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Steve Homer
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(Date Posted:21/03/2006 19:04:06)

A Unison official at the Revitalise meeting really annoyed me. He was lampooning the Council's plans to put the Library, Pool and social service and other benefit type offices into the one building with the redevelopment of the Mary Seacole House site. He said there were no synergies. He said: "I have been to the Library and I have been to the Pool but I have never been to Mary Seacole House because I have never been sectioned". It got the cheap laugh he was looking for.?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comI was furious. I know one person who was sectioned and know about a friend of a friend (a successful photographer) who has been sectioned about four times - it ain't funny and can happen to almost anyone.I wondered if he had made the joke about someone being in a wheelchair and not going to MS House to ask about benefits if that would have been as funny.In the interests of full disclosure I have, from time to time, suffered from severe depression since the death of a close friend a couple of years ago so I guess I am a bit sensitive to stupid comments like this.I wouldn't have minded quite so much but he just kept on shouting out and appeared to be a borderline personality himself. He typified the worst sort of Union official of the old school - ignorant and bullying. I thought we were beyond this nonsense.Anyone else there and irritated.Steve (in a personal - non CHST.co.uk - capacity)
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(Date Posted:21/03/2006 20:35:40)

He should be held to account, especially if he was there in his capacity as a Union rep.
I wasn't there - I was working late in the library, but would have challenged him. I also have personal experience, as someone close to me suffers fron occasional mental health issues.
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(Date Posted:28/03/2006 15:03:46)

Oh stop being so oversensitive. It is a statement of fact.

The functions of the buidings have little in common and he may be correct in stating that he has nevr had reason to visit the mental health bit.
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(Date Posted:31/03/2006 19:34:52)

Oversensitive? I don't think so. As someone who's had clinical depression for a number of years, I don't see myself as somew kind of mentalist as perceived by the John Prescott type. I enjoy a joke and am able to take the Michael out of myself but to have some arrogant SOB making sweeping generalisations about the people who use a particular facility gets my hackles raised.
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