Category: Mental health care

In 2016 my entire world shrunk overnight. I went from a healthy, active thirteen-year-old to being completely unable to walk… more

I’ve been back in secondary care mental health services as a patient for almost 18 months and I’ve been reminded… more

At what point does a person stop being someone in distress and become a case number to be managed? Mental… more

New research published by mental health charity Mind in July 2026 suggests growing numbers of people are turning to AI… more

More than a decade has passed since Parliament abolished the Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence, yet almost 2,000 people… more

CAPITAL is a small lived experience-led charity based in West Sussex. Emerging in the mid 1990s, it started from modest… more

I was recently on an episode of The Radical Therapist, talking to Dr. Chris Hoff about youth mental health activism,… more

A new paper by developmental psychologist Uta Frith claims that the diagnostic threshold for autism has become ‘too broad’, to… more

Being discharged from mental health services for non-engagement is often presented as a neutral administrative outcome. It appears in clinical… more

I began engaging in lived experience work as a 15 year-old driven by a desperation to ensure no one else… more

A statement I have probably heard more variations of in the last two years than in my entire life. I… more

The “grey space” between CAMHS and adult mental health services is often described as an administrative gap. In reality, it… more