In today’s article John Davis draws out lessons from his near death experience regarding Post-Traumatic Stress and seeks to ‘normalise’ our ideas concerning mental health by explaining that mental well being is […]
Article 12 explained the connection between the Gal Holiday song Come Home and my own home coming. The connection between the song and my own poem about the Cherry Blossom – was […]
Article 11 explained that I was finally home but that getting home was only the start of things. Something of the experience, of getting home but things never being the same again, […]
In this article, John Davis continues to discuss his recent near death experiences and critiques his experience of being discharged from a Scottish hospital. The previous article explained the limitations of some […]
I had paid just under £80 pounds for LV holiday insurance, the best money we have ever spent in my life and I was very privileged to have experienced such a high […]
In today’s post, John Davis explores ideas of resilience, trauma and resistance/power in ways that critique individualised and overly medicalised notions of trauma. This critique utilises notions of strength-based working and the […]
In this article John Davis continues to discuss his gruelling experience of being hospitalised in the USA. He, specifically, discuses an issue he had with a plastic surgeon. In order to make […]
In today’s post, John Davis pauses from discussing the daily experiences in hospital, the outcomes of four operations and the nature of his impairments, to try to explain what it feels like […]
In today’s post John Davis explores the bleaker aspects of being in hospital. Including that death was an ever present, at times he felt he had nothing more to give and his […]
In the next few articles, John Davis connects his experience of being in hospital to the current Corona virus crisis and explores issues such as loss, survival, friendship and hallucinations. Today’s article […]
