Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy 
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Originally posted on Same Difference:
With many thanks to Kate Belgrave.
I’d be keen to hear back from anyone who has experience of this:
I spent a couple of hours today talking with someone who is a new JSA claimant in North London. This man started his JSA claim a couple of weeks ago. It’s the first claim he’s made. He filled in an application form online and then was sent a text by the DWP some days later which called him to a meeting at a London jobcentre in the first week of August.
He assumed that the meeting would be one-to-one with a jobcentre advisor – a meeting where an advisor goes through the applicat...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 13, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
One Last Push! Sign and Share The Petition Calling For An Inquiry Into The Sanctions That Killed David Clapson
Originally posted on the void:
This petition calling for an inquiry into the benefit sanctions which killed David Clapson has hit almost 75,000 signatures in just over a week.
Mr Clapson had his benefits stopped after missing a meeting with the Jobcentre. This left him unable to chill the insulin he needed to manage his diabetes and without any money for food or electricity. Shortly after his benefits were sanctioned he was found dead without any food in his stomach.
His sister launched the petition last week calling an inquiry into benefit sanctions and the terrible damage they inflict. Tens of thousands of peop...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 13, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
DWP blames cancer patient for her illness
Quinonostante:It may well be a badly written letter, or we may well be taking it out of context, but it’s setting a pretty poor precident. If we are saying they are stating thus claimant with cancer may be at fault / contributing to her illness, I can only wonder what they will suggest to the mentally ill.
Originally posted on Pride's Purge:
(not satire – it’s the UK today!)
This letter from the Department for Work and Pensions was posted by Chris Nelson on Facebook (click to enlarge):
According to this letter, the DWP is clearly placing the ‘blame’ for having cancer on the patient herself.
Has the ...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 13, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
On sanity and self-inquiry
Originally posted on Beyond Meds:
By Jen Peer Rich
Inquiry is a spontaneous, honest investigation into what is happening in my mind, body and experience. When I am inquiring, I am awareness within every inch of what is here- thoughts, sensations, images, attuned with my senses, standing fully inside of this moment. I am home.
When I first started doing inquiry, I had a minuscule awareness of my own thoughts. For me life was an epic submersion in the neurotic narrations of my mind and dysfunctional attachments to various body identities. I believed my thoughts were real and really who I am. This lead to a lifetime of disa...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 8, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
Stigma
Originally posted on Jill's Experiences with Mental Health , Stigma, Alzheimer's Disease, Grief & Grieving & serenade2seniors:
STIGMA is defined as a sign of disgrace or discredit which sets a person apart from others. The STIGMA of mental illness remains a powerful negative attribute in all social relationships, as does Alzheimer’s disease.
STIGMA is a marker for adverse experiences, among them, a sense of shame , and is still perceived as a sign of weakness.
STIGMA means not having access to resources.
STIGMA means being reviled and becoming invisible.
STIGMA brings with it intense shame to the ...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 8, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
Annette Francis Overdosed In ‘Cry For Help’ Because Of PIP Backlog
Originally posted on Same Difference:
Is Annette Francis the first known person to die as a result of the PIP backlog?
Readers, we must share her story as widely as we can. No one else can die for this reason.
A woman overdosed in a ‘cry for help’ after a Government backlog saw her deprived of benefits for six months, an inquest heard.
Annette Francis, 30, struggled to survive on the bread line and was potentially owed hundreds of pounds in welfare payments when she died.
She filed for disability living allowance (DLA) last September only to be told by the Department for Work and Pensions that benefit had been overh...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 8, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
August 8th: Severe ME Awareness and Remembrance Day.
Originally posted on Carole...:
Hi Everyone!
This is my small contribution to Severe ME Awareness and Remembrance Day: August 8th 2014.
Imagine a world where four walls are your only view,
Not just for the day but for years sometimes decades.
Imagine some days you felt so ill you couldn’t raise your head from your pillow.
And you can barely speak or see.
But doctors won’t believe you and worse still, if they do, they have nothing…absolutely nothing to help you.
How would you cope and what would you do?
Would you lay there and give up?
It would be understandable if you did.
If you curled into a ball and slow...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 8, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
“Sometimes you get angels” – what a good support worker looks like
Originally posted on A Bit Missing:
Many years ago a friend of mine said “Sometimes you get angels”. She was referring to those people who come into your life and support your kids. People who just get it – people who go the extra mile. Sara blogged about the Charlies Angels, who have gone above and beyond the call of duty with Connor – before and since his death quite a few times now. Really special people who make a massive difference. We too have been lucky to have quite a few of those supporting G over the years . Learning support assistants and teachers at both schools. The odd social worker and staff at respi...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 2, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
Nurses have enough to deal with without body-shaming
Originally posted on The Not So Big Society:
This morning I clicked on the Guardian’s Comment is Free website to discover an article by Christian Pattison giving a novel criticism of the nursing profession. We’re all too fat.
If you go anywhere near the NHS, you can’t fail to see it. The woman who marches you over to the scales and carefully records your weight, the man who asks you to roll up your sleeve and tells you to expect a “sharp scratch”: what they often have in common – apart from a desire to help – is that they’re pretty damn big.
Oh dear. Where to start?
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Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 2, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
Panorama – Locked Up For Being Ill?
Originally posted on Benefit tales:
View originalFiled 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 - August 2, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
TUC Side With Bosses To Back Tory Workfare Scheme
Quinonostante:Well well well….
Originally posted on the void:
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
In an astonishing and genuinely sad day for the trade uni0n movement, the TUC have teamed up with the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) to issue a statement supporting unpaid work.
The TUC have sided with the bosses to sing the praises of the Tory Traineeship programme. This unpaid scheme can involve up to five months full-time work, sometimes for giant profit making companies like BT or Virgi...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 2, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
Videos Show Brutal Treatment of Prisoners with Mental Illness
Originally posted on Prison Reform Movement's Weblog:
By Lisa Dawson/Solitary Watch
Recently obtained videos which have been exposed to the public show corrections officers using extreme force on incarcerated people suffering from various forms of mental illness.
A still of the troubling footage captures Denver City Jail corrections officers using excessive force to restrain Moreno, who posed no sign of discernible threat (Photo:The Colorado Independent).
Attack on a Suicidal Man at Denver City Jail
Footage of one such video (shown below), taken in September of last year and later obtained by The Colorado ...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 2, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
If ever a #welfare story needed to be told…. #disability #mentalhealth
From Sue Marsh:
“Since the coalition came to power, sick and disabled people have claimed we are being fundamentally harmed by the coalition welfare reforms. Not scroungers or skivers, but people living with long term serious illnesses like me, or who live with physical disabilities. Adults AND children. Young and old. People with terminal conditions, people with kidney or heart failure, people waiting for transplants and even people in comas. None have been spared. The government repeatedly assure you they have.
The government have of course denied that they are putting an unreasonable share of austerity cu...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 2, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. disabled children disabled people Source Type: blogs
Mercury – contributing to health issues such as bipolar diagnosis?
Originally posted on Rethinking Bipolar:
Eating balanced meals and so minimizing snacks is not only good for mood and staying physically well, it is also better for our teeth.
As chemistry students in the 1970’s we were encouraged to dip a finger in a beaker of pure mercury to see what it felt like. It felt strange! This was a one-off for everyone in our class. Teachers knew mercury was toxic but felt it worth letting students come into direct contact with pure mercury just for a few seconds, for an experience that could be remembered for life.
Also in the 1970’s, consumption of snack-food, especially sugary sweets a...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 2, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
JobCentre Advisor ‘Disciplined For Not Sanctioning Enough’
Originally posted on Same Difference:
Spotted at Welfare News Service Facebook page. Published here with many thanks to editor Steven Preece.
A JC adviser has just told me to my face that she has been disciplined for not referring enough jobseekers for potential benefit sanctioning. She was not willing to disclose the exact nature of that disciplinary action. This comes after IDS has insisted that there are no targets for advisers. She didn’t know at the time that I am a journalist, but after informing her of who I am (WNS Editor) she has requested that I do not disclose her identity, out of fear she would be sacked. I...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 2, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
