Two brothers from Newport are to star in Time to Change Wales’ #justbeafriend campaign, which will be running throughout this year’s rugby Autumn Internationals, and hopes to encourage men to talk about their mental health. Dean Pesticcio, 46, from St Mellons, and his brother Gary, 44, from Crosskeys, are to be involved in one of […]
You don’t need to be an expert or do anything extraordinary to help someone with a mental health problem – you can just be a friend. Carry on doing the everyday things like sending them a text, inviting them for a coffee, or getting together to watch the game. There are plenty of small, everyday […]
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Around 740,000 people live with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in the UK. Julia McWatt spoke to two of them about how it affects their lives MOST of us will have experienced some kind of anxiety about whether we completed certain tasks before we left the house or are particular about arranging things in a certain order. […]
Proof – if proof were needed – that galvanized steel can be used for a wide range of different applications comes in the shape of two stunning golden eagle sculptures in South Wales.
One thing lead to another and with a little help from my brother I made the local paper.
The eagle sculpture was quiet a challenge, part of the worked need to be galvanised for which I greatly appreciated the help of Wedge Newport Galvanisers. I even made it into their internal magazine.
My name is Dean Pesticcio. I was born in Cardiff, 1970, pre-disposed to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, anxiety and depression. My first recollection of being ‘different’ goes back to my childhood when I would obsessively tidy my toys in contrast to my brother and sister leaving theirs all over the bedroom, house, garden, up trees etc. […]