From now until the end of March, the NSUN team will be undertaking eight weeks of internal strategic work, with… more
Category: General
Not a naughty child: people’s experiences of service responses to self-injury
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
Actions Speak Louder Than Words!
When was the last time you were inspired or offended so much that the offence aroused your passionate sense of… more
When Getting into the Room is the First Hurdle: Lack of Wheelchair Access in Therapy Services
I’ve been turned down by over 100 therapists. Although some turned me down due to lack of availability, a significant… more
Why disability justice is a mental health conversation, and mental health is a disability justice conversation
Ellie Thompson from Diversity and Ability unpacks how mental ill-health, distress and trauma intersect with disablement. As a social enterprise… more
Red flags in funding for grassroots groups (and how to improve) – vlogs
Listen to Beth, Debbie, Hameed, Jessica, Sylvia and Taimour, NSUN members whose grassroots organisations received Side By Side grants, discuss… more
Section Zero (indefinite exclusion)
I imagine my past medical notes to be a charge sheet. The charge is that I am dependent, difficult and a time waster. I have no right of reply or appeal. Clinical opinion can never be challenged or erased…. more
My experience of the Community Rehabilitation Service
Community Rehabilitation When people heard that I was being supported by the Community Rehabilitation Service their immediate thought was often… more
Whiteness as a chemical restraint in the statutory guidance of the Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act 2018
Tribute to Seni’s Law and Aijibola Lewis The last year has witnessed a proliferation of events, funding, and consultations around… more
Cognitive justice and survival
Survivors at the sharp end of oppressive practices and history, don’t need rhetoric, game playing or a supremacist gaze but a compassionate praxis always moving toward justice…. more
Through Pain Unbearable and Impossible to Name
Imagine that this is not how people see you. Imagine that the stain has been washed off. Imagine that you never sat on the pavement while the paramedics laughed and refused to place you in an ambulance and take you to the hospital, to offer care to a homeless body, a corrupt body, a worthless body, an unnecessary body. Imagine that it didn’t strike you as strange even then: the way your friend’s voice rose in a crescendo of disbelief and outrage, the way you couldn’t quite believe it, couldn’t quite emphasize with their pain. As if you had value. As if you were a human being. As if you were worth saving…. more
Why The KillTheBill Movement Affects Everyone
On Monday, the police powers bill that has been the topic of a summer of protest under the #KillTheBill movement… more