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Monday, 03, November, 2025

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...