tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18614557.post4162197516307224060..comments2024-03-28T22:29:05.434+00:00Comments on Relational psychiatry: Frank Bruno’s 12 rounds to knockout mental health problemsDBDoublehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16140020984190294123noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18614557.post-52877662847379191492013-09-14T23:07:57.244+01:002013-09-14T23:07:57.244+01:00Dr Double and Ted,
Did you see the film made by F...Dr Double and Ted,<br /><br />Did you see the film made by Frank's daughter earlier this year?<br /><br />Dr Double,<br /><br />Do you really want to go back to pre 1983 psychiatric hospitals? As a teenager I worked in the laundry at Burntwood in Staffordshire alongside patients who were working for a token amount of money to buy fags. They would pick loose tobacco from the clothes as they emptied the laundry bags, often containing fouled items. They weren't treated badly by the laundry workers, but they were not treated with respect. Their behaviour was controlled by drugs which resulted in permanent, severe facial distortions and shuffling gaits. They are sometimes referred to as major tranquilisers aren't they? Many more people were in those asylums than are in psychiatric units today and I don't think there was a lot of choice for many about their treatment.<br /><br />To look back at a "golden" pre Mental Health Act era is bizarre.<br /><br />But it is true that a lack of resources in social and welfare policies damages the mental health of many and then gives rise to many admissions and the delay of many discharges.<br /><br />DaveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18614557.post-51673634351078178302013-04-19T15:39:13.268+01:002013-04-19T15:39:13.268+01:00It would be amazing if ministers could listen to o...It would be amazing if ministers could listen to ordinary service users and disability activists who would offer a wider perspective than Bruno, Fry, Wax et al, but they refuse to.<br />They may all have a reasonable point each but none speak of wider issues which are more pressing i.e. how housing/welfare policies are making lives hellAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18614557.post-83973814790267496572013-04-12T19:32:39.616+01:002013-04-12T19:32:39.616+01:00I think this is the first sports-star I can recall...I think this is the first sports-star I can recall this critical of the the Mental Health System.<br /><br />It would have nice if on the site the use of the term "mental illness" was qualified with a disclaimer like "so-called", after all, without the reification of the concept "mind", it is impossible to assert that minds can be susceptible to literal pathology.Suicide Ted McGloomynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18614557.post-42850169024830493962013-04-12T19:21:50.679+01:002013-04-12T19:21:50.679+01:00Good on ya FrankGood on ya FrankSuicide Ted McGloomynoreply@blogger.com