trust issues

Dear All, I am writing these words as I reflect on the last few days and the very real beginning of this social media campaign. Until last Monday, it was just a select few family and friends who had been invited to read this blog. I have spent the last few months organising this work, learning about social media, understanding things such as 'keywords', 'backlinks','SEO's,'SERP's and a whole plethora of concepts and strategies designed to reach as wide a digital audience as p

The final few sessions with Sally Mungall had very little to do with art therapy. I had, by and large, stopped making drawings. The...

Sally continued taking sessions with me, still wearing her Covid mask, her face still largely unreadable. I relied on her words, her body language and her eyes. ( I have trained myself, since childhood, to read body language. It’s a psychological defense mechanism and a part of my hypervigilance born out a response to early trauma ). To overcome this lack of connection with Sally I had clipped two photos of her found on the internet and stored on my laptop. As previously ment

Email sent to Paul Douglas at the Health and Care Professions Council this afternoon. I will not be publishing Paul's 'CONFIDENTIAL'...

I sent the following email to the office of Luke Murphy, MP for Basingstoke From: Mark Stock [ mailto:x xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] Sent : 15...

The sessions became exponentially more harrowing as art therapy proceeded. I believed the purpose of the sessions was to help me understand my relationship with my daughter and to investigate the possibility that intergenerational trauma was being inadvertently passed on to Meg. I felt it was an absolute necessity to face this psychological journey with tenacity and courage. I found myself agreeing with Sally that being open, honest and vulnerable was the best way to serve Me

The following email threads relate to recent communications with the Health and Care Professions Council, the Parliamentary Health Service Ombudsman and the office of my recently elected MP for Basingstoke, Luke Murphy.   It should be noted that it has been over TWO YEARS since I first lodged a ‘fitness to practice’ complaint with the Health and Care Professions Council with respect to their registrant, Sally Mungall. I have had NO contact from caseworker, Cleo Fearon, since

24th September, 2024   The following is a brief account of the art therapy sessions with Sally Mungall that took place at CAMHS, Bramblys Drive, Basingstoke between the 16th September and 16th of December, 2021, corroborated, in part, by most of Sally Mungall’s own clinical notes recorded at the time. ( It should be noted that I have been denied complete and unredacted access to records by Information Governance at the Sussex Partnership and this includes Sally Mungall’s clin

Before I give an account of the sessions with CAMHS art therapist, Sally Mungall, I should take the opportunity to explain two very important concepts. Awareness of these concepts are fundamental to understanding what happened to me during ‘art therapy’ with Sally. I was truly ignorant of both at the time. INFORMED CONSENT Consent is usually defined as the permission given for something to happen or the agreement for something to start. Informed consent is a principle in medi

2nd September, 2024, another anniversary. I first met Sally Mungall on the 2nd September, 2021. I had responded to the invitation to attend an art therapy appointment at CAMHS, Bramblys Drive, Basingstoke with a fair amount of scepticism. I didn’t understand why I had been given access to an art therapist when what I really needed was professional insight into Meg’s mental health issues and an objective appraisal of my own parenting approach. I had made a number of informal r

It has been almost a full two years since I forwarded my original complaint about CAMHS, Bramblys Drive, Basingstoke and the wider Sussex...

18TH August, 2024, an anniversary.   It was the 18th August, 2021 when I received an invitation to attend an Art Therapy appointment with...

THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS OPEN LETTER REQUIRES THE SERIOUS ATTENTION OF HAMPSHIRE CONSTABUALRY SOUTHERN HEALTH NHS FOUNDATION...

'FIRST DO NO HARM'   The time has come for me to share the story of my fraught journey through NHS mental healthcare services in Basingstoke over the last several years while advocating as a single dad to a mentally ill daughter. That journey has brought me, quite literally, to the edge of a precipice and, if not for a convoluted alignment of chance and fate, might have carried me over the edge. My daughter and I have, variously between us, been abused and neglected by those