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Court orders DWP to name and shame workfare exploiters
Originally posted on glynismillward189: Posted on 22/07/2014 by www.refuted.org.uk View full decision: “The DECISION of the Upper Tribunal is to dismiss the [DWP] appeals” https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bwd25z9g2tFPNzZfbVdQSFRZM3JwZzVwX1hDS01Kc0R0V05z/edit?pli=1 (download as a PDF) and the full history of one of the FOI request’s of 25 January 2012, concerning the names of Mandatory Work Activity placement hosts. This tribunal decision concerned DWP appeals against three ICO decision notices (FS50438037,FS50438502 and FS50441818) all requiring the DWP to name workfare placement hosts. Above via https...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - July 23, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Mentally Ill “tormented” by #DWP in bullying and aggressive policy. #mentalhealth #esa
“What is now being exposed is even worse than people’s wildest suspicions, exacerbated by the revelation that such bullying and aggressive treatment is deliberate DWP policy”  Keep reading… http://bit.ly/WCs3Zt  Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Tagged: DWP, mental health (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - July 23, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. DWP Source Type: blogs

*Important Read* from @latentexistence – PIP consultation final judgement in full #disability #mentalhealth
‘Mr Justice Hickinbottom: Introduction A disabled person who satisfies various statutory criteria is entitled to Disability Living Allowance (“DLA”), a single welfare benefit with two components – the care component and the mobility component. The care component is designed to help with the additional costs of daily living activities, such as personal care, shopping and preparing meals. The mobility component helps with additional costs of getting around. Different rates are payable depending on the severity of the impact of the person’s disability. For the care component, there are three rates. ...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - July 22, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. mobility component Source Type: blogs

‘International team sheds new light on biology underlying #schizophrenia’ #mentalhealth #broadlive
http://www.broadinstitute.org/broadliveFiled 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 - July 22, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

THIS is My Victory!
Originally posted on Phoenix - The Rebirth of My Life: July 18th, 2014  10:13 AM The clock strikes 12 The battle and I have become 1 It stabs me right in the heart; To watch the  ruby-red blood pour profusely Through my chest cavity To wash away the 2 things That are darted towards my feeble face: Hatred and Stigma. I walk towards the battle Stronger and wiser than ever before To look into its paltry eyes. Our eyes meet at 3 To see 4 things Standing right in front of me: Emptiness, Hopelessness, Loneliness, and Worthlessness. The battle whispers 5 hysterical words to me:“Your time is now up”. I stand taller and wis...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - July 22, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Cameron’s Gini and the hidden hierarchy of worth
Originally posted on Politics and Insights - kittysjones : On 04 June, 2014, at 3.52pm BST, Cameron said inequality is at its lowest level since 1986. I really thought I’d misheard him. Cameron lies, that’s established fact. But mendacity of such epic proportions is surely a clear indication that this really is the Coalition’s last stand. This isn’t the first time Cameron has used this lie. We have a government that provides disproportionate and growing returns to the already wealthy, whilst imposing austerity cuts on the very poorest. How can such a government possibly claim that inequality is fall...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - July 22, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Hundreds Of Disabled People Sent On Workfare Every Week, Is Unpaid Work The New Segregation?
Originally posted on the void: Disabled activists protesting in 2007 against Tesco, an early pioneer of unpaid work. Pic from here The new Minister for Murdering Disabled People, Nick Harper has teamed up with David Cameron this week to boast about huge numbers of disabled people being sent to work without pay, often for profit making companies.  The gushing press release forms part of the DWP’s cringe-making Disability Confident campaign, the latest gimmick to cover up the endless vicious attacks on disabled people by the department. According to the figures around 45,000 people registered as disabled with Jobcen...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - July 22, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Advice for 14-year-old me, living with depression
Originally posted on What Rhymes With Sarah?: I pledge my commitment to the Blog for Mental Health 2014 Project. I will blog about mental health topics not only for myself, but for others. By displaying this badge, I show my pride, dedication, and acceptance for mental health. I use this to promote mental health education in the struggle to erase stigma. Living with depression is awful for anyone but when it starts at a young age, you can start feeling like there’s no escape. You feel like you’re not actually unwell, you’re just intrinsically a miserable person (which oddly enough does not actually help you to feel ...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - July 22, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Why the Tories should know privatising Job Centres won’t work
Originally posted on Vox Political: Parked on the dole: Closing Job Centres and handing responsibility for finding work to private companies would condemn thousands – if not hundreds of thousands – of people to a life on benefits (if they don’t get sanctioned and starve). It’s incredible that allies of George Osborne are backing proposals to shut down all Job Centres and let private companies fill the void. The proposal to let the private sector find work for Britain’s unemployed is actually being considered for inclusion in the Conservative Party’s election manifesto for 2015, according to the Huffington P...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - July 22, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

An Optimum Diet for Mood Stability and Long-Term Good Health   #notjustbipolar
Quinonostante:Excellent article! I for one would like to see more of these evidence based studies presented to a Government who feel medication is the only way to treat mental ill health. Originally posted on Rethinking Bipolar: Real Food: The Best Diet - Andrew Weil, M.D. explains what to eat and drink more and less of: (This talk is largely about USA diet. USA has the highest incidence of bipolar and many other modern disorders. Elsewhere in the world we need to learn from America’s mistakes.) Can there really be an optimum diet? It perhaps depends on what we mean by optimum (or maybe it is optimal?). If opt...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - July 19, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

An exercise in hope: The Biscuit Fund steps to help Kevin after his benefits are sanctioned
Originally posted on Ann McGauran: Kevin, who’s living on £7 a fortnight for food, is offered help from charity the Biscuit Fund Something marvellous has happened! Those of you who’ve been following this blog for a while will know that the accounts people share of their lives – at the Greenwich food bank (part of the Trussell Trust network of food banks) and elsewhere – are often very grim. So I don’t get to use the word marvellous very often. There you go, I sneaked the word in again. This week was different. There was some brilliant news for one of the food bank’s clients. A small charity called the Bisc...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - July 18, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Last psych appt
Originally posted on Behind the Façade: Yesterday afternoon I was seen by the doctors, and my community nurse/case manager also sat in on the meeting. I was asked whether I wanted to be discharged that day or the next, I chose to be discharged that afternoon. Though I still wasn’t great, I at least felt a little better than when I came in and I guess there wasn’t much point in staying any longer. We also discussed my medication, I still remain on 200mg of Pristiq and 50mg of Seroquel XR but have also commenced on 450mg of lithium as a mood stabiliser. It was either lithium or sodium valproate, but according to the doc...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - July 18, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Atos Accused of Misleading MPs to Get Government Contract
Originally posted on Beastrabban\'s Weblog: Atos were in the I newspaper again yesterday following accusations by MPs that the company got the contract through deliberately misleading statements about providing access for disabled claimants in the tender document it submitted to the Department of Work and Pensions. Atos claimed that over 700 healthcare providers, including 56 NHS hospitals, had agreed to provide accommodation to claimants at the place of assessment. This would create a ‘hyper-local’ network, which would mean that no claimant would be more than an hour’s journey away from the assessment centre. The...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - March 22, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Best of #ToryBingo on Twitter
Quinonostante:heh heh heh Originally posted on Pride's Purge: (not satire – it’s the out-of-touch Tories!) Working class? Bored of playing with your whippet, drinking beer and eating pasties? Then why not get together with your other working class pals and play TORY BINGO? Here are some of the best tweets I noted from the hashtag #ToryBingo on Twitter. If you saw any good ones not here please put them in the comments.   NHS gone - Number 1  @LizSavagelabour  Haven’t a clue – number 2  @StaffieSquadron Me me me - Number 3 @MaggieA  Shoot the poor – number 4  @ChrisGiles7  Barely alive – ...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - March 20, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Shock Fall In Number Of Employees As Self-Employment Soars
Originally posted on the void: Despite Tory claims that unemployment is falling, the number of employees fell this month by 60,000 people according to the latest Labour Market Statistics. Overall unemployment has fallen over the most recent period, but this seems largely down to huge leap in the number of people who are self-employed.  A whopping 211,000 more people became self-employed over the last three months – with the total number now hitting 4.46 million. It is impossible to know whether these newly self-employed people are actually making any money or have simply switched their claim over to Working Tax Cre...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - March 20, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs