We won't be raising PIP any time soon. More likely we'll be institutionalising people tbh. I'm a bit smoothbrain on this, I don't know too much about it as the people I work with invariably rely on p… (View Post)

He'll never see the light of day again. Another incident to be mentioned in the forthcoming obituary for social care in the UK. Drug use certainly complicates these conditions massively but a good pr… (View Post)

It comes from the Samaritans media guidelines, here: https://www.samaritans.org/about-samaritans/media-guidelines/media-guidelines-reporting-suicide/ They are interesting, whether it's helpful or not… (View Post)

I've met a few famous people, only one where we both took mushrooms, but the only encounter I genuinely enjoyed was, I was sat at the Mound in Edinburgh, reading a copy of A Scanner Darkly, and I loo… (View Post)

It's not just the lack of people to provide talking therapy, but on an NHS-basis, psychiatric hospitals prioritise hiring nurses over other staff. Largely, the money decisions in Edinburgh are made b… (View Post)