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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Kadra Abdinasir and António Ferreira talk to Amy Wells from NSUN about lived experience work at the intersections of anti-racism… more
Peter Campbell (1949-2022) was a pioneering survivor activist, writer, and poet who spent decades dedicated to collective action…. more
Content note: mentions of childhood sexual abuse Sitting in a consultation room with a psychologist and receiving the diagnosis of… more
From now until the end of March, the NSUN team will be undertaking eight weeks of internal strategic work, with… more
Many people have very difficult, sometimes punitive, experiences in A&E and with mental health services… self-injury is still poorly understood and often judged as deliberately manipulative, attention-seeking or time-wasting…… more
