Monday, November 15, 2010

Ms. Harney, this is SIMPLY NOT GOOD ENOUGH

 i feel it is an OUTRAGE for human beings to neglect the least well off in health terms and as i have said on these issues a CRIME - against humanity and i have to, simply have to point the finger at Ms Harney our Minister for Health.
When so much was hoped for, so many people ploughing in FREE time and expertise, into the valuable document 'vision for change' it is an insult to that input of hope and vision for changes.
Ms. Harney, when we considered all the implications of the then mental health services and considered them in tandem with providers, carers, staff and most of all the 'expert patients,' I unashamedly admit being one, to drop the level of funding to 5% is a CRIME - against HUMANITY.

All the persons involved in this document had integrity in common.
To CHANGE our service for so many Irish people suffering so badly.
You cannot slash the budget to this level.  You have thrown all and sundry basically into the streets of social housing without any community care team practises set up.  this was the first stupid act for so called change to 'community care,'
now we are going to see, no community care, no inpatient care, no community nurses, day centres and all the patients, actually not patients but PEOPLE who happen to be different, live a life of no worth or hope but growing brain dead on medication for want of stimulation, therapy and a place to go for company, security and friendship.

What Ms. Harney do you propose these people do during a day of say depression without a visitor.
A day with a psychotic episode which brings abject terror, to shut inside alone with that sort of thinking and despair and fright, again without a visitor.
What do you propose people to do during a day when they know themselves that they will not receive a kind word, a smile, a chat or even be able to build a relationship or a person for companionship. Do YOU feel the isolation all these groups of people have in common. NO, and many do not.

so you start a suicide prevention programme!  You start that before you start 'Vision for Change' and you start it on the cusp of degrading peoples lives through unemployment, repossesion of their homes, family strife and trauma and again the lonely and sick are left alone knowing this.  They know full well, a cut will mean more isolation and more dependency on strong medication.

This is a very shocking thing to say Ms. Harney, why don't you round up all the mentally ill and psychologically challenged, the brain damaged little children and adults, the people who have been raped and traumatised for life, the abused people children and adults of religious, the abused people of the various institutions through the decades, the poor on the bridges with the plastic cup, the heroin addicts, the alcoholics, the penniless, the adolescents who are engaging in anti social behaviour, those who have asperger or autism, those with learning difficulties, deafness, blindness and those in wheelchairs and those trapped in old age in the dying cages and put em all along the equivilant of the GREAT wall of China and shot them and me?
what will you then have left to deal with?
Rogues, the bankers, civil servants, the government, the universities and their staff, the museums and art galleries and their staff and participators, and of course you will need the plumbers to unblock your toilets.
but once you have the basics of money and its riches and what it can provide you can sit back and act, the zombie, the persons who have it all to yourselves and not think twice of the rotting corpses in the so called lower stata of society.
This day of human disintegration seems to be acting out in our political domain, irregardless of who it effects or hurts, and be sure it wont hurt you.
I am ashamed of my government who stoops so low to cap the budget on mental health spending to 5% of the health services provision.  That is more than half of what it was in the year of the publication of 'vision for change' which you were expected to launch but didnt show up!

The brief you have as Minister for Health means just that, but alas we also have the incompetent HSE, which was supposed to have been changed around (also) by Mr. Brendan Drumm and in fact, it is far worse under his charge than it ever was.

Lets all start 'praying' at least that costs nothing and may do more than our governments and departments of health!

7 comments:

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Awnyah said...

Humm, i think i am a bit beyond believing there is love, tenderness, softness and care out there for me! Yes, i have a heart ok, but its pretty much broken.
Now we shall address the other responses:
showing anger about what happened me, is the only way to EXPRESS not only happens to me but far, far too many human beings in ireland when it comes to disability and especially mental disabilities. we are the least well aware and are the most stigmatizing nation in the EU, thus says a recent report.
I show my anger, not so much as a personal anger for personal situations and cause and effect.
I show it to demonstrate how powerless we are, how powerless anyone is who find themsself different in this country.
Have you actually seen a mentally ill person die from neglect?
have you actually seen the so called policy of 'community care' so lacking that actually she and her friend died, alone without any support whatsoever?
I have been very hurt and no one WILL judge me, they have done that in spades, now i shall Judge those who did the hurting as a metaphor as to what is happening our most vulnerable citizens.
what can i personally expect from my life now, so ill and depleted?
nothing, but does that mean by speaking out, it can Not change attitude?
no, those that keep the secrets in, cause lack of change in attitude, those that even bother to reveal all when all is over are helping the next generation who may have to face this and WILL, if change is not brought about in attitude to how vulnerable people are, so why shoot us down so badly to destroy lives.
excuse the rant, anonymous, but you asked for that!
by the way, why not brave enough to go further than the speaker called 'anonymous,' anonymous is SO well, to me, afraid like to say what you think and giving a name to your person who gives an opinion.

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Awnyah said...

We might have a case here where some see the glass half empty and others see it half full.

I do not expect love, for i never got it and wouldnt know how to return it either actually.
I DO LOVE!
behind the loud words of anger, i am very gentle but not a great communicator.
i have two adorable chihuahaus and i love the wild birds and everything to do with my environment er, apart from where i live.
but that said, i do get over excited and flare up with poorly constructive words of anger.
but one would have to do a very big course in the dynamics of 'heart' as in 'little h,' little heart is not big enough to slowly plough the integrated social nuances needed for the subtle changes.
what i am angry about is that everything is counter to best practise in being HUMAN!
when we treat others in a very shoddy way, its results in suffering, and on a grand scale.
the BIG heart is trying to let the anger out constructively to tell that its not easy, and wont be with the situation as it unfolds for too many.

Yes, the Irish have a great accomplishment for natter, moan and pub whining over the state of the nation.
we do, actually all of us talk, talk and talk about the dreadful situation we are in.
but truth is, no one will actually face the government bar the elderly with the senior parliment and Age Action.
very few are prepared to collectively band to make things better for a better world for all.

I am doing nothing more than say how it is for many people.
In this way, belief and understanding on the damning effect of devaluing of human persons is in fact a personal guantanamo where you wonder what next will whip you down and cause you to be floored completely.

tell me how is it that some are actually ALLOWED to live and yet it can take nine months for a person who cannot use a knife and fork to get a spoon with a special handle?

this is the sort of thing,
the drip drip effect:
special shoes discontinued - fight is on, they are continued after almost two years but, without the lift put on for the short leg.
A HSE dentist suggests i am doing so well that maybe i dont need front teeth er, i am a woman under sixty and even if over, no one wants to smile a toothless smile.

four sessions of physio in five years in the public health system!

and it goes on.
disability slashed once and will be again in the coming budget, and yet, the mercedes stay!!]
that anon is the difference.
I believe Love is coming, NO.

Awnyah said...

We might have a case here where some see the glass half empty and others see it half full.

I do not expect love, for i never got it and wouldnt know how to return it either actually.
I DO LOVE!
behind the loud words of anger, i am very gentle but not a great communicator.
i have two adorable chihuahaus and i love the wild birds and everything to do with my environment er, apart from where i live.
but that said, i do get over excited and flare up with poorly constructive words of anger.
but one would have to do a very big course in the dynamics of 'heart' as in 'little h,' little heart is not big enough to slowly plough the integrated social nuances needed for the subtle changes.
what i am angry about is that everything is counter to best practise in being HUMAN!
when we treat others in a very shoddy way, its results in suffering, and on a grand scale.
the BIG heart is trying to let the anger out constructively to tell that its not easy, and wont be with the situation as it unfolds for too many.

Yes, the Irish have a great accomplishment for natter, moan and pub whining over the state of the nation.
we do, actually all of us talk, talk and talk about the dreadful situation we are in.
but truth is, no one will actually face the government bar the elderly with the senior parliment and Age Action.
very few are prepared to collectively band to make things better for a better world for all.

I am doing nothing more than say how it is for many people.
In this way, belief and understanding on the damning effect of devaluing of human persons is in fact a personal guantanamo where you wonder what next will whip you down and cause you to be floored completely.

tell me how is it that some are actually ALLOWED to live and yet it can take nine months for a person who cannot use a knife and fork to get a spoon with a special handle?

this is the sort of thing,
the drip drip effect:
special shoes discontinued - fight is on, they are continued after almost two years but, without the lift put on for the short leg.
A HSE dentist suggests i am doing so well that maybe i dont need front teeth er, i am a woman under sixty and even if over, no one wants to smile a toothless smile.

four sessions of physio in five years in the public health system!

and it goes on.
disability slashed once and will be again in the coming budget, and yet, the mercedes stay!!]
that anon is the difference.
I believe Love is coming, NO.

Awnyah said...

We might have a case here where some see the glass half empty and others see it half full.

I do not expect love, for i never got it and wouldnt know how to return it either actually.
I DO LOVE!
behind the loud words of anger, i am very gentle but not a great communicator.
i have two adorable chihuahaus and i love the wild birds and everything to do with my environment er, apart from where i live.
but that said, i do get over excited and flare up with poorly constructive words of anger.
but one would have to do a very big course in the dynamics of 'heart' as in 'little h,' little heart is not big enough to slowly plough the integrated social nuances needed for the subtle changes.
what i am angry about is that everything is counter to best practise in being HUMAN!
when we treat others in a very shoddy way, its results in suffering, and on a grand scale.
the BIG heart is trying to let the anger out constructively to tell that its not easy, and wont be with the situation as it unfolds for too many.

Yes, the Irish have a great accomplishment for natter, moan and pub whining over the state of the nation.
we do, actually all of us talk, talk and talk about the dreadful situation we are in.
but truth is, no one will actually face the government bar the elderly with the senior parliment and Age Action.
very few are prepared to collectively band to make things better for a better world for all.

I am doing nothing more than say how it is for many people.
In this way, belief and understanding on the damning effect of devaluing of human persons is in fact a personal guantanamo where you wonder what next will whip you down and cause you to be floored completely.

tell me how is it that some are actually ALLOWED to live and yet it can take nine months for a person who cannot use a knife and fork to get a spoon with a special handle?

I rest my case - for the moment

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