Mental health & Atos: my doctor says I need to rest my brain, but Atos says I...
I’ve been feeling strange for a few days, building up from when the Atos letter dropped onto my doormat. It seems I’m struggling to face the Atos process. My brain feels overloaded by the thought of...
View ArticleHappy Christmas Atos!
A collection of tweet stories on the Atos Work Capability Assssment (WCA) process: The Atos letter thuds onto the doormat. This is what it felt like when the Atos form thudded onto the doormat. This is...
View ArticleWhat does mental illness look like? Panorama & the Great Disability Scam
Last night, BBC One’s Panorama presented a half hour documentary on the government’s Work Programme. This was introduced 18 months ago to help people who’ve been out of work for a long time get back...
View ArticleUsing mental illness as an insult – Mick Philpott, Jon Snow & lunatics
We’ve all done it: casually thrown around as insults terms related to mental illness. This evening, Jon Snow, Channel 4’s lead news anchor, posted a blog in which he used the term “lunatic” as an...
View ArticleWhat does mental illness look like? The head clutcher
Once you start to notice them, they seem to be everywhere: the head clutcher. What are they? Not the image above, The Scream, an iconic portrayal of human misery, which has been much copied and...
View ArticleCashpoint
You know the first thing friends from the psychiatric ward ask when we bump into each other? “Have you been back in since?” We just want to stay out. Our ward wouldn’t pass the “friends & family...
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