Archive for the ‘Health and sickness’ Category

This was to be an article about how pleased I was with my improving health, however my eye reached new levels of agony ten days ago with agonising abrasions to my cornea hitting double figures in one night. I, Casualty  When I eventually got to Norwich and Norfolk University Hospital Emergency Eye Clinic, the impressively [...]

One thing that I didn’t wish for the New Year was a painful long term illness, after all I’ve already got a substantial one of those and I’m not that greedy, however after spending half the Xmas period in the half abandoned Norwich and Norfolk General Hospital sharing floor space with the blood flecked amputees-in-waiting and [...]

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Posted: September 5, 2008 in Health and sickness
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What is depression? I know a little about bi-polar disorder, schizophrenia, paranoia but whenever I’ve tried asking anyone (medical professional or otherwise) to define straight, no-frills depression and I’ve never got further than a posh version of “what a silly question”. And yet during May 2007 my GP diagnosed me as being depressed on the [...]