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Legal aid is still available - but don’t tell anyone
Reblogged from Vox Political: Read more… 8 more words (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - November 1, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

‘Mate crime: The grooming of vulnerable people’. #mentalhealth #ukmh
Mate crime is often difficult for police to investigate, due to its sometimes ambiguous nature. Campaigners believe the problem is a far more serious situation than is currently reported in statistics……… http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-ouch-24651327Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies. (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - November 1, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

BMH UK launch campaign against deaths in custody. #MentalHealth #ukmh
Health campaigners, senior politicians from the community and leaders of some of the UK’s largest black led churches  have come out in support of human rights campaigns group Black Mental Health UK’s new campaign against black deaths in custody. http://www.blackmentalhealth.org.uk/index.php/expert-opinion-mainmenu-127/1485-bmh-uk-launch-campaign-against-deaths-in-custodyFiled under: Mental Health, The News & Policies. (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - November 1, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Does ADHD exist?
Reblogged from The Not So Big Society: One of the joys of working in child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) is that I regularly get asked whether I think ADHD exists. It's a topic that has two polarised camps. In one camp you get those who think it's an attempt to medicate away all kinds of family and social problems, giving bad parents a handy excuse while lining the wallets of Big Pharma. Read more… 1,235 more words, 1 more video (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - October 31, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Victory For Cait Reilly - Workfare Was Illegal Says Supreme Court
Reblogged from the void: A unanimous verdict at the Supreme Court has judged that the workfare schemes in the Cait Reilly case were illegal. This follows the DWP's appeal after a lower court had found that the almost all the  Government's workfare schemes were illegal.  Iain Duncan Smith was forced to rewrite the law after this judgement retrospectively making these schemes legal. That will not be overturned by today's judgement, although a Judicial Review has been launched by lawyers questioning the legality of this decision. Read more… 99 more words (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - October 30, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Petition Calling For Benefit Sanctions To Be Scrapped Hits Nearly 2000 Signatures In First Few Hours
Reblogged from the void: A petition posted on the 38 Degrees website late yesterday afternoon and which calls for all benefit sanctions to be scrapped without exceptions has hit almost 2000 signatures already. The petition - which wasn't posted by me - uses some of the text from this earlier post discussing the brutal impact of sanctions to benefits which are driving hundreds of thousands of people into destitution.  Read more… 211 more words (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - October 30, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Could Civil Penalties Be The New Benefit Sanctions As Jobcentre Staff Hand Out Fines To Cover Their Own Mistakes?
Reblogged from the void: One of the more insidious aspects of Iain Duncan Smith's welfare reforms has been the huge amount of power which has been handed over to Jobcentre advisors to harass and bully benefit claimants.  The power to sentence people to forced work along with the massive expansion of benefit sanctions has meant that DWP busy-bodies now have the power to plunge claimants into economic despair seemingly on a whim. Read more… 640 more words Find this even more disturbing in the cases where claimants may have cognitive difficulties and thus be exploited by yet another form of punishment for being poor....
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - October 28, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

This Week in Mentalists – Last Chance to Nominate for the #TWIMAwards Edition
Hi all. The nominations for the This Week in Mentalists will close at the end of Thursday. You have until then to leave a comment on this blog post telling us your favourite mental health blogs and vlogs (note: you need to nominate at least two blogs or vlogs to be counted). The top three in each category will be passed through to the judging panel to pick winners, and the results announced just before Christmas. Several of the judges are esteemed bloggers in their own right. I think I’ll use this opportunity to take a peek at what some of them have been writing about this week. Mental Health Cop has some musings in...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - October 27, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Zarathustra Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Mentally Ill taking up too much #Police time #ukmh
“Out on call with police in north London, I witnessed the numbers of mentally ill people in crisis who have nowhere else to go”… http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/23/police-response-mentally-ill-people?CMP=twt_gu Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies. (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - October 23, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

The PIP 20 metre rule remains intact
Reblogged from Jane Young: Despite hundreds of consultation responses explaining the devastating impact on people with significant walking difficulties of using 20 metres as the benchmark distance for eligibility for the enhanced mobility component of PIP* and therefore the Motability scheme, the Government has decided, as we suspected they would, to keep the assessment criteria the same. Whilst this is obviously a disappointment, there are several interesting features of the… Read more… 2,467 more words (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - October 22, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

This Week in Mentalists - The "I'm so OCD" Edition
Reblogged from Mentally Wealthy: Hello! This is Bellsie from Obsessively Compulsively Yours here. This week is OCD Awareness Week – a chance to clear up some of the myths that still surround the illness. The term OCD is frequently misused in everyday language, and a recent street survey highlighted that 44% of people felt they had ‘OCD traits’, which clearly shows the lack of understanding that still exists about OCD, with people still confusing non-anxiety provoking traits for the illness. Read more… 1,234 more words, 1 more video (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - October 21, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

‘Economic woes’ behind rise in #MentalHealth issues among Welsh workforce #depression
A world away from the trivial rigours of the “Monday blues”, law firms, charities and politicians suggest the worst recession since World War II fuelled a mental health crisis as employees left behind after mass redundancies buckled under heavier workloads…. http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/workplace-depression-rise-warning-welsh-6212258 Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies. (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - October 21, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Claims #Savile abuse may have occurred in #Exeter #MentalHealth facility. #ukmh
A spokesman for Devon Partnership NHS Trust said: “The Giving Victims a Voice report, published by the NSPCC and Metropolitan Police in January 2013, listed 13 reported offences involving Jimmy Savile and NHS organisations, one of which was a case at an ‘Exeter Hospital’ in 1970….. . http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/Savile-abuse-claim-linked-mental-health-hospital/story-19963024-detail/story.html#axzz2iL8XPVkV Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Tagged: Devon Partnership NHS Trust, jimmy savile, mental health exeter, sexula abuse (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - October 21, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Devon Partnership NHS Trust jimmy savile mental health exeter sexula abuse Source Type: blogs

#Croydon #MentalHealth charity founder facing bankruptcy says it was worth it. #whatstigma #schizophenia
Adjei Amaning, 52, from Croydon, set up the Stigma charity last year after hiding the fact that two of his brothers suffered from schizophrenia for much of his life….. http://www.croydonguardian.co.uk/news/10749605.Take__selfies__to_beat_mental_health_stigma__urges_charity/ Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies. (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - October 21, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Lisa Egan: #Disabled ‘People are dying penniless.’ #Atos #wca
Watch Lisa … http://uk.news.yahoo.com/video/benefits-tests-people-dying-penniless-073340447.html Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies. (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - October 21, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs