. I remain with episodes of depression and panic attacks, sometimes severe. I may be fine and happy to leave the house, at times I'm paralised in bed, secure and safe and not willing to face the world.
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- NSW gov official apology for 1978 Mardi Gras viole...
- "How did you get it?" - an invasion of privacy, in...
- A note to spammers saying they have an HIV cure
- "Hands of love" - Miley Cyrus
- I nearly died in hospital special Christmas edition
- A Warning: Tenofovir and Naproxen
- When I got Shingles
- Helpful Ways to Stay Healthy with HIV - Guest post
- Telling your family that you're HIV positive - guest post
Assorted Links
- - ACON
- - Ambassadors & Bridge Builders International
- - Dave's blog: Life living with HIV
- - Guide to Australian HIV Laws and Policies
- - Know the Risk: HIV transmission
- - National Association of People Living with HIV/AIDS
- - National LGBTI Health Alliance
- - Newly Diagnosed?
- - Positive Life NSW
- - Positive Living Centre
- - Project X, WA info and support for gay men
- - Right Wing Watch
- - Rob's blog: Surviving AIDS, PML....and Me
- - Suicide.....Read this first
- - Thinking Positive
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- Unions fight for manufacturing
- Ian Thorpe and depression
- Ready to die?
- Polling after misogyny speech
- US - third party censorship discussed
- Whales off the coast
- Considering medication again
- AC/DC - Let There Be Rock [HD]
- ACDC - Hell's Bells Official Music Video
- Beck - Where It's At
- US Third party debate
- The depression - Simon backs off again
- HIV Stigma Audit Report
- Dying With Dignity
- "Vote for Jesus" - wacko's
- Signed up for a workshop
- Bank final receipt
- The value of life
- Wikileaks releases detainee policies
- $660million financial collapse
- Housos, the movie!
- Clean energy - investment $billions
- Reject John West Tuna - Greenpeace
- Cat vs toilet roll
- Meeting felt like this
- Bohemian Rhapsady
- Middle class welfare
- Ombudsman condemns police taser use
- Cat picture
- Ombusman already called moratorium tasers
- Snider gay rights
- Housing application stopped
- Marky Mark and the Funky bunch
- Kirk Cameron and bananas
- "Daily Show" fail
- Olympic revelations from team members
- *sigh*
- Another death by police 16 months ago
- Less back pain
- Gay doesn't equal pedophile
- Tasers in the firing line
- Daughter sent some funnies
- Save Qantas
- Only 2 cops offered condolences
- christians at it again
- Jesus came?
- Telstra's "backdoor trojan"; fake email?
- Curti's inquest ends
- Baby animals - make it end
- gotta again, hilltop hoods, Oz hip hop
- "Complicated death" - autopsy doctor
- US pension
- Daughter gets new job....$$
- Hicks charge invalid - US court
- Tasered 5 times in 1.5 minutes
- HIV infections up 8% Australia
- "daveonwheels" a hoax
- Durex lube
- Cops defend themselves - Curti arrest
- Russia's gay milk
- Free thinking soldiers - "terrorists"?
- Religion and politics
- Blueberries to the rescue
- Gillard has inspired my daughter
- Free HIV meds?
- Clarke and Dawe - European Debt Crisis
- Russian gays badly persecuted
- Time to protect our freedom of speech
- Snow in Spring. WTF?
- "The cross in the closet"
- Press Gallery got it wrong
- Super duper gonorrhoea bug
- Bank bullshit
- gotta again -"Policeman"
- Gotta again... "someday"...
- "Oblivious" - Abbott
- Gillard in the New Yorker
- Negative for bowel cancer
- Rapid HIV testing
- WMA - (right vid now)
- I'm Still Alive......
- Don't dream it's over, Crowded House
- Gillard carpet bombs Abbott
- Tasered 14 times and dead
- "Someday"....................
- Aquarium pics
- GetUp - Assange exclusive interview
- Life and illness
- Underground: Julian Assange movie
- Alan Jones is losing it
- Indiana
- Abbott, warm and cuddly?
- Nutty Netanyahu
- 4 years of HIV
- "Underground"; Julian Assange movie
- My trip to the housing people
- Bowel cancer screening program
- Stupid bank ringing again (+ update)
- WTF? Guns at Walmart?
- Brilliant blues
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