Mental Illness 
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Fashion journalist, Victoria Aitchison, launches site to highlight mental health problems in young people. #ukmh #mhuk
“A GRADUATE who has launched an online youth magazine to raise awareness of mental health issues in the fashion industry has been overwhelmed by the positive response.”
Picture Courtesy of Sarah Jayne Potter: http://sarahjaynepotter.com
Currently, all the magazine content is written by Victoria herself, although her plan is to get young people involved with writing stories for the site. Visit www.youmustbemental.com
Read more: http://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/local-news/fashion-journalist-launches-site-to-highlight-mental-health-problems-in-young-people-1-4105194
Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies.
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 3, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
@GarySinise Foundation, making a difference to lives of US Veterans. #PTSD
“We do this by creating and supporting unique programs designed to entertain, educate, inspire, strengthen, and build communities.”
http://www.garysinisefoundation.org/
Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies.
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 3, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
Teaching the world around me to respect my working hours
Reblogged from Beabasic:
Some years back I heard a Job Centre manager describe how people become used to a life without work. They evolve new roles. They mind children. They care for elderly relatives. They do odd jobs. They want to make themselves useful to others and so somehow they find it hard to find room in their lives to make a return to paid work.
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On The Nail - Returning to work is about YOU
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 3, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
Charles Walker MP talks frankly about mental health. #ukmh #mhuk #OCD #Broxbourne
“Charles Walker starts to sit down next to me, rises and pulls up another seat. “Let’s have this fourth chair here,” he says, and pulls it up between us. I think he is joking. But he isn’t: without the fourth chair it would be very hard for him to do this interview, maybe impossible.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jul/29/politics-mental-health?newsfeed=true
Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies.
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 3, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
*Snorts* at this from #Grayling: “Whatever the claims and misinformation, let’s be clear: there are no targets for saving money or finding people fit for work” #wca #ukmh #YehWhatever!
Grayling claims: “Every voluntary sector group I meet tells me they want to get more people with health problems and disabilities into the workplace, and we can’t do that without some form of assessment.”
Read more:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/02/work-programme-chris-grayling?fb=native&CMP=FBCNETTXT9038
Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies.
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 3, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
Sorry! No Photo of Helen’s Meal! Instead, You Get Me Prattling On…
I was about beside myself with hunger when my mother pulled up with tonight’s supper that Helen had cooked. I forgot to take a photo before diving in and eating it all up. We did have a good supper, though. Helen fried some very, very tender pork chops and the sides were fried okra, cornbread, and turnip greens. A classic Southern meal. Helen had also deviled some eggs and sent me three. Also, a very nice Mrs. Helen sent me several of her home grown and ripened tomatoes which I will make tomato sandwiches out of. That will be a neat treat throughout the weekend. I need to go get a fresh loaf of bread.&n...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - August 3, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs
Wide Open Spaces…
I abruptly awoke in my dark bedroom to the sound of a racy motorcycle with a crappy muffler roaring at full throttle down nearby Gilmer Avenue. “Sounds like a sewing machine on steroids,” I told Maggie who was laying next to me. “What a total and complete asshole!” I can’t imagine a woman doing that very same thing. Can you? I also had a hard enough time falling to sleep again last night. Talk about adding insult to injury! What is it about crotch rockets and their owners loving completely obnoxious sounding mufflers? Feet Meet Ground… Maggie finally got her walk early this morning. It was so ...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - August 3, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs
Charlie? Father? Horsefly? Maggie? Mother?
It has been an interesting day. What an interesting story this will be in the morning at first light. The gist of the story is that my father let my mother drive him home from the hospital after a colonoscopy. Charlie was ferrying my father around tonight. Horsefly was in full tilt obsessive compulsive mode about to go bowling and my dear Maggie was taking all this excitement in. It was certainly contagious. Charlie looked at me and I whispered “Snicker’s Bar and Coke”. He smiled and said he would be back soon.
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - August 3, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs
Sorry! No Photo of Helen’s Meal! Instead, You Get Me Prattling On…
I was about beside myself with hunger when my mother pulled up with tonight’s supper that Helen had cooked. Mom was several hours late for some reason. I forgot to take a photo before diving in and eating it all up. We did have a good supper, though. Helen fried some very, very tender pork chops and the sides were fried okra, cornbread, and turnip greens. A classic Southern style meal. Helen had also deviled some eggs and sent me three. Oddly, Helen fixed a dessert tonight which was chocolate pudding layered with sweet whipped cream. I am hear to tell you. It was decadent. I hope this becomes a trend. A...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - August 3, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs
#Psychological Abuse Equally Damaging To Children As Physical Abuse. #mhuk #ukmh
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) position statement on psychological maltreatment, psychological abuse in young children can be just as damaging in terms of the children’s physical, mental and emotional health than physical abuse like punch, kick or slap.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/248577.php
Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies.
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 2, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
#Prison: ‘Remand prisoners ”treated worse than sentenced” ‘ #mhuk #ukmh
Many remand prisoners are treated worse than sentenced prisoners and given much less support, the Chief Inspector of Prisons Nick Hardwick has said in a report, although remand prisoners are meant to have rights and entitlements not available to sentenced prisoners… Keep reading
http://www.publicservice.co.uk/news_story.asp?id=20493
Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies.
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 2, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
How does this work? part 2 Grassley's question number 6
Source: soulful sepulcher - August 2, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Source Type: blogs
Well @Ed_Miliband, when are you ‘stand up for the #disabled’ affected by #WCA, Cuts and #ATOS? from @SoniaPoulton #mhuk #ukmh
Dear Mr. Miliband,
I am prompted to write to you having just watched these two programmes on the subject of ‘fit to work’ testing for sick and disabled people: Channel 4′s Dispatches (‘Britain On The Sick’) and BBC2′s Panorama (‘Disabled or Faking it?’).
This year, as a writer, I have been made painfully aware of how distressing, unreliable and costly – both physically and emotionally – the Work Capability Assessment is for those undertaking it. The financial cost to the country is another concern altogether.
I am aware that Employment minister Chris Grayling has made much capital from blaming Labou...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 2, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
How does this work?
Source: soulful sepulcher - August 2, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Source Type: blogs
Dismay as #Atos wins majority #PIP medical contracts to move claimants off #DLA #wca #mhuk #hardesthit #ukmh
2 August 2012 – Award of contracts to deliver Personal Independence Payment assessment services
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/supplying-dwp/what-we-buy/welfare-to-work-services/health-and-disability-assessment/
Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies.
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 2, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
Hardest Hit Stage Protest at Ian Duncan Smith Visit
Reblogged from The Hardest Hit:
On 2 August disabled people, including those affected by welfare cuts and workers at the threatened Remploy factories in Ashington and Newcastle held a protest outside the North Tyneside Department for Work and Pensions office during a visit by the Secretary of State Iain Duncan-Smith.
We sent a loud and clear message that disabled people will stand up for themselves. They are not ready to simply accept being forced into poverty and crisis by the unjust reforms of the Department for Work and Pensions.
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Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 2, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
One In Four Magazine, By the People, Four The People! #mhuk #ukmh #mentalhealth from @MarkOneinFour
One In Four Magazine.
By The People Four The People
Want real life stories from people who’ve been through it and lived to tell the tale?
Inside every issue:
Features on what it’s like to experience mental health difficulty and what to do about it
Reviews of latest websites, books and events
Myths about mental health busted
Interviews and real life stories
Current summer edition features:
Politicians in truth-telling shocker -A Parliamentary debate about mental health held some surprises
Can celebrities contribute to the battle against mental health stigma? – One in Four examines the case for and against celeb ...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 2, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
#Coventry charity supporting young victims of sex abuse by offering a ‘safe and protected space’. #mhuk #ukmh
http://www.guardian.co.uk/social-care-network/2012/aug/02/patient-therapy-helps-victims-child-abuse?fb=native&CMP=FBCNETTXT9038
Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies.
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 2, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
Jury decides, ‘#Police used ‘unsuitable force’ on mentally ill man Sean Rigg who died in custody.’ #ukmh #mhuk #prison
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-used-unsuitable-force-on-mentally-ill-man-sean-rigg-who-died-in-custody-jury-finds-7999484.html
Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies.
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 2, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
‘Breaking News : Possible New #WCA Descriptors.’ #ukmh #mhuk #disability
http://diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/breaking-news-possible-new-wca.html
As most of you probably know, the big problem with Work Capability Assessments are the descriptors.
However bad Atos might be at customer service, they did not write the 17 descriptors that decide whether or not you will be found eligible for Employment and Support Allowance, the replacement for Incapacity Benefit.
The DWP did.
Atos might have designed a computer programme as a framework for these descriptors, but they didn’t write them.
The DWP did.
Atos might be asked to carry out an assessment, but they ...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 2, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
Investigated by Senator Grassley: Top 10 Medi-Cal Prescribers of Seroquel
Source: soulful sepulcher - August 2, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Source Type: blogs
Carpe Diem? Or Just Sit on the Couch?
I decided on a third option and that is to vegetate in front of this computer and listen to sweet sounding Sarah McLachlan and the electronic pop of Imogen Heap. Storms are trying to fire up around us and that excites me, brightening my mood. There is a strong cluster of storms to the west moving eastward, My father has already called me about it. I told him to check out the Intellicast app on his iPad. It gives a better view and he can pan into Mississippi for more excitement.
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - August 2, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs
It’s Just the Little Things You Do…
My mother sometimes has this incredibly extremely uncanny sense when I need something. My Phillies cigar lighter, which is a cigarette lighter on steroids, was on its last legs.Every light could be its last. I’ve used it for months. My mother put a new one in my bag of Cokes this morning. I didn’t even have to ask. That made me smile and I needed a reason to smile this morning. I woke up late, and Maggie and I missed our walk this morning. I didn’t have an hour to spare, but we had a very good and hearty breakfast which Maggie enjoyed as well as I. I cooked some poached eggs on buttered toast ...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - August 2, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs
The Call to Tranquility Base…
“Big Poppa is on his way home,” I just told my groggy sounding mother on the phone. “He has just left my house after we fed and watered Maggie.” My mother likes for me to let her know that my father is on his way home. I am usually the last stop before my father heads to Casa de Juan far across our fair city. “Did you enjoy your Cokes today?” my mother then asked. “Yes, very much!” I replied. “I needed a pick me up this morning. Mom, I really appreciate you doing that every night like clockwork.” “Mom? Have you ever entertained the thought of returning to teaching?” I asked my mother inquisiti...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - August 2, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs
Journalist #Disability Campaigner @SoniaPoulton needs your help! Will you sign her letter today? #mhuk #wca #hardesthit #ukmh
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j5U8XESqRaimZMCbXXydgQCCjlYeh2bDHzCCnd8Yrk0/edit
Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies.
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 1, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
HMP Stradishall failing mentally ill prisoners #mhuk #ukmh #prison
http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/stradishall_justice_system_failing_mentally_ill_prisoners_1_1462107
Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies.
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 1, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
Gail Porter and her new ‘radical’ approach to beating #depression. #mhuk
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/08/01/gail-porter-quitting-the-uk_n_1726808.html?utm_hp_ref=uk
Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies.
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 1, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
The failures in the Mental Health Strategy Implementation Framework. #mhuk #ukmh
Mental health strategy implementation framework is a missed opportunity
There is no mention of social care practice in the plan, and it fails to see our real integration through personalisation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/social-care-network/2012/jul/31/mental-health-strategy-implementation-framework?newsfeed=true
Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies.
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 1, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
‘Let The #ATOS Games Begin’. #disability #wca #mhuk
http://www.dpac.uk.net/2012/07/our-atos-games/
On your marks, get set… for a week of Paralympic fun and games against Atos!
From Monday 27th to Friday 31st of August, join Disabled People Against Cuts for The Atos Games – five days of action against a company that’s sponsoring the Paralympics but wrecking disabled people’s lives.
We are calling on disabled people, disabled activists, families, colleagues, friends and supporters to come together and fight back against Atos’s attacks. Atos represents as dangerous an opponent as any government, law or barrier the disability movement has faced in its long h...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 1, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
A gold medal for hypocrisy
Reblogged from UK Gazetteer:
Tory minister who grabbed £100,000 expenses now attacks ‘scroungers’
Chris Grayling, the Tory work and pensions minister, launched fresh attacks on benefit claimants this week, despite his smear that they are fakers being proved wrong.
Grayling says the Tories’ Work Programme has failed to force enough people with long term health problems into work—because they are “sicker than expected”. This gives the lie to the Tories’ …
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Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 1, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
