“I will listen, I will believe, I will not label distress by any other...
My life started with my mother trying to abort me. I was stubborn even then; I wouldn't go away.
On the day I was born...
Would you like fries with your diagnosis and drugs?
I have worked in the mental (ill) health industry for several decades in various roles. I now work in an IAPT service, meaning Improving...
A Disorder For Everyone Festival – our highlights
This is part two of our highlights of the AD4E Festival 2022 a day of activism, inspiration, panels and talks about challenging the medical...
The Use of Restraint in Mental Health Units in England – The Manifestation of...
The BBC Panorama episode on 28th September, ‘Undercover Hospital: Patients at Risk’ exposed some of the poor practices in an NHS Regional Secure inpatient...
When treatment makes you sick: the eating disorder clinic
Eight years after beginning ‘treatment’ for an ‘eating disorder’, I was eating worse than ever. Yet three years after quitting that ‘treatment’, food is...