Humans of Scotland

“We're the first generation that's talking about menopause.”

"You can break cycles, you can break routines, you can break bad habits and you can create new ones."

"It’s important to reduce stigma and recognise gambling as a serious and escalating problem for some people"

"It’s different when you have to support and care for yourself now, and I don't know if I if I'm doing it right."

“I struggled to understand why I couldn't just stop, why I no longer could think rationally, why almost everything was a trigger to gamble.”

“The buzz and getting lost in the moment of gambling was what got me hooked.”

“I see my work as an overlap of science and art.”

"There is no better satisfaction than hearing you have helped a patient, even with the small things in life."

“I want to come to work to do a good job which has a positive impact on people’s lives.”

"In some ways, it felt like watching a car crash in slow motion."

“I just wanted to offer peer support to people struggling. Because I knew it was something I could have used at the time”

“I manage MS, MS does not manage me.”

“I never give up hope and take all the pains and barriers as challenges in my life.”

"I had felt like a burden, but my diagnosis meant that weight was lifted."

"As an autistic parent I'm really hoping that my child grows up, confident, secure, better able to advocate for themselves."

"I think people get really surprised about the wider autistic community and autistic culture."

"We call Lyme disease the great imitator, because it mimics a lot of other diseases. It’s hard to diagnose, and even harder to treat."

"Because I have a learning disability, I needed support when I was younger, and now I’m older I want to give back to the younger ones. ”

"I was in pain every second, of every minute, of every hour, of every single day. I didn’t enjoy a moment of my pregnancy at all.”

"I'm grateful, and incredibly lucky, to have gotten out of the other side of my experience of conversion therapy."

"I enjoyed my brief stint with finally having a childhood and a young adulthood."

"I thought I just need to do this, to get through to 18, and I’ll deal with my mental health then. I’m almost out"

"With me it was done at the hands of one of my parents"

“We all feel better when Caroline is doing well, us, her, and her support workers”

“Often our service users just want us to stop and chat with them, but time does not always allow for this”