Broken Biscuits blog
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My Head Hurts #3: Antidepressant Withdrawal Pain
Have you thought about why some people, often young women, are driven to cut themselves? Taking a blade and deliberately cutting into your own flesh seems so counter to everything we think of as normal. I find it difficult to comprehend. Read more
Categories: my head hurtsTags: amitriptyline, antidepressant withdrawal, Dr Mark Horowitz, fluoxetine, Lester Beall, mental health, mhh
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My Values Underpinning This Website
I’ve held the values that underpin this site my whole life, but I’ve not always been true to them. But it’s not too late to make a change, and that change starts now. Read more
Categories: environment
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Newspaper Movies: An Ongoing List
This is my ongoing list of movies about newspaper journalism and photojournalism. It includes dramas and documentary films set in newspaper offices or featuring journalists. This is the list of films I’ve discovered so far and will add more films as I come across them. Read more
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Little Miss Giggles and 70,000 Tonnes of Plastic
Not all Happy Meal toys are equal, but if they all weighed as much as Little Miss Giggles, that’s 71,190 tonnes of non-recyclable plastic per year. How many of those end up in the bin before they’re a day old? Read more
Tags: environment, Greenpeace, less, McDonalds, McLibel, plastic, plastic waste, recycling, sustainability, waste
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Moving Away From Big Tech
Recently, I realised how much I was spending each month on the online services that have accumulated over time. I’ve always been interested in tech, so maybe, I was spending more than most, I don’t know, but it was definitely getting out of hand. Read more
Categories: websites
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My Head Hurts #2: Antidepressant withdrawal update
I gave up not trying to look at the clock, in the middle of the night, weeks ago. I’d read that not knowing the time helps you to get back to sleep. So, I can tell you it’s 3.38 am on Saturday 2 August 2025. Read more
Categories: my head hurts
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Plastic Bottles: 10 Million a day in the UK!
I don’t know what made me first notice them. But when I did, I realised that they were everywhere. If I go for a half-hour walk from home, I’ll usually see three or four discarded water bottles. Read more
Tags: bottled water, Gravesend, Gravesham, less, plastic, plastic waste, recycling, sustainability, The Gravesend Journal
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My Head Hurts: Reducing Antidepressants
I’m trying not to look at the clock. It’s still dark; early June in the UK, so maybe 3-4 am? The next thing that comes into my mind are the drugs. In the last six months, I’ve probably spent more time thinking about the drugs than anything else. Read more
Categories: my head hurts
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Documentary Photography Self-Study blog #2
This is the second blog post in a series about self-study in general and, in particular, furthering my education in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography. This month, nothing highlighted the cavernous gap in my knowledge of photojournalism quite as much as my almost complete ignorance of the work of Philip Jones… Read more
