A blog from the battling suicide tour by Ryan Child
It’s funny how some people have a sixth sense for food. Whenever dinner’s ready they knock on the door. Even on the Battling Suicide Tour. Emily came with Cake. Sean appeared out of nowhere. Tracy was already out of The Grassmarket, with her beer, diagnosis and confusion. “Looks like carrot cake,” Sean said. “It’s vegan,” […]
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Edinburgh had such clear air that day. So polished and focussed you could see the arm folds in the fat elbowed police right at the bottom of Grassmarket. You could see the smallest planes in the air above. A Canadian called Sean was teaching me ‘Suicide Chess’. The coffee was strong and the Spanish waiters
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Follow the Battling Suicide Tour and help us make a difference on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter ! We met Matt Panesh at the Edinburgh Fringe. “Come to Morecombe on your way down.” So we did. The Morecambe Fringe is Matt’s baby. He’s coddled it up into his Alt Space shop on Yorkshire road. “We are just planting the acorns,” he
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Glasgow is extra strong Ribena. We only spent one day there but met a concentration of people from all walks of life. Divya and her little dog harris spent a good amount of the day with us. She turned into a 5asidechess team member pretty quickly, inviting people to chat, connect and have a cup
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Words By: Hope Virgo Follow the Battling Suicide Tour and help us make a difference on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter ! Hope Virgo is the Author of Stand Tall Little Girl and a leading advocate for people with eating disorders. Described by Richard Mitchell, CEO of Sherwood Forest Hospital as “sharing a very powerful story with a huge impact”. Hope helps employers including
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Follow the Battling Suicide Tour and help us make a difference on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter ! Time chides when you’re living in a slum, and Hannah’s upbringing has been a slow one. She is telling me her story in a city in the middle of England. It’s been hot for weeks. The grass on the side of the roads
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Follow the Battling Suicide Tour and help us make a difference on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter ! Brand new rain falling on old dirty summer follows me on a run through Durham. That fresh smell of earth and gravel and England. After a nine days on the Battling Suicide Tour my brain is cotton wool. We have met so many
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Follow the Battling Suicide Tour and help us make a difference on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter ! After five days on the road there is a recurring theme. People are killing themselves after being failed by the state. I think it’s important to say that it’s not always the fault of the people involved, although
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There’s a man dressed in lilac, dolled up in violet, under a plastic purple tree, shuffling along the grey concrete of Moscow. He is a shaded tulip among the dead stone apartments that crawl, grey-legged, into the Russian sky. Even the rotting metal balconies can’t take my eyes off him as he grimaces, dragging a
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At 5asideCHESS we believe strongly in the art of conversation as a prevention and cure, short or long term, to poor mental health in all of its capacities. As part of our Handling Headspace Series, we asked three people to offer their best tips on dealing with Anxiety. Here is the first by a young
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