Miscellaneous Notes...

[lookout]

 The Chief Executive of Mental Illnesses was quoted as saying " that there's still a long way to go before out mental and physical health are equally valued ".

When I was working at the mental hospital in the 50's, any hope was lost forever for most of the patients on the ward where I worked. I think back,and there was nothing then,nearly 60 years ago. You can only imagine what conditions were like for those sorry souls.

[maggie]

Maggie,it's devastating to imagine that in those years,8,000 SICK people were thrown into police cells. It's truly heartbreaking and very upsetting when in this day and age,help should have been at hand. It CAN and DOES happen to anyone.
If I was younger,I'd return to that particular field of nursing. I only wish I'd done a Masters on the subject,then I could have at least given my time to tutoring.

In the 1980s ie Thatchers Britain, they closed the huge Victorian mental hospitals and many institutionalised and ill people were discharged into bed sit land with disastrous results and many living rough on the streets at the same time the beautiful buildings were bought by property developers and converted into upmarket flats. Think things are slightly better now but mental health is definitely a Cinderella department in t he NHS as anyone trying to get help for themselves or someone / else soon discovers, am with Nick Clegg on this, our attitude to mental health in this country is a disgrace for an enormously rich so-called, first world country.

[lookout]

In the 1980s ie Thatchers Britain, they closed the huge Victorian mental hospitals and many institutionalised and ill people were discharged into bed sit land with disastrous results and many living rough on the streets at the same time the beautiful buildings were bought by property developers and converted into upmarket flats. Think things are slightly better now but mental health is definitely a Cinderella department in t he NHS as anyone trying to get help for themselves or someone / else soon discovers, am with Nick Clegg on this, our attitude to mental health in this country is a disgrace for an enormously rich so-called, first world country.

I agree Maggie,also where Nick Clegg is concerned as he does appear to be the only one who genuinely shares his compassion towards mental health.

The problem is,that mental health for years,has been swept under the carpet or not seen as the illness that it is,as well as the old " it won't happen to me or my family " attitude,but unfortunately it does,when it's too late,simply because certain symptoms are ignored.Nobody's fault,it's the lack of education in teaching/showing these people what signs to look out for.
Funds are going to be the biggest set-back unfortunately,but if the government hald back on foreign aid and defence spending for a year,I don't see a problem because with our population increasing,so do medical/physical/mental health problems, and charity begins at home when we have an ailing population ourselves.

[Jane]

I am not answering skippy´s posts - he keeps answering mine. I prefer no interaction, I really don´t like him, I am dead-serious.

But Alias, it appears that you ARE answering Skippy's posts. Every time you tell him that you're NOT responding to him, tell him you don't like him, or tell him to go away you enter into a relationship with him DESPITE very forcefully saying that it's not one you wish to have. Putting him -and ANYONE else you have no wish to converse with- on ignore may save you the stress of constantly having to tell them you don't want to speak with them.

[Alias]

But Alias, it appears that you ARE answering Skippy's posts. Every time you tell him that you're NOT responding to him, tell him you don't like him, or tell him to go away you enter into a relationship with him DESPITE very forcefully saying that it's not one you wish to have. Putting him -and ANYONE else you have no wish to converse with- on ignore may save you the stress of constantly having to tell them you don't want to speak with them.

I have him on ignore and have asked him to do the same with me. I check if he answers my posts, and he does.

[Jane]

I have him on ignore and have asked him to do the same with me. I check if he answers my posts, and he does.

 :D :D :D It's my own experience that "checking" is rather like a "dry" alcoholic taking ONE drink, or trying to abstain from eating chocolate. One drink/bite and one is HOOKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[Alias]

 :D :D :D It's my own experience that "checking" is rather like a "dry" alcoholic taking ONE drink, or trying to abstain from eating chocolate. One drink/bite and one is HOOKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

I am not hooked on skippy, trust me. I just don´t want him to spew his nastyness all over me without knowing about it. He should leave me alone. Entirely. Then I will leave him be.

[Jane]

I am not hooked on skippy, trust me. I just don´t want him to spew his nastyness all over me without knowing about it. He should leave me alone. Entirely. Then I will leave him be.

Oh dear. You could have a problem there

[lookout]

There's a programme on Ch.4 tonight called Cannabis on Trial,where Jon Snow,Matthew Parris and Jennie Bond take part over a 6 month period,on the effects of two kinds of cannabis on the brain. This is a scientific test/trial which examines the brain's responses to the drug.

[maggie]

There's a programme on Ch.4 tonight called Cannabis on Trial,where Jon Snow,Matthew Parris and Jennie Bond take part over a 6 month period,on the effects of two kinds of cannabis on the brain. This is a scientific test/trial which examines the brain's responses to the drug.

Thanks lookout, should be really interesting in more ways than one 

[lookout]

Thanks lookout, should be really interesting in more ways than one 

That's what I thought Maggie.

[lookout]

 I've been quite upset at the circumstances in which that young girl from Bristol has been found.

[maggie]

I've been quite upset at the circumstances in which that young girl from Bristol has been found.

Shocking

[lookout]

 How sad it is to plead innocence for all these years.
Even sadder is the fact that he's got no evidence to back that claim.

Very few people will believe the words of an already " convicted criminal ".

[lookout]

I'm going to quote from the Independent,Pat Crimes------The Bamber Files-Crime-UK.

" Upstairs,they found his wife June,shot seven times,initially in bed.She had been finished off with two shots to the head,one between the eyes,as she attempted to escape. Mr Arlidge underlined the tragedy with pregnant pauses as he outlined how the twins had been murdered as they slept in their beds,both shot in the head at close range.  In the same room as June, police found Sheila Caffell,lying on the bed with a Bible and a .22 Anschutz semi-automatic rifle ling on her,the barrel pointing towards her head."