- Signatures: 917
- Goal: 5,000
- Deadline: 7-2-2003
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The proposed Mental Health Bill could have damaging and dangerous consequences for all users, and potential users, of mental health services in the UK
| Number | Date | Name | City | Country | Why do you oppose this bill? | Are you a mental health service user? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 921 | 5:03 am PDT, May 5 | Anonymous | Surrey | United Kingdom | This is in direct opposition of what a humane & effective Mental-Health Bill should be. To forcibly detain people who pose no threat is cruel & to forcibly medicate anyone is criminal. The Mental Health Services is in shambles. Little or no support for those who need it. Healing tends to revolve around medication. S.S.R.I's, anti-psychotics etc are a health hazard in themselves. Too many diseases/disorders are diagnosed by psychiatrists with no scientific evidence to support their 'findings.' This should be seriously reviewed & a Bill produced to protect patients from a form of psychiatry that thinks it's God. | I'm the parent of a gentle & sensitive young man with physical & mental-health problems. The system fails to help/heal the majority of users but succeeds in doing them great harm. There are not enough good people in the system to make a healthy & progressive impact. |
| 920 | 4:48 pm PDT, Apr 10 | Mels Whe | Starksboro | United States | ||
| 919 | 9:27 am PDT, Mar 22 | Art Deco | Kennebunk | United States | ||
| 918 | 7:58 am PDT, Mar 22 | Jaylena Greenfield | Ashland | United States | ||
| 917 | 9:41 pm PDT, Mar 21 | JOCELYNE ANNIE | Saint-augustin De Desmaures- | Canada | ||
| 916 | 4:18 pm PST, Feb 16 | Anton Oscar Iorga | Regina | Canada | ||
| 915 | 5:45 pm PST, Feb 1 | Anonymous | Sweet Valley | United States | I am a mental health service user. I do know that all people are subject to all kinds of mental health problems. Some of us think that just because it's approved by the FDA or what ever it is approved by, it's safe but that system has failed us again and again. All the chemicals and addatives put in our foods and drinks today we should all be suffering from one sort or another kind of Mental health issues. Most people use milk every day but just look what they give cows these days to produce more milk faster. The foods they feed them just to save a dime how do you honestly think it affects us all, as well as the cows. If it goes in the cows mouth it must be in it's milk and it doesn't take a mental giant to figure that one out it goes into us. Now what about the cows bred to feed us meats they are fed even worse and they think who will know. Well with the rise in suicides in families all over the world. And even drugs and drinking lets just say it's a good mask for a mental health condition or good cover up for the same thing When are we all gonna wake up and realize how much all these things affect the mind. And anyone opposed to this bill let me just say I hope one day someone you love doesn't need help or die due to the neglect of the people standing for the people like a child or grandchild cause of death suicide because most health plans don't cover these things lets all be apart of the solution instead of the problem and lets try to save a life or two while we are at it. There are to many graves filled already. | |
| 914 | 3:05 pm PST, Jan 4 | Marsha Jackson | Tulsa | United States | I am not sure what the bill is all about? I just believe that if has to do with mental healthcare I am for it. I have been diagonosed bipolar about 5yrs. ago. I haad no knowledge of it before. I am currently seeing phyciatrist. I am not or cannot funtion normally because all the medicine I take. If I do anything that is challendgingLike spelling Ihave trouble with it. I am all for this petition. I am mentally challendged. If I can help let me be the one to make the difference. | Yes I am currently seeing a physicitris. I am bipolar so I need to be monitored. I take medicine to control it. |
| 913 | 2:30 am PST, Jan 4 | Paul Boyden | birmingham | United Kingdom | Agreed with most people on here, forced treatment is not the way. It is, quite simply, abuse. Bring in the psychological treatments. Bring in the service user led methodology. Bring in the respect. | No, Assistant Psychologist and former staff member at Mind |
| 912 | 2:53 pm PDT, Oct 11 | Catriona Allen-Bryce | Nottingham | United Kingdom | Yes & so was my Mother who is now a RMN! | |
| 911 | 6:40 am PDT, Sep 6 | Mars Franchina | Geelong | Australia | ||
| 910 | 7:46 pm PDT, Aug 20 | Christine Pappas | Burbank | United States | ||
| 909 | 10:24 pm PDT, Jun 9 | Laurel Burns | Portland | United States | ||
| 908 | 6:14 am PDT, Apr 20 | Rosalind Brewer | Bracknell, Berkshire. | United Kingdom | YES | |
| 907 | 1:52 pm PDT, Mar 27 | Diane Cockerham | Leeds | United Kingdom | ||
| 906 | 9:12 pm PDT, Mar 22 | Anonymous | Brantford | Canada | Determinants of health may not even be the landscape of this bill, as well if passed it could lead to more direct to other international direction to those who may need the mental health services. Then we as human beings may use it too help those elite to live with full levels of higher standards of social status- in regards to this bill. | YES- and if I have too do it over again I think strongly I would of not entered the mental health system..if I had any ideal how those in the system builds stigma outside the system. |
| 905 | 12:58 am PDT, Mar 17 | Christine Stover | La Crosse | United States | ||
| 904 | 10:45 pm PDT, Mar 13 | Anonymous | Sherman | United States | ||
| 903 | 4:38 pm PST, Mar 5 | Richard A Ketelhut | Mishawaka | United States | ||
| 902 | 2:37 am PST, Feb 19 | joy bray | Cambridge | United Kingdom | ||
| 901 | 8:42 am PST, Jan 7 | miranda morland | tunbridge wells | United Kingdom | If this bill is allowed to go through many more vulnerable people will be detained against their will...this violates our human rights...this bill is about power and control ...not about therapeutic care... it is barbaric and must be stopped...the government and media are causing stigma and discrimination...they incite the public into believing that those who have been bruised by life are dangerous ...this bill is about the protection of the public and not about the care of the patient...in short this is a bill out of the home office rather than the health department...the new act needs to be written by us for us...those who have used services and their carers have first hand experience of what is necessary...this new act should be about respect and dignity...and receiving the services we deserve, desire and choose...there are only 30,000 psychiatric beds left in this country…we are entitled to a safe place where these services can be delivered...and not a police cell which is so often the case...this bill will allow ANYONE to be contained and treated against their will… this gives the authorities power over every citizen no matter their ethnicity, creed or religion…unless you are an MP and elite then their sectioning process is different | survivors making waves "just one drop" www.freewebs.com/bruiseduk/ |
| 900 | 10:49 pm PST, Jan 3 | Karli Chin | Seri Kembangan | Malaysia | no | |
| 899 | 8:25 pm PST, Dec 30 | Kate Shirley | Tarboro | United States | ||
| 898 | 6:22 pm PST, Dec 13 | Rosalind Hughes | Lytham St. Annes | United Kingdom | Yes | |
| 897 | 5:49 am PST, Dec 13 | sarah weall | hemel hempstead | United Kingdom | because the changes have not been proposed by people with experience of being a mental healthcare users and are therefore made with economic and political considerations only. | no-my son is |
| 896 | 6:02 pm PST, Dec 12 | Leslie Gregoire | Lake Balboa | United States | ||
| 895 | 11:54 am PST, Nov 22 | cindy bryson | Blairsville | United States | because everyone needs help | yes |
| 893 | 8:24 am PST, Nov 3 | stephanie majdan | letchworth garden city | United Kingdom | because all mental health uses should be given the respect that they deserve and at the moment,the uses arn't getting that | yes i am |
| 892 | 1:46 am PDT, Oct 1 | Ceri Thomas | Swansea | United Kingdom | ||
| 891 | 9:53 pm PDT, Sep 18 | Kat Dowling | Mount Joy | United States | I have been in psychiatric treatment for almost ten years, and it terrifies me to think of being forced into imprisonment or medication. It is a violation of human rights. | Yes, and not without a lot of problems along the way. |
| 890 | 8:14 pm PDT, Sep 17 | Jason Bowman | Placerville | United States | ||
| 889 | 12:46 am PDT, Sep 16 | Ginny Shapter | Orkney | United Kingdom | No but I know plenty | |
| 888 | 4:34 pm PDT, Sep 15 | chris adcock | lincoln | United Kingdom | Cause it breaches whole notion of human rights and is a large step BACKWARDS. | yes and former mental health nurse, sorry |
| 887 | 10:04 pm PDT, Sep 3 | Linda Bonura | Denham Springs | United States | ||
| 886 | 1:25 pm PDT, Aug 15 | Anonymous | Girard | United States | ||
| 885 | 12:42 pm PDT, Jul 19 | Mona Matous | Saint Paul | United States | ||
| 884 | 3:37 pm PDT, Jun 26 | Brenda Schenk | Hoquiam | United States | ||
| 883 | 9:39 pm PDT, Jun 16 | Rebecca Eckerdt | Fredonia | United States | ||
| 882 | 12:19 pm PDT, Jun 5 | Deborah Davis | Summerville | United States | ||
| 881 | 7:08 pm PDT, Apr 22 | Anonymous | Hamilton | Canada | Yes | |
| 880 | 5:18 pm PDT, Apr 18 | Annie Rich | Forbes | Australia | Yes | |
| 879 | 5:17 am PDT, Apr 11 | Candy Bowman-Leblanc | Placerville | United States | ||
| 878 | 3:58 am PDT, Apr 4 | Ian Macdonald | London | United Kingdom | I am opposed to any detention of people just for being ill | Yes |
| 877 | 10:46 am PST, Mar 31 | Frank Blankenship | Charlottesville | United States | A psychiatric survivor myself, I stand with those who oppose coersion and human rights violations perpetuated by the mental health system on those people it presumes to serve. Our civil liberties are precious and should be protected. | Yes. |
| 876 | 6:20 am PST, Mar 29 | Kate Barrett | Wales | United Kingdom | ||
| 875 | 5:49 am PST, Mar 29 | CC Schenk | Grimesland | United States | ||
| 874 | 5:52 pm PST, Mar 24 | Bryan Freehling | Lahaska | United States | ||
| 873 | 12:37 pm PST, Mar 18 | Nikolai Dragnes | Oslo | Norway | ||
| 872 | 6:36 am PST, Mar 15 | Toni Sokoloski | Marstons Mills | United States | ||
| 871 | 9:03 pm PST, Mar 13 | Cheryl Welch | Lebanon | United States | ||
| 870 | 11:38 am PST, Mar 4 | stephanie lessard | Nashua | United States | ||
| 869 | 3:58 pm PST, Mar 2 | Mary Eshelman | Hartville | United States | ||
| 868 | 6:24 am PST, Mar 2 | Sumea Muir | 16 horne close | United Kingdom | ||
| 867 | 9:32 pm PST, Mar 1 | Nicole Glaze | Baton Rouge | United States | ||
| 866 | 1:27 am PST, Feb 20 | Steve Klein | x | Canada | ||
| 865 | 6:06 am PST, Feb 13 | Kerriann Hayden | Holland | United States | ||
| 864 | 6:41 am PST, Feb 8 | Tonia Froglegs | Galesburg | United States | ||
| 863 | 7:14 am PST, Feb 2 | joliz tapio | Tampere | Finland | Mental heatlh should be a priority | not yet |
| 862 | 7:21 pm PST, Jan 27 | Andrea Kahler | Buffalo | United States | ||
| 861 | 2:06 pm PST, Jan 23 | simona brancadori | bologna | Italy | ||
| 860 | 7:03 pm PST, Jan 18 | C Lisa Jackson | Portland | United States | ||
| 859 | 7:35 pm PST, Jan 12 | Melissa Mobeck | Hoquiam | United States | ||
| 858 | 9:40 am PST, Jan 6 | miranda morland | tunbridge wells | United Kingdom | It is a violation of Human Rights...and is about power and control not therapeutic care...the 1983 Mental Health Act needs updating by those who have been subjected to...The powers that be keep telling us we are experts by experience yet forget to consult with us over the very issues that affect our lives...unless you have gone through the system I don't think you have a right to participate in re-writting an act that you are very unlikely to have used against you... | Yes...I have gone through this terrifying system alone with very little help from those who are paid to so call care for me...I have met many Bullies within this system and I am not talking about the Patients...Why is Ward Watch being ignored!!!! |
| 857 | 6:11 am PST, Jan 5 | TRINITY REGARD | Mineral Wells | United States | ITS SIMPLY WRONG! | YES, VETERAN, VIETNAM |
| 856 | 1:40 pm PST, Jan 1 | Thomas Swift | Apache Junction | United States | ||
| 855 | 9:29 pm PST, Dec 30 | Dinda Evans | San Diego | United States | ||
| 854 | 12:39 am PST, Dec 27 | Andrew Kadir-Buxton | Hatfield | United Kingdom | For a permanent and free cure to mental illness see: http://website.lineone.net/~kadir-buxton/ Feel free to copy my website in your country. | I am attempting to replace the mental health service with my invention, the Kadir-Buxton Method. See: http://website.lineone.net/~kadir-buxton/ |
| 853 | 11:55 pm PST, Dec 26 | Tiffany Smith | Crawfordsville | United States | ||
| 852 | 10:03 pm PST, Dec 26 | Robin Harrison | Oklahoma City | United States | ||
| 851 | 6:41 am PST, Dec 20 | Kathy McMahon | Noble Park | Australia |
Mental Health Bill
The proposed Mental Health Bill could be devastating to many mental health service users. Mind, in a press release, states, "The Mental Health Alliance recognises that the Government wants to improve on the old Mental Health Act of 1983, but there are key elements of this Bill that will actually make mental health services worse:
It will ‘backfire’ as more compulsory detentions and forced treatments in the community will drive people away from seeking services. The new criteria for compulsion are far too wide
There are no rights to services – which means people will still be turned away from services when they need them
Essential safeguards for detained patients are missing."
This bill proposes, amongst other things, forcible medication and forced imprisonment when no crime has been committed.
Sign this petition which will be sent directly to Louis Appleby, the Mental Health Czar, and make your voice heard.
It will ‘backfire’ as more compulsory detentions and forced treatments in the community will drive people away from seeking services. The new criteria for compulsion are far too wide
There are no rights to services – which means people will still be turned away from services when they need them
Essential safeguards for detained patients are missing."
This bill proposes, amongst other things, forcible medication and forced imprisonment when no crime has been committed.
Sign this petition which will be sent directly to Louis Appleby, the Mental Health Czar, and make your voice heard.
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