Personal Stories and Links to Useful Information, Help and Support.

People's Concerns

Interviews with people about their experiences of bullying, cults, agoraphobia, student life, mild hypothermia, sight loss, cycling hazards, and how they have dealt with them.

These audio interviews will hopefully be of benefit to people, and there are links with them to other websites where people can find resources that could help them with problems related to the topics featured here. For instance, on the page leading to a sound file about the dangers of cults, there are links to more information about them. --- Diana Holbourn, Site Owner

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Importance Of Reflective Cycling Gear
(Duration: approx. 2 minutes)

"Had I not had those on, the car would have had to brake very sharply and may well have hit me"
--Philip

Cured Of Agoraphobia
(Duration: approx. 2 minutes)

"After that, we built it up to going to one shop ... and built it up to two shops ... and then back home. And gradually I became all-right again and managed to get out."
--Anita

Getting The First Stages Of Hypothermia While Mountain Climbing In Early September
(Duration: approx. 3 minutes)

"I did have a jumper in my bag but foolishly I never put this on"
--Philip

Becoming a Victim Of Mind Control - Getting Involved In a Cult
(Duration: approx. 9 minutes)

"It then took me eleven months to recover from just two and a half weeks' involvement."
--Ian Haworth, ex-cult member and founder of the Cult Information Centre

Dealing With School Bullying
(Duration: approx. 6 minutes)

"The headmistress there decided that I would end up putting matches in boxes, and she wouldn't let me take my O Levels. She was actually worse than all the pupils because of downing me all the time, making me out to be a failure, which I'm not, because since I left I've got my NVQ level 1; I've got my RSA Audio Typewriting; GCSE French, grade A, ..."
--Nathalie

University Life - including the fun side.
Could encouraging people to stay on at school like this be a cure for truant and misbehavior in school in some cases - incentive rather than coersion?
(Duration: approx. 30 minutes)

"University is one of the best places you can go"
--Philip

Coping With Sight Loss
(Duration: approx. 20 Minutes)

"You do learn in time that you have to walk slower; you have to approach things with a carefulness that you're not going to hurt yourself"
--Julia

Resources For People In Need And Matters Of Concern:

• Links to Advice on Consumer Protection - Scams, Rogue Traders, Loan Sharks and Psychic Frauds
• Cutting Down the Risk of Getting Into a Bad Relationship.
  This is mainly for teenagers.
• Unreported World.
• Some Ways War Can Be More Catastrophic Than Need Be or be Started Unnecessarily, and Some Solutions.
• The Immorality of Starting Wars When Not Absolutely Necessary, and the Brutality it can Lead to, Shown by News and Other Quotes About Recent Wars.
• Women's Aid - an organisation helping and campaigning for women suffering domestic violence in England.
• Domestic Violence.
• Domestic Violence (Information from Victim Support in the UK).
• Find out medical information at Netdoctor.co.uk.
• Resources & support for those living with cancer.
• How to Avoid Falling for Many False Claims or Fears of the Supernatural.
• Stop Bad Therapy: Protect Yourself by Being an Informed Consumer! False Memory Syndrome Information and Resources.

New and Old Articles of Interest:

• Daily updated health news.
• The rigged rules of global trade - Oxfam's campaign to make trade fair.
• How to break the cycle of re-offending. (Guardian, July 2002)
• It's official - prison does work after all (under the right conditions). (Guardian, Jan 2001)
• Inmate Education. (Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel, Aug 2008)
• How The Cowboy Dentists Are Allowed To Ruin Our Teeth.
• Potential paedophiles need support, not punishment. (Guardian, July 2002)
• First, you market the disease... then you push the pills to treat it. (Guardian, July 2002)

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