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Adam Creighton makes a convincing argument at The Punch in regard to the absurd situation in Australia, where well off people get handed ta...
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Those results were a huge occurrence. It's only been a few days but there have been a few thoughts come to the fore. Firstly, quite st...
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Latest dialysis and no migraine. Whew. Have dropped to 72.5 kilos after this session so slowly getting back to normal weight. Doc says he is...
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I met David at the pub today, he was late getting there and I was using the time to casually drink beer. He's out tonight at his work Ch...
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It's time for me to end the Endone. *sigh* Have had to be a honest about it. It was good to have this as it took away all the ...
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I've not really been thinking about this at all the last 24 hours, rather the thoughts have invaded my consciousness. Particularly as s...
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Welcome to Abbott's racist Australia. There was a racist rally in Melbourne yesterday. Anti-racists turned up to protest the racist ra...
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Politically active his whole life, Fraser quit the Lieberals in the end in disgust. He seemed to have more in common with Labor than the ...
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Africa must be just about the most homophobic continent on earth. Recently the United Nations set up a new position, appointing Vitit Mu...
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Oh look, gays in Sochi.......
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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- "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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- Vatican censors gays kissing
- A religious encounter
- Women driving "affects ovaries" - Sheikh
- Dying With Dignity member passes
- Silk worms
- Abbott's anti-green madness
- Stephen Fry "evil" - Russian lawmaker
- PUT(T)IN OUT
- IOC approval of Sochi.
- Barilla boycott
- The thundering silence
- Abbott vs Indonesia
- 9/11 doubters possible terrorists :s
- Elton John a "sodomite" - Russian parents
- The Pope is full of shit
- Coming out stories
- O'Farrell drags the chain on cops
- For all those in love
- Oh look, asylum seekers arriving.....
- Priest excommunicated over gays and women
- US nearly nuked N.Carolina - 1961
- Captain Pickard solidarity :)
- GetUp responds to an Abbott gag
- US opinion sours on Putin & Russia
- Abbott wants to gag green info
- Abbott's asylum policy: media management
- ID scanners for Kings Cross
- NSW cops being sued - assault
- Staging the Chemical Weapons Attack in Syria
- "Post antibiotic era" soon - US CDC
- Christian dinosaur hunt - Africa
- Hate leaflets kill
- ACL vs the ACT - marriage equality
- New 9/11 footage
- Petition - leave the ACT alone Abbott
- Anti-gay Russian propaganda - video
- I don't trust the Pope
- Disgusting takeaway food
- Better This Way - Doug Strahm
- Europe - the intolerant continent
- "Get it on"
- The US's endless war | Brainwash Update
- "Wrecking Ball" - Miley Cyrus (King The Kid COVER)
- Star Trek predicts the future
- US sending weapons to Syrian rebels
- The Death Threat story
- David's turn
- Google Glasses - Takei's Take
- Doctor visit
- GetUp declares war on Abbott
- Anti-Straight Marriage PSA
- Things hot up over NBN
- ABC's "My Own Choice" doco - Euthanasia
- The man who will take LGBT children
- Seeing doctor tomorrow
- Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball Parody :)
- Red Rainbow Project - for Russian LGBT
- Russian LGBT Journalist Threatens To Out Closeted ...
- Daughtry - No Surprise
- Rihanna - California King Bed
- The Midnight Shift defaced
- Right wing nuts new hero: Putin
- Wanna marry your cousin?
- Is taking time to recover
- The Firm - Star Trekkin'
- "My Own Choice" - euthanasia
- NBN petition
- Kidman video of bike accident
- Anti-Abbott facebook page
- Union reaction to Abbott's election win
- R U OK?
- Feel like utter crap
- Abbott's first fuck up
- Jack & Diane - "a little diti"
- Sometimes it's just all enough
- Kick start WW3!
- US chemical weapons attacks
- An Olympian first - Johny Weir
- Abbott's religous bigotry
- "Fuck Tony Abbott"
- Same Love - dance interpretation
- Will the US boycott Sochi?
- Slept 14 hours
- Russia asks IOC for help
- HIV+ man infects 300 people
- Sochi Sponsors worried
- "Fuck you Putin"
- Obama wimps out
- No Senate majority for Abbott
- Voting today
- Syria War Propagandists Debunked
- "Get us the hell out of here" - Masha Gessen
- On safari hunting gays
- "Not All Like That" - NALT Christians
- Bill drafted to take children - Russia
- Natasha's human loving
- Friend won a lama :s
- Dido - White Flag
- Dramatic night after David's work
- Religious bigotry "above the law"
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