Here are all the articles, blogs, vlogs, and podcasts (and more) that we’ve shared in our weekly bulletins this month. The main focus of this section in our bulletin is to share new, first person pieces written or made by people within and beyond our membership who have lived experience of mental ill-health, trauma, or distress, as well as relevant articles about news and policy in mental health from sources such as Disability News Service.
We’ll be posting this roundup at the end of each month as a way to further bring together, amplify and also archive current, lived experience-focussed voices and perspectives in mental health.
Call for rethink over “horrendous” disability benefit cut plans
Press release via Disabled People Against Cuts.
The Synergi Project so far…
Blog by Debbie Solomon via Synergi.
“What Matters to You?” – An Antidote to “What’s Wrong” and “What Happened”
Blog by Hel Spandler via Mad in America.
Disabled people urge Kendall and Reeves not to go ahead with dangerous WCA changes
Blog by Rachel Charlton-Dailey via The Canary.
NSUN’s October 2024 articles & blogs roundup
Blog by and via NSUN.
‘Conjuring PPI’ – the unseen labour of patient and public involvement
Blog by Dr Stan Papoulias and Dr Louca-Mai Brady via NIHR.
Budget failed on addressing systemic challenges facing disabled people, Treasury is told
Blog by John Pring via Disability News Service.
Hidden behind this budget is a terrible bombshell: billions in cuts for disabled people
Article by Frances Ryan via the Guardian.
NSUN responds to the Autumn Budget
A statement by and via NSUN.
NSUN responds to the Mental Health Bill announcement
A statement by and via NSUN.
Job coaches in mental health hospitals — A response to NSUN
A blog by John Wetherell via NSUN.
Book review – The Department: How a Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid the Evidence
A blog by Jay via NSUN.
Mental Healthcare Under Capitalism
A blog by Cal via NSUN.
Mental health bill ‘will not stop us being locked up’, say disabled activists
Blog by John Pring via Disability News Service.
The Mental Patients Union, 1973
Article by Steven via libcom.
What is the medical model and why are some people ‘anti’ it?’
A blog by Nima Cas Hunt via NSUN.
Growing Islamophobia and Muslim Mental Health: Current Challenges and Future Movements
A chapter by Tarek Younis in ‘Islamophobia: the intensification of racism against Muslim communities in the UK’, a report via The Runnymede Trust.
Kendall strongly hints there will be no PIP vouchers, but twice fails to make that promise
Blog by John Pring via Disability News Service.
The light of redemption
A blog by Jerome Sewell via Synergi Project.
The Human Cost of Welfare Reform w/ John Pring
Podcast episode by Death Panel via Soundcloud.
Not All Psychiatric Diagnoses are Created Equal: Comparing Depression and Borderline Personality Disorders
Chapter by Jay Watts in ‘Epistemic Injustice in Mental Healthcare’ via Springer.