“Ideas and recommendations for preparing, organising and delivering online events while prioritising event safety and conduct management. “… more
A guide to online event safety and conduct management for user-led groups
Category: General
An interview with survivor and singer-songwriter, Rai Waddingham
Music and creativity weave through my life in different ways – each of them have helped me continue to exist in a world that I can find overwhelming… more
Alternatives to mental health crisis support: are we asking the right questions?
We need alternatives which don’t yet exist in this country, because the starting point is always to look at what currently exists, rather than ask ourselves instead what is missing…. more
Self-Harm and the Internet: A user-led critique of the proposed Online Safety Bill
An empty reassurance that the Bill would not intend to criminalise those who self-harm would be of no use to us – the experiences of people who self-harm provides ample evidence that if further criminalisation is made possible then it will occur, regardless of the Bill’s intent…. more
Transitioning out of Psychiatry
I want to see better solidarity between trans and Mad movements. I want the critique of psychiatry to support trans people’s needs, and I want trans people to learn from what they share with other psychiatric survivors and service-users…. more
Call for reviewers of mental health research papers
We’re looking for people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress and trauma to summarise and respond to recently published mental health research … more
Who gets believed: abuse in mental health services
In the past couple of months, we have seen exposures of a culture of abuse in mental health services… People on the receiving end of this abuse have spoken out about it for decades. Claims that the investigations are “shocking” are insulting. … more
Understanding the identity of lived experience researchers and providers
The review found themes related to identity development, through the acronym of the EMERGES framework, a novel finding of the review. Themes of Empowerment, Motivation, Empathy of the self and others, Recovery model and medical model, Growth and Transformation, Exclusion and Survivor roots were found…… more
Beyond Serotonin, I’ll see you there
People’s knowledge about their own medication experiences have been devalued, but so has our knowledge that there is so much we need from the people who conduct this research and write these prescriptions…. more
Lived experience work: anti-racism & mental health (podcast)
Kadra Abdinasir and António Ferreira talk to Amy Wells from NSUN about lived experience work at the intersections of anti-racism… more
Tributes: Peter Campbell
Peter Campbell (1949-2022) was a pioneering survivor activist, writer, and poet who spent decades dedicated to collective action…. more
New ways of supporting child abuse & sexual violence survivors in relation to the ‘personality disorder’ construct
Content note: mentions of childhood sexual abuse Sitting in a consultation room with a psychologist and receiving the diagnosis of… more