Category: Mental health care

British Institute of Human Rights launches “Know Your Human Rights” self-advocacy tool This week the British Institute of Human Rights… more

I’m what’s known as a high functioning Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) sufferer. That’s what I was told many years ago… more

Against the backdrop of `mental health awareness week’ I am feeling suicidal. My life has no purpose or meaning, and… more

I never met my grandfather. He died in 1954, long before I was born. I know that he was a… more

Laura Lord and Nicola Gale (both of the University of Birmingham) wrote a paper “Subjective experience or objective process: ”Understanding… more

A place of safety. It should have been. Where someone at their most vulnerable, after an overdose, due to mental… more

A blog by Phoenix Ashes (@PhoenixAshes82) I am a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. That’s not what this blog is… more

A blog by Scheherazade, on the launch of the recently published Power Threat Meaning Framework 2018 has started with a… more

20th June 1973, Ward 15, Friern Barnet Hospital to be precise. It took 20 years but the experience changed my… more

Martyn has been an advocacy campaigner for over 15 years. He runs True Voice as an independent consultant and continues… more

(Originally written for Dina’s blog in Asylum magazine) It has been announced that from autumn 2018 the Department of Health… more

Joy Hibbins, who runs a Suicide Crisis Centre primarily set up to support people who do not access other services,… more