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In addition to 'Hope Street Madness Defeated' I suggest you check out Bipolar Scotland's self management programmes. Tel 0141 560 2050.

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Haizean: Basque for in the Wind The novel is about family, friendships, war, peace, history, hope, endurance and ultimately reconciliation. It is about stopping for a moment and seeing the world from another person’s point of view in different times, cultures, and environments. The first part of the book centres around t...

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Before we can address the billions of pounds that go unclaimed by mental health users and carers, there is still one stage to be addressed:
New Zealand established a reconciliation initiative in 2005 in the context of ongoing compensation payouts to ex-patients of state-run mental institutions in the 1970s to 1990s. The forum heard of poor reasons for admissions; unsanitary and overcrowded conditions; lack of communication to patients and family members; physical violence and sexual misconduct and abuse; inadequate complaints mechanisms; pressures and difficulties for staff, within an authoritarian psychiatric hierarchy based on containment; fear and humiliation in the misuse of seclusion; over-use and abuse of ECT, psychiatric medication and other treatments/punishments, including group therapy, with continued adverse effects; lack of support on discharge; interrupted lives and lost potential; and continued stigma, prejudice and emotional distress and trauma.
There were some references to instances of helpful aspects or kindnesses despite the system. Participants were offered counselling to help them deal with their experiences, and advice on their rights, including access to records and legal redress.
To my knowledge no such reconciliation initiative has been adopted in the UK.
It is no secret that the world of psychiatry has a checkered history involving thousands of horror stories. As this recession targets more sectors of society, I feel it is now time for the government to address past liberties so we can move on.
I have put together a small book describing life in a Glasgow Asylum: in my view the experience made ‘One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ seem like Disneyland.

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BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Scotland Video and Audio | Service for 'forgotten dead' A service is to be held for hundreds of former psychiatric patients who are buried in unmarked graves in West Lothian.

Male depression and su***de: it's time for a change | Patient Despite depression, self-harm and su***de attempts being more likely in women, rates of completed male su***de grossly outweigh that of their female …

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