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Politi­cians & Elec­tion 2010

Hi Every­one!    

Fur­ther to my2010 Elec­tion Metal health Cam­paign let­terto Key Polit­ical Party Mem­bers, I am so far par­tic­u­larly dis­ap­poin­ted with the num­ber and qual­ity of the responses on the whole!    

Apart from a very small num­ber of the many politi­cians I wrote too, the major­ity have obvi­ously not read or not fully under­stood my correspondence’s core purpose!     

The core pur­pose I was try­ing to achieve was to high­light the broader issues faced by those exper­i­en­cing men­tal health prob­lems in our country!   

The issues in par­tic­u­lar being the lack of men­tal health care resources cur­rently avail­able… my aim to raise aware­ness and under­stand­ing that would hope­fully lead to improved avail­ab­il­ity of the neces­sary help and sup­port needed, for all those requir­ing men­tal health ser­vices includ­ing ini­tial inter­ven­tion and ongo­ing care… provided when and where it’s needed.   

Most of those politi­cians I had con­tac­ted had unfor­tu­nately missed these points that I was mak­ing, and they also missed the fact that I was not ask­ing for inter­ven­tion in my spe­cific case in par­tic­u­lar. My con­cerns were for much broader in nature, and for the many, such as those unfor­tu­nate indi­vidu­als I have met that are much worse off than myself, hav­ing wit­nessed first hand as a men­tal health ser­vice user myself since becom­ing ill.    

I do warmly con­grat­u­late… (more…)