Platfform have been allies of A Disorder for Everyone for almost a decade. They are an organisation committed to challenging the culture of diagnosis and disorder and the pathologisng of distress.

Their Truth Project is a great example of an organisational campaign for change and we are delighted to help them share their crucial work by hosting this workshop.

From Platfform

Throughout the mental health system and beyond, people have hugely varied experiences. In a traumatised system, where power is not shared equally, and where people’s voices are not always listened to, it is vital that we bear witness to people’s stories.

Platfform’s Truth Project is our approach to hearing and bearing witness to people’s experiences. We will be looking at different aspects of the mental health system, and more widely, to understand what is happening to people.

From listening, hearing and respecting those stories, we will be able to campaign together for the change we need to see.

In partnership with people who took part in this session we’d like to share our diagnosis of Personality Disorder Truth Project findings and campaigning with you.

This diagnosis doesn’t tell us the full story or the reasons behind people’s distress. In these stories from within the medical system, people share their first-hand experiences, their lives after diagnosis, and the stories that the label can’t tell us. And now we’re sharing them with you.

You can find out more here

At the same time we’ve been calling on Welsh Government to have use of this diagnosis in Wales reviewed. Find out about that here.