It's Carers Week!

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It's Carers Week so Hugh Marriott was on BBC's Breakfast this morning. Hugh wrote The Selfish Pig's Guide to Caring. Hugh famously styled himself as a "selfish pig" for his bouts of resentment as a carer and his repeated wish that things could be different.

Hugh writes lightly about the shock of realising that his emotions of frustration, anger and resentment are common to many carers with a feeling that life has been permanently stalled and that they have become invisible: as he said, "We all had another agenda". He has devised his own acronym, Person I Give Love & Endless Therapy to (P.I.G.L.E.T), Hugh writes about his experiences caring for his wife who has Huntingdon's Disease. He writes about the common struggles with Social Services, care assessments, hospitals, Benefit Agencies and all of the other departments who seem to have an input into the lives of carers and the people for whom they care but without seeming to make a significant contribution to quality of life. Reading through these accounts, it is obvious why Carers UK argues that carers Human Rights are breached on a regular basis.

I'm running a couple of Happystance workshops this week - I'm looking forward to them and hope that the carers enjoy them as much as I do.

Copyright 2006, Tony Plant Happystance Project