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I hallucinate + hear voices but I am not ill + do not take psychiatric drugs .... For me , mental illness is a lie which causes untold damage ... I have been gathering information around Mental Health hospital admissions / Haven / Maytree model / Homelessness ... I have also gathered information around seclusion , electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), restraint and serious incidents ... The data speaks for itself Each admission, each electro convulsive treatment (ECT), each restraint, each seclusion, each serious incident is a human rights abuse We just need to listen? Alexis Quinn? Act wisely? We are not using public money – our money well (each admission costs at least £18K) We need to learn from Italy, Finland, Manchester and others. Work together? How will we put the change we need into action? not just strategy papers ? We need the other part of this “picture” the data from the Haven and community. In summary my aims are ... All Mental Health Hospitals should be closed as per Italy; the Haven/ respite/ Home Group model should be adopted. The Mental Health Act should be abolished, one of the few areas of law where you can be locked away for something you may do, by people who have a vested interest in locking you away. (James Davies work CRACKED why psychiatry is does more harm than good is relevant here?). People should be supported to come off psychiatric drugs if this is their wish. Move from a Medical model of distress to a social / Human Rights model of distress. Ladder of Citizen control.pdf

MPs from across the political spectrum have called for a ban on electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) as a treatment for mental illness in England, and want the practice to be subject to an urgent inquiry. MPs told The Independent they have serious concerns that women are disproportionally given electroconvulsive therapy, and argued that patients are not properly notified of the treatment’s potential side effects. Some patients have also reported that they weren’t asked to provide consent before it was administered. Dr Pallavi Devulapalli, a GP, called for the government to undertake an “urgent and comprehensive review” of the treatment as she warned that patients’ wellbeing was “at stake”. The calls come after The Independent previously reported that thousands of women were being given ECT despite concerns that it can cause irreversible brain damage. It comes after Dr Sue Cunliffe, who began receiving ECT in 2004, previously told The Independent that the treatment had “completely destroyed” her life despite a psychiatrist having told her there would be no long-term side effects. Dr Cunliffe, a former children’s doctor, said: “By the end of it, I couldn’t recognise relatives or friends. I couldn’t count money out. I couldn’t do my two times table. I couldn’t navigate anywhere. I couldn’t remember what I’d done from one minute to another.” Read full story Source: The Independent, 12 March 2023