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.
Labour’s next round of benefit cuts risks hitting 600,000 disabled people
Blog by Chaminda Jayanetti via Big Issue.
NSUN’s August 2025 articles & blogs roundup
Blog by and via NSUN.
Shock and anger after DWP imposes gagging order on disabled members of its new advice panel
Blog by John Pring via Disability News Service.
The Silencing of Health Workers Who Speak Up for Palestine
Article by H. Akhrouf via Jacobin.
‘Where is the help for me here?’ Female domestic violence survivors’ narratives of navigating and receiving secondary-care mental health services in the United Kingdom
Research paper by Megan Webb, Anne Cooke and Angela Sweeney via SAGE.
‘I’m meant to be the success story, and I can’t be failing’
Blog by Emma Watson via Journal of Recovery in Mental Health.
Migration and mental health: why we won’t stop talking about it
Blog by Kieran Lewis via NSUN.
Exploring Disability and Abortion in the United Kingdom
A Report by Cysters and the Ad’iyah Collective.
Justice for Adam
A blog by Joe Loughnane via Asylum Magazine.
Refusal to treat DID? An open letter to Livewell Southwest
A blog by and via DissociatingThroughLife.
Mumma No More
Blog by Penelope Peach via Asylum Magazine.
Who decides the value of lived experience? It is them, not us
Blog by Zahra via NSUN.
Disabled people of colour speak of terror and safety fears after mass far-right protest
Blog by John Pring via Disability News Service.
Deaths by Design
Resource by and via Healing Justice Ldn.
When Lived Experience Work Doesn’t Feel Like a Choice
Blog by Emily Katy via NSUN.
Crackdown on protest targets autistic young man
Blog by and via Asylum Magazine.
Accessing Justice
Resource by and via Healing Justice Ldn.
Institutional Abuse, Neglect and Harm in UK Community Mental Health Services: A Scoping Review of the Peer-Reviewed Evidence
Review article by Bethan M. Edwards et al. via WILEY.
Rethinking LGBTQ+ ‘Safe Spaces’ in Policy and Practice
Blog by PJ Annand and Lucy Wood via the Polyphony.
UN calls for human rights assessment of government’s benefit cuts bill and mental health reforms
Blog by John Pring via Disability News Service.