Our host, David Clifford, talks about one of the things he loves most: Sleep. We do a deep dive into how to learn how much sleep you do need, how to improve the quality of sleep you get, and of course Nocturnal Seizures. The best way to learn more about Read more…
Even though, on paper, this is an awesome benefit, it neglects many people. The UK government has put it in place specifically for people with any disability, illness or mental health condition, yet uses the same application process for everyone. Instantly, they’ve stacked the deck against people with invisible disabilities, or mental health conditions.
In this,, our last episode on our current series on Stigma, We go across the world to learn what to do when stigma hits close to home. Our friend, Peter Meyer, tells us of his secret life with Epilepsy and the lengths to which his family went to hide it Read more…
I’ve written previously about an episode of my life where anger, frustration and immense loathing of my diagnosis caused me to make a terrible (and dangerous) decision. Without medical advice, I stopped taking my medication and lost almost a year of my life, it’s still a blank spot in my Read more…
In this episode, we continue our Stigma series to talk through the different types of people that we often encounter when trying to fight against Stigma and give advice on how best to interact with them. Each person is different of course, but we often find that that there are Read more…
I’ve had to accept, and it’s taken practice, that my mysterious sojourns from consciousness into the dark might just involve ‘souvenirs’…
In this episode, our host and longtime intractable epilepsy sufferer, David Clifford takes us back to 1983 to tell a story of when his own stigma against others changed the path of his own life. So pop your collar and grab your jellies, because we’re in for an awesome ride. Read more…
I was talking to my mate, G. and he said, do you wanna hear something strange, Goldilocks? Well, I thought. What girl doesn’t want to do something, see something or hear something strange? And, he said: ‘we met about 5 years ago, yet I’ve known you for longer than you’ve Read more…
This is a companion gallery to the 020: The Recovery episode. The following images contain GRAPHIC CONTENT of our host’s resection surgery. After you listen to our 019: The Surgery and 020: The Recovery episodes, and you have questions regarding these images we would love to hear from you. You Read more…
Our last episode presented the events leading up to the resection neurosurgery that our host, David Clifford, undertook in 2017. This episode covers what happened immediately after the surgery and provides an update of his recovery. There are plenty of risks regarding surgery and one should investigate and consider all Read more…