/ September 25, 2017 at 6:56 PM
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Around nine months ago I started writing a series of BLOG posts, in the three-month build up to the introduction of the amendments to the Mental Health Act 1983, contained within the Policing and Crime Act 2017. The original idea…
/ September 23, 2017 at 12:03 PM
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. . Some thoughts from me and from the lovely twitter people following an upsetting breach of privacy at a local pharmacist. My tweets on the topic All tweets, Friday 22nd All tweets, Saturday 23rd . Related links: Guidance to…
/ September 21, 2017 at 8:57 PM
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Tomorrow I begin treatment again at my local Community Eating Disorder services after over a year fending for myself. It’s safe to say ‘apprehensive’ doesn’t even come close to covering how I feel about this. This is not my first…
/ September 21, 2017 at 9:21 AM
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I want to ask you to put all your preconceptions to one side for the five minutes it will take to read this and for a short while afterwards. If you use the links below and read the Six Missed…
/ September 5, 2017 at 8:39 AM
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/ September 1, 2017 at 6:56 AM
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I didn’t watch the second episode of #Ambulance last night – I won’t bore you with the reasons why, but my iPad was flashing at me towards the end with people tagging me in conversations they were tweeting as they…
/ December 1, 2016 at 10:47 AM
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We have been approached by a journalist who would like to find people willing to speak out about their recent experience of abuse by a therapist for a potential documentary or news item on dangerous therapy. Contributors can remain anonymous. Please…
/ November 17, 2016 at 10:31 AM
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/ October 25, 2016 at 9:10 PM
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I heard the Health Secretary Jeremy HUNT deliver a speech at today’s Crisis Care Concordat Summit in London, the first major speech he’s delivered on mental health, we were told. Almost the first thing he did was praise the police…
/ October 21, 2016 at 7:03 PM
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It seems that it’s been the week for Scottish mental health patients to journey to England, in a variety of legal situations that have subsequently confused the life out of police and mental health professionals alike. So we had the…
/ October 19, 2016 at 6:50 PM
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We hear this word ‘Beds’ a lot when we hear discussion of mental health services and it can get very confusing because the word is used to mean different things, not all of them literal. It happened earlier today during…
/ October 17, 2016 at 1:59 PM
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It has been almost a year now since I found myself unemployed and unable to work due to illness. A lot has happened in that time, my world has been turned on it’s head and I have been left feeling…
/ October 11, 2016 at 6:40 PM
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In May 2016 we published the Unsafe Spaces report, which highlighted how under-regulation of counselling and psychotherapy allows people to practice in these fields even after being struck off for very serious misconduct. In July the report was discussed in…
/ October 11, 2016 at 6:14 PM
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What value do we place on personal experience, especially where it comes down to individual opinion? I’ve been struck recently by the number of attempts we make to infer from individual opinions and experiences, lessons which might influence our overall…
/ October 7, 2016 at 3:17 PM
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