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.
Better together? Community and the mental health lived experience landscape
A blog by Courtney Buckler via NSUN.
Statement on non-camera based surveillance
Blog by and via Stop Oxevision.
Police still being used in ‘punitive’ NHS mental health schemes, says report
A blog by John Pring via Disability News Service.
NSUN’s April 2024 articles & blogs roundup
A blog by and via NSUN.
“We were given leaflets which included a photo of what staff would be able to see; a clear CCTV image of a patient in their bedroom”
A blog by and via Stop Oxevision.
Better together? Community and the mental health lived experience landscape
A blog by Courtney Buckler via NSUN.
PIP claimants ask government: ‘Why should we have to fight to live?’
A blog by John Pring via Disability News Service.
NSUN Responds: Mental health and benefits reform
A statement via NSUN.
“These cameras would be able to see inside patient bathrooms… you could watch a patient’s every last movement”
A blog via Stop Oxevision.
Mental Health Awareness Week: The Exclusion of Mental Illness and What We Should Be Talking About
A blog by Emily via Authentically Emily.
The epistemic injustice of borderline personality disorder
An article by Jay Watts via Cambridge University Press.
Psychiatric patients denied period products ‘for safety reasons’
An article by Rachel Stonehouse via BBC News.
Madzines as Restorative Objects
A blog by Hel Spandler via Madzine Research.
Shape Arts brings the Disability Arts Movement to Venice in a hostile takeover
A review by Joe Turnbull via Disability Arts Online.
Psychiatric patient made to pull down her pants to ‘prove’ she was on her period
An article by Katie Boyden via METRO.