by wonderersheart | Aug 6, 2015 | Mental health support and community, Safety |
Psst, I want to share a secret – For the last 18 months my friend Liz and I have been facilitating a regular group for people who live with suicidal feelings. The group is not really a secret, we are a low key sort of group and we try to keep attendance numbers...
by wonderersheart | May 9, 2013 | Safety |
Being asked for an emergency contact always annoys me, it is an interesting reaction. Who do I want someone to call on my behalf if, or when I am in an emergency? I don’t want my friends alarmed on my behalf, and what could they do that I couldn’t? Who...
by wonderersheart | Mar 31, 2012 | Safety, Stigma |
I am revisiting anxiety because, while normal, it can become intolerable. While it may not be possible to describe any particular threat feeling of anxiousness can override our coping mechanisms with a sense of impending danger. Neither our good outcomes or our safety...
by wonderersheart | Sep 7, 2011 | Force and forces, Safety |
I saw man in the city today. I see many men in the city but rarely one as extraordinary as this particular man. He was in the heart of the business district, ostensibly one of the locals, wearing smart shoes and a suit. He was attracting a lot of attention because of...
by wonderersheart | Sep 1, 2011 | Safety |
“It’s so hard” she said “everyone has something in their background and I never know what’s there.” She banged her fists on the table, annoyed at how careful she needed to be. She had been talking to me and stepped on a mine, she...
by wonderersheart | Jul 28, 2011 | Safety |
“I never feel completely safe.” wrote Anita Darcel Taylor. Safety is a privilege in any given situation, one that many of us take for granted. Others never feel really safe, how would you assure your own safety anyway? First I think of natural threats,...