mental health

A powerful article by Russell Fleming, the Content Manager of the ME Association. It's about mental health issues due to ME/CFS and how to cope with it. https://www.meassociation.org.uk/2019/07/facing-up-to-mental-health-challenges-11-july-2019/

From Recovery in the Bin full article here https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/14/mental-health-services-crisis-patients-vulnerable-off-rolled?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

'Looking Forward' to Another Year of ME.... This Chronic Elephant Blog is about how coping with the daunting prospect of another year of ME: https://thechronicelephant.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/hippy-pants.html

Crawley's team churn another paper out. Open access at https://bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12874-019-0730-z

Paywalled at https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioural-and-cognitive-psychotherapy/article/implementation-of-stepped-care-for-patients-with-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-in-communitybased-mental-health-care-outcomes-at-posttreatment-and-longterm-followup/842DB10C681E7D7A8725BE0DB8848B07

Ugh. Have you seen this new piece @dave30th ? "Conclusions mFND patients have distinct demographic characteristics compared with psychiatric controls. Experiences of abuse appear to be equally prevalent across psychiatric patient groups. This study establishes the socio-demographic and life...

Article by Elizabeth Davis https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/feeling-stressed-join-a-choir/ Can't help feeling he'd like to do that research on us! :rofl: So it's not just us that has a belief that we "have a disorder".:sick:

Interview in the Guardian. full article here: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/nov/12/i-was-preety-much-mute-at-school-the-bake-offs-kim-joy

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/clinical/clinical-specialties/mental-health/revealed-how-patients-referred-to-mental-health-services-end-up-back-with-their-gp/20037700.article

Researching, practising, and debating mental health care Sarb Bajwa Niall Boyce Wendy Burn https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(18)30438-3/fulltext To me this looks like more empty blather from those unwilling to speak out about bad behaviour from their colleagues...

Interesting from Twitter. It seems a mental health conference did not go down well Some aspects may sound familiar. I have not dug very deeply, but it seems UK mental health initiatives are not universally appreciated deeplys://www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/10.12968/bjmh.2018.7.5.198

New report: https://www.inclusionlondon.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ESA-WRAG-Report.pdf Article about it: https://theconversation.com/constant-anxiety-of-benefit-sanctions-is-toxic-for-mental-health-of-disabled-people-105067?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1540217904 I was...

RSM The NHS at 70 Podcast: Episode 8: Prof Sir Simon Wessely, President of the RSM - The Challenges for Mental Health In this episode, Professor Sir Simon Wessely, Regius Professor of Psychiatry & Past President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, discusses the changing attitude towards...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033318218304183

https://www.madinamerica.com/2018/05/un-meeting-on-human-rights-in-mental-health/

Good post from mental elf Reinforces the direction in which we are headed Underlines the serious lack if evidence base for such changes https://www.nationalelfservice.net/mental-health/power-threat-meaning-framework-innovative-and-important-ptmframework/

Note: this is from 2016. It's new to me but may be familiar to others. Paywalled at http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(15)00545-3/abstract Article in the Guardian, again from 2016...

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/apr/04/missing-link-why-disabled-people-cant-afford-delete-facebook-social-media

Link : http://metro.co.uk/2018/04/02/you-smiled-at-me-so-youre-not-depressed-whats-the-most-patronising-thing-your-doctor-has-ever-said-to-you-about-your-mental-health-7418916/ A couple of anecdotes from the article : There are lots more anecdotes in the article: Link ...

In light of recent events I thought this was important. " In England and Wales, you can be detained in hospital against your will if you are diagnosed with a mental health disorder and it’s deemed that your health would benefit from a stay in hospital. In 2007, the definition of ‘disorder’ in...