There has been so much stuff written about anti depressants in the ever reliable about medical issues press over the last few years. (like that story that said they weren’t effective in mild cases, which everyone took to read ‘they don’t work at all’ despite the thousands, millions of people with severe cases who had [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘blog against disablism day’
May 1, 2009
Blogging against disablism – Invisible disabilities
Invisible Disabilities
I ‘don’t look sick’. I look ‘normal’ but I’m disabled. Both by my own definition and by the government’s:
‘A physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on his or her ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.’
I am not always open about it. There are people in my life [...]
April 28, 2009
Blogging Against Disablism Day
Blogging against disablism Day
Excellent idea, I shall be blogging. If i remember. I’m trying to formulate thoughts on the whole ‘but you don’t *look* disabled’ issue and the joys of living with such fluctating illnesses and flitting between being ‘normal’ and the wondeful world of chronic illness and the added stigma of mental illness [...]
