Category: The state of play you are paying for
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The state of play you are paying for Pt 4a
Imagine being held responsible for this patient. He lives in ‘supported’ accommodation with everything paid for. It’s hard to conceive of a patient more determined not to co-operate with mental health (but at the same time keeping all the goodies). So far as I can see, the only way he could avoid us more would…
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The reasons why… Pt 3
Ok, I’m spending one more post (for now) driving a stiletto into this one-sided, hopelessly biased WHO document. World Health Organization & Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights . 2023. Mental Health, Human Rights and Legislation: Guidance and Practice. World Health Organization. Stay with me. There’s one more reason in this strand. I…
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The reasons why… Pt 2
Ok, here is the clue. (WHO and Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights 2023). The link sends you to this 2023 document. World Health Organization & Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights . 2023. Mental Health, Human Rights and Legislation: Guidance and Practice. World Health Organization. Don’t click on that link…
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The reasons why Britain’s laws and government are so generous to violent patients (and prisoners) and so harmful to staff working in mental hospitals (and prisons.) Pt 1.
An unwieldy title I’ll have to shorten. Have you ever wondered, not only why Britain’s laws and government have been made so generous to violent patients, but also why so many other countries changed their own laws, at the same time, citing the same reasons and aims? Obviously, I have. I’ve been scratching my head…
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The state of play you are paying for Pt 3b
Ok, back to the wretch. Read any account of an abused wife at the hands of a skilled, psychopathic abuser and you’ll see the same behaviour. Next morning, when he unlocks her from the wardrobe and makes her empty the bucket she had to use as a toilet, he is all smiles and sweetness and…
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Benefits Pt 1
6.5 million people in Britain are on benefits. (Does not mean 6.5m British people are on benefits.) A more useful figure is Britain has 4 million (1 in 4) working age people receiving UC and disability. (Pensioners can’t receive UC, jobseekers, PIP.) 1.9m benefit claims (all types) are made by foreign nationals. Of that, in…
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The state of play you are paying for now Pt 3a
A long term patient with a long forensic hx but now on a back-ward was on two cigarettes a day. (That’s harmful in itself because the patient’s nicotine addiction is not being satisfied. That’s another story.) He demanded another when he’d already smoked them both. Told ‘no’, he attacked the female nurse, got on top…
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Drug induced psychosis
What is it? Drug-induced psychosis is a psychotic episode that is triggered by using drugs. The most common symptoms include visual hallucinations, disorientation and memory problems. It is indistinguishable from other psychotic states – until it magically disappears after a short time. Here’s where we are now. These ‘patients’ are treated by MHS i.e. as…
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It’s a crap job now 4. Timewasters, fools and criminals. Pt 3 of 3
The best word I know for these underclass dwellers is ‘scrote’. Polly, do sit down, you’ll have a fit of the vapours. Try these descriptions instead. “Stupid people will start being wise when wild donkeys are born tame.” Job 11:12 “He who sends a message by the hand of a fool cuts off his own…
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It’s a crap job now 4. Timewasters, fools and criminals. Pt 2 of 3
Continuing ‘Who are the other kinds? A handful of examples.’ 5. Dangerous patients. Not everybody wants to work with these, I grant you, but it’s necessary and some of us are drawn to that kind of work. Calocane was scary but some of us are trained to handle violent patients. In hospital. Locked up. Not…