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Mentally Interesting: I couldn’t hold my baby
Seaneen has a bipolar diagnosis, so when she experienced sudden and severe anxiety after having baby Jack in January, the perinatal mental health tea…
5 years, 1 month ago
Do we get a 'lockdown dog' to help our disabled child?
Our lockdown couple Kate and Holly adopted a toddler with restricted growth during the pandemic. She calms down around dogs, but does she really need…
5 years, 1 month ago
‘Friendly fire’ in my brain led to me being wrongly sectioned
Model Lucy Dawson was just 21 when she was wrongly sectioned for three months. Doctors believed she was experiencing a mental health breakdown, but …
5 years, 1 month ago
‘I really wanted to give Mum and Dad a hug – it was awkward’
The day has finally arrived!
After many months of lockdown we’re all finally allowed to meet friends and family – outside and in groups of six or as t…
5 years, 1 month ago
Lockdown: The anniversary no one wanted
The UK has just marked one year since it officially went into its first Covid-19 lockdown. It’s the anniversary no one wanted.
On this episode we disc…
5 years, 2 months ago
Did I think of myself as gay and disabled 10 years ago?
Kate Monahan has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and her wife Holly is a transplant recipient. Filling out the Census form should take 10 minutes they say but…
5 years, 2 months ago
'We adopted a disabled child during the pandemic'
Kate Monaghan has Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, her wife Holly is on immunosuppressants, their newly adopted daughter Gracie has dwarfism and four-year-old…
5 years, 2 months ago
'Dating & Disability - how to navigate the agencies'
Recently journalist Lucy Webster wanted to join a matchmaking website but, before the company took her subscription fee, they warned she might find i…
5 years, 2 months ago
'The school phoned, Scout's hurt'
Kate Monahan shares personal moments in this virtual audio diary documenting a family of four in lockdown as a Mum with chronic pain and mobility iss…
5 years, 2 months ago
Mentally Interesting: My grief
Mark's sister Alison died of covid-19 on 14 January 2021. She was 39. On this episode of Mentally Interesting, He and Seaneen explore grief and how i…
5 years, 2 months ago