Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Council and emergency services work together to help people suffering from 'hidden illness' of hoarding
dailyrecord.co.ukWest Lothian Council is working with emergency and health services to look at the best ways to help hoarders, as they admitted the scale of the problem was not fully knownThe Community Safety Board heard that hoarding - where people amass unmanageable amounts of possessions or rubbish has long been identified as an issue by housing officers.While it’s become a popular staple of TV programmes, hoarding often remains unrecognised and secretive, but all consuming.
It is anxiety driven behaviour which fuels social isolation and low self esteem.It is often tied to self neglect, that is it is poor personal hygiene, dressing inappropriately or tending appropriately to medical conditions.Lorraine Donnelly, one of the council’s area housing managers delivered a presentation to the board with Fire Service officer Elaine Dowie.Mrs Donnelly, one of multi agency partners working on an action plan to tackle hoarding and self neglect, told the meeting: “Hoarding is now being recognised as a distinct mental health condition of its own.
It can have a huge impact on a person’s ability to function independently and can carry a high level of risk for themselves and others.”There are different types of hoarding.
Hoarding of inanimate objects, of animals and data, with inanimate objects being the most common.Mrs Donnelly said: “Some of the experiences I have had in the past have been where people have kept specific things like clothes, ornaments, newspapers or general clutter and household rubbish.“Hoarding can also be associated with health issues, lack of hygiene and impaired ability and this can result in fire risk damage to property and can also have a serious negative impact on the individual, their family friends and neighbours.“Hoarder
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