It’s no secret that the UK’s welfare system is in a dire state. It’s underfunded and under-resourced, leading to dangerously… more
Mental Healthcare Under Capitalism
Category: General
Job coaches in mental health hospitals — A response to NSUN
On 18th October 2024 NSUN published an online article: ‘Response to plans to introduce job coaches into mental health hospitals’…. more
When World Mental Health Day is over, we will still be Mad
By Gabrielle Johnson, Communications & Membership Manager at NSUN In 2021, NSUN’s former CEO Akiko Hart wrote a blog entitled… more
The PIP overpayment trap for hospitalised recipients: call to form a campaign
What happens when PIP recipients are hospitalised? Have you had experience of calling the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) Helpline while… more
Trauma, mental health and migration
This piece was written in collaboration with The Migrants’ Rights Network. The process of migration and experiences of immigration systems… more
BPD and finding hope from autism self-discovery
Not only had the mental health trust barred me, but they had denied access to my undiscovered authentic autistic self…. more
The challenges faced by those in lived experience roles
This blog post is the text of a thread originally posted on X (formerly Twitter) by @TheTealTigerUK on 30/05/2024, published on the… more
Better together? Community and the mental health lived experience landscape
From April 2023 — March 2024, I worked with NSUN on a piece of research exploring community and the mental… more
‘Like a puppet on a string’: The ‘sick note’ culture, from those who live it
Pushing people off benefits isn’t going to fix a broken economy, and it certainly won’t help the country “level up”; the only way the welfare system can be effective is if the systems that surround it – social care and the NHS – are effective, too…. more
Words Matter: Vulnerability
This piece was written by The Migrants’ Rights Network in collaboration with NSUN as a contribution to MRN’s Words Matter… more
Zine Review: ‘Poems from Inside’ by Nicole Lacey
‘Poems from inside’ by Nicole Lacey is a zine full of scenes from a psychiatric unit, incorporated with poetry describing how being on the inside of a inpatient stay feels like…. more
Research, coercion, and the accountability dance
When research neglects to acknowledge the vast scale, breadth and intrinsic nature of coercion in psychiatry (in all its forms), then the results of studies like these are essentially inadmissible in day-to-day practice…. more