by Anonymous | 13th Apr 2021 | Stress and Burnout, The Covid Diaries
It was week two of facing one of my greatest obstacles, a task so seamless to others, as simple as blinking or breathing. Not that I found either simple in this moment; I notice my blinking is rapid and my breathing is tense, fast, shallow. This familiar and yet...
by Anonymous | 6th Apr 2021 | Stress and Burnout, The Covid Diaries
It isn’t called a sinking feeling for nothing. It feels like you’re in a lift, plummeting down the outside of a skyscraper, out of control, hurtling towards the inevitable. Your stomach is like a washing machine on fast spin, and the dread, deep in your...
by Anonymous | 18th Feb 2020 | Patient Stories, Stress and Burnout
That Autumn had been the wettest since forever. Not that we knew that then, the statistics come out months after the lived experience, but I remember every day resulted in a drenching. Having to hang up the raincoat and the pram cover over the bath and dry the wheels...
