Saturday, 15 February 2020

February 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 offered the Stay European possibility, were they are hoping to lobby to maintain some rights for some www.stayeuropean.org 

In the main time the racist and discriminating Windrush scandal is continuing disrupting lives. At PMQs this week Corbyn suggested that if these black boys are being deported due to minor offences, perhaps a blonde, white one, referring to Boris and his offences, should be deported too?
More evidence of corruption is surfacing at least for the public to be aware. Do we know which are the good and bad guys?

Clarissa Pinkola Estés's words, keep on appearing from time to time, encouraging us all to keep up: "Do not lose heart. We were made for these times...".
Yet the bombarding of negative news can have a detrimental effect of our health and wellbeing too. Do remember to switch off from all these from time to time, without sense of shame or guilt. With St Valentine just passed, rather than thinking about the cheesiness of the commercial day that some make of it, do get reminded of the importance of self love and self care EVERYDAY. Please, be kind and gentle with yourself always as you set the standards for others to treat you in that same way. Catch here some love from Banksy!
 
Join us on Monday 17th Feb @ LARC, 6:30-8:30pm for our monthly FEEL meeting; we'll have a sad light box to bring more light into the present darkness.
Currently we are getting roughly 10 hrs of daylight in London, if and when lucky to see the sun for a small fraction of that time.
The sad lamp brings a little comfort to those that tend to be lethargic during the Winter months. 
Our printed Loonies Proverb poster has now been kindly sent by the Bethlem Gallery, after the closing of their Art & Protest exhibition.
Bringing it along for those that had no chance to visit Bethlem.


EVENTS & OTHER NEWS

LGBTQ+ History Month 1 – 29 February Museum of London​ ​

 PARAPRIDE LGBT History Month Takeover  Price: £13 - £15
Friday 21 February, Stratford Circus Arts Centre
stratford-circus.com/event/lgbt-history-month-take-over

The shocking ‘treatment’ to make lesbians straight
wellcomecollection.org/articles/XhWjZhAAACUAOpV2

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Talk for Health Taster
Thurs 20 Feb 4-6pm, Triton Café, Regents Place, 17 Triton St, London NW1 3ND

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Improving Communication with People with Mental Health Issues
21 February 10am- 4:00pm, 336 Brixton Road, London, SW9 7AA

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March for Assange, from Australia House, Aldwych, to Parliament Square
Saturday, February 22, at 11:30 am – 3:30 pm
Feat. Roger Waters, Chrissie Hynde, MIA, Vivienne Westwood
www.facebook.com/events/931609000567992

About Julian Assange and Donate links 
defend.wikileaks.org/timeline

BRITAIN’S GOT A SUPREME COURT SCANDAL

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Sharing Power: Sustaining the Roots of Peer Support in Statutory Services
Mon, 24 February 1-5pm, Kingsley Hall Community Centre, Powis Road, London E3 3HJ
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sharing-power-sustaining-the-roots-of-peer-support-in-statutory-services-tickets-88494576661

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Melancholy and Raving www.melancholyandraving.com
Monday 24th February 8-10pm, the upstairs dysfunction room at The Ship, 68 Borough Road, SE1 1DX.
This month have sets from singer/songwriter Sam Castell-Ward, sit down comic Liz Bentley and open mic.

 

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Shy Radicals, Awkwoods & Neurodivergent Revolution
Tuesday 25 February 6:30 – 8 PM, Goldsmiths Students' Union
www.facebook.com/events/1427540364080018

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DOSED + Q&A
Sat 29 Feb 2:55-5pm, Genesis Cinema 93-95 Mile End Road, E1 4UJ 

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Devoted & Disgruntled, by Improbable and Deafinitely Theatre
March 6, 11am - 3:30pm, Boulevard Theatre, 6 Walker’s Court, Soho, London, W1F 0BT
www.deafinitelytheatre.co.uk/Event/devoted-and-disgruntled-satellite

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WOW – Women of the World FESTIVAL
6-8 March, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road London SE1 8XX

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LHVN Network Meeting: Speaker: Dorothy Gould "Experiences of abuse and hate crime"
Wednesday 11th March 2pm - 5pm, Mind in Camden, Barnes House 9-15 Camden Rd NW1 9LQ


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Violence, Abuse and Mental Health Network Meeting
Tue, 24 March 10am-4pm, Room 5.132, Franklin Wilkins Building, King's College London SE1 9NH
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/violence-abuse-and-mental-health-network-meeting-tickets-90607452329

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Deafness and mental health workshop 
Fri 27 March, 10am - 4pm, Old Diorama Arts Centre , 201 Drummond Street , London , NW1 3FE

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Family Voices and Choices, by Open Dialogue Champions
Saturday 28th March, 10.30-4pm, Central London

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Deaf Awakenings
Thu 30 Apr - Sat 2 May, Camden People's Theatre, 58-60 Hampstead Road, London, NW1 2PY

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NSUN Open Letter on Peer Support Worker Apprenticeships


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Experiences of taking neuroleptic medication and impacts on symptoms, sense of self and agencylink.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00127-019-01819-2

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Using Open Questions to Understand 650 People’s Experiences With Antipsychotic Drugs
academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin/advance-article/doi/10.1093/schbul/sbaa002/5734534

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‘Evidence-Based Medicine’ and the Expulsion of Peter Gøtzsche
undark.org/2019/12/30/peter-gotzsche-cochrane

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The Zyprexa Papers, Kindle version

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Anger after new business charges £100 to record benefit assessments

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Errol Graham: Man starved to death after DWP wrongly stopped his benefits
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/the-death-of-errol-graham-man-starved-to-death-after-dwp-wrongly-stopped-his-benefits

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Put PIP and WCA Assessments On The Record
recoveryinthebin.org/put-pip-and-wca-assessments-on-the-record

Put PIP on the Record Fundrise

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Dutch court outlaws use of benefits ‘robots’ of type being built by DWP
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/4163-dutch-court-outlaws-use-of-benefits-robots-of-type-being-built-by-dwp



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Mushrooms: The art, design and future of fungi ExhibitionJan – 26 Apr 2020 Somerset House, London
www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/mushrooms-art-design-and-future-fungi


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Gov/Coporate surveillance: scary reality! 

- How Big Companies Spy on Your Emails
-The government just admitted it will use smart home devices for spying
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Restorative Compensation Scheme for Windrush Scandal


F.E.E.L. - Friends of East End Loonies
FEEL meets the third Monday of each month 6.30 - 8.30 pm LARC 62 Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel, London  E1 1ES 


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Anyone willing to come off psychiatric medication please always seek for reliable help.
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Tuesday, 14 January 2020

January 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 for many people, ski high debts and relationships breakups are a classic.  

Following the disappointing results of the General Elections last month, grassroots groups of disabled people have promised to continue the fight against austerity
dpac.uk.net/2019/12/disability-news-service-news-for-19th-december 
Unfortunately health & social care provision don't seem to be improving anytime soon, as privatisation of services is clearly on the increase.
One latest shameful news was the selling of the entire portfolio of one the largest British charities for the D/deaf, Action on Hearing Loss (AHL) – formerly known as RNID www.disabilitynewsservice.com/action-on-hearing-loss-to-sell-entire-care-and-support-portfolio Capitalistic aims won't certainly be interested in nurturing and protecting the cultural aspects and rights of the Deaf/BSL (British Sign Language) users. Does not look good honestly, but we better hope for the best outcome.

Blue Monday is around the corner; are you ready for it? 
This date looks set in stone as the 3rd Monday of January; even Wikipedia enlists several references to it.

We've got an antidote for this as Blue Monday clashes with our first F.E.E.L. meeting of the month/year.
On that very Monday 20 January 2020, blue or not blue, join us for our regular gathering at LARC. 
Plan for the evening is to open doors from 6-6:30pm for some light refreshments and catch ups; bring along something to share if you can/like. 
At 7:30pm we'll start reorganising ourselves as we'll make space for a sound healing session.
This is offered and led by Giovanna & Noel: a very Yin Yang session to give us space to relax and find our grounds.
Please note that there won't be admittance from 7:45pm to avoid disruptions of this special healing session and to respect other participants.

The importance of supportive community space for our wellbeing is very well known and it's what we can count on.
We try to encourage people to get actively involved in any way possible, whenever possible. 
The World is constantly changing and we cannot stay passively looking at things deteriorating in front of us. 
We all go through unstable times in life, but it does not mean we are powerless. We can find the way to manage things in a storm. 
Never underestimate the important and most transformative lessons we learn from difficult times and experiences in life. 

As group members we are certainly ageing and extra brain and pair of hands can always be useful from time to time.
Anyone looking for a more active role/responsibility that wishes to get involved with us do let us know, pls.
As ever, thank you for the continued, or occasional, support people have offered to us this far.

Highlights of the past 12 years are being gathered here
We might not be changing the Globe, but we are changing our World.
Still work in progress...

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." (~ Margaret Mead)


EVENTS & OTHER NEWS


Scrounger, by Athena Stevens
7 January - 1 February, Finborough Theatre, 118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED
www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk/productions/2020/scrounger.php

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Miserable Bitches - Standup comedy showcase 
Wednesday 15th January, 8pm 
Rose and Crown, 71-73 Torrano Avenue, Kentish Town, London NW5 2SG




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Grounded health and well-being volunteering
Every Friday 10:30 – 15:30, a weekly volunteering day to support the work of The Friends in the Cemetery Park
The Soanes Centre, Southern Grove, E3 4PX London www.groundedproject.org Ph. 02079207328

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Filmpro AR (augmented reality) App, part of Nesta’s Amplified Programme
15 to 19 January, 11.15am to 5.30pm, late night opening on 16th January to 8:30pm
The Art Pavilion, Mile End Park, Clinton Road, E3 4QY

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Poetry Express Newsletter #59
Magazine attached
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Dealing with Distress: Working with Suicide and Self-Harm 
Online training (was £35.00 now free)

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Lightboxes and Lettering - Celebrating the history of east London's print industry
17 January – 29 March, Nunnery Gallery 181 Bow Road, London E3 2SJ
www.lightboxeslettering.com

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F.E.E.L. monthly meeting + Special Sound Healing Session
Monday 20 January 2020 from 6pm
  LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel, London  E1 1ES 

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Declare Your Care - Have your say

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Children, Young People and Psychosis: Beyond Early Intervention
ISPS UK Conference, followed by the ISPS UK AGM
Fri, 24 January, 10am - 5:30pm, Human Rights Action Centre 17-25 New Inn Yard London EC2A 3EA
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/children-young-people-and-psychosis-beyond-early-intervention-tickets-83617228381

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Protest to Free Julian Assange with support by French Activists (Yellow Vests)
25th January 2pm, gather outside Belmarsh Prison, Western Way, London SE28 0EB
Yellow Vests will be there all day www.facebook.com/events/652271058646370

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Surviving and Thriving in a Mad World, by Hearing Voices Network
Saturday 1 Feb, 10.30am - 4pm, University of East London, 1 Salway Road, London E15 1NF

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Pan-London Campaigning event, by Inclusion London
Wednesday 12 February, 1.00pm – 4.00pm, The Greenwood Centre, 37 Greenwood Place, London NW5 1LB
www.inclusionlondon.org.uk/campaigns-and-policy/act-now/campaign-with-us-12-february-2020

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Spiritual Issues in Mental Health
The Importance and Role of a Transpersonal (Soul-Centred) Approach in Healing and Wellbeing
Saturday/Sunday 23 & 24 May 2020, Regent's University, Inner Circle, London NW1
www.spiritrelease.org/conference.php

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Maastricht World Survey on Antipsychotic Medication Withdrawal Update
Please check the video presentation here: bit.ly/2QXNVMh
Download the PDF of the presentation here: bit.ly/2sQOM9I

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Antipsychotic treatment is associated with metabolic disturbance

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Make lying in politics illegal
www.change.org/p/uk-parliament-make-lying-in-politics-illegal

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Iain Duncan-Smith should not receive a Knighthood
- www.change.org/p/uk-government-and-parliament-we-object-to-iain-duncan-smith-receiving-a-knighthood
- www.disabilitynewsservice.com/anger-over-utter-hypocrisy-of-iain-duncan-smith-knighthood

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Prime Minister - stop making families homeless and stop individuals dieing on the streets
www.change.org/p/prime-minister-government-stop-making-families-homeless-and-stop-individuals-dieing-on-the-streets

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F.E.E.L. - Friends of East End Loonies
FEEL meets the third Monday of each month 6.30 - 8.30 pm LARC 62 Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel, London  E1 1ES 



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12 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 achievements that are allowing mental health patients to be taken care of with more attention and respect. Work in progress...

These 12 years of our work incidentally include another quite precise cycle within, as we have been around for a full Sheng Xiao, the 12 years cycle of the Chinese Zodiac. 
The new 12 years cycle is starting on the 25 Jan 2020. 

Finding the fact somehow exciting and auspicious... 
Happy Year of the Rat! And 2020! And 20s!








2007 
- November: F.E.E.L. is BORN

2008
- June: HUMANE THERAPY – NOT DRUG TYRANNY
First public event at Kingsley Hall Bow with speakers: Rufus May, Sarah Barratt, Nathalie Fonnesu

2009
- October: HUMANE THERAPY – NOT DRUG TYRANNY II
Guest speakers: Dr Bob Johnson (www.truthtrustconsent.com) and Tower Hamlets African and Caribbean Mental Health Organisation (THACMHO) members.
2010
- March: A Pageant of Survivor History: Mental patients in poetry, story and song from the 18th to 21st century
Organised in collaboration with the Survivors History Group & Tower Hamlets African and Caribbean Mental Health Organisation (THACMHO) studymore.org.uk/pageant.htm;

- July: HUMANE THERAPY – NOT DRUG TYRANNY III
Speakers: Dr Joanna Moncrieff, Sarah Barratt, Nathalie Fonnesu.

- October: (supporting) A Public Execution, by Mad Pride
A day of action to oppose welfare benefit cuts for people labelled mentally ill with a demonstration at Speakers Corner

2011
 
- March: A Day of Workshops, facilitated by Denise McKenna (Survivors Resistance Network), Robert Dellar (Mad Pride), David Amery (Housing Links) and THACMHO - Tower Hamlets African and Caribbean Mental Health Organisation.

- June: Double Attack on Our Mental Health
Speakers: Dave Skull (Mental Health Survivors Network), Mad Pride; David Amery (Housing Link).

- July: (supporting) Speak Out Against Psychiatry - Protest 
First ever Speak Out Against Psychiatry public event, protesting outside the Royal College of Psychiatry friends-of-east-end-loonies.blogspot.com/2011/07/speak-out-against-psychiatry-press.html

- November: HUMANE THERAPY – NOT DRUG TYRANNY IV - STIGMA
Speaker: Prof Roland Littlewood

2012:
- November: HUMANE THERAPY – NOT DRUG TYRANNY V
Speakers: Joe Kelly, (Survivor, Activist), Dr Peter Barham, David Skull (Mental Health Resistance Network).

2013:

- May: HUMANE THERAPY – NOT DRUG TYRANNY VI
Speakers: Joe Kelly, (Survivor, Activist), Nat Fonnesu (Survivor, Complementary Therapist), David Skull (Mental Health Resistance Network).
 
- Summer: Historical times as the grounds of the St Clements Hospital in Bow were re-opened after years of silent closure, following the shutting down of the hospital. The very site where some of F.E.E.L. roots sprouted.

Via the Shuffle Festival, the diverse, local communities of Tower Hamlets were brought together to this awesome space in East London, creating an opportunity of merging and meshing of cultureswww.shufflefestival.com 
- July: Outsiders Poetry and Ravaged Wonderful Earth book launch; a warm up, pre-opening of the Shuffle Festival www.scribd.com/document/179870206/shuffle-booklet

- August: Outsiders Poetry @ Closing of the Shuffle Festival

- December: Outsiders Poetry @ Winter Shuffle  

2014

- February: Sanity in an era of rabid capitalism? 
Speaker: Denise McKenna (Mental Health Resistance Network).

- August: Outsiders Poetry @ Shuffle Festival 

- November: SANITY FOR BEGINNERS
Speakers: Dr Kevin Zdaniecki, David Amery.

2015

- April: OPEN DIALOGUE APPROACH
Speakers: Dr Russell Razzaque, Nick Putman, Open Dialogue Experts and Training Team from Finland

- June: "ASYLUM" Film screening & Panel discussion with Dr Adrian Laing (R.D. Laing’s son), Dr Morton Schatzman (original Philadelphia Association), Francis Gillet (former Kingsley Hall resident).

- August: Outsiders Poetry @ Shuffle Festival  

- November: DRUG TYRANNY & HUMAN RIGHTS
Cristian R. Montenegro & Rodrigo Fredes (Chile), Paula Peters (Disabled People Against the Cuts), Dave Skull (Mental Health Resistance Network, Mad Pride)

2016

- September: KNOWING OUR RIGHTS
Speakers: Joanna Turner (East London Foundation Trust), Ian Begg (MH advocate)
2017

May: RADAR & PIP updates
Speakers:
Dr. Joanna Moncrieff (Critical Psychiatrists Network, RADAR - Research into Antipsychotic Discontinuation And Reduction lead);
Marian O’Brien (Mental Health Resistance Network).

- September: LOONIES FEST
F.E.E.L. 10th birthday bash, celebrating survivors activism and sending healing down in times while remembering and honouring all victims of psychiatric abuse and assault

2018

- February: CRPD Study Group: a series of gatherings to familiarise ourselves with the United Nation Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities crpdcourse.org

- May: (supporting) SPiRiT of Philip Morgan of TACHMO
Organised by the Survivors History Group with the support from Tower Hamlets Archives

- June: The Mental Health Act review 
Updates by Dorothy Gould (Survivor researcher and consultant at NSUN)

2019

- March: "Psychiatry: An Abuse Of Human Rights?" 
Speakers: Akiko Hart (ISPS UK; Hearing Voices Network; Mind in Camden), Dorothy Gould (Survivor Consultant, Researcher and Trainer), Liz Brosnan (Survivor Researcher, SURE - Service User Research Enterprise; EURIKHA )

- June: Peer Power - with Chris Hansen of Intentional Peer Support 

2019 also granted us a series of informal gatherings/meetings with Internationally active survivors campaigners Sasha Altman DuBrul and Tina Minkowitz.

- November: 12 YEARS OLD!!!
Special occasion to celebrate F.E.E.L. collective work over the years and remember past and present Survivors and campaigners, followed by a poetry & music session

2020

- New Year & Decade to explore, starting with a bang... or more precisely a gong!!!
See you on 20 January 2020 @ LARC 😊


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