Yearly Archives: 2025
Inspiring Community Mental Health Action in Manchester
The positive energy at the recent 'Re-envisioning Mental Health Care' conference organised by the local grassroots group CHARM in Manchester was palpable. Coming up...
Dec 8th: Coming off (and staying off) psychiatric drugs with Anders Sorensen
Part of the AD4E Challenging the culture of diagnosis & disorder! collection
What really happens when coming off psychiatric drugs? Anders Sørensen shares science, support, and...
How do novelists write about characters who are experiencing emotional distress?
I have just finished working on a novel called ‘The Matchbox Girl’ which is a fictional account of the life of the real Dr...
Measuring Time in Doing Things
This piece is an attempt to render, in sensory fragments and poetic prose, the lived reality of someone navigating an altered state of consciousness....
Facing the truth about World Mental Health Day
Eight years ago, on World Mental Health Day 2017, I wrote a piece for Mad in America called World Mental Health Day - Challenging...