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“Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers any more. Only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I’ve been given the choice: as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, the man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That’s the deal.” […]
Four years ago I started writing a Children’s Book and four years on, I’ve finally finished the writing side of it. Why did it take so long? I put it down to ‘other busyness’, the kind that conspired to sidetrack me and actually, all of us, from doing those things that give us real joy […]
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“If just one person believes in you, deep enough, and strong enough, believes in you. Hard enough and long enough, it stands to reason, that someone else will think ‘If he can do it, I can do it’.
The New Zealand Health and Disability Services Standards define seclusion as it relates to the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992 “where a consumer is placed alone in a room or area, at any time and for any duration, from which they cannot freely exit”. To me, the definition is clear enough.
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Don’t mind the momentary change in direction, we’re taking a little detour from my last post. We will go back there but I want to talk about the reality of the practice of seclusion in 2011. “Seclusion is the placing of a person at any time and for any duration, alone in an area where […]
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