Campaigning
Although Leeds Mind is primarily a provider of services for people with mental health problems, enabling those who use them to improve their mental health, we recognise the vital role of campaigning and the part it plays in improving conditions for people with mental health problems. Many of our staff and service users are passionate about the field of mental health and its all too frequent controversies and wish to undertake private actions to campaign for justice and equality for service users. We try to support them in this.
Mental Health represents one of the biggest challenges to our culture:
- National Mind is about to launch a new campaign aiming to have a major impact on stigma and discrimination faced by people with experience of mental health problems. Named Time to Change the new campaign is being piloted in Cambridge up to the New Year and then rolled out nationally. Watch out for all kinds of adverts and notices in the press in the new year about this.
- Sending an electrical current through nerve tissue is not a solution to long term suffering, or even fixing your computer. How much more precious are the capabilities of the mind than those of computers? Other, more humane treatments must be sought. Find out more by clicking going to http://www.ect.org
- Concerned about the position of women in the psychiatric system? There are a couple of on-going campaigns locally in this broad area: Re-Sisters and Women at the Margins
