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.
When care restrains: distress, re-traumatisation, and the politics of risk and restrictive practice in inpatient mental health care
Blog by Sophie Lancaster via NSUN.
Leading mental health organisations raise concerns on EHRC Code of Practice
Article by and via Centre for Mental Health.
Government research shows activists were right to warn of impact of DWP work advisers on mental distress
Article by John Pring via Disability News Service.
Is there space for us? Racialised voices in suicide prevention
Blog by Isaac Samuels via NSUN.
“Revising the DSM-VI”: Global perspectives on power and classification from lived expertise leadership
Article by Matthew Jackman et al. via PLOS Mental Health.
Protesters call for an alternative to social media ban for under-16s
Article by Nicole Wootton-Cane via the Independent.
Recap: Madness & Palestinian Liberation with Makan (May 2026 Mad Campaigns Lab)
Blog by and via NSUN.
Surveillance is not safety: a response to Dewa and colleagues’ paper about passive remote monitoring technology (Oxevision)
Article by Hat Porter and Bethan Mair Edwards via Springer Nature Link.
Stop the Palantir NHS Takeover!
Article by Meg Allen via Asylum Magazine.
Supreme Court ruling set to remove vital safeguards for hundreds of thousands of disabled people
Article by John Pring via Disability News Service.
‘The biggest rollback of disability rights in a generation’ – Charities respond to Supreme Court ruling
Statement by Mencap, Mind, and the National Autistic Society via Mind.
Supreme Court ruling ‘opens the door to reduced scrutiny’ and ‘warehousing’ of disabled people
Article by John Pring via Disability News Service.
“Just tune into your body”: mindfulness, commodification, and the limits of body-based advice
Blog by Ria Spooner via NSUN.
NSUN’s May 2026 articles & blogs roundup
Blog by and via NSUN.
A Mad Technoscience Take on AI
Article by Rose Powell and Hat Porter via Asylum Magazine.
Beyond the Ban: what young people want social media to look like
Resource by and via Mad Youth Organise.
NSUN condemns Supreme Court decision to remove ‘Cheshire West’ protections
Statement by and via NSUN.
The “grey space” is not neutral: how mental health systems manufacture crisis
Blog by Georgia Taylor via NSUN.
ICO watchdog opens inquiry into cameras in mental health patients’ bedrooms
Article by Matthew Weaver via the Guardian.
DWP hides secret ‘briefing pack’ which describes views of civil servants on call for benefit deaths inquiry
Article by John Pring via Disability News Service.
Tories pledge to use their disability benefits review to cut ‘welfare’ spending by even more than £23 billion
Article by John Pring via Disability News Service.
“You look great!”: on the visibility of illness
Blog by Caroline Maya via NSUN.
A Tribute to Diana Rose
Tribute by Ayurdhi Dhar via Mad in America.
Meta analysis shows video-based monitoring technology (Oxevision) has no statistically significant association with four of five measures of patient safety
Article by Hat Porter via OSF.
‘Creepy’ Bedroom Surveillance Tech a ‘Clear Legal Risk’ for NHS Trusts
Article by Harriet Williamson via Novara Media.
When I Lie to You
Blog by Graham Morgan via Substack.