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M3GAN: A review on whether it really was as scary as it promiced to be.
Author Archives: Karen Burns
ARFID: THE EATING DISORDER THAT ISN’T GETTING THE RECOGNITION IT DESERVES
Most people are aware of the main eating disorders that affect people. Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa are very much accepted as disorders in the medical world, and in society too. However, an eating disorder called ARFID (avoidance restrictive food intake disorder) is one that is less in the public domain.
ARFID is an eating disorder that affects both children and adults and is something that can be rooted back to trauma in early childhood. Trauma that then seriously interferes with that individual’s relationship with food and drink, causing them severe anxiety and preventing them from doing what most people see as totally natural.
This new kid on the block is also being largely ignored or played down by the medical sector. Lack of funding means that these sufferers are left to live with this debilitating and life-limiting condition (with little or no help).
Yet ARFID has been on the DSM (diagnosis and statistical manual) since 2013, and it really isn’t acceptable to use monetary constraints as an excuse to not help those suffering from it.
CREATIVE KINDNESS: CREATIVITY TO HELP OUR MENTAL HEALTH, AND THE COMMUNITIES THAT WE LIVE IN
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Creative Kindness is a community charity basedorganisation. Bringing together people to create crafts and to help each other (and their communities).
COULD SOCIALISM OFFER US THE SOLUTION TO A FAILING CAPITALIST SYSTEM?
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Is our currtent system failing? and could Socialism be a solution to the crisis we find ourselves in?
TOP 10 TIPS FOR SAVING MONEY ON YOUR WEEKLY FOOD BILL
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Top 10 tips for saving money on your weekly food bill. In this cost of living crisis we all need to find ways to save money.
LIFELONG LEARNING: RETURNING TO EDUCATION LATER IN LIFE
Lifelong Learning- and my journey as a mature student, which showed that it is never too late to return to education.
LOOKING AT ATWOOD’S ‘THE HANDMAID’S TALE’: TO QUESTION MATERNAL IDENTITIES
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POETRY: WHY I FIND IT SO WONDERFULLY VERSATILE
Source: Picture by Karen Burns (original poem)
Poetry is both cathartic and versatile – read more to see how you could become a poet.
LEARNING TO LIVE WITH CHRONIC ILLNESS
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Chronic illness is debilitating and can be hard to live with. I found strategies for coping with it- which may help others too.
2023, UTTER MADNESS: WHEN REALITY SEEMS MORE LIKE FICTION, THAN A DYSTOPIAN NOVEL
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When fact seems more like fiction. How can we know the truth?