Running for mental health
It’s been six years since I did a run of any note. Six years… and during that time...
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Jul 10, 2019 | Life, Mental health | 0 |
It’s been six years since I did a run of any note. Six years… and during that time...
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Apr 23, 2019 | Featured, Mental health, Parenting, Writing | 0 |
27 March this year was the last ‘coming-of-age’ milestone of my father’s suicide. He took his own life twenty-one years ago, in 1998.
Ordinarily I’m overcome with a sense of dread in the weeks before this annual milestone, but this year, I wasn’t.
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Oct 13, 2018 | Life, Media, Mental health, Parenting, Writing | 0 |
It was Saturday, March 28, 1998, when I received the news that would cast a shadow over the rest of my life.
I was 16 years old, and nothing would ever be ‘normal’ as I knew it, again. My dad had killed himself and now, 20 years on, I still have a father-shaped hole in my heart that won’t ever be filled.
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Sep 13, 2018 | Life, Media, Mental health, Parenting, Writing | 0 |
One of the many shitful things about having a parent who died while I was young is that my kids...
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Aug 15, 2018 | Life, Media, Mental health, Parenting, Writing | 0 |
A new suicide prevention education campaign has been launched through a collaboration of leading...
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Jul 12, 2017 | Comedy, Life, Media, Mental health, Performance | 0 |
ABC Radio Darwin interviewed me about my show HUMPTY DUMPTY DADDY, which I delivered at the Darwin...
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Mar 27, 2017 | Life, Mental health, Parenting, Writing | 4 |
Today marks 19 years since my father hanged himself. For more than half of those years, I hated...
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Mar 24, 2017 | Comedy, Life, Mental health, Performance | 0 |
As the cool kids say, O.M.G! Adelaide Fringe was something equally wonderful and terrifying....
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Feb 21, 2017 | Mental health, Parenting | 0 |
I was heartbroken to read this week that former Wallabies player Dan Vickerman had committed...
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