Read NSUN’s chapter in ‘Holding Our Own: A guide to non-policing solutions to serious youth violence’ … more
‘Being with’ not ‘doing to’: violence, harm, and police involvement in mental health services
Category: Mental health care
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
My experience of being sectioned
The story I am autistic. I didn’t know I was autistic until I was almost 17. This played a major… more
Let me die, before I am killed
Let me die, before I am killed – a black male schizophrenic plea in relation to the Mental Health Act… more
Another shocking scandal – why does this keep happening?
The news of yet another scandal involving the “physical and emotional abuse” of people with learning difficulties has sent shock… more
‘Call Before You Walk’ for A&E – how will this impact treatment for self-harm?
As an experience-led self-harm support organisation, the issue of how people are treated in A&E for self-harm has been an… more