A Consumer Assessment of a Mental Health Service

Many years ago, I was asked to speak at a planning day for a service at which I had just started. I was asked to give a ‘consumer assessment’ of the service. I guess they wanted a reasoned point-form description from a consumer perspective which could be folded into the…

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The IPS BLUES

These are the lyrics of a performance piece a comrade and I developed for our IPS final piece of work. It’s a lot better sung to Dom’s guitar blues playing, but here are the lyrics and one arrangement of it. It is a little recap of the 4 (at the…

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‘The Devil’s Still on Hold’

I’ve always liked a particular old American Western song. It pitted ultimate evil against some tough old birds, and the right side won. Click here for the original song“Tying A Knot In The Devil’s Tail” So, I penned a local adaptation because I need to believe the right side can…

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The Consumer Version of LLEW’s origins

Below is a poster, originally written for our Pride Day. It forms part of LLEW’s oral history as related to me by more than one source. I cannot vouch for its historical accuracy, but it is certainly True in the deepest sense. It describes and references the ‘history-book facts’ of…

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