Comments for Mandy Saligari

Comment on Self Harm by Mandy Saligari

Mandy Saligari — Fri, 31 May 2013 16:47:59 +0000

Please do contact me via info@charterdaycare.com

Comment on Self Harm by N.G.E

N.G.E — Sat, 25 May 2013 05:04:03 +0000

Dear Mandy
I have just recently some across your service provision and then your blog. As an academic and ex welfare practitioner I am impressed by what I have read of your provision and ethos at Charter House, especially in respect to approaches focused around implications of trauma and addiction of women, as well as young people. However I write not in a professional capacity but in desperate need of any help and assistance you may be able to offer me. I am about to email your general ‘info@charterhouse etc’ address, as I cannot explain fully in a public forum.
However I ask you, plead you to please read the email/ and attached letter explaining the problems faced and desperate need for confidential, effective support. I will ask for said email too be forwarded to you, the founder, although I appreciate it may not reach you hence I ask that you seek it out, and I hope that you can offer me any kind of advice or help.
I so very much hope that you can and will read my email/letter and recognise given email address ‘pentangle’ etc and that there may be something you or your organisation may be able to help me in any way at all. I do genuinely apologise for using your blog here to make initial contact, but I am sure you will understand why I have had to resort to such measures.
I thank you hugely for simply reading and even considering the personal situation.
Much appreciation and respect
N.G.E

Comment on Post Induction Therapy by Emily

Emily — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:00:48 +0000

I’m so pleased to see codependency being represented and worked through so positively in treatment. So often in my recovery I experience it being cast aside as something that ‘doesn’t apply’ to people’s experience of addiction. Slowly I’m learning more and more that this for me, is the foundation of addiction, and the areas of my that are being openly acted out are branches that have stemmed from this insidious disease of codependency. I cant stress enough how much my life has changed from following this model of Pia Mellody’s Trauma Reduction Programme. Thank God Charter has brought it into awareness.

Comment on New Year Sober by Barrett Hammond

Barrett Hammond — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 08:09:23 +0000

Dear Mandy,

Thank you for the good work you are doing in the UK. I own a drug rehab program here in California, and we have created a program that offers clients an opportunity to get sober abroad. I have researched your program online, and would like to offer our clients an opportunity to begin their recovery at your facility. I am sending this message to you via your blog because I want your readers to know that we appreciate the excellent service you offer in the UK. I have also sent an email to info@charterdaycare.com.

Please feel free to peruse our website: http://www.lajollarecovery.com and email me anytime.

Sincerely,

Barrett Hammond
bh@lajollarecovery.com

Comment on Children held in police cells under Mental Health Act by MHS

MHS — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 16:58:22 +0000

You make excellent points, I agree the services for children are extremely poor and those that exist are usually run badly and have huge waiting lists. I thought the metaphor at the end of your text really summed up where we are in relation to ‘services’ –err, still handing out refuse sacks to our children and incidentally, ‘greed, red-tape and self-centredness’ are excellent descriptive word, characters that could have easily been included in Bunyan’s classic.

Of which this is my reply…”What a fool” quoth he, “am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom called Promise; that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle” If we wait for government to bring about change to children and adolescent services we will wait forever, someone needs to take the lead and open the locks!!

Comment on Happy Birthday by Jeantique

Jeantique — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 15:59:23 +0000

Thinking of you all. Happy birthday Charter and lots of love to you Mandy, such an inspiration

Comment on My perspective of addiction by SB Kent by enrico s.

enrico s. — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:30:08 +0000

beautiful. so me. i hate it when they say to me ‘yes he/she needs help but hey they never did heroin!! i now answer ‘yet’. one of the least loveable aspects of my recovery is that now i recognise the sign in others of the condition i have. it takes me seconds. nobody likes to be told though and now i’m perceived as the pain in the ass of the family that thinks everybody is sick. solution? i have several in mind but none very spiritual…

Comment on Co-dependent love Kills by enrico s.

enrico s. — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:32:54 +0000

I have been thinking long and hard about this sad story. it made me remember something i was told in a rehabin kent, long time ago. they told me ‘enrico beware. addicts come here alone and all the time they leave in twos…they relapse. exactly what happened to them i read. for some stroke of luck, and not for not trying, i left rehab alone and stayed so for my first year clean. yes, i went nuts at 1 year 1 day with relationships but that year spent going to meetings and…going to meetings truly helped me. it gave me a little foundation on which to build something and try approaching the dating world. the most fascinating aspect of this tragedy is ‘beautiful’ symptom of not staying clean but helping others to do so. giving millions to charity, being trustee in lots of drug related associations and using. personally, i think that anybody who accepted money from them should give them back. i am the secretary of a meeting in chelsea. recently the venue’s manager approached me asking if i could make an announcement at the meeting, to remember this lady who’s been a patron of their charity. of course i declined saying we could not go against our traditions and get involved with outside issues but deep down i felt he shouldn’t have asked. it’s so easy to manipolate earthlings. just pay them. they will kow tow to you. and keep you sick.

Comment on Repeaters… by enrico s.

enrico s. — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 13:47:26 +0000

right. you just said to new comers addicts NOT to do something. what do you expect the outcome to be?? wanna bet?? :))

Comment on Co-dependent love Kills by Emily

Emily — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:25:23 +0000

Thank you so much for posting this. Although difficult to read it is also so true to how my addiction works. Although sometimes fighting tooth and nail I always try to listen to the people who are observers rather than participants in my situations, as it is only from this unbiased feedback that I can see the truth between my addiction and my higher self. Thank you for this reminder and for your wonderful insight along the way.