1.Lots of feelings today. I’m in the middle of trying to officially get discrimination and inequality recognised. It’s really hard. I’m so fucking tired and sad. I want to fast forward to an open court where I get to say what’s happened and it’s done & over whether I win or not >
2. I’d have been happy with a systems change that would have addressed inequality. Most people can’t cope with how awful this process is and you never hear about other Lived Experience Professionals (Researchers, Peer Workers etc) who have raised grievances because >
3. organisations often give a settlement payment to keep it from going to tribunal. I don’t think anyone could offer me a big enough sum to do that. It would need to be so big they’d never, ever do that again to anybody because they couldn’t afford to. >
4. If Directors get to retire to million pound houses on the back of Mad People, is a Mad Person equal to that amount? So a settlement for me would have to be so vast it would be a message of change to the system. Putting discrimination of Lived Experience employees in front of >
5. a Tribunal court would be kinda groundbreaking whether you won or not. How do you put a price on that? It brings awareness to an issue that no Mental Health charity will run a bloody campaign for. It lets other #LXPs know that more of us are out there. That’s the ideal in my >
6.head. I bet everyone starts off with a similar ideal, at the very least something along the line of getting justice and reparation for the indignity they’ve suffered. But it’s so hard, so long, so heartbreaking, re-traumatising and exhausting. If nothing else, maybe being open>
7. about the impact of the process and that it is even happening will help someone else. I know it’s really helped me when people have approached me and told me they are in the middle of a process, or started one and settled and were then gagged from speaking about it. >
8. I now need to stop procrastinating and get a move on to fill in yet another form in a system of red tape and concrete walls with no doors designed to keep people who have experienced inequalities from speaking out or changing anything. I am so, so fucking tired. 😢
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