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FOUR AND TWENTY DEAD CROWS # 20 A Train to Weymouth
27th April, 2022. I left the flat before sunrise and trudged the ten minute walk to Basingstoke station, my pop-up tent flapping...
Mark Stock
Jan 186 min read
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FOUR AND TWENTY DEAD CROWS # 19 Suicide Note
Here follows the letter sent by email to CAMHS General Manager, Wanda Reynolds just prior to my ‘walk’ on the 27th April, 2022. This...
Mark Stock
Jan 125 min read
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LATEST ISSUES 7th January, 2025
The following 'open letter' was posted yesterday. It is, ostensibly, a notification of the start of my latest hunger strike. ‘OPEN...
Mark Stock
Jan 716 min read
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FOUR AND TWENTY DEAD CROWS # 18 No Man's Land
By mid-February, 2022, I had been appointed a new GP by the name of Dr Dougan. I have positive memories of Dr Dougan and her colleague,...
Mark Stock
Jan 55 min read
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FOUR AND TWENTY DEAD CROWS # 17 Wanda Reynolds Intervenes
I made further appeals following receipt of Sally Mungall’s ‘CAMHS closing letter’, first to Gail Gray and then again to Sally herself on...
Mark Stock
Dec 31, 20246 min read
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FOUR AND TWENTY DEAD CROWS # 16 Ghosted
13th March 2022 Almost six weeks had slipped past since I had received the call informing me of the cancellation of my meeting with Sally Mungall. I had been both polite and patient while desperately holding onto a fast eroding belief that Sally was still captured by those same ‘unforeseen circumstances’ described by the CAMHS receptionist. That belief was being slowly swallowed alive by a pernicious distrust that tightened its grip around my windpipe and I struggled for rare
Mark Stock
Dec 29, 20246 min read
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FOUR AND TWENTY DEAD CROWS # 15 iTalk
Kirsty Henry forwarded a written account of her mental health assessment in a letter dated 16th February, 2022. The account was...
Mark Stock
Dec 22, 20244 min read
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FOUR AND TWENTY DEAD CROWS # 14 My first mental health assessment
Bill’s Crisis assessment recommendation was acted upon almost immediately and I was offered an appointment for a ‘SOON’ mental health...
Mark Stock
Dec 21, 20245 min read
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LATEST ISSUES 18th December, 2024
17th December 2024 Your reference *********  RESPONSE TO LETTER DATED 9TH DECEMBER, 2024  PART THREE Revised 18th December 2024 to...
Mark Stock
Dec 18, 20244 min read
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LATEST ISSUES 16TH December, 2024
Here follows Part Two of my response to the letter from the Health and Care Professions Council received on the 9th December, 2024. This...
Mark Stock
Dec 16, 202421 min read
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LATEST ISSUES 12TH December, 2024
I received a letter from the Health and Care Professions Council on Tuesday, 10th December,2024 with an update on my 'fitness to...
Mark Stock
Dec 12, 202421 min read
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FOUR AND TWENTY DEAD CROWS # 13 Crisis peaked
Medical records confirm that safeguarding measures were initiated by Sally Mungall immediately following the ‘review’ meeting on the 13th...
Mark Stock
Dec 7, 20245 min read
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FOUR AND TWENTY DEAD CROWS # 12 Kicked to the curb, almost
13th January 2022.  As Meg and I made our way towards CAMHS, Bramblys Drive for her second ‘review’ meeting I was so distraught that I...
Mark Stock
Dec 1, 20246 min read
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FOUR AND TWENTY DEAD CROWS # 11 'The thing about Facebook...'
I have often referred to the Christmas holidays of 2021 as being the moment that I experienced my unprecedented mental health breakdown....
Mark Stock
Nov 28, 20244 min read
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FOUR AND TWENTY DEAD CROWS # 10 'When Sally met Meg'
23rd December, 2021. So, after around just ten minutes, Mark Birbeck made his excuses and withdrew from the first of the two scheduled...
Mark Stock
Nov 24, 20245 min read
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LATEST ISSUES 23rd November,2024
I am making a conscious effort to regularly appraise my motives and intentions as I continue to add posts to my blog. Today I thought I...
Mark Stock
Nov 23, 20242 min read
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FOUR AND TWENTY DEAD CROWS # 9 'Enmeshment, apparently'
The third and final time that I met with Mark Birbeck alone was on the 5th November 2021. Meg had, yet again and with extreme short...
Mark Stock
Nov 17, 20244 min read
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LATEST ISSUES 12th November, 2024
Note. I have reread the following 'Open Letter' multiple times since posting it yesterday and been so appalled at my writing that I...
Mark Stock
Nov 12, 202410 min read
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FOUR AND TWENTY DEAD CROWS # 8 'Reviewing Mark Birbeck'
23rd December, 2021 Meg had already celebrated her 18th birthday by the time we made our way to the first of two scheduled ‘review’...
Mark Stock
Nov 9, 20246 min read
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FOUR AND TWENTY DEAD CROWS # 7 'That letter'
So, about ‘that letter’, the 12 page letter that I wrote to Sally Mungall during the week between the 16th and 23rd of December, 2021,...
Mark Stock
Nov 3, 202413 min read
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