I CAN’T discipline my boys without thinking: is that the last word I’ll say to them? I can’t have a glass of wine without wondering: have I just stolen a day from my biological clock? I can’t function any more. I have no energy left. I cannot go on like this. I wrote this heartbreaking diary entry last year when I was battling crippling health anxiety. The debilitating condition meant I spent so much of my time worrying about dying and obsessively checking my health that it took over my life. At my worst, I was so fearful of death I’d think about it for six hours a day. I remember being scared of dying at a very young age, maybe even five or six. I had no traumatic childhood experiences. There's not a point in my childhood where my mortality was questioned, but the fear was always there. Bedtime is when I get most anxious because I have time to contemplate. I’m also more likely to question my mortality and catastrophise if I’ve seen or … [Read more...] about Stacey Solomon: The crippling fear that tortured my life for six hours a day and drove me to therapy
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Creating medical facilities for the new town of Barry (1888 – 1908) by Laurie Owen
0 Post a comment Saturday, 24 February 2018 - Local People by Contributed Item - Contributed Item @twitter.com/gem_news [email protected] Local historian Laurie Owen continues his in-depth examination of Barry’s beginnings. The ‘Local Board’ was set up in 1888 to build the infrastructure necessary to accommodate the thousands of families seeking a new life. The navvies and other trades had been here for four years, and when the docks opened in July 1889, the sailors soon followed. Conditions were so bad when the newcomers arrived that during the first few years life must have been unbearable, but readers of the Barry Dock News could follow the many challenges confronting the members and councillors as they sought to build hospitals.It should be remembered that during that time, the treatment of sickness and health for ordinary families was pretty much non-existent. The destitute would be in the workhouse and those just above the poverty line … [Read more...] about Creating medical facilities for the new town of Barry (1888 – 1908) by Laurie Owen
Josef Fritzl 10 years on: the ‘ordinary’ pensioner and the dark secret of the daughter he held captive for 24 years
On Saturday April 26 2008 an anxious father and his daughter arrived to visit their critically ill relative in Mostviertel-Amstetten State Hospital, lower Austria. Doctors were shocked by the daughter’s appearance. Her skin was the colour of ash, her few remaining teeth rotten beyond repair. She looked aged enough to be the wife, not the daughter of her 73-year-old father. Read more Confessions from the cellar: 'It was great for me to have a second Already suspicious about the signs of neglect detected in Kerstin, the sick 19-year-old relative, the doctors called the police. At first the daughter, Elisabeth, was reluctant to talk. Only when the police officers promised her she would never have to see her father again did she open up. And then a story tumbled out of her that was so incredible she had to preface it with the words: “No-one will believe me.” Elisabeth Fritzl had been imprisoned by her father in the basement of the family home at number … [Read more...] about Josef Fritzl 10 years on: the ‘ordinary’ pensioner and the dark secret of the daughter he held captive for 24 years
Germany’s desperate need for immigrants
Pension payers Germany needs immigration to defuse a demographic time bomb that threatens its social welfare system. The question is: how much and what kind? Published on January 30, 2018 12:00 pm Earlier this week, a full-page advertisement appeared in two of Germany’s largest newspapers. It showed what appeared to be an unborn child in the womb. But this was not the work of local anti-abortion activists. The advertisement was paid for by a German organization, the New Social Market Economy Initiative, a lobby group with close ties to employers’ organizations. The headline above the baby reads: “Your pension plans are my worst nightmare.” The point of the advertising was to ask any new coalition government not to raise the level of social welfare contributions in a country where they are already fairly high. At the moment Germany is looking ahead at a demographic time bomb. Labor shortages, a falling birth rate and an aging population mean that it … [Read more...] about Germany’s desperate need for immigrants
Middlesbrough v Leeds United: Here and now is the priority for Heckingbottom
0 Have your say HEAD COACH Paul Heckingbottom admits Leeds United’s transfer plans for the summer must remain on the back burner amid a run of fixtures that is likely to go a long way towards deciding the club’s play-off fate. The Elland Road club head to Middlesbrough tonight for a televised fixture that is, as of this morning, expected to go ahead despite the Arctic weather that has left Teesside shivering in recent days.Buoyed by claiming a first win of 2018 last weekend, United are desperate to build some momentum ahead of hosting runaway leaders Wolverhampton Wanderers on Wednesday night.Then come clashes with Reading and Sheffield Wednesday, two teams enduring disappointing seasons after featuring in last May’s play-offs, as Heckingbottom’s men look to make up lost ground on the top six. “The manner of the performance against Brentford (in last weekend’s 1-0 win) showed a lot of what we have been working on,” said the Leeds chief. … [Read more...] about Middlesbrough v Leeds United: Here and now is the priority for Heckingbottom