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Good evening. Here is the news. Irish Mental Health service is shit. People with Mental Health problems are winding up in prison. The age of your dad when he shagged your mum may increase your risk of schizophrenia. Dr Jack Drescher is a radical gay and of course, a summary of the Cup Final – Traditional Healing vs Psychiatry But on with this edition’s lead story - Schizophrenia Does Not Increase Risk Of Violent CrimeThis edition of FKWIDT brings together a whole heap of stuff from other online places which I link to that are mostly stupid and I get to play at being a Sarcastic Git making stupider comments. So what’s new? After a brief undercover operation – GMNRU returns with breaking news on: A question from Richie over at Doc Crippen’s on who is best to drive MH care:
My answer, as ever, was probably too expansive to stick in a coments thread so I’ve brought it back to the mothership. It’s not a euphamism. I mean it quite literally. Blind people have had them for years. Now deaf people have hearing dogs. But what use can a dog be to a person with a mental illness? According to the limited information – and Wiki – quite a lot.
Now the thing to note here is – a service dog is not the same as a therapeutic dog. We all know that therapy dogs are nice and cuddly and give us a little emotional boost. Bit like an AIN. But psychiatric service dogs…. they’re the RMN’s of Animal Therapists. Before I begin – beakie started it. I was replying in the comments thread and, as per usual, it became verbose and convoluted. So I’m setting up camp here for the counter-argument. Is CBT (or any psychological or social therapy, like the Hoffman Process) Boswellox? Does it have any credibility? I suggest it does. And I have a theory to go with it. Aren’t you lucky. This edition of GMNRU is sad to announce that: Lilly settles Zyprexa Lawsuit for $1.42 billionHa ha ha. beakie raised discussion here about the obligations under Human Rights to patients detained under MHA laws. And I know I’ve written about it before here somewhere. But I recently had the pleasure of being (re-)trained in Risk Assessment & Management as part of the MH department mandatory training so I’m going to write some more about it. For those who didn’t read my top post (Socrates, 2009) on AMHP, this is another one like that for you to not read. Those who did read the previous post may recall the extra and unnecessary hoops the not so local medics made me jump through to get my statutory authorised admission for assessment ‘accepted’. This week brought another opportunity to utilise the Authority. This time – the medics showed me how they can use it to circumvent ethical practice and avoid doing any avoidable work. It’s been a busy week for Mr Ian – topped off with a heavy Friday night session punctuated by literally falling out of the pub and onto the pavement. This edition is therefore dedicated to my sore knee. More news recently on the stockpiling of ammunition. However, authorities were quick to deal with this perpetrator and have sent in Inspectors and removed the offending articles that they found. Why am I posting this on MN? Because the perpetrator was a chimp. (Which makes things no clearer really) A good friend of ours wrote a piece not long back about “you get what you pay for” when it comes to dealing with the mentally ill. Unfortunately, he is an idiot. You certainly don’t get what you pay for when it comes to medical staff dealing with psychiatry. He claims:
Since I’m now tasked with running one of those “dumbed down” services I thought I’d write my own take on the situation. With the new MHA(UK) provisions; if anyone is wondering what it might be like to be an “AMHP”… I’ve had a small taste. Over here I’m able to get an AMHP just by writing to the Director of Mental Health and asking. Of course there’s a few questions to answer which I managed to fluff my way through. I’m not a medical person; I don’t really subsribe to the medical model, so having to put something together to demonstrate my allegiance to the theories of my medical colleagues was taxing. Thankfully it’s mostly ethics and administration of the MHA with a little bit of demonstrable clinical knowledge. I didn’t comment on the theory of NeuroAnalysis or Cthulu. It’s not much different to the Nurses’ Holding Power 5(4) of the UK MHA; the AMHP status allows the holder to assess in the community with provisions for Involuntary Admission for Assessment – a (max) 24 hour involuntary admission before either a Psychiatrist approves involuntary treatment, early cessation or a simple automatic revocation at the end of the period. The final UK AMHP will be a much more comprehensive role. But that’s enough for me; that’s all I need working in the community. About a week after getting my posh new ID badge I was called to consider using these new powers & responsibilities. In keeping with Z’s naughty numbered Mentalists round up – welcome to the Boobs Edition of GMNRU This edition brings the latest from the GMNRU fun bags designed to keep you abreast with titillations of Mentalists all around the nipples. I mean.. world. Sorry. A person moves to a local small community. One of the community team knows him from previous admissions to hospital in another region following “bizarre behaviour” in public. The man is known to have a diagnosis of “Schizophrenia”. Anecdotal reports suggest that the person can become extremely unwell within a month if not taking [...] |
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