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I'm continually amazed at the inhumanity that Australia is unleashing on those poor people seeking asylum here. Already traumatised by p...
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Tough guy Chechnian leader scared shitless of LGBT :s In a gross display of Islamic extremism to Chechnyan LGBT people, the president o...
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It's looking very much like gay independent Kerryn Phelps will tomorrow win the seat of Wentworth in the by election; forced by Malco...
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I agree. We've bloody well had enough of our lives being judged and debated, of who we are being the subject of a national discussio...
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Ireland is really embracing gays now. This is from U2's latest album Songs of Experience . The video of this particular song came o...
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The thought of Abbott becoming our next Prime Minister is like Frankenstein running the country. He's a hangover from the Howard era, bu...
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What a fuckin bullshit and despicable speech grab. Trump uses the LGBT politically to say that he'll be Mr tough guy on the ISIS ideo...
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The form came for David to fill out for the Sickness Allowance. All four books of it. Centrelink uses the same form both for the Sickness Al...
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More love from the christians...... Gay Olympic diver Tom Daley had an early exit at the Rio Olympics after a surprise defeat. A chris...
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Penny Wong of Labor tells how hurtful it's already been to the LGBT in Australia with the public debate so far about marriage equali...
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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- Gays living near homophobes affects LGB mental, physical health & wellbeing - Australian study
- 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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- Room to rent for Mardi Gras
- Waking up depressed
- Tony's Wisdom - The Promise
- "Money on the Mind"
- Abbott's Medicare cost of living pressure
- Ferals got evicted :)
- David cleaned daughter's room
- Holden - "The Hide!" :)
- Imran Khan Answers Questions About Being Gay
- "I Am HIV Positive" - anti-stigma sign
- Pension paid early! :)
- New Senate election coming WA?
- Pensions promise broken by Abbott
- Capitalist nightmare Oz style
- Bishop praises anti-gay bill - Uganda
- Anti-gay Pastors and pollies caught out
- NSW cops - know your rights factsheet
- Edward Snowden’s Christmas Message
- US cops force man to pay for anal search
- "Anti-Christian Atheists"
- AIDS vaccine test results faked
- Infested with fleas - daughter's room
- Jesus Rebranded
- Life in prison for gays - Uganda passes bill
- Bumped into Alex Greenwich :)
- Christmas blues
- It Gets Better: Dan and Terry
- Review of Disability Support Pension by Abbott
- Daughter refuses to pay utilities
- Governor General petition - dismiss Abbott gov
- Kiera the cat
- Sick
- "Will you stand with us in 2014?" - Unions
- Russian TV star - "Burn gays alive"
- Three times in seven years - daughter leaves
- Signing for Abbott - extended version :)
- Harbour Bridge fireworks :)
- I lost 5 kilos - stressed
- David's Christmas curse
- Oz public - a Kiwi dream
- Daughter's left/Christmas curse
- Wound Up 7 - Aussie political commentary
- Religious contribution this month
- Abbott's first 100 days - worst in polling history
- Meanwhile in Teabagistan....
- Letter to car industry - Abbott pre-election
- Conditional love
- TPP - No Singapore agreement reached
- Fred Nile gets letter from Abbott
- Ageing with HIV - movie coming
- Wrecking Ball: Tony Abbott :)
- How US Big Pharma price gouges AIDS drugs
- Sex, drugs, and HIV - rational decisions
- Home tensions
- ITN report - ACT gay marriage annulments
- Police punch and kick man - video QLD
- Latest Anti-Abbott cartoons etc :)
- Plibersek on Holden - press conference
- Recession for Australia after Holden?
- Surfing swans - Gold Coast
- Felix is moving out
- Police to be charged - Roberto Laudisio Curti
- Parliament Georgia style :s
- Olympic Jive - brilliant!
- Love is love
- Abbott kills ACT gay marriage
- How Wall Street Bankrupted Detroit
- Holden: Abbott's ideological failure
- From the TPP talks in Singapore
- 2014 Sydney Mardi Gras Teaser
- Does God Believe in Atheists?
- Daughter's got a place to move
- TPP looks stalled
- The elephant in the room
- Religious contribution to the world this month
- Abbott's "cost of living pressures" lie
- My brother coming to town from NZ
- Greens threaten to block supply
- MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD
- Pics: Tom Daley, Dustin Lance Black
- Pastors burn HIV meds claiming healing
- Wound Up 6 - replace Abbott
- NSW Police arrest laws toughened
- Plea of not guilty - David
- Oh look, boats! Settlers?
- Abbott ignorant of car industry position
- Nelson Mandela is dead
- David's day in court
- How to die early with bacon
- Salvation Army - full of shit
- The face of HIV - Abby's story
- History's Biggest Freeloader; God
- How Big Pharma Caused an AIDS Genocide
- Bogus AVO
- David wrongfully arrested
- Police have arrested David :s
- Karma gets the feral feral
- Abbott gov "Out of it's depth"
- Daughter got her loan
- Community recommendations - police reform
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