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.
Surveillance is not safety: A response to Dewa and colleagues’ paper about passive remote monitoring technology (Oxevision)
Paper by Hat Porter and Bethan Edwards via OSFPreprints.
Green Paper consultation is a “sham”: DR UK submission to Work and Pensions Committee
Blog by and via Disability Rights UK.
NSUN’s April 2025 articles & blogs roundup
Blog by and via NSUN.
Labour’s benefit cuts will cost UK economy billions, charity says
Article by Richard Partington via the Guardian.
Monetising my mental health: the price of trauma
Blog by Yasmin via NSUN.
DWP Pathways to Work Green Paper Harm: We Live In Fear
Anonymous blog via Recovery in the Bin.
Trans community healthcare – an introduction by Dani Singer
A blog by Dani Singer via Healing Justice Ldn
Welfare Reform on the Government’s Terms: Inside the DWP’s ‘sham’ consultation
Blog by Kieran Lewis via NSUN.
The Dynamics of Confession from Psychiatric Services to Digital Activism
A blog by Hazel McMichael via NSUN.
Understanding the barriers and facilitators to delivering peer support effectively in England: a qualitative interview study
Multiply authored article via BMC.
The Silence Feels Safer: Why I Trust ChatGPT More Than Mental Health Services
Blog by Wren Aves via Psychiatry is Driving Me Mad.
“They’re just waiting for her to die”: How austerity turns mental health patients into prisoners
Article by Rebecca Wilks via The Lead.
Reimagining Risk in Mental Health
Blog by Ben Ferry via NSUN.
Mass lobby of MPs marks ‘important’ moment in fight against Labour’s benefit cuts
Blog by John Pring via Disability News Service.