MAY 2019 Newsletter
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Mental Health Support Group Helping Us Bounce Back in Havering, Barking & Dagenham Contacts: Chair at henryhilaire@outlook.com or Secretary on 07985-983673 or www.hubb.org.uk MAY 2019 Newsletter We tried a new venue this month: Your GP is informed, but not the DWP, as Romford Resource Centre at No.29 there is no impact on your Benefit Main Road, quite close to Romford entitlements, & it is voluntary, so you can Baptist Church (RBC) We sat at large leave at any time. At each of 2 six-month round tables, (kindly moved for us as follow-ups participants are given £20 they were very heavy), & it was spacious shopping vouchers. An initial phone & bright. interview determines if it could help you, When we compared numbers of & a risk assessment identifies the support attendees, costs & convenience of all you need. the venues we have tried, RBC was top, Several members expressed an interest, provided the costs could be met by a although some were disappointed that donation, & No.29 next. there were no work experience sessions or However the donation for the RBC was participating employers involved. not confirmed, & No.29 was more expensive than expected, plus the HUBB’S NEXT MEETING will be on kitchen was up 2 flights of stairs. Thursday 6th June So to provide some certainty, we will be from 4.0pm to 6.0pm going back to the YMCA for the next 6 months. in the large Lecture Room at the YMCA Thames Gateway Our Speaker was Nicole Raghuram from 29 Rush Green Road RM7 0PH EMPOWER, an NHS research project. Buffet & raffle as usual Our Speaker is Suzanne Harrup, joint Chair & Secretary of Becontree This is a new employment initiative: ”Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Skills for Allotment & Horticultural Society Employment”, or DBT-SE. It aims to help talking about the work, the people & people with mental health problems to the open air therapy. both improve their wellbeing & to be able to work. They focus on people with “difficulties in common with those who A big Thankyou again to Corbets Tey have a personality disorder”. School for their help in printing this They are aware that anxiety prevents success, & teach appropriate coping skills in a series of 17 weekly 3 hour HUBB Newsletter workshops, in groups of 12. MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS DAY This year’s MH Awareness Topic was Friday 17th May BODY IMAGE GPs in Havering are encouraging HUBB joined several other local anyone who has negative thoughts mental health-related charities on about their body to seek help, to th Friday 17 May in Romford Market ensure their symptoms can be treated to raise awareness of mental health before they escalate. issues & the support available locally. Although it is normal to be interested in your appearance, spending a lot of Unfortunately, it was the coldest & time worrying about a specific part of windiest day of the week, with few your body may be a sign of Body shoppers about & more people Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD). manning the stalls than visiting them. We kept each other cheerful, but all the stalls packed up by 3.0pm. “A Scandal“ Autistic people “Wrongly Detained in Hospital” Following several disturbing cases in the Press, the CEOs of the National Autistic Society & of Mencap urged the government in March to end the unlawful detention of people with Autism & Learning Difficulties as inpatients under the MH Act, “often for Michael & Dinah on duty long periods & away from friends & Nevertheless, about a dozen family”. HUBBsters came to help out, They pointed out that neither of these is leaflets were handed out to shops & a mental health condition, they are not stall-holders, Gemma brought some treatable medical conditions, & hospital cakes for us, Michael Inns & Diane wards are inappropriate for them. Often Sowten took some photos, Suzana bright, noisy & unpredictable places, (originally from HUBB) was on the they can increase challenging behaviour Havering Advocacy stall – a rare in such patients, with the risk of restraint, seclusion & overmedication. visitor!- & a couple of newcomers said they may join us next month. The Times, 19-3-19 HUBB has received the latest 2019-2020 Disability Benefits Handbook. “Sometimes when you are in a dark Members are welcome to read or copy place you think you have been useful pages. buried, but actually you have been Contact Dinah on 07985-983673 planted.” – It may also be available in your local Christine Caine Reference Library. Tenants left short of rent by MENTAL HEATH ADVOCACY DWP’s way of counting...... Here is an update of the local services for those with a statutory right to “We’ve spent weeks trying to get to the Advocacy : bottom of why tenants & landlords are finding themselves short-changed,” said. For HAVERING residents: Frank Field, chair of the Government’s Havering Integrated Advocacy Service Work & Pensions Select Committee on run by Mind in Tower Hamlets & May 5th. Newham, & based at Harrow Lodge “It’s hard to escape the conclusion that House, Hornchurch Rd RM11 1JU people have been left short of rent simply Contact 0207-510-1081 or 01708-560- because the DWP can’t count how many 660 or days are in a havering.advocacy@mithn.org.uk year” he For B&D residents: added. Barking & Dagenham Mental Health Advocacy Services, After run by Cambridge House, & contacted on investigation 0207-358-7000 or info@ch1889.org it was found that some Both work with clients who are Councils calculate rent differently from the detained under the Mental Health Dept for Work & Pensions (by days in a Act, year instead of by whole weeks). The or lack capacity & need IMCA DWP will “review how the system is support, working”, & Frank Field said “It’s or need help with Care Assessments heartening that the Secretary of State might or are involved in Safeguarding or change these rules”. Deprivation of Liberty. The Times 6/5/19 MAGNET THERAPY for DEPRESSION The final word on Nutrition Researchers at Cornell University, USA, 1 Japanese eat very little & suffer fewer used Magnetic Therapy on patients heart attacks than us. whose depression has not responded to 2.Mexicans eat a lot of fat & suffer fewer other treatments. heart attacks than us. The patient lies on their back with their 4.Italians drink excessive amounts of red head inside a device producing wine & have fewer heart attacks than us. magnetic stimulation. They showed 5.Germans drink beer & eat lots of fats & nearly double the improvement after 2 sausages & suffer fewer heart attacks days of treatment, as those given a than us. placebo. 6.French eat full-fat cheese & drink red This is the first study demonstrating wine & have fewer heart attacks than us. this mood –enhancing effect, which is thought to work by making nerve cells CONCLUSION :Eat & Drink what more active & improving brain you like. Apparently it is speaking connections English that kills you!! Donnaparkin@hotmail.co.uk 30-3-08 Daily Mail on 7-5-19 EVENTS in Havering Events in B&D 11am to 3:30pm on 31 May 2019 Barking Folk Festival WHEN:Sat 8th June + Sun 9th June WHERE: 11am - 4pm at Abbey Location: Romford Market, Romford RM1 3ER Green (21 Abbey Rd, Barking FREE! IG11 8JA) Love Romford Market? We do too! We’re 3pm - 9.30pm (Abbey Ruins) celebrating our unique market with a jam- COST: Free tickets are available for Barking packed day of family fun including classic and Dagenham residents using the cars, live music, street performers, promotional code available in the residents- children’s arts & crafts and much more. only newsletter. Non residents’ tickets are available at only £12 per adult and £3 per child by booking through Eventbrite or £15 per adult and £5 Open air concert returns per child at the ticket office on the day of the event. Websites: Havering Council’s ever popular https://www.lbbd.gov.uk/barking-folk- festivalhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/london- Langtons Summer Concert will take borough-of-barking-amp-dagenham- place this year on Sunday 2 June. 12865789485 = for tickets A family-friendly festival celebrating folk The Westminster Philharmonic music and dance from around the globe, Orchestra will perform a selection of complete with workshops, family fun and light classics flavoured with themes sensational street theatre. from cinema, West End musicals and popular television shows. Steam and Cider Fair WHEN:Sat 29th June, 11am - 6pm Tickets for the concert, sponsored by WHERE: Old Dagenham Park, West and Coe Funeral Directors and Ballards Road, Dagenham RM10 9AR COST: £3.50 charge to park your supported by the Friends of Langtons vehicle in the event car park (pay for Estate, will cost £4 on the day but can stalls, rides, food and a bar serving be purchased in advance online for £3. cider and real ales) Admission is free for children under 10. Email: rangers@lbbd.gov.uk Traditional entertainment and attractions to Gates open at 1pm on Sunday 2 June. reflect the borough’s rural and industrial Entrance will be via the gate in Keswick heritage: steam engines and machinery, classic cars, local music and dance. Avenue and the main gate on Billet Lane, Hornchurch. The concert begins at 3pm. New 50+ Club WHEN:Wednesdays, 2pm - 4pm between 1 May 2019 and 31 May 2020 Barking Music & Drama presents WHERE: St Georges Church Hall, Barry Manilow’s Chippenham Rd, Harold Hill RM3 8HX Copacabana COST: Free the Musical CONTACT: Patsie 07786515594 or e- mail Pat.Knowles@hotmail.com At Kenneth More Theatre, Ilford Meet new friends! Local guest speakers, 6th-8th June games, quizzes and refreshments. Box Office 0208-553-4466 .