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| Rights
Issues, Stigma [Back To
Index Home] As always take care of yourself and read only the ones that you feel able to - some of them cover very sensitive ground and i've tried to label these with *Trig*. |
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Is For Shrink A credo for empowerment & antipsychiatry |
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If
I'm Good If i'm a 'good' patient will i be fixed? or contained? |
Haiku When pity isn't needed or even wanted |
I'm
Mad, Me The stigma of having a mental health problem |
'Cept
You Exclusion - everyone's welcome 'cept you |
Silence On an acute wars - 'in silence we suffer' |
Scream When it feels like you have no voice |
Inclusion What's so good about 'normal' society |
Self
Respect Regaining your rights and dignity |
| Experiences |
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Frustrated
Depressive Unable to access counselling because they work |
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Tales
From The Front (43) Creative writing - escaping the ward, being free |
| Views |
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| Service
User Led Training Some of the issues i've encountered |
Invisibility The stigma of seen and unseen disabilities |
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A Bad SItuation Worse The Mental Health Bill - and how wrong it is! |
Pick
& Mix Diagnosis Why diagnoses are not the be all and end all |
| Experts
By Experience Why our views should be taken seriously |
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 |
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Great Divide Where's the line between sane and mad? |
Not
Mad, Not Bad And not all that dangerous to know! |
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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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| Silence 'In silence we suffer' - accompanies the poem |
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