Accolade mm, to which institution?
I arrived
At half-past-nine
Just in time
To receive my glossy certificate
Of appreciation
For having made a valuable contribution
To the august worry-tower event
How perceptively clairvoyant
They must have been
To have seen
So far in advance
That I would make
Such a valuable contribution
To the Alice- in – Wonderland proceedings
I could have been flattered
Had it not mattered
That every service user
Sorry
Every person with –mental-health-experiences
Received one too
What is a mentally healthy person
To do with such banal insanity
Such institutional insanity
Such seduction of one’s vanity
Here’s a valuable contribution
To your stinking unthinking
We’re mad
Not stupid
by Tessa Lowe
The battle to gain John Hunt's freedom continues -
http://freejohn-loverevolutionary.blogspot.com
Article 3 of the European convention of human rights----no one shall be subjected to inhumane or degrading treatment-----article 5 everyone has the right to "LIBERTY" and security of person------Every day some one is subjected to the opposite of these articles and yet it is called treatment
The following extract was from an article on recovery and thriving several years ago. The recovery "gurus" (few who are actually working fulltime and off benefits!) who conducted their cyber bullying campaign against the author and EleMental probably don't even see the irony in the above video "Doreen's Story"
The article provoked such disingenuous comments as; Orthodox psychiatry. Smug, arrogant, dictatorial? Fascist rhetoric.
MM, or just common sense?
"The idea of thriving could upset some. I suspect this might be because they recognise the hard work that must be put in.
"Plus, some people on mental illness related benefits and disability living allowance often "earn", in effect, far more than their support workers!. They are wise enough to realise they earn a good wage for their madness, so the concepts of recovery and thriving can upset them because of the potential loss of earnings.” Provocative words indeed, and Aslan is likely to ruffle many feathers. But others may feel she is helping set a new benchmark for progressive mental health work.www.crazydiamond.org.uk
The Free John petition link. has gathered 1,032 signatures so far.
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/free-john.html
Recovery should mean far more than the outdated view that it is a “growing mastering of illness management with resultant reduction of symptoms” and there are great dangers in dumbing down the concepts to widen their appeal, hence the use of more dynamic terms like thriving which is far more difficult to bastardise
If life is but a dream
And yours seems like a nightmare
Don't sleep without
Setting an alarm clock
Sheldon Scott Thorn
