Social distancing and self-isolation can be a struggle for anyone, but for those with in recovery this period of quarantine can be particularly difficult. You may feel like you’ve lost your sense of routine, feel disconnected with your support network. Add to this, the general uncertainty surrounding the current world as we know it can [...]
“We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live” (Jeffrey Epstein) Let’s abbreviate this...We get born, we do stuff, and we die. We all hope for a good end without pondering too [...]
Balearic party meccas have existed in a state of begrudging trade-off for decades: weighing the economic benefit of booze-fuelled tourism against the reputational cost of the drunkenness. But the balance has finally tipped with new legislation arriving in January 2020 targeting the forums of drunken excess in Palma and Magaluf (Majorca), as well as San [...]
Many of us sighed with audible relief when February arrived last week, and with good reason. Monday the 20th of January marked ‘Blue Monday’, apparently the most depressing day of the year. It falls annually on the 3rd Monday of January. I know Blue Monday well because it sits evenly between my father’s birthday and mine [...]
The Chemsex Scene Combining drugs with sexual experience is something people have done since drugs and sex began. In many respects, sex is just one of a number of mechanisms through which it is possible to achieve a sense of euphoric high, so combining it with other artificial stimulants that aim to take an individual [...]
Deaths due to illicit drug misuse have been rising steadily every year in the UK and are now a bigger killer than deaths caused by traffic accidents. While estimates suggest that illicit opiate use is less prevalent than the use of other drugs, data show that nearly 9 in 10 drug-related deaths across the UK [...]
Addiction is prevalent throughout society, and the workplace is no different -in spite of the many negative ways in which alcohol and drug abuse affect the performance of tasks at work. Functioning addicts become adept at hiding the effects of their usage, or explaining away these effects with other rationale. After all tiredness, lack of [...]
Our mental health is how we think, how we feel and how we behave. It affects our cognitive, psychological and emotional well-being, influencing our careers, education, daily routines, relationships and our overall perspective on life. It can lead to prolonged mental health disorders and have detrimental effects on our physical health requiring support and care [...]
Feeling nervous in social situations is a feeling all of us will be rather familiar with but for some, social interactions are so overwhelming that social situations are avoided and the disorder, known as social anxiety disorder (SAD) can take over and hold huge implications to ones life. Social anxiety disorder is a mental health [...]
“My Identity shifted when I got into recovery, That’s who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have that identity than to be a musician or anything else because it keeps me in a manageable size…..it gives me a spiritual anchor.” This is a quote by Eric Clapton on his sobriety [...]
