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My Time to Present from May 2024 from a Work, Mental Health and ADHD Diagnosis Perspective

Introduction and Background Anyone that has read my previous pieces in this blog account will notice that there has been concentration on my background to which I haven't yet fully published, and it was something I wanted to do before fully concentrating on the ADHD side of things, to give full context.  There have been events in my life over the past month or so that need telling from both a work perspective and a mental health perspective that have their origins from two years ago.  This is a hill I am prepared to die on should it be required.  As things stand, I can only make progress from a position of nothing. While it is fair to say that I have suffered mentally all my life and was largely ignored or 'soldiered through' until my first suicide attempt in the army in 1998 and again through to my second suicide attempt in 2007 where there was some address by mental health services in Liverpool.  Since moving to Ireland in 2008, I have been in and out of mental hea...
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Mental Health 3 (i)

Bulford (3 UK Div) 206 Signal Squadron 1997 I arrived at Bulford on a bit of a downer in May 1997, as I wanted to get posted to York as it was closer to Liverpool, because even after almost two years in, I was getting a bit fed up with being away from Liverpool and got home every weekend I could.  I was also in between my Uncle Frank passing and finding my Auntie Ann being seriously ill - although we (my Dad and myself) were unsure what it was for.  She was to pass a month later. Militarily, things didn't particularly start well when the shite started raining down after my first PT session.  I'm not sure if it was a bog-standard squadron run, or if it was where we did a basic fitness test which involves running a mile and half in a group then running a mile and half under your own steam to get as quick as possible time, within a set time.  Whatever it was, I was berated for either not being quick enough and/or not having enough stamina.  I had hardly done any PT...
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Location: Commons, Duleek, Co. Meath, Ireland
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Holy Week

Introduction I decided to go on a change of tack for this week seeing as it is Holy Week and many people will be embarking on the journey I went on, because there are elements that are quite relevant even in this phase of mental health difficulties I have experienced in the past while, but also there is the opportunity of redemption, and I suppose healing also.  I was cleaning the oven earlier and I had ideas on how to write this and I've totally forgotten, so this could go in any direction. A History  As you may have gathered - if you have read my profile, I am Catholic, and proudly so within humble reason.  This wasn't always the case.  I was raised in a not particularly religious household, although I was baptised (I think) by the Protestant Free Church in Bootle - this has relevance later.  I think I was about 3 or 4 I had my own first direct religious experience, which I won't divulge here.  My schooling with respect to infants and primary schools was ...
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