I am going to take this opportunity to respond to some questions posed by followers on my other social media sites, particularly friends over on Facebook. I am posting my responses for the consideration of my wider audience across all of my social media sites including this one at www.fourandtwentydeadcrows.com.

The predominant question raised in most enquiries is concerned with the complexities of my experiences with mental health services in Basingstoke, with particular reference to the disturbing and truly harrowing experiences with two NHS Foundation Trusts, while advocating on behalf of my mentally ill daughter. Both NHS Trusts have made my experiences unnecessarily and exponentially more complicated by inviting other institutions, primarily Hampshire Constabulary, to cynically manage and or divert my lawful attempt to hold healthcare professionals to account.

While thinking about the questions raised by followers and friends I

a)      Reappraised my intentions and motivations behind making my story public and

b)      Reconsidered the diversity of my audience 

I have arrived at the following positions

a)      My intentions and motivations behind making my story public haven’t really changed since I published the 24th October, 2024 edition of LATEST ISSUES titled 'Some Thoughts'. Ultimately, my writing continues to be a work of journalism. My journey through mental health services over the last SEVEN YEARS, while advocating on behalf of my mentally ill daughter and as a mental health patient myself for much of the same time has been fraught and harrowing. I have witnessed bewildering incompetencies and questionable ethics and been rendered incredulous and appalled at the serious shortfalls and outright clinical neglect. I have rubbed shoulders with other patients and members of the local community denied access to mental health services and shared their frustration and pain. I believe, even more than ever, that my story is of public interest.  My published writings have even been offered as evidence to institutions and oversight bodies including the Care Quality Commission, the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee and used as material in a public consultation organised by the Health and Social Care Committee.

b)      My audience is a different matter. I already have quite a diverse readership across multiple social media platforms from around the world but I have an urgent need to grow my audience. I am now aware that I should repackage my writing, editing my words to suit the reader. In the early months of this blog I invited academics across Britain to read my work. Those academics prefer detail and analysis but other readers are more casual, dipping in and out of my story when time allows. Those readers want me to get to the point or want a simplified version of events. I get that now.

If I am aiming at an exponentially wider readership then I need to accommodate as many people as possible.

So, here is what I am planning to do.

While I finish compiling Part Four of the latest document of evidence for the consideration of the Health and Care Professions Council to support my ‘Fitness to Practice’ complaint against registrant, Sally Mungall and

While I finish collating all the documents relating to the contentious referral of me to the counter-terrorism initiative, PREVENT for the approval of lawyers and

Before I draft formal complaints about management at CMHT, The Bridge Centre and the manager of Public Access at JIMU Hampshire Police and

Before I complete the governments own formal PREVENT complaints forms I will

Complete a short, easy to understand summary of what I’m currently fighting against and post that in my next edition of LATEST ISSUES and

Complete a CONTENTS page that references Chapter One of this blog titled ‘Four and Twenty Dead Crows’ and post that in another edition of LATEST ISSUES and

Consider publishing the document ‘Art Therapy with Sally Mungall and what happened after’ already submitted as evidence to the Health and Care Professions Council’. Publishing this document will mark a significant shift of focus, away from my experiences with CAMHS and the wider Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and towards my experiences with Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, now Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare Trust.

The core component of my New Campaign is art-driven and is conceived to be an entertaining semi-fictional gateway to my real-life story. I have always been interested in comparative mythology, archetypes and story and have long been a part-time student of Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung and Syd Field. Imagine my story brought to life by Guillermo Del Toro or Tim Burton with wise-cracking characters reminisce of Walt Kelly or Bill Watterson. That's where I am headed. And like all folkloric fantasy and fairy tales my plots, characters and motifs will transmit essential truths, morals and ethics. I envisage working on this for the rest of my life. This will serve as the backbone of my protests for as long as Hampshire Constabulary retain false, discriminatory and psychologically damaging records on their databases under my name ( until 2032 at least ) and for as long as it takes to hold others to account. This work will be my true ART THERAPY.