CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Have you taken a benzodiazepine (such as Diazepam, Lorazepam, Clonazepam) and...
Have you taken a benzodiazepine (such as Diazepam, Lorazepam, Clonazepam) and been
off it for a year or more? Would you be willing to talk...
NEW BOOK: Mental Hospitals, Care Homes and Other Stories
This vibrant and challenging book is more than a collection of stories, as it tells a story itself of what went on (and still goes on) out of the public gaze.
When treatment makes you sick: the eating disorder clinic
Of course I wish I had never endured the years of brainwashing and lies in that clinic. But I had the good fortune to get out. I don’t know how to help others being told their ‘eating disorder’ is a lifelong sentence that requires constant management. I have my voice, and I will use it
The Emperor’s New Clothes
I cannot prop up or carry a sham of integrity of us being an Ideal Service. I cannot cover up where we fall short, or pretend that we haven’t done anything that needs to be acknowledged or accounted and apologised for.
Two poems: ‘Skin’ & ‘Darkness.’
SACRED SKIN
As she danced gracefully by me
I saw her sacred satin skin
it was beautifully translucent
but the scars were wearing thin
kris-crossed upon her entity
woven realms...




