Very important read. 👏

Organisations that talk about AI in social work aren’t really interested in helping people. It’s a mask for filtering, denying, sifting out, redirecting, referring on and ultimately avoiding the human contact that they are funded to provide.

The making of my new album ‘Rainbows in the Road’

Very proud of the very smart and very beautiful Laura Delano who has a very compelling reflection on the current state of mental health culture in the Washington Post today washingtonpost.com/books/2024/12/…

Culture minister Chris Bryant (Chris Bryant) has announced an extra £5 million for creativity in Bradford on the eve of its year as City of Culture 👇 thestage.co.uk/news/last-minu…

Natalie Bloomer Jess Phillips Extraordinary politician & person, especially in these times Here's #JessPhillips on Newsnight last night It's worth listening to the full 10 minutes with Victoria Derbyshire bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod… via BBC iPlayer

Sue Skinner Ben England BEM 🎶 Sue that's a beautiful and very thoughtful revue of an album that should go far. It's a tribute to your talent, flair and determination. Well done!

Through the most formative years of my life, I unquestioningly accepted the story I was taught about myself by the mental health industry-- that my intense despair and overwhelming sense of immobiliziation and meaningless and suicidal feelings were simply symptoms of faulty brain

New: “I was desperate and afraid. I was emotionally unstable in emotionally unstable times, and my psychiatrist decided this temporary reaction to a series of huge stressors was now my permanent state of being”. Devastating and 🙌 (((Scout Tzofiya Bolton))) #TraumaNotPD tinyurl.com/4mbhmxeh

Join our UK conference Psychosis: Beyond Them & Us, 14th May, Manchester! With the innovative #Trialogue approach we will explore differences & work towards allyship - workers, family & lived experience welcome. #ISPS #Psychosis #MentalHealth #OpenDialogue eventbrite.co.uk/e/psychosis-be…

Why calls for a ban on cousin marriage are misguided ⁦The Yorkshire Post⁩

Her findings contradicted conventional beliefs that only a few people diagnosed with schizophrenia ever recovered... Rather than celebrate the good outcomes for the patients, establishment psychiatry was furious with her for upsetting their beliefs.... madinamerica.com/2025/03/explod…

Context on this piece 'For Your Own Safety' I asked people who had been in a psychiatric ward to share an experience which I could embroider to make a shared piece. Each piece of fabric is a different person's experience of being treated in hospital in the UK.

How many times do you have to be told BBC Breakfast? It is not ‘the conflict with Russia’. It is Russia’s war in Ukraine. Language is extra important when Kremlin propaganda denying that Russia is the aggressor spews forth from Trump et al. #RussiaIsATerroristState 💙💛

“I feel for psychiatry,” says Delano. “It’s a big ask we’re putting on them, to basically step back and consider that their entire paradigm of care is inadvertently causing harm to a lot of people.” On withdrawing from psych-drugs 👇 nytimes.com/2025/03/17/hea…

From my new book, #Unshrunk: "I can't help but wonder if [John Gunderson] saw me pulling away from his program-- no longer feeling dependent on my team, newly challenging their pharmaceutical recommendations, and questioning the proclamations they were making of me, my

Millions, literally, need information and resources to help them safely withdraw from psychiatric drugs. Please donate to iipdw.org Thank you.

L.E.D lights You should check the Soteria Network to see if they have anything for you. They have a lot of resources around the world. I run a group, but live in BC, Canada. Link: soterianetwork.org.uk