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    To update 2025 – Mental Health Ireland

      Add Ireland St Patrick’s Mental Health Services (SPMHS) Fasttrack General Practitioners, GPs, Family Doctors, Pharmacists, Dentists, Hospitals. It also provides contact phone numbers. Type your address in the box below. The Atlas will search automatically – choose an address from the search results. A map of your street will appear. Health Atlas HSE mental health support HSE mental health professionals National office for suicide-prevention National counselling service branches Services you access directly G.P. services What to expect when visiting a G.P. Counselling in Primary Care Evening and weekend services Emergency services What to expect at the Emergency Department Primary care services Counselling in Primary Care Community and non-statutory services Counselling Phone and online supports Interview with Samaritans Supports for young people Jigsaw virtual tour Supports for parents and guardians…

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    MS,  Multiple Sclerosis,  Trigeminal Neuralgia

    Death: a fearful thing?

    "Within Gandhi’s description of strength, however, was some fear also, and within that fear, there was indignity. That superbug wasn’t meant for me. I wasn’t an elderly person, I didn’t live in unclean housing and I hardly ever used antibiotics. I could’ve continued listing pessimism, unhappiness and disaster, only, I unconditionally refused to. Clostridium Difficile wasn’t indeed mine to get, or to give in to, so I fought my way back. I am not now, have never been and will never be one to give up without at least trying five different ways to solve a riddle of life. I wasn’t ready to go. I had lived enough for two lives, but I wanted a third."

  • MS,  Multiple Sclerosis

    2012: not the end of the world

    It’s been an eventful year, and even though there are still 3,5 weeks to go before we enter 2013, I can safely say that this year was one of personal growth and finding myself. Personal growth involves letting go of things you don’t want to clutter your mind, and perhaps ups and downs need to be part of that package also. Somehow inner strength – still wondering where it came from – and hope has kept me walking with my head held high. I’ve learned that yes, I am alternative and it’s OK to be so, not in a punk, anarchist kind of way, but I refuse to be put in one type of box because there’s more to myself than blindly following the crowd to be accepted. I’ve never…

  • MS,  Multiple Sclerosis,  Your career and MS

    Life begins at the end of your comfort zone

    Sometimes I just don’t feel like talking about what goes on mentally or physically. Not being able to sleep properly doesn’t do much good either, so writing about everything that has been ruling my day, was rather hard to do. Having MS is no mean feat… If your MS is anything like mine, then I’m quite sure that you know what I’m talking about. Or maybe not, because people with MS can differ from person to person as no two people are alike symptom-wise. A lot of people are in the relapsing-remitting stage of MS which means that you can have a flare-up (also called relapse or exacerbation) and then you’re mostly symptom-free for a while until another flare-up happens. Seeing as MS is a chronic and degenerative illness, you…