What is your experience of consultations/involvement. Either as a carer or service user? Do you feel your input is valued, ever felt what you say is being ...
OK, Pam, this may take some time as I'll need to keep referring back to your post. 1. Funding could be available for local groups through such as Health For...
Hello All, Thought you'd like to know about this meeting. There will be a chance to meet up with others who believe in working to make the system more...
When you say more intensive campaigning Mick, could you explain your idea of how this could work. I know you have a passion for a carers union, I also think it...
... From: MICHAEL FUREY To: Carersforumuk@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 12:23 PM Subject: Re: [Carersforumuk] Re: making it work Mike, I...
Mike, I don't know that I'm frustrated so much as fired up about the need for more intensive campaigning. Support for others goes hand-in-hand with that but...
I do understand your frustration in wanting a forum to help organise action for carers in MH to help articulate all our concerns. BUT ... The point of a few of...
Part of the problem with working with other organisations, like charities, is that they seem to think we're thick and need to be told what to do. For me,...
I think writing things down is almost as good as talking. The difference is when you write it there is no one there to interrupt what you want to say. Doing it...
Hi Alice Try putting your reply at the top of the email, not everyone may think of scrolling down to the bottom. Especially if they have never been on this ...
... are subjects of 'care in the community' therefore the implication being these are people who would possibly have been living in institutions some years...
I have been thinking about what Mike has said in his previous posting "ways this forum can make a difference" I think it has already made a difference by...
Hello everyone, Below is one way to have your say on Welfare Reforms. Thank you. ********* The government has launched a Green Paper outlining its plan to ...
Hi Alice - nice to hear from another reader of the blog. There are at least three others who write on here! I just wanted to say how much I agree with you...
... would take several thousand post cards to reply, my son's violent outbursts were associated with the early stages of his illness, i am afraid i had to...
... followed the link to this forum, like you i would like to make a difference, there has been nowhere to network with others who are like minded. by the way...
Hi Annie It makes me so angry when carers identify something and nobody seems to listen. And someone had the nerve to ask me what is the difference between MH...
Yes Mike I can see where you are coming from. I have also been in touch with carers off site. Just finished sending and email off site myself.. It would be...
Sometimes writing it all down can help. Maybe it's more constructive than thumping the psychiatrist! (Or then again ...) But violence from the one one cares...
I'm keen that carers have a voice, are heard, have an influence on "professional opinion" and, even more, on the provision that is made within our mental...
Dear BD Welcome to the site. I hope there are other contacts here who you can share experiences with. Most of the other carers I know, including myself, have a...
I need some support, please, to order my thoughts! When son was in stage of us knowing something was not right and since he's been on medication, he has...
Hello BD Welcome to the carers forum, it has been running for a month now. Membership is slowly growing. My son also takes Clozapine and has made remarkable...
Hello All, I have only recently joined and not read all the posts so if I have missed a thread then I apologise. My husband has been suffering from the dreaded...
Thanks for that Pam It would be interseting to have more people like Mark on the site, kind of balances an equation Carer gives = Cared for needs. Might also...
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