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During the months of December and January, the number of calls to suicide support charities can double. However, for those who work in them, they’re not a place of sadness and helplessness – but one of hope. Here the founder and CEO of Suicide Crisis, Joy Hibbins, explains why. Just a few days ago a…
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Lisa was delighted when she found a box of expensive-looking lingerie in her husband’s car. Her birthday was approaching so she assumed it was a gift. The big day came and went, but the lacy knickers never materialised. Instead, Lisa received a voucher. Her sixth sense told her something was wrong with her marriage. ‘We…
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Santa Claus has well and truly come to town. In shopping centres, Christmas markets and Winter Wonderlands across the country, you’ll be sure to find him, camping out in his grotto. But there’s more to being the big man than donning a red costume, whacking on fake beard and shouting ‘ho ho ho!’ to passers-by,…
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Ten years ago, Charly woke up on Christmas morning in a draughty school hall in Chalk Farm, alongside 150 strangers. Despite the day being peddled as the most magical one of the year, for Charly, it was cold and unpleasant – and one the doorman admits he would rather forget. Although he now lives in a…
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By the time her children come home from school, Lisa Clarke’s stomach is rumbling madly. She often feels sick and faint from hunger. Even so, the mum-of-two tries to resist opening the fridge or food cupboard. If she does need to eat she’ll choose toast. ‘It’s just a bit of bread and butter,’ she explains….
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Waking for yet another night feed at 3am, with a phone glued to your hand for company in the bleak hours, is a scenario that any new mum can relate to. However, for some, endlessly scrolling through social media to while away time no longer offers the comfort it once did, as a latest wave…
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Not long after we all stood on our doorsteps and clattered pots and pans during the weekly Clap for Carers in 2020, thunder clouds rolled over. After the initial outpouring of mass appreciation, doctors became the target of hate from some members of a lockdown-weary public, and as the pandemic dragged on, the anger grew….
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‘It’s the panic attacks that are the hardest,’ says 77-year-old Maureen Hart. The pensioner from Jaywick wakes in the night with a tight chest struggling to breathe. She lives alone, so she sits in the dark waiting for it to pass. The fear is brought on by thoughts of spirally energy costs and the coming…
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Julie Fields* had a hunch one day last year that her 14-year-old son Ben* was doing something he shouldn’t be. Nothing particularly prompted her into thinking this – call it a mother’s intuition, if you will. When he was out with friends one day, the 44-year-old checked Ben’s bedside drawer and saw two vapes tucked…
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As someone who still can’t believe I can now walk into a local high street beauty store and buy more than one foundation colour, and that we’re getting a Black Doctor Who, I understand why people might think that things have changed for Black people in the UK since I was a child. Growing up, Stephen…
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