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18 February
Working for a Local Mind Association : The advertisement encouraged those with mental-health issues to apply...
Speaking out about our own mental health is courageous & fights stigma @profjamiehh— 🌼Jane Street🌼 (@JaneStreetPPAD) February 18, 2017
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It was a crazy, over-the-top, three-part interview for a two-day per week job-share with someone doing equivalent hours : a panel interview with three people, joined by three service-users for a role-play (where then then manager, who headed the panel, pretended to be an advocacy client on a psychiatric unit - and said to me (wearing a suit for the day), in this effort for realism as I role-played a mental-health advocate, that Everyone wearing a suit is a cunt), and then a presentation to the service-users...
I happened to comment to my manager on an anti-stigma item, in The Times, about about schizo-affective disorder (maybe she showed it to me).— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) February 18, 2017
I had already been working for at least four years as a full-time advocate - suddenly, which I objected to, the talk was of risk assessments https://t.co/7WIQnLCLTl— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) February 18, 2017
These initiatives in The City - Thank you for having the bravery to be up front with your colleagues about your mental-health difficulty :
I do, earnestly, wish for a different outcome for them, where outing oneself still seems a good thing, later on, but I know human nature, so I fear for those who have already told others (too much)...
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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)
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