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Home > Articles by: Gabrielle Johnson

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NSUN’s April 2023 articles & blogs roundup

Posted on 30 Apr 2023 (2 May 2023)

“Here are all the articles, blogs, vlogs, and podcasts 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.”… more

Posted in Monthly blogs roundupsTagged articles, blogs, lived experience, mental health

An interview with survivor and singer-songwriter, Rai Waddingham

Posted on 26 Apr 2023 (19 Feb 2025)

Music and creativity weave through my life in different ways – each of them have helped me continue to exist in a world that I can find overwhelming… more

Posted in Creativity and mental healthTagged creativity, mental health, music

An interview with emerging outsider artist, Mud

Posted on 11 Apr 2023 (27 Jul 2023)

Art speaks where words fail, though sometimes they work in conjunction. Facilitating these tough discussions through a visual medium is my way of helping the mental health community. … more

Posted in Creativity and mental healthTagged art, community, creativity, lived experience, mental health

NSUN’s March 2023 articles & blogs roundup

Posted on 31 Mar 2023 (31 Mar 2023)

“Here are all the articles, blogs, vlogs, and podcasts 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.”… more

Posted in Monthly blogs roundupsTagged articles, blogs, lived experience, mental health

Unionisation options for lived experience workers

Posted on 29 Mar 2023 (10 Apr 2024)

“Contemplation of the different ways in which lived experience workers might become unionised, and hopefully gain power in the workplace, can open up further critical thinking about a politics of mental health and how this might be advanced by progressive trade unions.”… more

Posted in Mental health and industrial actionTagged lived experience, mental health, NHS, strike action, trade unions, work

Distress and dissent within and beyond healthcare

Posted on 14 Mar 2023 (10 Apr 2024)

“Strikes by healthcare workers can open up the space to question an economy which creates sickness, deprives people of the care they need to heal, and punishes those it deems ‘unhealthy’.”… more

Posted in Mental health and industrial actionTagged mental health, NHS, precarity, strike action, trade unions, work

Book Review – The Muslim, State and Mind

Posted on 8 Mar 2023 (8 Mar 2023)

“As societal objects of fear, even the “best Muslim” will never be good enough to escape scrutiny and pathologisation/criminalisation through psychology and the justice system…”… more

Posted in Book reviewTagged mental health, State and Mind, Tarek Younis, The Muslim

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