In today’s article Christina and John explore our relationships with our memories. The article builds from a recent piece (see link) written by Claudia Hammond (the author of The Art of Rest).
Paradise Lost – Memory, Health Inequality and Injustice
What We Can Learn From The ‘Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix’ Series About Post-Traumatic Stress:
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 […]
Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix Article 11: The Cherry Blossoms of Home
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 […]
Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix Article 10: It’s Hard Tae Catch A breath When Yir Daein’ Mair Fir Less
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 […]
Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix Article 9: ‘It Doesn’t’ Have To Be ‘Right’ To be Called Love’
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 […]
Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix Article 8: If He Wiz Chocolate He’d Eat Himsel’
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 […]
Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix Article 5 The Partial From The Whole:
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 […]
Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix Article 4: Walk Not Alone Among The Flames
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 […]
Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix Article 1 An 8-1 Dog In A Two Horse Race
This is the first of a series of articles where John Davis recounts his experience of receiving life-saving surgery whilst on holiday in the USA and explains how the Social Model of […]
Oh Dear Me, A Childhood ‘Thrawn’ and ‘Chided’, Requires An Education System Less Ill-Divided! By Christina Milarvie Quarrell and John Davis
Christina Milarvie Quarrell is a Poet Photographer Artist born and raised in the Govanhill Gorbals communities. Her work celebrates the values of people before profit. Art is her passion and she utilises […]
The People's Republic Of Escotia 