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festival of snickers
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 Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 6:44 pm Post subject: Government proposals will damage future of mental healthcare |
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http://www.mind.org.uk/News+policy+and+campaigns/Press/MHB2ndReading.h tm
Mind: Government proposals will damage future of mental health care
Embargoed until 0001 Monday 16 April
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Mental Health Bill will divert resources from health care to red tape
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Big Brother plans will frighten people from seeking help
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Government ploughs ahead in spite of overwhelming expert evidence
MPs vote this afternoon on the second Commons reading of the Government's Mental Health Bill. Widely criticised by mental health experts, the Bill met fierce opposition and was significantly amended in the House of Lords, where it started.
Mental health charity Mind today painted a bleak picture of the future of mental health under the Government's Mental Health Bill, which introd
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Dogsmilk
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Yes this is very dangerous; as the article hints at, psychs will have to use them as guidelines dictate or else leave themselves wide open if anything goes wrong.
Every time someone with mental health problems runs amok it hits the papers. Every time someone gets the nonsense kicked out of them on a Friday night or shot in Longsight it doesn't. It's news cos it's not that common.
| Quote: | The Royal College of Psychiatrists (British Journal of Psychiatry 1999, 174, 9-14) noted: “the public and politicians believe, or are being encouraged to believe through the mass media, that unless people with a mental disorder are once more segregated, the streets will not be safe.” It analysed homicide figures for England and Wales between 1957 and 1995 and concluded that there was “little fluctuation in numbers of people with a mental illness committing criminal homicide over the 38 years studied, and a 3 per cent annual decline in their contribution to the official statistics.”
The Audit Commission reported in 1997 that, over the last 20 years, the number of homicides committed by people with mental illness had not increased, while the number committed by others has more than doubled.
The Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with a Mental Illness (May 1999) noted: “The majority of homicides in the general population were committed by young men who were unmarried and/or unemployed. Alcohol and drug misuse were common.” It found that 14 per cent of people convicted of homicide (for whom psychiatric reports were available) had symptoms of mental illness at the time of the offence. Six per cent of people convicted of homicide had a history of schizophrenia. People with a mental illness were most likely to kill a family member or spouse; the proportion of victims who were strangers was lower than in those killings carried out by a person without mental illness. |
http://www.rethink.org/how_we_can_help/news_and_media/briefing_notes/b riefing_3.html
I've worked with loads of seriously mentally ill people, and I feel a damn sight more unsafe hanging round an average city centre at night than hanging round with them. IMO, most violence is borne of desperation and frustration that will often not build up if proper support is given.
But no - lock 'em up.
Be normal or be damned.
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Rowan Berkeley
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| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 1:30 pm Post subject: My position is similar to a discharged psychiatric patient |
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In fact, I have been on Incapacity Benefit for ten years because I have sciatica. Now, without any particular explanation, I have been shoved back onto Jobseeker's Allowance, and I am required to apply for two full-time paid jobs per week. The Jobcentre seem to think my sciatica is imaginary.
I am 57, by the way.
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