Posted by janbury on May 15th, 2012 in Uncategorized | 0 comments
I will borrow the” rollercoaster” idea from the Partnership trust website as it sums up the ups and downs of life with mental health issues and the life of a carer also. If my son is coping i breathe a sigh of relief and allow myself a smile but these days are few and far between as he is really struggling with life at the moment. I laugh and joke when i am out in the company of others but sometimes i feel i am slowly disintegrating especially at night when it all seems worse somehow. I live for the day when he will feel okay again and keep that glimmer of hope in the back of my mind....
Posted by janbury on Apr 25th, 2012 in Furness Locality, Uncategorized | 0 comments
The Barrow office are very pleased that one of our volunteers, Maria, has been accepted to do her Mental Health Nursing degree at Lancaster University. She has been a great help with some of our work for the physcosis portfolio, ringing round the GP surgeries asking about services for mental health. Maria also helps us with locating media reports surrounding mental health issues in the local press. We hope to keep Maria with us for as long as possible but wish her lots of luck in her future degree course.
Posted by janbury on Mar 29th, 2012 in Uncategorized | 0 comments
The joint physical health summit was held on 22nd March at Newton Rigg Campus at Penrith. It was a lovely journey from Barrow as the sun was shining and it is a very scenic drive to Penrith. Linda Ogilvie and i were keen to attend as we had been to the pre meeting and wanted to highlight the changes that are happening at Barrow Community Gym. Judith Whittam from Adult Social Care was on our table so i did my best to persuade her that a lot of the changes that are taking place are not ideal. The gym is introducing a 16 week programme to existing members some of whom have been members for years and...
Posted by janbury on Mar 26th, 2012 in Furness Locality, Uncategorized | 0 comments
The steering group was formed by members of CMHG originally when there were murmurings of a 16 week programme being introduced for members. We were convinced that many members could not cope with only attending for a short time as some members have been going for years and maintain their mental health and wellbeing by going to the Community Gym. Unfortunately the Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust have decided to introduce this and have discharged any members that have not attended for a while and are inviting the rest for an individual review to inform them of the new 16 week programme. This...
Posted by janbury on Feb 24th, 2012 in Furness Locality, Uncategorized | 0 comments
The Barrow office are pleased to welcome back volunteers Pat and Linda who have both been in hospital recently. Thanks to Furness General hospital who looked after them both brilliantly. Linda was heard spreading the word about cumbria mental health group to anyone who would listen on the ward! We witnessed a young man in casualty who came in with extreme paranoia the night Linda was admitted and we witnessed the struggle the staff and police had to get a response from the crisis team. The police were extremely patient and calm with the young man in question but from the comments they made it...
Posted by Gill Puncher on Jan 26th, 2012 in Cumbria, Mental Health, Uncategorized | 2 comments
Once you have lost your mind and have been totally out of control and the insane part of yourself takes over, you never overcome it no matter how hard you try to be normal and fit into society.
The experiences you have endured haunt your every waking day, you get stabilized on medication and have flash backs on your past and wonder how on earth could that have been you. Weeks or even months have dissolved from your brain, you try endlessly to try and fill in the gaps of weeks even months all that’s there is emptiness what happened to my brain why can’t I remember? Are there two sides...
Posted by janbury on Jan 26th, 2012 in Cumbria, Mental Health, Uncategorized | 0 comments
Some members from Barrow attended the AGM at Penrith on Friday 20th january. The first speaker was Mike Taylor, Chairman of the Cumbria Partnership foundation. I particularily enjoyed hearing from Dr Howarth about the community services in Cockermouth. It was a very good day and nice to see other members from around the county. We are very pleased in Furness that our local chairman David Ralph was made secretary of Cumbria Mental Health group and Peter Kirby was re elected as trustee for Furness.
Posted by janbury on Jan 19th, 2012 in Furness Locality, Mental Health, Uncategorized | 0 comments
The Barrow office is normally manned Monday to thursday on a voluntary basis. Please ring the office on 01229 826655/827870 for further information or visit our website. Contact our development worker Wendy on 07879990956. Our office is a volunteers office and we do not offer a drop in service but Mind-in-Furness can be found at School street. We cannot provide services but can point you in the direction of local mental health services and provide telephone numbers and addresses. We can also fill in issue forms for anyone with either positive or negative experiences with local services. Look out for...
Posted by Thelma Hantle on Jan 18th, 2012 in Furness Locality, Mental Health, Uncategorized | 3 comments
I have been to your office in Barrow a number of times to get some information, but the office was shut and there was no information displayed that i could pick up and read or take away.
When i did manage to find the office open, they told me they no longer have any leaflets on services provided in Barrow.
For an organisation that claims to – speak up for the mental health community – i find this odd.
If you do not provide information, who does. I did in the end find the information i wanted on your website, but that is no excuse for not having leaflets on display at the office.
Posted by JoNicholson on Jan 12th, 2012 in Cumbria, Mental Health, Uncategorized | 0 comments
Members are reminded that our AGM is planned to take place on:
Friday 20th January 2012
2 – 4 pm
at Penrith Rugby Club, Winters Park, Penrith, CA11 8RG
The day will commence at 12 noon with the speaker, Mike Taylor, Chairman of the Cumbria Partnership Foundation Trust, who will speak on:
“The role of the Cumbria Partnership Foundation Trust in Community Services”
This will be followed by lunch at 1pm. The formal AGM will start at 2pm and will finish by 4pm.
