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Dr Eoin Clarke: Posted on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 4:41 PM
WEDNESDAY, 15 FEBRUARY 2012
E Petition launched calling for the NHS Risk Register to be published.Andrew Lansley is blocking the publication of the NHS Risk Register by appealing the Information Commissioner's order that the Register be published. He is doing so because it contains grave warnings about the risks posed by his Health & Social Care Bill. I promise you that the content of that Register warns about the potential surge in costs associated with the NHS. The Register details a lack of experience in commissioning as well as a diminution in buying power caused by the decentralisation and dismantling of the old structure. |
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Dr Eoin Clarke : Posted on Friday, February 10, 2012 6:16 PM
FRIDAY, 10 FEBRUARY 2012
If the NHS Bill passes, this private company will care for our mentally ill. Be afraid, be very afraid
.Attendo is a Swedish private healthcare company, who operate elderly care homes that include mentally ill patients. In addition, they employ hundreds of nurses.
Below, I detail their scandal hit record of neglect that includes rationing of treatments, neglect of patients and ill treatment of staff. I explain how this company are financial backers of the Swedish Conservative Party, & how they fund the UK Tory Party's Deputy Chairman. |
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Mike Skinner: Posted on Monday, February 06, 2012 10:50 AM
Hello folks,
Greetings to all…I am glad to be back and so grateful that Judith has asked me to write and share some things about myself and allowing me some flexibility with what I post.
I am mindful that this blog does some wonderful things in helping to raise awareness and highlight helpful ways and information for healing that pertains to the issues of trauma, abuse and mental health concerns and that will indeed be a part of this post. But….given the fact that Judith resides in the United Kingdom and I would imagine a lot of her readers are over there also, I thought a neat thing to write about would be the time I lived in England while touring all of Great Britain as a drummer with the hard rock band, “American Train. |
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Dawn Willis: Posted on Monday, January 30, 2012 2:50 PM
For me it's about respect, I respect my children too much to think about inflicting physical or mental pain as punishment. I cannot understand a country which allows me to hit someone physically weaker and smaller than myself without facing legal recourse, but would prosecute me for hitting some 'guy in the street'? How can this country condone the truamatising of children through physical abuse?
We are outraged by stories of 'wife beating', we open refuges for 'adults' who are harmed by their spouses, we encourage these 'grown ups 'to prosecute their abuser and increasing these bullies receive custodial sentences.
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Judith Haire: Posted on Friday, December 30, 2011 1:31 AM
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Dr Eoin Clarke: Posted on Wednesday, December 28, 2011 2:41 PM
WEDNESDAY, 28 DECEMBER 2011
Exposing the 10 biggest lies in the Tory manifesto
The Tories said they would offer personalised tailored help to the long term unemployed but the Tories hid their plans to force disabled young people and others to working for profit making companies like Tescos UNPAID (p.15) .
The Tories said they would create 400,000 work pairing college basedapprenticeship schemes over 2 years but at this moment there are less than 10,000 apprenticeship places UK-wide (p. |
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Judith Haire: Posted on Monday, December 19, 2011 7:13 AM
I've been reading Lynn C Tolson's book Beyond The Tears.
Beyond The Tears is a
compelling read and is both moving and memorable. The reader is
taken on a heart rending journey, beginning with the suicide attempt
of an abused and addicted young woman.
Lynn describes her
experience of mental illness, sexual, physical and emotional abuse,
domestic violence and dysfunctional family relationships. We are
taken through Lynn's therapy sessions as she attempts to integrate
the traumatic life events she has experienced. There is a message of
hope in Beyond The Tears and this book is inspirational. It is
essential reading for anyone wanting to discover the roots of mental
distress and to learn about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Lynn
shows great courage in sharing her story and she demonstrates that
the journey to healing can be long and fraught but that hope is
always present.
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Neiley68: Posted on Friday, December 09, 2011 8:46 AM
Physical
disabilities are a clear and obvious sign that something isn't right
with a person. It needn't take a doctor to give a diagnosis to make
that clear. Even assessors for Atos would see that a DLA claimant
with a clear physical disability isn't fit for work
But what about
autism? It doesn't always manifest itself in physical form, but its
there. It’s a lifelong condition, so there's no cure. It will be
with the "victim" always. It can make life hard and a
challenge, but it’s not the end of life as we know it. |
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Lynn C Tolson: Posted on Monday, December 05, 2011 9:11 AM
Change is a concept that refers to making or becoming different than what came before. Change is anactivitythat requires deliberate steps toward transformation. We have to be conscious about changes that lead to a different way of being.
I’d been allowing bits and pieces of myself to be swept away. I wanted to trek through the wasteland that was my life toward more fertile ground. I wanted to take charge of my life, to be accountable to myself and responsible toward others. I wanted to change
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GiannaKali: Posted on Sunday, December 04, 2011 8:10 AM
A plea to prescribing physicians and psychiatrists: please help us heal |
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Dawn Willis: Posted on Saturday, December 03, 2011 2:43 PM
Go f*cking hang yourself stupid cow.” Is #Clarkson humour really funny? #mhuk #whatstigma “SUICIDE” is not a dirty word! Jeremy Clarkson, what a guy! How funny he is, don’t you love his sardonic wit, and sarcastic humour? Well apparently a lot of people do and many think it’s fine for him to make comments during an early evening BBC magazine programme, watched by families, on the subject of people who take their own lives in rail suicides.Indeed when I had the audacity to say |
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Catherine G Lucas: Posted on Monday, November 28, 2011 8:47 AM
Spiritual Emergency: What the Papers Don’t Tell You Catherine G Lucas
When ex-MI5 agent David Shayler declared himself to be the next Messiah, the media zoomed in on him. But missed the point. This kind of ego inflation is much maligned, yet little understood. It is one of the classic features of spiritual emergency. In this guest blog I’d like to share a way of understanding the phenomenon.
First, let me explain the term ‘spiritual emergency’. |
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Judith Haire: Posted on Friday, November 25, 2011 3:32 PM
I‘d grown up in a in a dysfunctional family and I married an abusive man. I found the courage to leave the marriage and after a breakdown lasting a few weeks I returned to work. With hindsight, bottling up my emotions was wrong. In time my levels of anxietyrocketed and I became agitated, leading to psychosis. I was living alone and it was a week before anyone realised. |
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FionaArt: Posted on Friday, November 25, 2011 3:27 PM
Monday, 21 November 2011 Are we really creating awareness if we just say 'yes I'm fine'? I just read a post by a good online friend(one I have been lucky enough to also meet in real life albeit over a year ago), the lovely Clive Edwards.
I was going to just share his blog on my facebook wall but whilst writing a comment to go with it I realised that this is an issue I have more than a few words to say about. It is about an issue I have come across in my personal life, my friends lives and also as an issue in conversation to do with fighting the stigma of mental distress in society and discrimination about mental health issues. |
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GiannaKali: Posted on Tuesday, November 08, 2011 1:24 PM
Healing the gut for good mental health — probiotics Probiotics are catching on in the mainstream as seen here in the Los Angeles Times. Why am I mentioning it here? What does it have to do with withdrawal and mental health. Everything.The first thing I did when I started researching natural care for mental health was come upon anecdotal evidence again and again about how gut health effects mental health. If you don’t digest your food properly you don’t nourish your brain properly. |
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Dr Dan Edmunds Ed.D.D.D.B.C.S.A: Posted on Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:34 PM
Dr. Dan L. Edmunds, Ed.D., B.C.S.A. is a noted psychotherapist, child/adolescent developmental specialist, and social activist. Dr. Edmunds is the founder of the International Center for Humane Psychiatry, a coalition of mental health professionals, psychiatric survivors and others dedicated to returning compassion and ethics to the field of emotional healing. Dr. Edmunds completed his undergraduate studies in Religion and Sociology at the University of Florida. He completed a Master of Arts in Theology from the University of Scranton and completed post graduate study in Dispute Resolution at Nova Southeastern University. |
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Belinda Shale: Posted on Tuesday, October 25, 2011 12:57 PM
Judith has very kindly asked me to write a guest post for her blog about the use of survey and marketing research and how it can help improve healthcare.
Firstly as an act of full disclosure I should say I am a market researcher who works in healthcare research. So yes I do have an interest in persuading people to work with us to co-create better healthcare options.
Over the last few years people like you have had a greater say in the kinds of medical treatment you or the people you love receive. The types of treatment options have increased especially with the growth of non-prescription medication and alternative medicine.
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Dr Mike Squires: Posted on Monday, October 24, 2011 9:43 AM
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Mike Skinner: Posted on Monday, October 24, 2011 8:40 AM
Hi Folks, Greetings to all and a very special Thank You!!! to Judith for asking me to do some “guest- blogging”…both honored and quite excited to be doing this. FYI….I am a musician and an advocate in the areas of trauma, abuse and mental health concerns. There is a lot more to this, but I want to be brief and let you spend some time visiting some of the websites I will be sharing – these can then give you a lot more information and resources to help you understand better some of the many things I do in trying to share Hope, Healing & Help for the above mentioned heath concerns. |
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