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The Advocacy Letter

C, Context, Everyday Life, Fighting with the NHS, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy 32 Responses »

17 Dec2009

This entry is part 1 of 9 in the series The Mr Director-Person Letters

Dear Sir or Madam Re: Advocacy in Accessing Mental Health Services I am writing to enquire as to my rights and to what extent you can assist me in accessing the services to which I am entitled. I am diagnosed with borderline personality disorder with psychotic features with a possible co-morbidity of bipolar disorder, type [...]

Victories and Failures: Updates on Those Letters

C, Context, Everyday Life, Fighting with the NHS, Moods 6 Responses »

09 Jan2010

This entry is part 2 of 9 in the series The Mr Director-Person Letters

Let’s deal with these chronolgically and, coincidentally, in order of bad to good. FAIL On 17 December, I wrote to two mental health advocacy groups (Mindwise and the Northern Ireland Association for Mental Health) regarding the whole ‘you can only have 24 more sessions’ bullshit with C. Both have now responded, and both have represented [...]

Hilariously and Predictably Shite Response Letter from the Trust

C, Context, Everyday Life, Fighting with the NHS, Moods, Psychotherapy 38 Responses »

04 Mar2010

This entry is part 3 of 9 in the series The Mr Director-Person Letters

In response to this. See also this update. I have corrected a few minors errors in the author’s writing and have, as you will see, provided (italicised) annotated notes of the most rational and considered variety. *cough* — Dear Pandora Advocacy in Accessing Mental Health Services Thank you for your letter dated 17 December 2009 [...]

Latest Letter to the Trust, With a Giant Helping of 'Screw You!'

Fighting with the NHS 28 Responses »

11 Mar2010

This entry is part 4 of 9 in the series The Mr Director-Person Letters

This is the latest in the case of Health and Social Care Trust v Pandora, following on from the vacuuous bollocks that was this. For new readers, the crux of this is that my psychotherapy is being cut criminally short for no real reason, and I am contesting it. This letter was posted about 30 [...]

Latest in the Ongoing Me v NHS Saga - MORE ADVICE NEEDED!

Fighting with the NHS, Psychotherapy 21 Responses »

26 May2010

This entry is part 4 of 9 in the series The Mr Director-Person Letters

I should turn this into a series of posts. It’s becoming something of a recurring theme, my own little comedy of errors if you will. It frustrates me endlessly, of course, but if you dig a little deeper there is something pathetically amusing about the whole sorry business, in a sort of wry, dark kind [...]

Revised Letter to Mr Director-Person

C, Fighting with the NHS 10 Responses »

27 May2010

This entry is part 5 of 9 in the series The Mr Director-Person Letters

The latest draft. Dear Mr Director Person Re: Accessing Mental Health Services Previous correspondence refers. Thank you for your eventual response of 12 May 2010. I note with interest your willingness to point out that NICE guidelines are not always applicable in this jurisdiction, and that a regional team is “considering” the application of the [...]

Dear Mr Member of Parliament...

Fighting with the NHS 14 Responses »

26 Jul2010

This entry is part 6 of 9 in the series The Mr Director-Person Letters

Hahaha! Didn’t see this coming, did you Mr Director-Person? In all seriousness I don’t really expect it to do any good, but you never know. A friend of mine, through contacting her MP about the failures in her mental health care, did receive some very positive results, so it’s got to be worth a try. At [...]

Utterly Pathetic (But Utterly Predictable) Trust Bullshit

C, Fighting with the NHS, Moods 12 Responses »

02 Sep2010

This entry is part 7 of 9 in the series The Mr Director-Person Letters

In response to both my last letter to Mr Director-Person and my MP‘s intervention. Dear Pandora Further to my letter of 3 August 2010 [wherein he acknowledged his failure to reply to the letter first linked above, not replicated here], I am now in a position to respond to your detailed letter [ie. the one to my [...]

Furiously Determined Would-Be System-Bashing

Fighting with the NHS 14 Responses »

03 Sep2010

This entry is part 9 of 9 in the series The Mr Director-Person Letters

I swear to living fuck that the Trust will not win this fight if I have breath in my body and blood in veins. I will battle them to the very death – literally, if needs be. This is, of course, in response to yesterday’s received correspondence from Mr Director-Person. Your thoughts and comments on [...]

The Whining Topics

H P Lovecraft: Telling It Like It Is

Frankly, I cannot conceive how any thoughtful man can really be happy. There is really nothing in the universe to live for, and unless one can dismiss thought and speculation from his mind, he is liable to be engulfed by the very immensity of creation.

Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous. Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species -- if separate species we be -- for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.