National Service Users Executive - Supporting your Vision

I ONCE HEARD DR Pat bracken give a presentation on mental health he talked about a para dime shift I Believe the only shift we should be makeing is a shift back Even with the best mental health services we will still have the revolving door while people are isolated within their communities,stigmatised discriminated,neglected abused.
You may throw all the money you want and it wont make any difference.
What is needed is engagement with our communities Through community dialogue
I believe this engaging could be done by those of us who are living with these disorders with the support of the services
Vision for change talks about community support
check out the notice board on this site
care,support,recoveru,a social model
Palmer,waffler Palmer

"People with direct experience of mental health problems - as service users, carers or professionals - have long been aware of the impact of discrimination against people with psychiatric diagnoses"

Could the problem be that people believe in psychiatric diagnoses. How can we have a medical diagnoses when there is no valid medical test to prove that they actually exist?!!

We have behavioral, relationship, nutritional traumatic etc. problems but they are not illnesses.

Do these fictitious medical diagnoses not increase and multiply discrimination? Do they not set us apart and deprive us of legal capacity? Once we can be declared 'mentally ill' at the whim of a so called medical expert we can be deprived of our human rights. We can be incarcerated and forcefully injected with powerful psychotropic drugs which have serious brain damaging effects. We can even be forcefully electroshocked for our own good.

Actions do speak louder than words. Let us act and provide humane alternatives to the oppressive, domination, medical model which is almost the only answer to human distress today. Let us return to humane, kind, supportive, understanding and loving solutions.