tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87581381199623154702024-03-14T04:01:37.328+00:00F.E.E.L. - Friends of East End LooniesCampaigning for fairer & compassionate mental health care since 2007.
Humane therapy, not DRUGS tyranny!
Working together GREATER results can be achieved! Join us :)FEELhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890966371415176507noreply@blogger.comBlogger292125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758138119962315470.post-20547195517449510502022-03-09T23:00:00.012+00:002022-11-13T12:59:01.534+00:00In Loving Memory of David Kessel (1947-2022)We are very saddened in announcing the passing of our dear brother, friend and comrade David Kessel this week. After a week stay at Royal London Hospital for heart and kidneys check ups, sadly David passed away on the 8th March 2022 in his flat in Stepney.The very inspiration in F.E.E.L. being born, he will forever stay in our hearts.The funeral is taking place on
Thursday 31 March at 4pm
FEELhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890966371415176507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758138119962315470.post-53944122608331013552020-12-21T16:34:00.010+00:002022-03-05T09:49:47.197+00:00Season's Greetings from the East End LooniesPlease note that CURRENTLY there are NO gatheringsor updates until further notice(Gone on Sabbatical)Thank you!Dear Friends,Only a few days now before the end of 2020, a very challenging, if not horrible, year for us all.Sending our thoughts, remembering those that have passed away, those that have lost their dear ones, the people that have lost their jobs, homes or that are FEELhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890966371415176507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758138119962315470.post-62365520498945987472020-12-19T12:18:00.019+00:002021-01-06T21:36:58.660+00:00In Memory of David Amery David Amery 31 Jan 1955 - 11 Dec 2020David @ Winter Shuffle, St Clements Hospital, December 2013We are very saddened in having to share the unexpected news of the passing of our friend David Amery. He died in December from bile duct cancer, which didn't show symptoms until very recently.An East End poet and a very fond friend and supporter of many FEEL's members, David was well known FEELhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890966371415176507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758138119962315470.post-89245073849645965372020-11-14T19:58:00.006+00:002022-03-06T20:22:36.082+00:00Thirteen Years!!!! Happy 13th Anniversary to all East End Loonies!!! It was November 2007 when a few of us embarked this spontaneous journey, on an Autumnal evening. Little did we know that 13 years later, a bit slower in action and functionality, we are still around and still true to the core of what brought us together in the first place. Massive thanks and love to co-founders Myra & FEELhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890966371415176507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758138119962315470.post-4728840651772054252020-11-12T23:47:00.002+00:002020-12-19T12:17:27.504+00:00In Memory of Pete CowardPeter James Coward (18 May 1973 - 30 Sep 2020)It is with deep sorrow that we share the sad news that our dear friend and colleague Pete Coward, passed away on 30 Sep 2020.Pete was a very kind and caring man. In these past few years he had been proactively supporting our group and also chaired our very last public event at Kingsley Hall, last March 2019 (picture above). Among other FEELhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890966371415176507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758138119962315470.post-92037881021855537172020-10-18T17:24:00.006+01:002020-10-19T00:39:50.135+01:00October meeting Monday 19 September Dear FriendsNearly 7 months ago the UK went into the first lockdown; a new one is being discussed right now. The government has introduced new measures, such as the ‘rule of six’, the pub and restaurant curfew, and local restrictions, however many needs of the population are being ignored.We are back for our monthly meeting tomorrow, Monday 19 September at LARC, 6:30-8:30pmFEELhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890966371415176507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758138119962315470.post-71547986886713733852020-09-15T16:19:00.002+01:002021-04-11T04:19:30.663+01:00September FEEL meeting Monday 21st @ LARC from 6:30pm Dear Friends,We hope you and your dear ones are keeping safe and sound during these challenging, yet transformative times.The September meeting is going ahead next Monday 21st from 6:30pm at LARC. There is plenty of space for social distancing in the building, if anyone feels inclined to follow current governmental psychotic directions.If feeling unwell/experiencingFEELhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890966371415176507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758138119962315470.post-66999261200659473972020-08-16T23:11:00.005+01:002020-08-18T23:15:13.998+01:00August meeting, Monday 17 @ LARC Dear Friends,Our monthly meeting is happening tomorrow, Monday 17 August, starting at 6:30pm at LARC.For those unwell/that might be experiencing flu symptoms or are simply virus-phobic I would recommend to stay at home, please.We were pleased to see David Kessel in good shape, joining in for the July meeting, because his outings in the past few years have become rarer.It FEELhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890966371415176507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758138119962315470.post-19225665500096735452020-07-19T15:40:00.006+01:002020-08-06T09:18:37.799+01:00July meeting on Monday 20th, 6:30-8:30pm @ LARC
Dear Friends,The lockdown finally started easing up in the past couple of weeks in the UK.
Many essential services that the government might have not considered so, are reopening.
I was pleased to finally be able to receive acupuncture and have my bones cracked and realigned by an Osteopath. These are essential for me.
Our monthly gathering is back to LARC FEELhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890966371415176507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758138119962315470.post-71358654401915414842020-06-14T19:13:00.000+01:002020-06-14T19:13:22.102+01:00Monday 15 June drop in @ LARC from 6:30pm
Dear Friends,
2020 is continuing to surprise every single one of us with some incredible life lessons and experiences.
These past few months have been very intense and overwhelming for most of us and surely we are going to have more of these difficult and unpredictable days ahead.
Our thoughts are with the most vulnerable people and those working the hardest for the FEELhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890966371415176507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758138119962315470.post-30831137006408106812020-03-16T10:42:00.000+00:002020-03-18T08:55:53.758+00:00Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update + FEEL meeting tonight
Dear Friends,
A gentle reminder that our monthly meeting is happening tonight, Monday 16th March 6:30-8:30pm at LARC.
We are aware of the fear and panic that has been circulating since the beginning of the year, due to the outbreak of the COVID-19.
By now the news must have reached everyone that has access to any media outlets.
Many of us already live in FEELhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890966371415176507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758138119962315470.post-48060538630046794482020-03-08T03:04:00.000+00:002020-03-08T03:04:00.606+00:00March Newsletter
Dear Friends,Our meetings each month bring us some lovely surprises in our spontaneous circle. In February we were very pleased to welcome back one of our fav pro-active aficionados, after re-emerging from a pause, telling us about a work-in-progress book writing. Another local ally, former founder of what became to be known as the Bipolar ExploresFEELhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890966371415176507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758138119962315470.post-82149388068971638992020-02-15T12:21:00.000+00:002020-02-15T12:21:34.885+00:00February Newsletter
Dear Friends,
Since 1st February Britain is officially out of the EU. Crippen mocks the "Boris Law" and his string of lies, while there are still lots of question marks to be answered about what will follow up. Inhumane rights seems to be approach most governments are focusing towards lately, not only the UK.
Britons unhappy with the Brexit move are being FEELhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890966371415176507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758138119962315470.post-37262258017793150232020-01-14T20:41:00.000+00:002020-01-16T18:45:48.805+00:00January Newsletter
Dear Friends,Happy New Year & Decade and welcome to our first update of 2020.
As we emerge from this past holiday period we hope everyone managed the "season of excesses" well or the best way possible. Many of us find the lot too intense, specially as the usual care and help some of us need is limited and services are restricted.
No wonders January is often an all time low FEELhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890966371415176507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758138119962315470.post-62157650867711412162020-01-14T00:20:00.004+00:002022-03-06T20:42:30.913+00:0012 Years Cycle (work in progress)
As we stepped into the new year and decade, people are making lists of their achievements and accomplishments of the past 10 years.Here we stretched our timeline to the highlights of the 12 years that F.E.E.L. has been around, enlisting our major events and some of the ones we have proactively been involved into, wishing to remember an honor all the collective campaigners work and achievementsFEELhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890966371415176507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758138119962315470.post-90743103662542698812019-12-12T00:49:00.001+00:002019-12-12T00:49:12.720+00:00December Newsletter
Dear Friends,
Election Day has arrived. If you have not applied for a postal vote, or a vote by proxy, do not miss your chance to vote for this important General Election.
Transport for All have joined up with Uber to get disabled people to the polling stations, if required.
You can contact Transport for All by phone 020 7737 2339 (press option 1), on Election day only, Thu 12 FEELhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890966371415176507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758138119962315470.post-50796906957889185802019-11-14T14:16:00.001+00:002019-11-18T12:24:55.262+00:00November Newsletter
Dear Friends,
With the General Election date set for Thu 12 December, once again we are in full electoral campaign swing.
If you have not registered to vote yet, please proceed asap as the deadline is the 28th November www.gov.uk/register-to-vote
Please also check the Shaping Our Lives resources here mailchi.mp/9f9bed90fcae/FEELhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890966371415176507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758138119962315470.post-91707689966190177712019-11-13T23:50:00.000+00:002019-11-13T23:51:03.160+00:00Psychiatric chief physician damands: End Coercion in Mental Health Services
From the board of die-BPE Berlin, Germany
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Dear friends,
Since 2009 we have been fighting our struggle against coercion in psychiatry by using our special psychiatric advance directive, the PatVerfue, forbidding any medical doctor to make a psychiatric diagnosis and of course forbidding him to execute any forced FEELhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890966371415176507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758138119962315470.post-27945471406041907892019-10-18T19:44:00.000+01:002019-10-21T21:35:13.478+01:00October Newsletter & monthly meeting Monday the 21st October, 6:30-8:30pm at LARCDear Friends,
Welcome to the October Newsletter and our monthly meeting reminder.
We look forward to seeing you next Monday the 21st October, 6:30-8:30pm at LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel.
Per usual the 10th October was filled with events of any type, length and tendency, for the recurring World Mental Health Day.
The event that caught my attention and respect the most was the FEELhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890966371415176507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758138119962315470.post-24909523865244908532019-10-16T20:02:00.004+01:002019-10-21T21:34:19.404+01:00Protest Art exhibited in Museums, new trend unfolds?
It looks like there is a new trend running in some of London's major Galleries, within the M25 at least. There currently are three - soon going to be four - Museum and Galleries offering some space to the reactionary voices and messages from psychiatry survivors, activist and artists that are rising awareness about the damages psychiatry - and generally conventional FEELhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890966371415176507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758138119962315470.post-68317925017975888462019-09-03T09:50:00.000+01:002019-09-03T09:50:14.501+01:00September Newsletter
Dear Friends,
It is certain that our mental health and wellbeing benefit from avoiding bad politics and the news from time to time.However the recent British news are hard to be ignored, specially with the Austerity measures, resembling the Nazi's holocaust steps, that have been in place for years now.In July Boris Johnson was appointed FEELhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890966371415176507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758138119962315470.post-29600461785992538962019-08-08T18:18:00.001+01:002019-08-08T18:18:28.579+01:00August Newsletter
Dear Friends,
We wish to send massive congratulations to the Deaf men that just finished completing the Two Deaf Foots John O'Groats to Lands End walk across Britain.
Mark Hodgson started his journey from John O' Groats on June 5 and was later joined by Daniel Dorney. The aim of their challenge was to raise awareness about the "mental FEELhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890966371415176507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758138119962315470.post-4527397697462712132019-07-15T14:29:00.000+01:002019-07-15T22:03:04.407+01:00FEEL meeting tonight!!!
Dear Friends,
It's 3rd Monday again, which means we are meeting for our monthly FEEL meeting later today at LARC, 6:30-8:30.
As usual some of us are meeting for a curry just before the meeting at Salamar, corner of New Street and Fieldgate Street.
Anyone is welcome to join in, if wishing so, from around 5-5:30pm.
Today among other things we'll talk about hoarding, the Commission FEELhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890966371415176507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758138119962315470.post-9059745761422538402019-07-04T18:11:00.003+01:002019-07-04T18:11:37.645+01:00July Newsletter
Dear Friends,
We wish to thank all that contributed to the warm June meeting (NOT due to heatwave/weather conditions), with special appreciation to Chris Hansen's presentation.
Chris very kindly joined us during her UK training tour and we are very grateful for her sharing time and knowledge with us. We also took epic souvenir photos before saying goodbyes; Myra, David, Kieran and FEELhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890966371415176507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758138119962315470.post-85349736014846737222019-06-16T10:36:00.000+01:002019-10-18T21:42:46.623+01:00May/June Newsletter Dear Friends,The past couple of months have been very intense with social, political and environmental dilemmas overwhelming the news and our attention, hence a reduced participation in some fronts was required.
We are very excited to be talking about Peer Support from international speaker and Intentional Peer Support Director Chris Hansen at our monthly FEEL meetingFEELhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890966371415176507noreply@blogger.com0