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Ward Ward shortlist five
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Pam Maudsley
Survival
Blue - Lack of education, no literature no books
Psychotherapy rationed
Mislabelling
Lack of individual care on the wards due to all the dysfunctions of the mind being put together. Yet on the general side they had specialist wards with specially trained staff for each dysfunction of the body.
Bars - Watched from a distance, isolation. Caged. Bars between the office and us, that room, not here with us.
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Ian Rogerson
Mental health - the inpatient
"After fifteen years of drug therapy my painting portrays my fear of becoming a prisoner of mind bending drugs that have eroded my personality and at times reduced me to a zombie. My world has been reduced to a medicine bottle."
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Mrs Cynthia Margaret Thorpe
Dockyard cranes
"This is a collage/creative embroidery done mainly in hospital when my son was a baby. It is worked on tapestry canvas and includes a variety of stitches, French knots and needlewearing and herringbone mainly, but also eyelet, cross-stitch etc., and was built up over a period of time. It is impressionist, and not meant to be looked at closely … I worked on it while I was on the ward, and it helped to make me relaxed as well as using some mental effort and creativity."
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Marilyn A. Garman
The consultant = Till ethics improve, whose transference is this? Whose failure is this?"
A3 watercolour collage.
"For nearly two decades communication for mental health clients have improved greatly. No longer locked away, client expectations have been raised through the medics, government reform, improved therapeutic retraining, and politically correct language being used in reference to them. Clients are becoming informed. Rather than improving conditions this is, in my personal experience, creating a perilous situation.
Clients therapeutically trained in re-evaluation skills are naturally questioning service quality and inconsistencies.
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Historically though, the mental health service has been beyond question.
Professional viewpoint is the law! Professional standing will not be challenged! The scales will not be tipped! Many trained staff as well as clients are being harmed in a service that has not re-evaluated its own response to reforms that breathe equality.
If the my NHS Trust is an example of national mental health care, the forthcoming Mind "Ward Watch" campaign is vitally important. The ethos "change takes time" has gone. The government demands change now!
Thank you Mind, this competition has shown me I am always free to express my experiences of service contact. Wanting recovery and working for it I was never an "inpatient", never safe.
Get out!"
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