Category Archives: MENTAL HEALTH

Ordinary Lies. Series 2, episode 1 review : YOU HEARD THE ONE ABOUT THE PARANOID HUSBAND, HIS VIGILANTE WIFE AND THE RANDY DIVORCEE?

Posted on October 24, 2016 by SCARFMAN

After a highly successful and well received first series, last week saw the return of the BBC One work-based drama Ordinary Lies. Written and created by Danny Brocklehurst, the second series this time around is set in Wales with a … Continue reading →

Posted in ANXIETY, BBC, BBC DRAMA, BBC ORIGINAL DRAMA, BBC1, DRAMA, EMOTION, ENTERTAINMENT, MENTAL HEALTH, POPULAR CULTURE, screenplay, TELEVISION, THE ARTS, TV, TV REVIEW, UK TV, Uncategorized | Tagged ADULTERY, Ally, ANDY LLOYD, anxiety, Ash Driscoll, Ashton, BBC, BBC DRAMA, BBC ONE, BBC ORIGINAL DRAMA, Belle Brierley, Big Brother Society, BRITISH TELEVISION, BRITISH TV, CCTV, challenging mental health stereotypes, child abuse, Con O'Neill, DANNY BROCKLEHURST, DEPRESSION, DRAMA, EMOTION, entertainment, EPISODE 1, EPISODE ONE, hunk, jason manford, Jennifer Nicholas, JILL HALFPENNY, Joe Brierley, Luke Bailey, mental health, mental health in dramas, mental health in TV shows, office joker, ORDINARY LIES, Ordinary Lies blog, ORDINARY LIES REVIEW, Ordinary Lies series 2, popular culture, privacy, RED PRODUCTION COMPANY, Scarfman_, screenplay, series two, spying, stigma of mental health, SUICIDE, surveillance, TELEVISION, TELEVISION CRITIC, TELEVISION REVIEW, THE ARTS, TV, TV BLOG, TV CRITIC, tv review, UK TELEVISION, UK TV, UNCATEGORISED, UNCATEGORIZED, vigilantism in dramas, Wales in drama | Leave a comment

I am a DIABETIC DETECTIVE, gunning for my FLUCTUATING BLOOD SUGARS!

Posted on September 16, 2016 by SCARFMAN

A blog about the FRUSTRATION, EXASPERATION and UTTER ANNOYANCE that my type one diabetes causes me due to my fluctuating blood sugars! I have had a surreal last couple of weeks with my diabetes. My fluctuating blood sugars of … Continue reading →

Posted in DIABETES, FOOD, HEALTH, mens health, MENTAL HEALTH, NHS, TRUE STORIES, Uncategorized | Tagged anger and diabetes, anxiety and diabetes, AUTO IMMUNE ILLNESS, blood sugar, BLOOD SUGARS, COMEDY HEALTH, DIABETES, diabetes blog, DIABETES DIARY, DIABETES UK, DIABETIC, diabetic blog, diabetic detective, DIETING, dieting and diabetes, ERRATIC BLOOD SUGARS, exercise and diabetes, FLUCTUATING BLOOD SUGARS, food, Health, hot weather and diabetes, humalog, HYPO, HYPOGLYCAEMIC, HYPOGLYCEMIA, HYPOGLYCEMIC, ILL HEALTH, INSULIN, low blood sugar, medication and diabetes, meloxicam, MENS HEALTH, mental health, TID, TRAMADOL, TRUE STORY, TYPE 1 DIABETES, TYPE ONE DIABETES, WEIGHT LOSS, worry and diabetes | Leave a comment

MEDIOCRE MOUNT PLEASANT! ‘Mount Pleasant’ – Series 6, episode 1 review. 30/08/16.

Posted on September 4, 2016 by SCARFMAN

Three or four years ago Manchester based comedy-drama Mount Pleasant on Sky Living(now Sky One), was one of my favourite programmes on the telly. It regularly used to make me laugh and I loved its likeable Manchester charm(I’m a Mancunian). … Continue reading →

Posted in COMEDY, DRAMA, EMOTION, ENTERTAINMENT, MENTAL HEALTH, OCD, POPULAR CULTURE, TELEVISION, THE ARTS, TV, TV REVIEW, UK TV, Uncategorized | Tagged AINSLEY HOWARD, ANDY LLOYD, ANDY LLOYD SCARFMAN_ TV REVIEW, ANGELA GRIFFIN, BOBBY BA, BOBBY BALL, BRADLEY, BRITISH TV TELEVISION, CAMERON MILLER, CHARLIE, COLD FEET, COMEDY, COMEDY DRAMA, DANIEL RYAN, DENISE, DOG AND DUCK PUB, DRAMA, ELLA, EMOTION, entertainment, JAMES DREYFUSS, JAMES LANCE, JORDAN DAWES, LISA AND DAN, LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, MANCHESTER COMEDY DRAMA, mental health, MENTAL HEALTH IN TV / TELEVISION, MENTAL HEALTH STIGMA, MOUNT PLEASANT, MOUNT PLEASANT SEASON SIX, MOUNT PLEASANT SERIES 6, NICOLA HUGHES, NICOLA MILLBANK, NIGEL HARMAN, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, OLLY OLIVER, PATRICK ROBINSON, PAULA WILCOX, PAULINE COLLINS, popular culture, SALLY LINDSAY, SAMANTHA WOMACK, SIAN REEVES, SKY LIVING, SKY ONE, TANYA, TELEVISION, TELEVISION REVIEW, THE ARTS, TV, tv review, UK TV | Leave a comment

THE JOY OF……..A GOOD LONG WEE, WHEN YOU SUFFER FROM LYMPHOEDEMA LIKE ME!

Posted on July 17, 2016 by SCARFMAN

I’ll let you all into an embarrassing secret of mine for a moment, the other morning I raced into the bathroom quicker than Linford Christie in tight Lycra and shouted the following OUT LOUD as I weed(in the voice of … Continue reading →

Posted in ANXIETY, cellulitis, COMEDY, EMOTION, HEALTH, LYMPH GLANDS, LYMPHOEDEMA, mens health, MENTAL HEALTH, NHS, TRUE STORIES, Uncategorized | Tagged amusing health story, anxiety, banter, big wees, BLADDER, CELLULITIS, COMEDY, COMPRESSION, compression socks, COMPRESSION STOCKINGS, coping with lymphoedema, David Coleman, David Colemen, DOCTORS, EMOTION, fluid drainage, GALLBLADDER REMOVED, gallbladder taken out, going to the toilet, GPS, Health, health comedy, IRRITABLE BLADDER, JOY, Linford Christie, living with lymphedema, living with lymphoedema, lymph fluid, lymph gland drainage issue, LYMPH GLANDS, lymphatic fluid, lymphatic glands, lymphedema, LYMPHOEDEMA, MALE HEALTH, MENS HEALTH, mental health, nerves, NHS, pee, physical health, poisoning my body, PROSTATE INFECTION, PROSTATITIS, record breakers, swelling in the legs, SWOLLEN ANKLES, SWOLLEN FEET, SWOLLEN LEGS, symptoms and side effects of lymphoedema, toilet, TRUE STORY, urinating, urination, useless doctors, WEE, WEEING | Leave a comment

WHEN IS A BEGGAR A GENUINE BEGGAR……..THAT IS THE QUESTION?

Posted on April 17, 2016 by SCARFMAN

When is a beggar a genuine beggar then? I was asking myself this question numerous times the other night as I went to bed. I have not been accosted by such a person for a good eight or nine years … Continue reading →

Posted in ANXIETY, EMOTION, mens health, MENTAL HEALTH, RANT, TRUE STORIES, Uncategorized | Tagged abuse in the street, abuse when refusing beggars, ADDENBROOKES HOSPITAL, ALTRUISM, ANDY LLOYD, anxiety, AWFUL TEETH, BAD GUMS, beer, beggar, beggars, BEGGARS IN ROCHDALE, begging pleas, BEING APPROACHED BY A STRANGER, BEING SWORE AT, BLACK CAB, bullshit stories, CARING SOCIETY, con, cons, DISHONEST PEOPLE, drink, drug users, druggies, drugs, ENGLAND, fake beggars, fake street beggars, frustation, genuine beggar, getting lost, HARDSHIP, HONESTY, hospital appointment stress, HOSPITAL TRIP, how do you know who is a genuine beggar?, inner city life, INTIMIDATION, Jeremy Kyle, LIES, lime street train station, LIVERPOOL, Liverpool beggars, LIVERPOOL LIME STREET RAIL STATION, LIVERPOOL LIME STREET TRAIN STATION, MANCHESTER, MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS, Manchester Piccadilly RAIL station, Manchester Piccadilly train station, metrolink, MONEY, naive people, naive students, nerves, people who take advantage, Preston, PUBLIC TRANSPORT, rant, REAL LIFE, ROCHDALE, rotted teeth, rotten teeth, SCARFMAN, social commentary, street beggars, student, STUDENT LIFE, tiredness, trains, TRANSPORT, TRAVEL BLOG, Twitter, UK, UNI, UNI LIFE, UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY LIFE, WANNABE WRITER | Leave a comment

I FEEL LIKE CRYING HAPPY TEARS THAT MY CHRONIC PAIN HAS FINALLY STARTED TO DECREASE….BUT I’M SCARED TOO JUST YET!

Posted on April 16, 2016 by SCARFMAN

“If I can’t get back on the anti-inflammatories then my life is over. I won’t be able to cope with physio on my pelvis, having a girlfriend or going out five days a week for a job”. In the last … Continue reading →

Posted in ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, EMOTION, FAMILY, HEALTH, mens health, MENTAL HEALTH, NHS, OCD, RANT, TRUE STORIES, Uncategorized | Tagged 1990S, ABDOMINAL PAIN, ADDENBROOKES CAMBRIDGE, ADDENBROOKES HOSPITAL, ANAL PAIN, anti-inflammatory, anxiety, BACK PAIN, blog, burning anus, burning bottom feeling, CELECOXIB, celecvoxib, CHRONIC BACTERIAL PROSTATITIS, CHRONIC ILLNESS, CHRONIC PAIN, chronic pain blog, CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN, comfort eating, CRYING, DEGREE, DEPRESSION, DREAD, EMBARRASSING BODIES, EMBARRASSING HEALTH PROBLEMS, EMOTION, etoricoxib, Family, FAMILY SUPPORT WHEN ILL, fightback, fighting spirit, GALLBLADDER, GALLSTONES, girlfriend, HAPPY TEARS, Health, health and beauty, health and neauty, health battles, health blog, health diary, hell, HERBAL MEDICINE, HOPE, iliospoas, ILL HEALTH, INFLAMED GROIN, INFLAMMATION, irrational, JOB, life setbacks, lifestyle, LOWER BACK PAIN, lumbar spine pain, MALE HEALTH, medication, MEN'S HEALTH PROBLEM, MENS HEALTH, mental health, MISERY, MOBILITY ISSUES, mother son, mother son relationship, MOTIVATION, muscoskeletal physiotherapy, naproxen, NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, NATURE'S MOST POWERFUL ANTI INFLAMMATORY, negative mindset, negativity, nerves, NHS, NO CURE, nsaid, nsaids, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, OCD MEDICATION, pain, pain relief, panic stricken, PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLES, PELVIC FLOOR SPASMS, PELVIC GIRDLE PAIN, PELVIC PAIN, PELVIS, physical health, physical torment, physiotherapy, POSITIVE, positive mindset, positivity, PROSTATE, PROSTATE E.COLI INFECTION, PROSTATE ILLNESS, PROSTATE INFECTION, PROSTATITIS, PSOAS PAIN, QUERCETIN, rant, rational, REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM, rib pain, SACROILIAC JOINT PAIN, sad tears, SCIATIC PAIN, SCIATICA, SEX ORGANS, SHOULDER PAIN, SORE ANUS, SORE BOTTOM, SORE INFLAMED PELVIC FLOOR, SORE RIBS, sore shoulder, SPINE, SPONDYLOLISTHESIS, SUFFERING, TEARS, TILTED PELVIS, TRAMADOL, true stories, TRUE STORY, Twitter, UNCATEGORISED, UNCATEGORIZED, UNIVERSITY, urology, WATER WORKS, WOORY, work, WORRY, writing | Leave a comment

SUFFERING FROM ILL HEALTH CAN BE HEARTBREAKING AND SOUL DESTROYING AT TIMES, ESPECIALLY WHEN NOT EVERYBODY BELIEVES YOU!

Posted on February 25, 2016 by SCARFMAN

“You sure you’re not getting obsessed with your bits”? A GP said this to me once. “I think we discussed this last time how you’re maybe getting obsessed with your blood sugars”. A Diabetic Nurse said this to me once. … Continue reading →

Posted in ANXIETY, cellulitis, COMPLIMENT, DEPRESSION, DIABETES, EMOTION, FAMILY, FRIENDSHIP, HEALTH, LYMPH GLANDS, LYMPHOEDEMA, mens health, MENTAL HEALTH, NHS, OCD, RANT, TRIBUTE, TRUE STORIES, Uncategorized | Tagged anxiety, bad doctors, bad gp, being patronized, big brother, BLADDER, BLADDER PROBLEM, BLOOD SUGARS, CELLULITIS, CHRONIC BACTERIAL PROSTATITIS, CHRONIC ILLNESS, CHRONIC PAIN, CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN, compliment, CONTAMINATION, CONTAMINATION OCD, COPING WITH ILL HEALTH, DEGREE, degree interrupted by illness ill health, DEPRESSION, depression about health, DIABETES, DIABETIC, diabetic nurse, DIARY, differing medical opinions, DISCRIMINATION, DISGUST AT DOCTORS, DOCTORS, EMOTION, EMPATHY, exasperation at gp, failed diagnosis, Family, feeling weary, FEELING WORN OUT, fellow sufferer, FIGHTING, FRIENDS, friendship, GPS, Health, health battles, health diary, HEALTH ISSUES, HEALTH PROBLEMS, health story, health strugles, health worries, HELP, HOPE, ILL, ILL AT UNIVERSITY, ILL HEALTH, inept doctors, interrupted degree, isolation of being ill, isolation of ill health, knowing more than a doctor, LIFE, LIFE STORY, LIVING NIGHTMARE, LYMPH GLANDS, lymphedema, lymphemea, LYMPHOEDEMA, lymphoedema in legs, male, MALE HEALTH, male pelvic pain, manual lymphatic drainage, MEDICAL PEOPLE NOT BELIEVING YOU, MEDICINE, MEN, MENS HEALTH, mental depession, mental fight, mental health, MENTAL HEALTH DISCRIMINATION, MENTAL HEALTH PREJUDICE, MENTAL HEALTH STIGMA, mental help, mental illness, mental support, MIND, MISDIAGNOSIS, MOTHER, MOTIVATION, muscoskeletal physiotherapy, MY DEGREE, NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, nerves, NHS, NIGHTMARE, nurse, obsessive complusive disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, osteopath, PATRONIZED BY DOCTORS, PELVIC GIRDLE PAIN, PELVIC PAIN, PELVIC PHYSIO, PELVIC PHYSIOTHERAPY, pgp, physio, physiotherapy, poor doctors, poor gps, PREJUDICE, PROSTATE CANCER, PROSTATE ILLNESS, PROSTATITIS, psychological, psychological pain, rant, rib pain, SELF EDUCATION, SELF HELP GROUP, SHOULDER PAIN, Social Media, social media friendships, SORE PELVIS, SORE RIBS, sore shoulder, speak out about mental health, specialist womens physiotherapist, stigma, stigma of mental health illness, suicidal thought, SUICIDAL THOUGHTS, SUICIDE, SUPPORT, SYMPATHY, tribute, true stories, Twitter, TYPE ONE DIABETES, UROLOGISTS, VASCULAR, VINDICATION, well being, when doctors don't believe you, when people don't believe you're ill, women's physiotherapy, WOMENS HEALTH PHYSIOTHERAPY, WORRIES | Leave a comment

“WHO MAKETH THE MAN HERE? AM I IN CHARGE OR IS MY ARSE IN CHARGE”? ‘THE MOANING OF LIFE 2’, episode six review.

Posted on December 12, 2015 by SCARFMAN

One of my TV highlights of 2015 has without doubt been the second series of Sky One’s The Moaning of Life. I would even go as far to say that I think this is the best thing that Karl Pilkington … Continue reading →

HEARTBREAKING LOVE STORY, BUT THE MURDER PLOT LET IT DOWN! River- Episode six review.

Posted on November 18, 2015 by SCARFMAN

Last night the sixth and final episode of the gripping crime drama River was shown on BBC1. At the end of episode four I went around telling everybody how utterly brilliant I thought this programme was. Therefore, I was shocked … Continue reading →

Posted in BBC, BBC DRAMA, BBC ORIGINAL DRAMA, BBC1, DRAMA, EMOTION, ENTERTAINMENT, grief, mens health, MENTAL HEALTH, POPULAR CULTURE, screenplay, TELEVISION, THE ARTS, TV, TV REVIEW, twitter, UK TV, Uncategorized | Tagged #JOHNRIVER, #NICOLAWALKER, #STELLANSKARSGARD, #TVREVIEW, 2015, ABI MORGAN, ADEEL AHKTAR, BBC, BBC CRIME DRAMA, BBC DRAMA, BBC ONE, BBC1, BBCRIVER, BELGIUM, CRIME, CRIME DRAMA, DRAMA, DS JACKIE STEVIE STEVENSON, EDDIE MARSAN, EMOTION, entertainment, EUROPEAN CINEMA, GEORGINA RICH, Grief, GRIEVING, I LOVE TO LOVE, IMMIGRANTS, IRA KING, JIM NORTON, JOHN RIVER, KUDOS, LARS VON TRIER, LONDON, LOVE, LOVE STORY, mental health, MISE-EN-SCENE, MODERNITY, MOURNING, MURDER, MURDER MYSTERY, MURDER PLOT, MYSTERY, NICOLA WALKER, NOIR, NORDIC, NORDIC NOIR, OWEN TEALE, PANNING SHOT, popular culture, POST MODERNITY, RIVER, RIVER DETECTIVE, scandinavia, screenplay, SHINE INTERNATIONAL, SORCHA CUSACK, STELLAN SKARSGARD, STEVIE, SUSPENSE, TELEVISION, TELEVISION REVIEW, THE ARTS, THRILLER, TINA CHARLES, TV, tv review, UK TV, UK TV REVIEW, UNCATEGORISED | Leave a comment

A QUICK TICKLE NEAR MY GROIN AND SOME MASSAGING WITH NOT MUCH PRESSURE….MY FIRST EXPERIENCE OF MANUAL LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE!

Posted on November 8, 2015 by SCARFMAN

ME : “Hi, it’s Andrew Lloyd” Therapist : “Hello, do you want to take your shoes off before coming through” Now, I will be honest with you and say that this request here to take my shoes off did take … Continue reading →

Posted in ANXIETY, cellulitis, HEALTH, LYMPH GLANDS, LYMPHOEDEMA, mens health, MENTAL HEALTH, OCD, Uncategorized | Tagged #LYMPHGLANDS, #MANUALLYMPHATICDRAINAGE, #MENSHEALTH, alternative medicine, alternative therapy, ANATOMY, blog, BONES, COMEDY, COMMUNICATION, DIARY, feet swelling, fight infections, groin, Health, HOLISTIC, HOLISTIC MEDICINE, HOLISTIC THERAPY, humour, ILL HEALTH, ILLNESS, immune system, KARL PILKINGTON, LEGS, legs lymph glands, LEGS SWELLING, lymph, LYMPH GLANDS, lymphatic fluid, lymphedema, LYMPHOEDEMA, MALE HEALTH, MANUAL LYMPH DRAINAGE, manual lymphatic drainage, MASSAGE, MASSING, MEDICINE, MENS HEALTH, mental health, MLD, MUSCLES, no hands, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, shoes, shoes off, skin, SOFT TISSUE, SWELLING, SWOLLEN LEGS, SWOLLEN LIMBS, talk, therapist, Tibetan monks, UNWELL | Leave a comment

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Category Archives: MENTAL HEALTH

Ordinary Lies. Series 2, episode 1 review : YOU HEARD THE ONE ABOUT THE PARANOID HUSBAND, HIS VIGILANTE WIFE AND THE RANDY DIVORCEE?

I am a DIABETIC DETECTIVE, gunning for my FLUCTUATING BLOOD SUGARS!

MEDIOCRE MOUNT PLEASANT! ‘Mount Pleasant’ – Series 6, episode 1 review. 30/08/16.

THE JOY OF……..A GOOD LONG WEE, WHEN YOU SUFFER FROM LYMPHOEDEMA LIKE ME!

I FEEL LIKE CRYING HAPPY TEARS THAT MY CHRONIC PAIN HAS FINALLY STARTED TO DECREASE….BUT I’M SCARED TOO JUST YET!

“WHO MAKETH THE MAN HERE? AM I IN CHARGE OR IS MY ARSE IN CHARGE”? ‘THE MOANING OF LIFE 2’, episode six review.

HEARTBREAKING LOVE STORY, BUT THE MURDER PLOT LET IT DOWN! River- Episode six review.

A QUICK TICKLE NEAR MY GROIN AND SOME MASSAGING WITH NOT MUCH PRESSURE….MY FIRST EXPERIENCE OF MANUAL LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE!

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