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Pozhet
Living in Australia HIV positive
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"Boy Erased" new trailer, before release this Friday
David and I can't afford going to the movies, but this is released on Friday in the US and Nov 8th here in Australia. Perhaps the loc...
Marriage equality despite Turnbull
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A "proud HIV+ gay man"
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From 2011: took 6 more years
David and I
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"Gays are a contagion", anti-gay banner in Indonesia The threat of gay marriage coming to Indonesia has awoken the fundamental...
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Australia's Darth Dutton (real picture BTW, not altered) Accurate comparison of Dutton's mental capacity Are Trump and Aust...
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Angry goes right off in this one, and deservedly so. He puts to words what we pretty much all are thinking right now. I don't think I...
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The Greens are running a short survey to find out our priorities now that parliament is due to go back. This will aid them in their resp...
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We humans who refuse to accept we're simply serfs to Capitalism, that we can have an imput in shaping our society to curb the excesse...
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"And at least they can't end up in the hands of suicidal teens" :) A very Australian take down of the stupidity of the...
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Well it doesn't get any more Australian than this; an interview with a young Aboriginal gay politician from the Northern Territory. ...
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Trying to remain positive (pun intended) but because of what I went through in 2010/11 and how close I came to death, I'm feeling very w...
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Needed something to balance out the last fucked up 24 hours: After 3 weeks and 2 days (when the blood was taken week and a half ago) the HI...
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It's got nothing to do with the story it was heading up , but this picture of Trump has to be one of the strangest I've seen. How...
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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- "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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- Superannuation Form
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- Medical centre stupidity
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- Long ago in New Zealand
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- Head case
- First Christmas tree in 5 years
- Planet Positive
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