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.
Labour’s Disability benefit reforms: What they are and what to do about them
Article by and via NSUN.
People caught in ‘damaging cycle’ of re-admittance to mental health services due to a lack of suitable community support, CQC reports
Blog by and via the Care Quality Comission.
The true scale and impact of benefit cuts for ill and disabled people
Article by Tom Pollard, Hollie Wright, Max Mosley, via New Economics Foundation.
Blind people set to lose thousands in benefits still cannot read details of Labour’s welfare reform plans
Article by David Maddox via the Independent.
Reflections from a lived experience professional: from protest lines to being placed under surveillance
Blog by and via Stop Oxevision.
The Possibility of a Lived Experience Industrial Complex
Blog by Charli Clement via NSUN.
‘I’m still sick. I’m still disabled. But I’m proud of my body’: Frances Ryan’s manifesto for disabled women
Article by Frances Ryan via the Guardian.
Disability groups ‘stepping back’ over benefit cuts
Article by Beth Rose and Alex Collins via BBC News.
Secret locations for Green Paper public consultations
Blog by and via Benefits and Work.
An Introduction to Psychiatric Abolition
Blog by Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu and Thokoza Ndlondl via Healing Justice Ldn.
Lived Experience Washing
Blog by Laura via NSUN.
DWP urged to withdraw ‘dangerous’ and ‘inaccessible’ consultation into benefit cuts
Blog by Isabella McRae via The Big Issue.
Labour is peddling the “work cure” for mental health—are we back to Victorian times?
Article by Rhiannon Mihranian Osborne via the bmj.
On giving “evidence”: reflections on the Community Mental Health Services Inquiry
Blog by Courtney Buckler via NSUN.
Irish Travellers and the exploitation of Lived Experience
Blog by Chelsea McDonagh via NSUN.
Can There Be a Lived Experience “Community”
Blog by Leila via NSUN.
UK government’s disability benefit cuts are cruel and unfair
Article via Fazilet Hadi via The BMJ.
Labour struggling to contain benefits rebellion
Article by/via Benefits and Work.
Rainbows in the storm: Navigating hostility and hope in LGBTQ+ lives
Blog by David Woodhead via Centre for Mental Health.
DWP Pathways to Work Green Paper Harm: My Paranoia Has Increased Dramatically
Blog by anonymous via Recovery in the Bin.