The Pink River Teddies - In Memory

Its a tradition to write for soldiers and trauma and ghosts on this day . I cannot forget and certainly will remember them. I've been with people and soldiers of war trauma . I hold them as we do inside us . We...

The UK User Led Personality Disorder Report Is Released -

Art De Rivers Mental Health Watching In The UK .  This UK Personality Disorder Spectrum Survey was first reported about on NowPublic.com and the report stage is a first of its kind for  the UK . As of...

Re-instated UK Nurse Thanks Everyone On Facebook Campaign

Art de Rivers : On Healthwatch ..  Margaret Heywood the sacked nurse  (see the last story)  has won back her position after massive UK support by the public that frankly overwhelmed the...

Victory For Petition UK Nurse Margaret Heywood is Re-instated !

    This news has been shared across the UK through the National Association of Local Involvement Network Members  who solidly supported Margaret Heywood alongside the Royal College of Nursiing ....

Mental Health "Tabour And Lory" Freudian Policies - What?

Art De Rivers Mental Health UK Watching : The blue and red weaves of the Labour and Tory parties are a kind of mauvey brown or is that maroon ..... Ahhh now there's a word "maroon" ...Hmmmmm... Have the parties...

Birmingham UK A Personality Disorder Network Meeting Planned

By UserWatch UK , Art De Rivers And Others Mental Health Watching UK And Local . It's early days , it always is , in a Groundhog-day type of way , in the Personality Disorders community that is often promised...

The Zero Therapy Elephant In The UK NHS Room Is Named

 Art De Rivers  UK Mental Health Watching Yes its been seen wandering across the UK ... Partly invisible perhaps but it's led to heavy marks in the grounds of many peoples souls .. Many have been been...

The Butterflies Grave - And The Children's Home At Killay House

Art De Rivers .  The Post Trauma Journey to Make Sense . Within the Personality Disorder network which is pretty loose in the UK,  I am sometimes approached about the experience of bearing difficult...

Lumberjack Carrot Cake Exists In The UK

Art De Rivers  Watching Mentality In the UK. I am sick of running out of carrot cake just as a concerning story comes in from the BBC and today it was a report about "Paedophile Paranoia" - which is a kind of...

Mental Health NHS Homicide Report Shows Devastating Failures

Art De Rivers UserWatching Mental Health Birmingham UK The full Report released on Sept 10th 2009 is downloadable now from the Strategic Health Authority is available HERE  The Report details a sad case of a...

Joan's Hospital Tissue Moths Of 1967 - A Personal Story Feature

Making the Past Serve The Present By Insight .  Joan's Hospital Tissue Moths Of Highcroft 1967  :  When I visited the Highcroft Mental Hospital in about 1967 I was riveted to what Joan was doing...

She Leapt From Evacuation Abandonment To Freedom Aged Seven

A few days ago the BBC reported on St Pauls Cathedral in London UK holding a commemorative service 70 years after the 2nd World Wartime evacuation of children in the cities and large towns. What was sad but...

UK Benefit Busters And A Welfare To Work Charity Busts Itself ?

..The Video comes courtesy of a YouTube Offering by Edinburghrr - there are two photos too courtesy of the same poster . The Welfare to Work  (Welfare to Worry more like) "entertainment" started off...

Mental Health UK - Hope = The Exceptional Case Review Mechanism ?

Art De Rivers UserWatching Mental Health UK  :  Opening Up The Knowledge About The Exceptional Case Review Route The UK Mental Health system does marginalise important numbers of  types of Mental...

Mental Health: Policeman Killing Enquiry - Public After Sept 10th

Art De Rivers  UserWatching : Five years to wait for a Strategic Health Authority report into a local killing of a policeman in Birmingham by a mental health User who was ill  - its a long time to wait...

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