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Tag Archives: Stigma
Troubles
So this week Prince Harry made a number of statements on mental health. I am really glad that he feels able to disclose a need for treatment around the death of his mother. It would be very sad to think of him … Continue reading
Posted in Antipsychiatry, Anxiety, Bipolar, Depression, Hospital, Medication, Mental health, mental health debate, Mood disorder, Parenting, Psychiatry, psychology, Stigma and discrimination, Suicide, Uncategorized
Tagged Critical psychiatry, Diagnostic labeling, Discrimination, Labelling theory, Mental health service user, Mental health stigma, Prince Harry, Psychiatry, Psychology, Stigma
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Who’s listening?
It’s no fun being trapped in a pit. You were walking along in the forest and you just kind of… slid. And now you’re on your own in the darkness, looking up at the moon through a circle of dirt. You didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Crisis care, Depression, Hospital, Mental health, Mood disorder, NHS services, Psychiatry, Stigma and discrimination, Treatment planning, Uncategorized
Tagged Budgetary cuts, Depression, Finances, Mental health, Mental health services, NHS, Psychiatry, Stigma, Talking
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Scary people need #TimeToTalk too
Time to Talk day is here – a laudable attempt by umbrella campaigning organisation Time to Change to get as many people as possible talking about mental health. A quick scan of the Twitter hashtag shows that charities big and small, … Continue reading
A thousand little indignities: what it means to be “a service user”
[TWs for suicidal thoughts, suicide methods and poor mental health care experiences] Last week a relative I haven’t seen in years watched my hypomania vlog and afterward felt moved to “give me some feedback”. I was interested in his thoughts, … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Mental health, Mental health services, Stigma and discrimination
Tagged Bipolar, Crisis Resolution Team, Crisis services, Discrimination, Home Treatment Team, Loss, Mental health services, Psychiatric nursing, Psychiatry, Secondary care services, Service user identity, Stigma, Vlogging
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A more accepting age? Why stigma is nowhere near a thing of the past
STIGMA fig. A mark of disgrace or infamy; a sign of severe censure or condemnation, regarded as impressed on a person or thing; a ‘brand’. Example: 1882 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. II. 172 Branded with the stigma … Continue reading
A Mind Media Award winner – thanks to you
This is a quick post just to say a huge thank you to anyone who nominated this blog for the Mark Hanson digital media award at the 2013 Mind Media Awards. When the email came to say I’d been shortlisted … Continue reading
This is what a mental patient looks like
Yesterday I spent a while with a group of service users and their supporters hanging around the gates of Thorpe Park. Only Katie Sutton, initiator of the online petition “Thorpe Park – close down the stigma”, was allowed on the … Continue reading
#AsylumNO, the response: what do you think?
Dear Charlotte Firstly, can I thank you for the time that you’ve taken in contacting us either via twitter, guest services or the press office. We haven’t been ignoring you but as the Divisional Director here at Thorpe Park, I … Continue reading
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Tagged Asylum, Attitudes towards mental illness, Discrimination, Fright Nights, Halloween, Mental health, Stigma, Tesco, Thorpe Park, Twitter
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#AsylumNO – a message from the 1:4 people with a mental health condition
UPDATE – email to Nick Varney, CEO Merlin Entertainment Dear Nick It’s never my habit to go “straight to the top” – I believe in taking comments and complaints up through the chain of command. But having been either … Continue reading
Dear Thorpe Park: re shockingly insensitive “Asylum” event
Dear Guest Services, I understand that you plan to plan to run a Fright NIght event entitled “The Asylum.” Your website promises “a chaotic environment of noise, light and like action” where guests must “watch [their] back as [they] encounter … Continue reading
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