IT’S TIME FOR FULL LEGAL EQUALITY: WITHOUT IT, IT WILL NEVER BE FULLY OK TO TALK ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH In… more
Year: 2017
Mental health and disabled people with Learning difficulties (LD) and Autism (ASC)
Author: Simone Aspis (Changing Perspectives) I am a disabled person who is acting as an advocate for detained inpatients with… more
The mental health act review and the definition of ‘mental disorder’
Simone Aspis (Changing Perspectives) I am a disabled person who is acting as an advocate for detained in-patients with learning… more
Musings on a World Mental Health Day (10 October 2017)
(Originally written for Dina’s blog in Asylum magazine) It has been announced that from autumn 2018 the Department of Health… more
What should happen when things go wrong?
Martyn has been an advocacy campaigner for over 15 years. He runs True Voice as an independent consultant and continues… more
On power and privacy
”Strictly speaking, this is not my story to tell, and so I shall be careful about how I tell it…. more
Mental health teams in crisis
Joy Hibbins, who runs a Suicide Crisis Centre primarily set up to support people who do not access other services,… more
I did nothing to warrant this behaviour
A British woman resident in Australia speaks up about restraint and enduring years of abuse ‘I’m a British citizen and… more