The barriers Black women encounter when receiving good quality physical and mental healthcare are rooted in factors relating to culture, stigma and misogynoir…. more
Misogynoir in healthcare: Reviewing the 2023 Women’s Health Strategy
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Navigating class as a lived experience advocate
There’s always an undeniable tension that exists between my class background and career in the mental health sector, between my personal identity and how much I’ve needed to change in order to fit in…. more
Self-harm: misunderstandings about harm minimisation
This blog post is the text of a thread originally posted on Twitter by @jaunty_aphorism on 06/09/2023, published on the… more
‘Being with’ not ‘doing to’: violence, harm, and police involvement in mental health services
Read NSUN’s chapter in ‘Holding Our Own: A guide to non-policing solutions to serious youth violence’ … more
Self-Harm and the Internet: A user-led critique of the proposed Online Safety Bill
An empty reassurance that the Bill would not intend to criminalise those who self-harm would be of no use to us – the experiences of people who self-harm provides ample evidence that if further criminalisation is made possible then it will occur, regardless of the Bill’s intent…. more
Transitioning out of Psychiatry
I want to see better solidarity between trans and Mad movements. I want the critique of psychiatry to support trans people’s needs, and I want trans people to learn from what they share with other psychiatric survivors and service-users…. more
Call for reviewers of mental health research papers
We’re looking for people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress and trauma to summarise and respond to recently published mental health research … more
Understanding the identity of lived experience researchers and providers
The review found themes related to identity development, through the acronym of the EMERGES framework, a novel finding of the review. Themes of Empowerment, Motivation, Empathy of the self and others, Recovery model and medical model, Growth and Transformation, Exclusion and Survivor roots were found…… more
Beyond Serotonin, I’ll see you there
People’s knowledge about their own medication experiences have been devalued, but so has our knowledge that there is so much we need from the people who conduct this research and write these prescriptions…. more
Lived experience work: anti-racism & mental health (podcast)
Kadra Abdinasir and António Ferreira talk to Amy Wells from NSUN about lived experience work at the intersections of anti-racism… more
Tributes: Peter Campbell
Peter Campbell (1949-2022) was a pioneering survivor activist, writer, and poet who spent decades dedicated to collective action…. more
New ways of supporting child abuse & sexual violence survivors in relation to the ‘personality disorder’ construct
Content note: mentions of childhood sexual abuse Sitting in a consultation room with a psychologist and receiving the diagnosis of… more