Here are all the articles, blogs, vlogs, and podcasts (and more) that we’ve shared in our weekly bulletins this month. The main focus of this section in our bulletin is to share new, first person pieces written or made by people within and beyond our membership who have lived experience of mental ill-health, trauma, or distress, as well as relevant articles about news and policy in mental health from sources such as Disability News Service.
We’ll be posting this roundup at the end of each month as a way to further bring together, amplify and also archive current, lived experience-focussed voices and perspectives in mental health.
The Assisted Suicide Bill w/ Ellen Clifford
A podcast episode by Red Medicine.
DWP blew tens of millions in taxpayer cash on fighting disability benefit claims
A blog by Isabella McRae via the Big Issue.
A Family Sentence: The Hidden Impact of Parental Imprisonment
A blog by Jemmar Samuels via Synergi Project.
Rememberance As Resistance podcast: Hamja Ahsan
Podcast bySynergi project via Spotify.
A brief critique of the pseudo-diagnosis ‘complex emotional needs’
Article by Hat Porter, Bethan Edwards, Nell Head and Jee Smith via the British Journal of Psychiatry.
Bank surveillance bill could lead to greatest miscarriage of justice in British history, disabled activist tells MPs
Blog by John Pring via Disability News Service.
How learning about disabled trans figures from history made me feel less alone
A blog by Ree Young via QueerAF.
How Reflective Practice Groups can support Co-production Specialists
A blog by and via Co-production Works.
Falling in Love with Neurodivergence
A blog by Aiyana Goodfellow via NSUN.
43 per cent of people claiming benefits have had thoughts of self-harm in the last fortnight
Blog by Professor Ben Baumberg Geiger via King’s College London.
Trauma, Mental Health and Migration Zine
Zine by and via Migrants’ Rights Network, co-authored with NSUN
OPEN LETTER: Patients and staff call on new NHS England boss to block new private finance in the NHS
Open letter by and via We Own It.
Exploring experiences and barriers in seeking mental health support among male asylum seekers in hotel accommodations
Report by Ernest James Ulaya and Mildred Nanteza via Migrants’ Rights Network.
Guest Editorial: Stop Oxevision
Blog by Stop Oxevision via Asylum Magazine.
“You could just listen to me”: the erasure of lived experience in healthcare
Blog by Jay via NSUN.
Labour mollifies the rich, targets disabled people and claims moral justification. There isn’t any
Article by Frances Ryan via the Guardian.
Over 30 charities urge DWP to prevent debt caused by government mistakes
Joint letter via the Public Law Project.
Lived Experience is Not Enough: the Illusion of Inclusion in Mental Health Spaces
Blog by Chris Frederick via NSUN.
We can force government to back down over benefit cuts ‘if we turn anger into action’, say activists
A blog by John Pring via Disability News Service.
Benefits cuts driven by need to meet fiscal rules rather than support for ill and disabled, NEF warns
A press release by and via New Economics Foundation.
Initial reaction: NSUN responds to the Pathways to Work Green Paper
Statement by and via NSUN.
Zine Alchemy, Part 2: a story about the healing power of making a zine
A blog by Dal Kular via the Synergi Project.
Staff controlled surveillance is not safety
An anonymous blog via Stop Oxevision.
Referring to your lived experience without self-reflection and accountability
A blog by C. C. da Cunha Lewin via NSUN.
Ask your MP to oppose dangerous cuts to disability benefits
Petition by and via Z2K.
Experiences of menstrual health and amenorrhoea in eating disorder inpatient units in England: a subgroup analysis from a lived experience led, qualitative study
Research paper by Hat Porter via Research Square.
Is it safe? Is it spying? Disquiet over NHS ‘magic eye’ surveillance camera in mental health units
Article by Jon Ungoed-Thomas, Lucas Amin and Natasha Ion via the Guardian.