Javier lives with depression: “Mine is chronic, I have accepted it”

Javier lives with depression: “Mine is chronic, I have accepted it”

Javier (Calatayud, 1962) has experienced countless depressive episodes. He had his first one at 40 years old, and from the last one – he is now 63 years old – he has just been discharged. However, although he admits that he will live with the condition his whole life, today he is somewhat more optimistic than some time ago. The reason? The recent treatment he received at the resistant depression unit of Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu (SJD), which offers more personalized treatments.

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The early childhood educators present 19 replacement appeals against the contract extensions in the municipal schools

The early childhood educators present 19 replacement appeals against the contract extensions in the municipal schools

Seven weeks of strike. The workers of the municipal nursery schools of Madrid, on strike since last April 7, gathered again this Monday in the Plaza de la Villa to demand wage improvements and to protest against the extensions of the bidding contracts for these centers, coinciding with the meeting of the Commission on Social Policies, Family, and Equality in the Cardenal Cisneros building.

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Six columns of teachers will converge in a gathering in front of the Conselleria on a key day

Six columns of teachers will converge in a gathering in front of the Conselleria on a key day

Six columns of teachers will converge this Monday with the purpose of showing the Ministry of Education the strength of the indefinite strike of Valencian teaching staff. On the sixth day of the strike and after the successful first week of protests – with the historic demonstration last Friday -, the unions have called up to six marches to pressure Carmen Ortí’s department on a day that is expected to be key in trying to bring positions closer.

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The Mossos admit the normalization of settling scores with gunfire

The Mossos admit the normalization of settling scores with gunfire

In his speech on the day of the squads of the general police judicial commissariat, its head, Commissioner Ramón Chacón, admitted that the widespread improvement in the data on the dismantling of criminal organizations, arrests, and drug seizure operations was accompanied by an intensification of shootout revenge killings. Murders from behind, in broad daylight, which are increasingly frequent on our streets and which, overnight, national gangs adopt as if naturally to eliminate their enemies.

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