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Benjamin and an amazing work programme/unemployment myth busting tool. Not to be missed! #wca
  INCREDIBLE tool for jobseekers via: http://diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/incredible-tool-for-jobseekers.html?spref=fb    “Last night, one of those rare moments of campaigning joy popped up on my timeline. A guy sanctioned onto a work programme scheme was asked to give a presentation. And BOY does he do us proud!!! This is the most simple, easy to understand accessible report into just how it feels to be unemployed in this current, toxic climate. I’ve never read anything so helpful or empowering or which busts the governments dreadful myths so clearly.” https://skydrive.liv...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - October 8, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

The Sun hacks #MentalHealth and I was worried about using the ‘T’ word.. #whatstigma #ukmh @TheSunNewspaper
So earlier today I titled a post ‘The Sun Has Got It’s Tw*t On’ and before I actually pressed the button which sends it off pinging into the unknown I found myself feeling a little worried about using the ‘T’ word! What will people think? It’s a swear word, it belongs in the sewer. Do I have ‘potty mouth’? What would my Dad say?  But still, frowning a little, I pressed the post and off it went and little by little I cared less about using the ‘T’ word. There’s just not enough outrage or affront in this entire universe to cover just how much injury is caused...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - October 7, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. asda Disability Halloween costume Insanity Kelvin Mackenzie mental illness Mentally Ill The Sun whatstigma Source Type: blogs

THE SUN has got it’s tw*t on – @TheSunNewspaper hacks at #MentalHealth again
HERE WE GO AGAIN THE SUN has got it’s TW*T on Pretty certain I don’t need to remind most of you ‘why’ this kind of reporting is not acceptable, and I’m sure you’d like to tell them some facts. The Sun 3 Thomas More Square, London, E98 1XY Or you can telephone us on 020 7782 4000 Please also read my ‘opinion’ http://mentallywealthy.org/2013/10/07/the-sun-hacks-mentalhealth-and-i-was-worried-about-using-the-t-word-whatstigma-ukmh-thesunnewspaper/ Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Tagged: Kelvin Mackenzie, mental health, schizophrenia, The Sun (Source: Dawn...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - October 7, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Kelvin Mackenzie schizophrenia The Sun Source Type: blogs

This Week in Mentalists: The 2012 Winners and Runners-up Edition
Hi everyone. It’s Amanda here from Beauty From Pain Blog. Sorry this is coming to you so late in the weekend. I was being my usual procrastinating self! Now I’m sure you’ve likely seen the announcement of the This Week in Mentalists Awards 2013. (If you haven’t, do please check them out, and get nominating.) In doing this week’s round-up, I thought ‘why not go back and check in with some of last year’s winners and runner-ups?’ Let’s see what they’ve been up to and how they’ve been lately. So here goes. Firstly, I’d like to say that I do look forwa...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - October 6, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Amanda Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Rethink’s ‏@VictoriBleazard on #LethalDiscrimination of the mentally ill. #MentalHealth
“This week, Rethink Mental Illness, a UK mental health charity, released Lethal Discrimination, a report that spent no time getting to its bottom line: people with mental health problems are being let down by the medical system. They are not offered the services given to other patients, and this has resulted in a rather telling statistic—a third of the 100 000 avoidable deaths in the UK are of people with a mental health problem. On average, people with serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia die 20 years younger than the rest of the population.” cont’d….. http://www.thelancet.com/journal...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - October 4, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. mental illnesses Rethink Mental Illness Source Type: blogs

@LisaSaysThis on #MentalHealth and Britain’s Personal Best. #ukmh
“Britain’s Personal Best is an Olympic legacy charity aimed at getting people to do things they have never done before to help others and themselves. Challenges can be physical, intellectual, artistic or just brave.” http://www.hsj.co.uk/5063806.article#.Uk0r94bDxN0 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 3, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

DWP Cancel Poverty Party: Week of Festivities to Celebrate Benefit Sanctions Scrapped
Reblogged from the void: The DWP have cancelled a vile week long celebration of benefit sanctions due to be held to coincide with the Tory Party Conference the PCS Union have reported.   In a sign of growing militancy from the PCS leadership to oppose the vicious sanctioning regime (stop laughing) the union had issued a strongly worded letter to DWP bosses complaining about the upcoming shindig. Read more… 289 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 2, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Guardian: ‘The #Tory vilification of #disabled people is truly sick’ #cpc13
George Osborne’s workfare policy threatens to lump all claimants together, just as Iain Duncan Smith’s universal credit takes the same broad brush to those in need of benefits. Of the 200,000 people who are long-term unemployed, how many sick and disabled people will be forced to undertake community work, attend a jobcentre every day or go on an intensive training programme? http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/01/tory-vilifcation-disabled-sick-george-osborne 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 2, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Horrible #MentalHealth Headline Alert. #schizophrenia
“Schizophrenic killer” http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/local_news/10709400.Schizophrenic_killer_was__let_out_of_mental_health_unit/?action=success 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 2, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Why some GP’s are despairing over #MentalHealth patients.
Cllr Grigg said she had since been told by a GP that he dreaded anyone with mental health issues coming into his surgery because there is so little provision to treat people. http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent_messenger/news/help-hard-to-find-in-6739/ 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 2, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

CQC to investigate impact of #mentalhealth beds crisis on patients and staff.
From the perspective of the patient it is the turn-away (or bed unavailability) that is a key metric while from the perspective of staff occupancy levels above 80% can lead to stressful working environments. The findings would help CQC better understand the extent and impact of this long standing issue on quality and could also contribute to risk assessments for providers with capacity issues.” http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/mental-health/2013/09/cqc-to-investigate-impact-of-mental-health-beds-crisis-on-patients-and-staff/ Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies. (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News an...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - October 2, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

The This Week in Mentalists Awards 2013 – Meet the Judges
Nominations for the This Week in Mentalists Awards 2013 are now open. Please click on this link and leave a comment there to tell us your favourite mental health blogs and vlogs. On November 1st, when the public nominations end, the top three nominees in each category will be passed to our judges. They’ll then have until just before Christmas to pick their favourites, after which the winners will be announced online on Saturday 21st December. So let’s introduce the judges. Please note that they are all acting here in a personal capacity and not on behalf of their respective employers. Please also note that th...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - October 1, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Zarathustra Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. TWIM awards Source Type: blogs

Introducing the This Week in Mentalists Awards 2013
As the weekly This Week in Mentalists social media roundups transfer from The World of Mentalists website to here, it’s also time to announce the start of the annual This Week in Mentalists Awards. This is where we recognise the best in mental health blogging (and for the first time this year, vlogging as well). We’ll be asking for your help to pick them. We want you to leave a comment at the bottom of this blog post, telling us who you think should win in the various categories. The categories are very different from last year. Where previously the awards were divided along the lines of disorders and professio...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - October 1, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Zarathustra Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. mental illness mentalhealth blog TWIM awards Source Type: blogs

Welfare reform is a reality
Reblogged from Better Health For All: by Paul Southon Public Health Development Manager UK Healthy Cities Network Local Coordinator Welfare reform is a reality. Reviews of the likely health impacts suggest that they will be significant, are starting now and will last for a generation. (1) (2) Work to quantify the financial implications for local areas shows that the financial impact will be disproportionately felt by the areas with the largest health inequalities. Read more… 897 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 1, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Another study finds people at risk of #mentalhealth issues if in debt.
Credit card holders who have trouble staying on top of their payments could be at a higher risk of mental health issues, according to a newly released study. UK researchers took a look at the effects high debts have on people when it comes to health matters. Read more….. http://voiceofrussia.com/2013_09_30/People-at-risk-of-mental-health-issues-if-debt-present-3356/ 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 - September 30, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs