Stigma & Human Rights Issues

mental health act ... sectioning ... advocacy ... choice ... personalisation
misunderstanding ... freedom ... prejudice ... ignorance ... discrimination

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Artwork

Silence - 'In silence we suffer' - accompanies the poem below

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Experiences

Frustrated Depressive - Unable to access counselling because they work
Captured! - The trauma of being sectioned
Getting Back From Hell - Being labelled, damaged & finding your way back
Tales From The Front (43) - Creative writing. Escaping the ward, being free
Sectioned - Personal experience of compulsary detention

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Opinions

Should The Future Recording of Patient's Information Be More Effective?
Service User Led Training - Some of the issues I've encountered
Invisibility - The stigma of seen and unseen disabilities
Good Medicine - The need for options outside of medication
It's Them! - Ignorance about schizophrenia on TV
Making A Bad Situation Worse - The Mental Health Bill - and how wrong it is!
Pick & Mix Diagnoses - The madness of psychiatric labelling
Experts By Experience - Why our views should be taken seriously
Quick Fix - Other people's (not so helpful) advice
Locum Schmocum - When continuity of care is a dirty word
About Hospital Admissions - The problem of being misled by proffessionals
Advocacy In The UK - What it is & why we need so much more of it
One Wave Short Of A Shipwreck - Stigma & prejudice surrounding mental distress
The Great Divide - Where's the line between sane and mad?
Not Mad, Not Bad - And not all that dangerous to know!
A Dangerous Game - It's our right to be taken seriously when suicidal
My Bill Of Rights - Some things i think are essential to my care
Being A Patient (becoming the cure) - I need to be at the centre of my care
The Problem With Psychiatrists - Are they really qualified to help me?

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Poetry

Mirror - A poem to reason with those who ridicule and judge
Moving On - When it feels like you have to keep the past a secret
Hell - Wearing the life-long label of being 'mentally ill'
This Thing Called "Chronic Daily Headache" - The assumptions people make
S Is For Shrink - A credo for empowerment & antipsychiatry
If I'm Good - If I'm a 'good' patient will I be fixed or contained?
Haiku - When pity is neither wanted nor needed
I'm Mad, Me - The stigma of having a mental health problem
'Cept You - Exclusion - everyone's welcome 'cept you
Silence - On an acute wards - 'in silence we suffer'. Accompanies above artwork
Scream - When it feels like you have no voice
Inclusion - What's so good about 'normal' society
Statement - Individual, unordinary and completely himself. Who wants to conform?
Self Respect - Regaining your rights and dignity

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Take Action

Time To Change - The largest, and most ambitious, anti stigma campaign in the UK
CASL - The campaign to abolish the schizophrenia label
BonkersFest - An annual mad music and arts festival in Camberwell Green, London
Kiss It - Protest against the inhumanity of psychiatric assault

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