Slay your mental health prejudices & fears on St Georges day…

 

  

St George Slaying his Dragon

 

 

Let’s all take this opportunity to Slay our mental health prejudices & fears on St Georges day…  

As with all forms of mental illness and the associated fears felt in our society, they are often born out of ignorance and misunderstanding a common failing of us all.  

My simple example of how easy it is to fall into a trap over common misconceptions is the facts that St Georges’ day which is believed by many to be solely celebrated here in England… not so!

time to change… let’s end mental health descrimination… video

time to change

 

    

Aristos, rail engineer

Time to Challenge is the national project focusing on employment. Time t…   more Time to Challenge is the national project focusing on employment. Time to Challenge is confronting mental health discrimination in the workplace and supporting people’s legal right to be treated fairly.

Its time to challenge the stigma around mental health. The new Time to Challenge website section http://www.time-t… is packed with information and practical advice from some of the most useful online resources.    

Watch our real life stories about mental health and employment here    

Please support this essential & very important campaign along with me…

Yours determined and hopefully helpfull,

 

TBPBMD

Mind’s Key election issues!

  

  

Mind

 

  

Mind wants to get three main points across to all prospective parliamentary candidates in the run up to the general election.   

While some candidates will be familiar with mental health issues, others will be new to the area. Whatever their level of knowledge and interest, we need to make sure that all candidates understand the following:  

1. Mental health is a public health issue
2. Tackling stigma and discrimination must be a priority
3. Everyone should have access to quality services

Please support these aims, follow the below link below to read more about these Key issues and how you can help make sure all the candidates understand the issues faced.   

Mind’s Key election issues!  

Yours  

TBPBMD 

Demonising “Obesity”…is this the Best Solution?

  

“Political Sound Bites?” …or just Utter Tripe!

Tripe

 

  

Forgive me but I am getting more than a little sick and tired of those naive politicians spouting “political sound bites” and attacking those individuals who have weight issues, especially Obesity. 

Warning before any more politicians jump on the band wagon with statements that infer that the only reason for this health issue is the individuals fault, i.e. eating too much, the wrong food, not exercising etc, this may well be the case in a large proportion of cases or at a major contributing factor, but who chooses to be labelled as a fatty?         

However I know from personal experience that this isn’t the full story and nor are all the direct causes known or yet still fully understood. I gained 35kg in 3 years with depression later to discover I had Bipolar II Disorder which answered many past issues as well as the more recent events.         

There are many reasons why a person can be overweight or obese other than by as a result of their personal lifestyle choices. Some examples of underlying causes for people being overweight or obese:-         

A follow Up Letter to MP response to my Election 2010 Campaign Correspondence!

A follow Up Letter to MP response to my initial :-    

Election 2010 Campaign Correspondence!     

UK Houses of Parliament

 

Dear MP     

Thank you for your re-assuring letter in response to my communication to your colleague *** ******** MP.      

Please be assured I did send the same correspondence he received also directly to you as my local MP.     

To be clear about my earlier correspondence my intention was to raise the broader issues by using my personal situation as an example only and I was not asking in this instance for direct intervention on my behalf.     

I thought I had made it clear in my letter

Bipolar Disorder is “NOT just a Psychological Disorder FACT!”

Bipolar Disorder is “NOT just a Psychological Disorder FACT!”

A recent case provides considerable significance in regards Bipolar Disorder in the USA below as excerpted from Equilibrium The Bipolar Foundation website provides incontrovertible evidence from various areas of research that bipolar disorder is not ‘merely’ a ‘psychological disorder, though this case doesn’t directly affect UK law it does provide the method and tools in which a case could be won in the UK in regards employment and insurance discrimination on the same or similar grounds.

The Case: Fitts v. Fannie Mae[1]

Scales of Justice

The ruling by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia involves an employee of a major mortgage company who developed bipolar disorder and whose employee disability insurance provider stopped paying disability benefits after 24 months on the grounds of bipolar disorder being a ‘mental illness’. The policy provided cover until the age of 65 for physical disability. Ms. Fitts had worked for the company for 13 years before she was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1995. The employee Ms. Jane Fitts, successfully brought a case against both the employer and the insurer arguing that bipolar disorder did not clearly fall in the category “mental, emotional or nervous diseases or disorders of any type”. The court awarded “prejudgment interest on all sums due her and the costs of this action “.

To read further details of this case and particulars of the verdict please visit the website of Equilibrium The Bipolar Foundation

http://www.bipolar-foundation.org/