I’ve seen first-hand the steady increase and reliance on new technology, which is now wide-spread across NHS mental health wards…. more
Surveillance is not ‘safety’
Category: Mental health care
We should be sceptical of trauma-informed care
Harm is harm, but harm under the guise of being trauma-informed is reprehensible…. more
Misogynoir in healthcare: Reviewing the 2023 Women’s Health Strategy
The barriers Black women encounter when receiving good quality physical and mental healthcare are rooted in factors relating to culture, stigma and misogynoir…. 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
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
Not a naughty child: people’s experiences of service responses to self-injury
Many people have very difficult, sometimes punitive, experiences in A&E and with mental health services… self-injury is still poorly understood and often judged as deliberately manipulative, attention-seeking or time-wasting…… more
When Getting into the Room is the First Hurdle: Lack of Wheelchair Access in Therapy Services
I’ve been turned down by over 100 therapists. Although some turned me down due to lack of availability, a significant… more
Section Zero (indefinite exclusion)
I imagine my past medical notes to be a charge sheet. The charge is that I am dependent, difficult and a time waster. I have no right of reply or appeal. Clinical opinion can never be challenged or erased…. more
My experience of the Community Rehabilitation Service
Community Rehabilitation When people heard that I was being supported by the Community Rehabilitation Service their immediate thought was often… more
Autism and colour in a monochrome anti-neurodivergent psychiatric setting
I knew someone who was detained under the Mental Health Act section 3 for up to 4 years in 8… more
Card Games & Colouring Books: an Inpatient Perspective on being Sectioned
A heavy stillness sits over the ward garden in the blistering summer heat. The black leather bean bag I’m sat… more