Lure of a charity shop: especially if you believe in bibliotherapy. Mental illness is a blight to one’s existence yet some where in the core of your being you are searching for something that you can share with others to help them out of that Pit called Hell where the Black Dog is in fact you. I found Oliver Sacks in the Ringsend bookshop, several of his books thankfully which I am now reading. He talks about the “Brain” and its potential over the next 100 years. Awakenings (film, Robin Williams played the part of Dr. Sacks) may be complex but to know a doctor would have such empathy with his patients is consoling and useful to society. Thank you Charlie Rose for interviewing Dr Oliver Sacks; thank you Charlie Rose for your programmes on the Brain and your guest Dr Eric Kandel. Thankfully now 2022 your observations and interest have morphed into realities we now explore.


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About michelleclarke2015

Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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