tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8753418862245773183.post7804962788358154225..comments2024-03-29T06:55:34.035+00:00Comments on Powys Mental Health Blog: Unconventional Wisdom? Time To Challenge – Tackling StigmaJackie Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05293038655478909058noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8753418862245773183.post-27782019382887681532013-09-12T16:29:14.662+01:002013-09-12T16:29:14.662+01:00Another very good article about stigma campaigns T...Another very good article about stigma campaigns <a href="http://flobellamy.com/#/articles/4579330434" rel="nofollow">Time To Change? Why the UK’s biggest anti-stigma campaign increases stigma. Flo Bellamy</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8753418862245773183.post-45502633441229219962013-09-11T18:05:14.324+01:002013-09-11T18:05:14.324+01:00A very good article providing 2 alternative approa...A very good article providing 2 alternative approaches to tackling stigma. Really worth a read if you are interested in this subject.<br /><a href="http://discursiveoftunbridgewells.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/when-ads-dont-work.html" rel="nofollow">When the Ads Don’t Work - stigma</a><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8753418862245773183.post-60097009957201071812013-08-26T10:57:08.956+01:002013-08-26T10:57:08.956+01:00Dear Philip - thank you for engaging with me and t...Dear Philip - thank you for engaging with me and thank you for showing an interest in our blog. It certainly helps keep us motivated when we get people's comments/ideas and we check stats on a regular basis to try and make sure what we are doing is looked at and it seems to be ...<br /><br />I doubt very much to see any great shifts in my life time, though, but still I think that the important thing really is that we/others are at least having this debate and challenging our own and others ideas, and reflecting - I hope that this is positive for us all - all questions seem to lead to more questions ...but I for one enjoy the debate ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8753418862245773183.post-40848349921879983002013-08-18T11:33:30.534+01:002013-08-18T11:33:30.534+01:00Hi Laura,
Thanks for your efforts and thanks for ...Hi Laura,<br /><br />Thanks for your efforts and thanks for engaging with a random individual!<br /><br />I like this blog and find it very worthwhile.<br /><br />I believe that we all need to reflect a little more on the Time to Change debate. I will have a look at the above link a little later on but in the meantime want to clarify that I am still wondering about the appropriate use of the word 'illness', an otherwise semantically incorrect term.<br /><br />Perhaps using the term can increase compassion and tackle the sort of ignorance that deems the content of another person's head totally irrelevant? This, in my simple view, would represent an advance or a 'step forward'.<br /><br />Whether that usage simultaneously means that we are taking 'two steps back' is a moot point, and not an area for firm conclusion. <br /><br />I welcome the search for truth, and accept that you are challenging yours to a greater extent than I am challenging mine by my acceptance of occasional defeat, or slippage by use of the word 'illness'. <br /><br />However, please be cautious in aiming at what would be for most of us, a pyrrhic victory.Philip Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00763574899321214561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8753418862245773183.post-17675202285967892662013-08-16T16:39:30.684+01:002013-08-16T16:39:30.684+01:00Hello - yet again thank you for reading and commen...Hello - yet again thank you for reading and commenting. <br /><br />I take on board and fully support the importance of co-operation and starting a conversation. In a way this blog is one way that I am hoping to do some of this, but your comment amongst other conversations I have had over the last few weeks has reiterated to me the need for us all to talk more in an open and safe way. <br /><br />I would like to try and develop more ways for us to talk to each other, as you say from often very difficult starting points, I hope to have more news soon on this, but hopefully in the meantime the DIY Futures event on 9th Oct and the Powys Conference on Sept 19 Shaping Services (details from me or our website) will provide some opportunity for debate.<br /><br />I do, I think, understand your point, about how sometimes it seems that referring to 'mental illness' is the only thing to do. All I can do is continue to bring my truth to this debate and others will hopefully bring theirs. You might be interested in an online debate that happened last night at The Big Mad Experience entitled “Is it time to change the language of ‘mental illness’? and storified at http://storify.com/BradfordsBME/bigmadchat-august/preview<br /><br />Take care LauraAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8753418862245773183.post-17517701261990294272013-08-13T01:13:50.073+01:002013-08-13T01:13:50.073+01:00When overcoming mental health and substance abuse ...When overcoming <a href="http://www.westbridge.org/default.aspx" rel="nofollow">mental health and substance abuse</a> , it is very important to get help and have a support system. Katy Sewellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13595739981612697323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8753418862245773183.post-50727483035811395342013-08-11T20:41:19.569+01:002013-08-11T20:41:19.569+01:00OK Laura, this point I'm sure will be raised t...OK Laura, this point I'm sure will be raised time and time again and firstly, it is accurate to say that there are certain things that are done in the name of reducing stigma (and discrimination, the other main focus of Time to Change) that do not tackle their root causes and may in fact reproduce them as entities.<br />However, although I agree with the majority of what you say perhaps their ought to be more emphasis in your post on cooperation and the positive impacts of initiating a conversation from a very difficult starting point? <br />There are times and places where referring to 'mental illness' does have some validity- although your point that this is not universal, absolute or trans-historical is essential. For example, if I go to my employer and present the need for some time off to settle my mental, physical, emotional and other needs back to a manageable level for work purposes then the difference between the severity of some experiences that may have warranted a diagnosis and other forms of distress may need shorthand to be recogniseable.<br />As for the campaign, consider the following question. Is a dis-ease of 'mind' made better when configurations of circumstance that are regularly life-shattering or fatal are talked about outside of specialist circles and known to be fairly common- or not?Philip Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00763574899321214561noreply@blogger.com