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“Everybody desires a degree of independence”

I’m 26, and building a network of friends and my career. Unlike most people my age, I’m entirely dependent on carers to achieve this.

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What the nose doesn’t know

Losing her sense of smell for over a year motivated Stephanie Howard-Smith to sniff out the history of treatments for this unsettling condition.

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Happy Joy Smile

Drawn from real-life experiences, this short story depicts a character negotiating the UK’s current mental health system. Discover what happens as they encounter waiting lists, sketchy healthcare and punitive government bureaucracy.

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  • Greek open air shower baths for men.
  • Greek open-air shower baths for men. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937, after the Antimenes Painter.
  • Greek open-air shower baths for men. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937, after the Antimenes Painter.
  • Royal Baths : shampooing, Turkish medicated, vapour, sulphur, barege, tepid & shower baths : no. 9, Suffolk Place, Pall Mall East : the original establishment by B. Dominiceti M.D., 1764 is now conducted on the same principles by Mr. Seaman.
  • A boy sitting on a wooden chair, his chin resting on his hand, in a room used as a "shower bath" at Aix les Bains. Photograph by L. Demay.
  • Women bathing in a public gymnasium. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937.
  • A prisoner in Sing Sing Prison, New York, having water poured over him by a guard as a punishment, while restrained at the ankles and wrists: he dies. Wood engraving, 1869.
  • A patient suffering perpetual coldness surrounded by perplexed physicians attempting their cures. Coloured soft-ground etching.
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