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Updated by Vanessa Beattie on Jul 25, 2014
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The BB all time favourite hits

My all time favourite BB posts

The BB top 10 benefits of living sober

Just as the title suggests, I give my top 10 benefits of living sober. A life without booze, isn't that bad. Really.

Sole parenting: Mums raising boys without dad around

Can mums raising boys without dads around do a good job at parenting? Of course they can! Here's some well researched reasons why.

Managing mental illness: Self-care

After seven years of serious mental illness, 8 hospital admissions, too many medication changes to count, and many, many different types of therapy attempted, here is a list of my personal tips on mental health self-care.

Getting a lap-band: All the gory details

Details on getting a lap-band - the good, the bad, the gory!

Australian psychiatric hospitals like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest? I don't think so

I wrote this post in response to a journalist who claimed that when she visited a friend in a private psych hospital in Melbourne the facility was akin to the one in the famous Jack Nicholson movie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest. My personal experience at three different private facilities in Sydney paint a very different story. Read on to find out why.

From Rock Bottom to Parenthood

Ok, so I'm cheating a bit here. This is a list of posts that tell the story of how I crawled my way out of that horrible place Rock Bottom to become a sole parent to my beautiful boy Ned.

The Xanax (and other benzos) dilemma: My story

In this post I give the dirt on how I became a benzo addict while an inpatient of a private Sydney psychiatric and rehab facility.