Summary A Call for Change addresses the urgent need to integrate stigma awareness programs into healthcare settings within the UK. This post concludes this recent series on discrimination, which I believe has been a factor in the 11-year delay, that I have faced getting a diagnosis and treatment for my…
Summary On Mental Health Discrimination #2 discusses discrimination that I experienced at an NHS Trust in Scotland, within the context of The Equality Act, 2010, which is a law that protects a variety of people from discrimination. This blog post focuses on the aspects of The Equality Act, which speak…
Summary ‘There are different ways you can experience discrimination including: direct discrimination: if you’re treated worse than others because of your mental health problem and indirect discrimination: if a person or organisation has arrangements in place that put you at an unfair disadvantage. Mental Health Discrimination also includes if you’re…
Summary A psychiatrist in Fife #2 follows on from my previous post, in which I discuss a discriminatory incident that occurred with a psychiatrist, who had never met me or spoken to me, and who wrote a letter, claiming that my facial pain is fictionalization. He sent this letter out…
This blog post contains wording about suicide that some people may find triggering. If you need support, and you are in the UK, please call 111 or Samaritans 116 123. Summary A psychiatrist in Fife #1 documents a serious incident of discrimination, that occurred whilst I was living in Fife….