Mark Neary

A Lot Of Nothing In 15 Years. I used to be quite obsessed with playing a silly mental game with myself. Imagine we’re back in the year 2000 and in 2000, I switch on my radiogram and Karma Chameleon is playing. The mental …

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That takes me back. I remember that photo and getting the tube to London to buy a hat like Paul's.

Mental Health: Children and Young People - Motion to Take Note – in the House of Lords at 11:51 am 23 November 2023

Here, for Baroness Hale fans, is her maiden speech as a Parliamentarian: www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=20... In it she speaks up for mental health law and children's rights. Perhaps we might see more of her in the forthcoming stages of the Mental Health Bill in the Lords...

This is a terrific response to the dreadful paper written by a group of psychiatrists who were defending the seclusion of learning disabled people in hospitals.

This grim article shows why institutionalised abuse of people with learning disabilities & autistic citizens drags on. Evidence is clear: long term segregation is harmful. This is a squalid example of a profession protecting its own back & not caring about patients www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New Therapist Directory: Alternative Structures Are Starting to Emerge A new therapist directory for the UK has just been launched by James Esses. Just Therapy, as its founder explains, ‘is born out of a desire to go back to what therapy should be – effective, e…

This is spot on. I've seen a lot of bad faith criticism of the new directory, but it's just a new parallel structure, offering clients a different choice of therapy from the current orthodoxy. What's wrong with that?
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Call Me Sekhmet It’s taken nearly 66 years, but I’m noticing that I’m becoming much better at how I use my energy to generate my reality and how I make choices about the opportunities that reveal…

From earlier, what I've got in common with the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet:
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Thank you Sir. That means a lot.

Call Me Sekhmet It’s taken nearly 66 years, but I’m noticing that I’m becoming much better at how I use my energy to generate my reality and how I make choices about the opportunities that reveal…

The day I went all Carpe Diem:
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Five reasons why the Mental Health Bill won’t stop the detention of autistic people and people with learning disabilities The Mental Health Bill reaches its second reading in the House of Lords tonight. This is a quick post to explain why it won’t stop the detention of autistic people and people with learning di…

Lucy Series looks at why the Mental Health Bill won’t stop Autistic people and people with Learning Disabilities being detained.

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I would like to make it clear that I am not representing For Women Scotland in next week's Supreme Court hearing. I appear to be blocked by India on here @indiawilloughby.bsky.social and Twitter, otherwise I would have asked directly for this misinformation to be corrected.

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A black and white image of a Gregorian Greece stifle building looking onto a square with a statue in the middle. Crowds of men and white snow balls being thrown

For lovers of snow ❄️ I give you the greatest snow ball fight in history. In 1854 300 people including stock brokers went into snowy battle at Liverpool’s Exhange. The Liverpool Mercury reported “Hats flew away, By the force of the ball, From heads that were grey, Or with no hair at all”.

Getting teary reading the 2010 replies. So many angels no longer with us. My bestie, Shelley. Jean from Mencap pool who got ABBA played when we held the demonstration. Anna Racoon & Flash Bristow, 2 bloggers who spread the word. Forever grateful.

The second post from 2pm - "Lucy Series has found us a solicitor. I'm off to meet him from the station." Despair turns to hope. Everything changed that day and a month later, Steven was home.

2 Facebook memories from this day, 14 years ago. Two hours between the posts. The first post is about Hillingdon sending me the details of the hospital in Wales, they were planning on sending Steven to. Bleak and despairing.

Revelers Growing up, if pushed, I would have claimed that my favourite chocolate treat was a bag of Revels. Not for one moment, could I have admitted that it was purely on taste grounds that Revels were my …

Childhood chocolate & the 1974 Dutch World Cup team.

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What’s up Human Rights Advocates!

YouTube video by Rightful Lives What Good Looks Like

We’ve got a few videos on our You Tube channel now including this one
On ‘What Good Looks Like’

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Impossible to challenge as they deducted the £150s from the Personal Budget at source, so unable to pay the support workers' wages. As I say, a paranoid dream, but could imagine it happening for real.

Paranoid/Anxiety dream from last night. LA introduced a policy whereby they charged £150 every time they contacted us. Quickly accumulated a large debt as the Direct Payment team were emailing daily about needing a photo of Steven, every hour, on the hour....

The Photographer On A Stool Performative campaigning. I tweeted about this, just the other day. It gets my goat. Those people who believe they’re changing the world by repeating a tired hashtag. That’s the extent …

In which I try to merge 1970s Southall Football Club & the modern trend of performative campaigning.
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Mental Capacity Law and Policy Visit the post for more.

Hello! I am a barrister, writer and educator specialising in mental capacity law in England (but interested in law around the world). My website is www.mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk.

I just realised that as the centre forward, he'd have been one of the most likely players to get caught offside, so he really was playing with his wits like the report said.

Dad – I’ve Found You Blooming heck - this post has been years in the making. I've lost count of how many, but we're talking decades. I had always known since I was a little kid that my Dad had been a very good non league ...

An emotional, but uplifting day.
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Great account to follow. A real eye-opener.

Better Later Than Never One of the great things about hearing the news that you're cancer free for the first time in six years, is that my mind has seamlessly moved to thinking about all the things I've put on hold for durat...

A short story of my exciting Saturday.
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A draw. 1-1. In the first half we were terrible. Caught myself thinking "what the bloody hell am I doing here?". Dramatic improvement in the second half. Very tasty cheeseburger. Excellent programme. Had a "50 years ago this week" section & I remembered the game like it was yesterday.

Two weeks on & Steven is still processing The Pet Shop Boys concert - "Dad - Chris Lowe just sings one song. Chris has to rest his voice."

The memory is playing tricks. I don't remember Alan Devonshire and Chris Hutchings playing in the same team.