Registration for the Disabled People’s Creative Writing symposium on Thursday 28th and Friday 29th August, is now available! This free, online symposium aims to highlight the myriad ways in which disability engenders creative writing in eight sessions across two days. With a focus on intersectionality, the presenters will explore the influence of impairment and disablement on…
I’m forever hopeful of positive change… For so many things related to a dementia diagnosis, dementia care, disability support, respecful language, and ageing in general, as well as the many rights violations people with dementia continue to experience. This includes disbanding the harmful labels currently still being used to descibe people with dementia, or our…
As always, articles on language are of great interest to me, especially as I continue to hear people with dementia being referred to as ‘demented’, or as ‘suffering’ from, or ‘sufferers’. Perhaps even worse, this year ‘we’ were collectively referred to as “…the weakest amongst us…“! Frankly, this last one would be unbeleivable, if it…
2025 Research Conference of the Disability, Law and Society Network of Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand When: 10-12 December 2025 Where: Online via Zoom and in-person at University of Technology Sydney (Australia) Keynote panel: Rosemary Kayess, Disability Discrimination Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission Scott Avery, Professor of Indigenous Disability Health and Wellbeing, University of Technology…
In the world of mental illness, and of dementia, people are systematically locked up i.e. physically restrained, and chemically restrained. If you have dementia, even worse, you are segregated from all others, remembering of course, the only others this is done to without consent, are convicted criminals. Check out not only the video, but the…
I’ve thought often about the truth of this particular quote, which ironically, although most often attributed to Mark Twain, is probably not by him. In a funny twist of humour, it also highlights how accurate the quote is! Em T. Wytte blogs about writing, and I found the image used, and a blog about the…
Recently, I started to become interested in the work of a psychologist, Dr Roger McFillin, and after listening to multiple Radically Genuine podcasts and interviews and reading his posts on social media, decided to join the Conscious Clinician Collective. This initiative is open to everyone, not only clinicians. That is, anyone with an interest in…
Dementia is of course, a topic that is quite rightly covered during the World Health Assembly (WHA). Members and staff of some of the dementia charities such as Alzheimer’s Disese International (ADI) attend, host side events and so on. I’ve attended a few of them, including the 2017 WHA when the Global Action Plan on…
My usual effervescence and optimism disappeared momentarily when I learned last week that the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has approved the use of donanemab in Australia. Evidence is weak for benefits, but high for serious side effects, some even causing death. It is only for people in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. And…
Mad in America ran a Webinar in 2024 on Neuroplasticity as a way to manage one of our greatest challenges – Protracted Withdrawal Syndrome. The presenters, as described by Mad in America, included: Ben Ahrens, a chronic illness recovery expert, TEDx Speaker, and CEO of a brain retraining program Re-Origin. This program stemmed from his…
Hello. After many months of silence here, I’ve decided my blog has been inactive for too long, and although there is no way I could go back to writing a daily blog, it is time to publish occasionally. The one I published yesterday was a draft I found from a some time ago, reviewed to…
When I was 14 years of age, it became acutely clear to me that “if it was to be, it was up to me”. What happened that day in 1971 taught me categorically that to survive, I would have to become more resilient, and completely self sufficient. It was a powerful experience that determined without…
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It is time to write the second Edition of this book, which will be an Audiobook, especially as this first edition needs an update. I’m looking forward to being able to launch the audiobook, but especially to updating a few of the chapters in my first book, as not only have my opinions changed since…
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