Walk a Mile In My Shoes
Walk a Mile In My Shoes
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Fat Diabetics are Bankrupting the NHS!
Below are some of the links I used in the making of this video.
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Original Daily Mail report
www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9931367/amp/Diabetes-crisis-threatens-bankrupt-NHS-One-eight-pounds-spent-prescriptions.html
17% of the UK population take antidepressants
www.gov.uk/government/publications/prescribed-medicines-review-report/prescribed-medicines-review-summary
Big issue homeless stats
www.bigissue.com/latest/britains-homelessness-shame-cold-hard-facts/
Increase in the prescription of Antipsychotic medication in the UK
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2021/feb/antipsychotic-prescriptions-rising-much-faster-psychosis-rates
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Відео

Reversing Type 2 Diabetes with The Mental Diabetic
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This is my continued journey into reversing type 2 diabetes. Here are the links mentioned in the video ‘Life without Diabetes’ by Professor Roy Taylor www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1780724098/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_VXKY2V5YNPDV1CKT8DBE Recipe for Vegan Dhal runningonrealfood.com/coconut-red-lentil-dahl/ Refeeding Syndrome (there are a lot of links out there, but this covers the bases) www.healthline...
The Mental Diabetic - Being Mad gives you Diabetes
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I've recently been diagnosed with diabetes after a lifetime of taking psych medication. Many people with long term mental health problems die prematurely - often between 10 and 20 years earlier than the general population, often from preventable physical conditions. The link between long term physical illness and many medications given to folk with severe and enduring mental health problems is ...
The Mental Diabetic - Diagnosis
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Hi, my name’s Chris, I’m a 56 year old man who’s just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. I’d be delighted if you’d accompany me on this journey as I try to make sense of it, whilst trying to escape its evil clutches. I’m particularly keen to talk about the link between a lifetime of taking psych meds and poor physical health. People with long term mental health problems are likely to die betw...
Walk a Mile trial run
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Walk a Mile in My Shoes - I’ll be returning to Porthmadog in the 17th of November to continue my walk around the edge of the U.K. to highlight the experience of people with mental health problems - many of whom feel they’re on the edge of society. I’ll take no money with me while I’m walking - relying purely on the kindness of strangers as I go. I have a mental health problem - Borderline Perso...
Walk a Mile in My Shoes on STV February 2018
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This is the UA-cam Channel for Walk a Mile in My Shoes, a Scottish Charity set up to challenge Mental Health Stigma, One conversation at a time. We do this through... #LetsWalkAMile events, including training and support to run your own events letswalkamile.org/ The round the UK Coastal Walk The Walk a Mile in My Shoes Film ua-cam.com/video/tAxIQSfHZDY/v-deo.html Our Facebook Group facebook.com...
#FindMissWard on the BBC Breakfast Sofa
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I'm having a book event for my recently published book - Walk a Mile: Tales of a Wandering Loon at Blackwell's in Edinburgh on Thursday 1st of February - it got me thinking about Miss Ward, the rather lovely English teacher who inspired me 40 years ago This is the UA-cam Channel for Walk a Mile in My Shoes, a Scottish Charity set up to challenge Mental Health Stigma, One conversation at a time....
The #FindMissWard campaign reaches the BBC Breakfast Sofa
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The #FindMissWard campaign reaches the sofa on the BBC Breakfast Show This is the UA-cam Channel for Walk a Mile in My Shoes, a Scottish Charity set up to challenge Mental Health Stigma, One conversation at a time. We do this through... #LetsWalkAMile events, including training and support to run your own events letswalkamile.org/ The round the UK Coastal Walk The Walk a Mile in My Shoes Film u...
Walk a mile in my shoes
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Walk a mile in my shoes
Walk a Mile in My Shoes. Challenging #mentalhealth #stigma one Conversation at a Time. About.
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Walk a Mile in My Shoes. Challenging #mentalhealth #stigma one Conversation at a Time. About.

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  • @cynthiashackelford-w9l
    @cynthiashackelford-w9l Рік тому

    fascinatung

  • @angusritchie8729
    @angusritchie8729 2 роки тому

    This is very interesting. Ive been disassociated for about a month as a side effect of stopping the hairloss drug finasteride, I have heard people going through the same thing praising the power of fasting. Keen to see if it works

  • @edithzamora2220
    @edithzamora2220 2 роки тому

    Thank you for sharing. I’ve been dissociated for 1 year now and I’m desperate to get my life back. Be able to take care of my kids and my husband left me, I’ve been looking into fasting for this. And it was nice to find something from u. I’m glad it helped I’m hoping it can help me too

  • @denisescotland
    @denisescotland 3 роки тому

    I'll just add that diabetics all get free prescriptions so no profit from the patients directly, big pharma will of course be profiting. My injections alone cost £75 for 4 weekly doses. Blood testing strips actually cost the NHS more than diabetes drugs, I just looked mine up on Amazon and they are £15 for 50 strips there. I get a shiny new meter each nurse appointment because the drug companies give them to the NHS for free since they make the profits from the strips and lancets. Continuous blood monitoring devices cost £1000 upfront with sensors costing over £100 a month, these are almost exclusively used for kids. The figures also ignore the fact that the highest group of diabetics are the elderly, so not the fat slobs that the Fail would like to make out. Half of all people with diabetes in the United Kingdom are aged over 65 years and a quarter are over 75. Thus, 10% of people aged over 75 years and 14% of those aged over 85 years have diabetes Weight loss surgery has proven to be cost effective in diabetes. The NHS recoups the money spent on diabetes care within 18 months to 2 years. The government has actually advised the NHS to do more surgeries but these departments are being cut back to save money. In NHS Fife they have permission to pay for up to 30 surgeries a year but they never do that many as the hoops you need to jump through are ridiculous. If 50% or so of the population are overweight or obese it is not down to self control as the Fail would like us to think. It proves there is something systemic going on that needs tackled on a population level. Me update; I'm still fat and diabetic and costing the NHS a fortune!

    • @walkamileinmyshoes8538
      @walkamileinmyshoes8538 3 роки тому

      Thanks for that update, Denise. I’ll be sure to correct that in my next video. I really appreciate you taking the time to comment

  • @Tuantranfitnesscoach
    @Tuantranfitnesscoach 3 роки тому

    Hey :) I respect your dedication on your weight loss journey, because it helps others to work hard and focus when there are bad days! Great job ❤️ New subscriber to support your channel 💪🏽 love to help each other grow more

  • @denisescotland
    @denisescotland 3 роки тому

    Nice to see your progress and the fact you are still so enthusiastic. I didn't know you were vegan, Dal is one of my favourite foods too (I still eat meat though), I might give that cauli rice a try but it does sound pretty vile. Update from me, my GP referred me to diabetes dietician a couple of weeks back and I got the letter today they won't see me cos I'm too fat! I've got to go to the special dietician for folk with a BMI over 40. I've already been on their waiting list since last January. They had a 22 month wait before covid so god knows if I will ever be seen.

    • @walkamileinmyshoes8538
      @walkamileinmyshoes8538 3 роки тому

      This sounds like one of those situations where professionals in underfunded services arbitrarily block people & then claim you’re not engaging with services…or taking personal responsibility (always a favourite). It feels like another wall of prejudice - bizarre since they’re complicit in getting you to this point. My position regarding vegan is quite straightforward (for me!) I love meat in all its forms - but I know I could never kill an animal for that purpose. I struggled with my hypocrisy there - so becoming vegan was really my only choice. Cauliflower rice adds a bit of texture and flavour - I don’t think they’ll put me on their branding though, ‘Cauliflower rice - it’s not as shit as you think!’ isn’t a great strapline

  • @natashaandmatthew4972
    @natashaandmatthew4972 3 роки тому

    I was so sorry to hear about the diabetes Chris, it really sucks and I hope it is under control as I seen what it can be like when it is not under control. Xxx I was in similar situation with an antipsychotic called respiradone (not with diabetes though). I wasn't told I needed regular blood test with it to check hormone imbalances or that and I was so desperate for help I just took them. Anyways, long story short, it turns out one the embarrising side effects of respiradone is it increases prolactin levels in women which started me lactating. Been off the medication 7 months now and it only just got better. So now it decided to go with absolutely zero medication for my mental health and see how that does. Xx

  • @denisescotland
    @denisescotland 3 роки тому

    Another mental diabetic here, look forward to hearing more about your journey.

    • @walkamileinmyshoes8538
      @walkamileinmyshoes8538 3 роки тому

      Thanks Denise - I think there are a lot of us around There’ll be more soon

  • @vashnanerada8757
    @vashnanerada8757 4 роки тому

    Iv paid tax for 55 years if I end up taking bennifit I'll gladly do it. That's part of why we pay tax. Dosnt universal credit loan you money so you don't go hungry..

    • @walkamileinmyshoes8538
      @walkamileinmyshoes8538 4 роки тому

      VASHTA NERADA hi there - yes, the system - in some cases - will lend people money while they wait for their benefits to come through. The thing is, we’re told that universal credit is the absolute minimum people should live on - by taking loan repayments off them, the DWP are, by their own definition, giving people LESS than the ABSOLUTE MINIMUM to live on

    • @vashnanerada8757
      @vashnanerada8757 4 роки тому

      @@walkamileinmyshoes8538 I agree it's a fking mess the horror storys of disabled people killing them self's it's terrible then we find out BORRIS IS UPPING MPS DAILY ALOUNCE FROM 361 A DAY TO 400 PND A DAY .. FKING TERRIBLE WHEN PEOPLE ARE STRUGULING ON AS LITTLE AS 350 AMTH TO LIVE ON

  • @forgoodaudiotrack
    @forgoodaudiotrack 6 років тому

    Hey Chris! A couple of years ago I saw a screening of your film at Glad Café, you did a talk afterwards. My girlfriend is facing a possible diagnosis and I wondered if you had a link to it anywhere so I could show her? Thank you x

    • @walkamileinmyshoes8538
      @walkamileinmyshoes8538 6 років тому

      Hi Hazel - thanks for this. I’ve recently been in touch with the film maker who’s still making final adjustments (!) to the film. She’s reluctant to share it at the moment - that said, I can get in touch with her again to find out what stage she’s at with it. I’ll let you know how I get on. Cheers for now, Chris

  • @theukwatcher
    @theukwatcher 7 років тому

    great story.good luck finding her

  • @AmandasAllotment
    @AmandasAllotment 7 років тому

    Ahhh i hope you find her Chris :)

  • @user-kq5qp6dh8l
    @user-kq5qp6dh8l 7 років тому

    er....is austerity affecting the Torys...???No!

  • @user-kq5qp6dh8l
    @user-kq5qp6dh8l 7 років тому

    Torys are lower than vermin. Bevin...

  • @user-kq5qp6dh8l
    @user-kq5qp6dh8l 7 років тому

    never trust a Tory

  • @user-kq5qp6dh8l
    @user-kq5qp6dh8l 7 років тому

    I'm 60..God help the future generations.

  • @user-kq5qp6dh8l
    @user-kq5qp6dh8l 7 років тому

    civil war is the only option. magna carts gives us the right of rightful rebellion

  • @MrHanto65
    @MrHanto65 7 років тому

    You don't look like Your on hunger strike.

  • @benbartle8134
    @benbartle8134 7 років тому

    Benefits are not a privilege ffs there a right. Just what the flying fuck are they doing to people. It's slow suicide. This is so so wrong

  • @MicheleSimmons
    @MicheleSimmons 7 років тому

    Good morning Chris, respect to you for what you are doing for the mass raising awareness encouraging people to become more active where so many feel just like otherwise giving up. I think it was on day 10 of your hunger strike in your video where you mention mental health discriminination and it being said there is no connection with foodbanks and universal credit and you rightly defend there is a link because it's about ones going hungry needing to use them and so many others dying. I am not sure if you are an ex children's social worker or one for adults or one who supported others with mental health issues illness or disabilities, because i just wanted to ask your views about parents who have personality disorder type diagnosis used against them part and parcel to taking their children for 'forced adoption' and what you think about when parents who are wrongly diagnosed too and your thoughts on the ones who do this. I haven't watched all your videos yet as i have only just come across your blog, book and videos, so forgive me if this is answered already. What i have noticed is that in many organisations or businesses ones are not treated accordingly with diversity in mind and instead we are all being moulded into a one size fits all bread tin but then there are flaws in that bread tin as none of us are perfect human beings who have come from that one big family tree. Without me going off track further amore, have you covered timescales and problems with those and letters for appointments where the appointment date is dated at an earlier date to when ones have been sent an appointment showing a later date on the same letter for example and if you was a social worker for children's services, where many parents have had personality type diagnosis used against them whether the diagnosis has been a correct one or not then what was your views on this before as a social worker and what are your views now you yourself have said you have this. Thank you x

  • @jaycam2886
    @jaycam2886 7 років тому

    Chris,I applaud you well done,There are major issue in job centers i have proof whats taken place from peoples rights being eroded and young people with a lack of life skills being taken advantage of, all of this is a major story that press will never touch because it will expose the truth what jobs centers main aim is to sanction and put people in to more hardship not through there own doing but through advisers playing game on peoples ignorants its a disgrace,

  • @houseofbaboshka6456
    @houseofbaboshka6456 7 років тому

    Thank You Chris, I made this for you :) ua-cam.com/video/kRFIU8AKZKE/v-deo.html

  • @houseofbaboshka6456
    @houseofbaboshka6456 7 років тому

    I have Charcot Marie Tooth which I got high rate mobilty and DLA, which was for life. This was confirmed by a proper doctor. Years later I was diagnosed with scoliosis (comon with cmt) also spondylitis and arthritis. Pip came along had my assessment which I was not examined, infact she refused to after I asked her to, I was then reduced to lower lvl. It went to appeal again I was not examined! DWP was repesented by a lawyer, what chance did I have against him? I lost but was told I could appeal in the high courts! How much does all this cost by the way? The pip assessment the appeal took alot out of me , some would consider em strong and even I felt on the very of jumping of the dover at times. Lucky I got good friends around me. I feel for those who do not. As for UC like Keyna, this is something I am too dreading. This instant debt alot of pain and hardship. had to edit am also dyslaxic :D

    • @keynatyler4767
      @keynatyler4767 7 років тому

      House Of Baboshka Yes luv I'm really worried good luck

  • @houseofbaboshka6456
    @houseofbaboshka6456 7 років тому

    hiya Chris, thanks for the update :)

  • @keynatyler4767
    @keynatyler4767 7 років тому

    I'm grateful for all your doing this chris please keep it up i look out for you every day to put me informed I'm disabled i no it's coming to my town i feel like I m sick with worry already if my money was stopped I'd lose all my help in carers I'd be like a fish out of water and slowly die i no that but if it does happen I'll let everyone looking up at me from a high rise building no that I'm jumping off because of Teresa may nazi government

  • @simonthecatman209
    @simonthecatman209 7 років тому

    I remember being sanctioned for going to a interview

  • @houseofbaboshka6456
    @houseofbaboshka6456 7 років тому

    well done Chris :)

  • @rebeccaselley
    @rebeccaselley 7 років тому

    Well done Chris, you made it. More power to you. Love, light & peace.

  • @groovedodger
    @groovedodger 7 років тому

    Well done m8 : )

  • @rebeccaselley
    @rebeccaselley 7 років тому

    Even when people are awarded their UC their is no guarantee of payment. When you go to the payment section of your journal it says that the amount of your award is dependant on your circumstances since the last payment. This has the affect of making people live under constant fear & anxiety. It appears that the amount isn't decided until the assessment period which happens again at the end of every month. We also have to re sign our commitments and re read the sanctions section every month. It is unbelievably demoralising. We already know about sanctions why do we have to repeatedly have our faces rubbed in it? You're right ~ this hideous system isn't us. It does not speak for us. It does not represent me. I will contact my local MP ~ Amber Rudd. I am literally sick from suffering in silence. Now I know I'm not alone. Your hunger strike has inspired me to act outside of my austerity prison. I'm sure that others will act too. It's incumbent on us for the sake of sanity & compassion.

  • @jasoncassey9163
    @jasoncassey9163 7 років тому

    This is the elites hunger games society.

  • @jasoncassey9163
    @jasoncassey9163 7 років тому

    We have let psychopaths rule us. Time to wake up and take our power back from these maniacs.

  • @keynatyler4767
    @keynatyler4767 7 років тому

    I'm doing all I can I no what it's like to have nothing except a mattress on a fall by a gas fire no food no electricity nothing I nearly died and wanted to at times but I was lucky I got help i was put back together again and now it looks like all that's gone for people now I'm sure it's slow generside

    • @walkamileinmyshoes8538
      @walkamileinmyshoes8538 7 років тому

      keyna Tyler it’s stories like yours that folk need to hear. It sounds like a nightmare. I’m glad you emerged out the other side

  • @keynatyler4767
    @keynatyler4767 7 років тому

    It's so cold out there i saw a homeless man he looked like death it like Charles dickings days the poor are really poor again it's so wrong and backwards we should all have a home and food to eat and drink my goodness the people that gave there life's in the war for freedom now here come the nàzis again were fucked up this country is dieing to me I'm glad I'm 60 and not 16

  • @AmandasAllotment
    @AmandasAllotment 7 років тому

    Omg i didnt realise you had bpd! I have that too

    • @walkamileinmyshoes8538
      @walkamileinmyshoes8538 7 років тому

      Amanda's Allotment yes, it’s the gift that keeps on giving! It’s a challenge - but I’m hugely more fortunate than others

    • @AmandasAllotment
      @AmandasAllotment 7 років тому

      Chris Young thats good, im currently visiting the haven project which is a charity here in essex set up to help ppl with cluster b's as there is no DBT here

    • @walkamileinmyshoes8538
      @walkamileinmyshoes8538 7 років тому

      Shuggy Thomas I’m taking advice. I’ve been alerted to refeeding syndrome - and I’m currently in touch with a guy who went on hunger strike for 40 days in 2014 to protest against world hunger. He’s advising me on how to restart slowly and methodically.

  • @keynatyler4767
    @keynatyler4767 7 років тому

    Please stop this strike to eat no one wants you to get poorly chris you have done long enough I have tried to put it out there ie Facebook twitter I'm poor I'm 60 I'm already stressed and I'm not on it yet but I just feel that this is going to be the death of me I'm disabled my goodness is this the country my dad went to war for all them poor young men that gave there life's for there country and went with smiles on there faces and now look at us being killed off bye not the enemy but by our own fellow country men i really hope that it comes to the point were we all stand up as one and stop these nazi in there tracks

  • @keynatyler4767
    @keynatyler4767 7 років тому

    It's heartbreaking chris isn't it why can't men like you be in power they must have known what this u c was going to do to people there setting people up to fail pure and simple the sad thing is when you do get so hungry and cold you just get so deppressed you just stay in bed and try and sleep yourself to your next bit of money it is dire iv lived like it luv I'm never going to get over thoese days now that's really life SCAREY

  • @keynatyler4767
    @keynatyler4767 7 років тому

    Your a good man chris but don't go making yourself ill we need speakers like you x

  • @keynatyler4767
    @keynatyler4767 7 років тому

    Do you no if we can do a sign petition on line to stop universal credit chris

  • @jasoncoleridge5872
    @jasoncoleridge5872 7 років тому

    I NOW BELIEVE THE TORIES ARE DOING THEIR LEVEL BEST TO GET OUT OF BEING IN POWER. THIS YEAR HAS BEEN ONE CALAMITY AFTER ANOTHER, AND I REFUSE TO BELIEVE THIS IS DOWN TO PURE INCOMPETENCE ALONE, WHEN THESE POLICIES COULD BE REVERSED ALMOST IMMEDIATELY. I RECKON THEY'VE SEEN THE ICEBERG THAT IS BREXIT AND WANT CORBYN TO BE IN WHEN THE SHIT HITS THE FAN.

  • @simonthecatman209
    @simonthecatman209 7 років тому

    It is our belief in people which is the problem.

  • @houseofbaboshka6456
    @houseofbaboshka6456 7 років тому

    Hiya Chris, I have sent your links to various friends, what surpises me is how this is not msm or headlines. If people want to see how the universal credit runs check out Peters youtube. It bonkers. ua-cam.com/video/9b_COtzT0so/v-deo.html the whole system of UC is flawed and needs to be halted before more poeple end up killing themseves. Hats of to you Chris stay safe :)

  • @Enzo012
    @Enzo012 7 років тому

    The people who implement all this likely genuinely believe that the only people they will ultimately penalise are those people who make living on benefits a lifestyle choice. Anyone who can work will have found themselves a 35 hour week job within 12 weeks or something like that.

  • @devilmyke
    @devilmyke 7 років тому

    And one of the main problems is at the end of seven weeks.. So two weeks from application to first commitment meeting then 4 weeks from that date to receive first payment if nothing goes wrong..then you only get one payment that covers one month at the end of it and if you've had an advance which is like £200 for the seven week you need to pay £40 back every payment

  • @rebeccaselley
    @rebeccaselley 7 років тому

    I hope that I'd be a human being and try and find out if they were ok, if someone had missed a meeting . I think that would be the human thing to do. This system is inhumane. Thank you for protesting on my behalf.

  • @rebeccaselley
    @rebeccaselley 7 років тому

    I wasn't told of crisis payments until 28 days in. I was then told it had to be minimum of £100.00. I live in Hastings, East Sussex now a "full service" UC area. It's dire.

  • @theukwatcher
    @theukwatcher 7 років тому

    watched, liked and tweeted. its good the message you are trying to get over to people. got you on twitter now .

  • @houseofbaboshka6456
    @houseofbaboshka6456 7 років тому

    Milgram Obedience Study ua-cam.com/video/eTX42lVDwA4/v-deo.html

  • @walkamileinmyshoes8538
    @walkamileinmyshoes8538 7 років тому

    Hi - yes, you never can tell! Thanks for watching & for your words of support 😊

  • @groovedodger
    @groovedodger 7 років тому

    Hi Chris all the best. Just watched the Walk a Mile in My Shoes link . I must say well done for raising awareness I would never have guessed from watching your videos you were a sufferer. It shows how it can be an invisible illness. I've not been immune to mental health problems (depression) and I know its hard enough to admit to yourself you have a problem never mind put yourself out in public so well done again.