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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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"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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Rachel Maddow goes through and shows how the anti-gay laws now in Russia came from the US, complete with people travelling over there to dru...
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Once again I would like to recognise that this is all because Turnbull has no spine and wouldn't allow a free parliamentary vote. Tha...
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A wide open look at the extremist christian hate preachers in the US, much of it about pastor Steven Anderson who recently said about Or...
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The other day I came across a Tweet by a No campaigner who was asserting that gay marriage would mean more people would "catch AIDS&...
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Big headlines from New Zealand today about a convicted rapist who was married in a maximum security jail to his former lawyer. Correct...
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Yes folks, he's baaaack. ... The kill the gays Pastor Swanson in the US of cow scat infamy (he stated he would wear sackcloth and a...
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How times have changed from the hysterical anti-carbon tax fear of Abbott's.
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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- Sydney Bear Pride 2012
- GetUp: Proposed PC surveillance laws
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- Australian Olympic shooter sleeps through alarm
- Conservative Premiers politicise the disabled
- An athlete to watch
- Shingles pain returns
- "Whinge, whinge, whinge Australia"
- A furthur delay to the Ridge
- QLD's 'gay panic defence', global outrage
- Shopping mall collapse
- Olympian on holidays?
- Australian fuckin culture
- The Centrelink work capacity interview
- Today the Centrelink interview
- Latest HIV blood results
- Another gun massacre in America
- All revved up with nowhere to struggle
- Phonecall from a forgotten past
- Do you like Pink Floyd?
- Are taxpayers giving too much to our Olympians?
- In demand
- Lodging the disability forms
- Next book to read
- A bad episode
- Snot aplenty
- Straight couple claim discrimination at Olympics
- I'm sick. Sleep city
- "This is your brain on music"
- Guest post #2
- Stupid bank
- The Rolling Stones are 50 today
- Your Destiny Will Keep You Warm
- An HIV dilemna
- Work rings, WTF?
- come with me and watch this darlings (silverchair)
- Monsanto corn: capitalist crap
- At the bus stop
- Viral load up. Stress removal.
- Beer count?
- Malcolm Turnbull rips into hypocrites
- Silverchair: Emotional Sickness
- Freedom Iraq style; gay killings
- New HIV treatment guidlines: NAPWA
- Applying for the Disability Support Pension
- Daughter gets new cat
- "Act of Valour"; Militainment propaganda
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