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Network of people & groups with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress & trauma. Shifting power & resource in mental health. Host @SynergiProject linktr.ee/NationalSurviv… England Joined December 2010-
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The prime minister has been accused of whipping up hostility towards disabled people, and demonising and scapegoating claimants of disability benefits, with a new series of “chilling” social security reforms. #RishiSunak Pic by Simon Walker/No 10 buff.ly/3JyO44r
Cops, coercion and criminalisation have no place in crisis care! We call for accountability and for an end to these practices. Join the Criminalising Distress report launch event TONIGHT at 7pm for an in depth discussion! medact.org/event/criminal…
"This is another shocking example of unaccountable private companies like Cygnet putting profit before patient safety. We can no longer tolerate the use of public money to fund private provisions which are failing to keep people safe." #mentalhealth #mentalillness
"This is another shocking example of unaccountable private companies like Cygnet putting profit before patient safety. We can no longer tolerate the use of public money to fund private provisions which are failing to keep people safe." #mentalhealth #mentalillness
👇Read our response to the UNCRPD report below
#CRDP24 Dpac members will not be at all surprised to learn that the UK government has failed to take the necessary actions to address the grave and systematic human rights violations towards disabled people You can read the report here tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/Tr…
#WCAConsultation News Breaking - DWP will be forced to justify its inadequate consultation on the WCA reform in Court
#WCAConsultation News Breaking - DWP will be forced to justify its inadequate consultation on the WCA reform in Court
Hello👋🏾 from 1st May our Second Small Grants Fund will be open for applications! 🏆We will be awarding up to £5,000 to groups that work at intersection between #abolition #mentalhealth #racialjustice 📆Application deadline is 30th May #grantsfunding #grassroots #smallgrant
👇Read the Disability and Migration Network's response to the Rwanda Bill: "The rights of Disabled people and migrants are not separate issues." disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabilit… @bdascasylum @Dis_PPL_Protest @JCWI_UK @migrantsorg @MiMoBristol @NSUNnews @raparuk @disabmurals
New on the website: a template for making a complaint about Oxevision or similar surveillance. Please share with people who may find it useful stopoxevision.com/complaints-tem…
📣Upcoming survivor researcher community gathering: Celebrate the launch of a range of new survivor research resources survivorresearch.org 📅3rd May ⏲️ 11am-2pm 🏥 The Science Gallery London @SciGalleryLon To attend please contact Angie Sweeney: [email protected]
Dr Jay Watts @Shrink_at_Large
37K Followers 9K Following Consultant clinical psychologist/ activist/ neuroqueer bluestocking. Former Lived Experience Worker. Future failed poet. Will question ideology for cake ❤️ 🥄🎭
Recovery in the Bin #.. @RITB_
12K Followers 1K Following User Led critical theorist & activist group. Anti-Ableist. #StopSim #Neorecovery #PdInTheBin https://t.co/L4jyTzOJ5R
Wren @jaunty_aphorism
5K Followers 1K Following Lesbian 🏳️🌈 | Autistic | Mad™ | PTSD/DID | She/They | Sometimes there's no words. But silence is still talking | #StopSIM #JusticeForZoe
Rachel @RRowanOlive
6K Followers 2K Following Give it to the lesbians, they love a banner | Rent-a-mental (autistic type): research/art/writing | Linguistics, disability, psy disciplines | Trustee @NSUNNews
Keir Harding @Keirwales
17K Followers 5K Following Occupational Therapist Providing training, consultancy & alternatives to long term hospitalisation for those who self harm and are recurrently suicidal
louis appleby @ProfLAppleby
35K Followers 2K Following researcher & govt adviser on suicide prevention & mental health. may also tweet on nature, arts & whatever happens.
Fluctuating levels of.. @TraumaPhDandMe
5K Followers 3K Following PhD drop-out. Now a bit broken/lost. Lesbian. She/Her. Depression/trauma/a bit mad. 🏳️🌈🌻🎠 (Advanced warning: I'm beyond terrible at DMs!)
Hollie @HoppyPelican
7K Followers 5K Following Activist. Lived Experience Lead. Consultant LXP. Psychology Grad. Integrative Counsellor. Sweary Leftist. 🏳️🌈
Dr Chloe Beale 🏳�.. @DrChloeBeale
10K Followers 574 Following Consultant liaison psychiatrist. Mental capacity law bore. Fond of a lengthy jog. May contain cats
Mental Health @Sectioned_
36K Followers 731 Following Languishing | #DustbinPatient | #PillShaming (yes it was me) | #HeadClutcher | #SkankyMental | #ptsd from psychiatric detention | 🏊♀️🚴 CN: my whole timeline
Peter Beresford @BeresfordPeter
19K Followers 21K Following service user activist,mental health, disability, welfare issues, committed to participation, UEA, Essex and Brunel University London, Co-chair Shaping Our Lives
Rethink Mental Illnes.. @Rethink_
248K Followers 4K Following Leading the way to a better life for everyone affected by mental illness. This account is monitored 9-5, Monday-Friday. 🔗 Linktree: https://t.co/NkhRKsalC9
Asylum Magazine @AsylumMagUK
9K Followers 2K Following The radical mental health magazine. Distributed by @pccsbooks.Retweets and likes do not equal endorsement. Email- [email protected]
James Downs @jamesldowns
16K Followers 5K Following Mental health writer, researcher, expert by experience. Professionally & pathologically flexible. Creative arts. Practicing courage, creativity, compassion.
The Mental Elf @Mental_Elf
103K Followers 27K Following Follow me to keep up-to-date with reliable #MentalHealth research. Coming soon: #ImproveAct Manchester #BIGSPD24 Belfast #BAP2024 Birmingham
The Power Threat Mean.. @PTMFramework
33K Followers 1K Following A conceptual alternative to psychiatric diagnosis.
sloth communism @DrRJChapman
10K Followers 2K Following Philosopher (derogatory) | Order EMPIRE OF NORMALITY: NEURODIVERSITY AND CAPITALISM https://t.co/bZN59Y9Q0h | they/them | @[email protected]
Indigo Daya @IndigoDaya
9K Followers 4K Following she/her | cis | Mad artist & activist | Emancipatory peer support | Survivor of child sexual abuse & carceral psychiatry | PhD candidate: #SliceSilence project
Centre for Mental Hea.. @CentreforMH
61K Followers 2K Following Speaking up for social justice in mental health.
Lisa Archibald @lisa_IPS
13 Followers 134 Following Proud Scot, Activist, Co-Director of #IntentionalPeerSupport Solo Mum, global adventurer and animal lover 🐈⬛ 🐇🐁🦋🐷🦄🐐🐾🐝🐕🦔🐿️🦝🦡🐂🫎🐒🦍🦖🐙🐘🦙🦘🦞🦓
micah (he/him) @youngsickbachus
0 Followers 13 Following 21 🎠 transmisogyny exempt 🎠 white-appearing (black/white)
EPiCHOPEUK @EPiCHOPEUK
200 Followers 299 Following EPiC HOPE CIC is a suicide prevention/mental health non-profit organisation serving Wigan, Leigh and the boroughs. EPiC HOPE Harbours + Circuits.
Kim B @KimB70135696
0 Followers 5 Following
jak @JakHC
204 Followers 3K Following
Pilgrim Tucker 💚 @PilgrimTucker
9K Followers 6K Following PhD researcher working on the history of housing policy and politics in North Kensington
Samuel Centre for Soc.. @sconnectedness
4K Followers 2K Following Working together to overcome isolation, build social connection and belonging. Founder Kim Samuel's book ON BELONGING is out now!
phyllida @PhyllidaJ80017
3 Followers 40 Following maker of stuff, petter of dogs. here to lurk not to post. she/they
Jaz | Free Palestine .. @ChronicIconic_
7 Followers 41 Following Socialist | Intersectional feminist | Queer | Disabled | Chronically ill | Survived abuse. We need to build a better, kinder world. #BLM #MeToo #ToriesOut
Linzi @linzi_mcintosh
351 Followers 4K Following Mother of multiple disabilities including Hypermobility, fibromyalgia, to mention a few. All daughter health struggles. EDS. Autism. Gillian Barre' syndrome
🦋BeverleyButterfly.. @bloomingmindxx
2K Followers 4K Following Disabled vintage witch|🦋thrifting crafting & witchcraft|🦋Blogger|You Tuber 🦋 Art Glamour Witch
I-CANN @ICANN_Advocacy
583 Followers 732 Following Charitable advocacy organisation empowering and supporting people in Lancashire. CIO Number: 1200221
Marian Pagan @paganmarian1
87 Followers 208 Following Raving wheelchair user with psychiatric labels. All unpalatable views are quoted from someone else, all witty, clever and original ones are entirely my own.
David Lessard-Gauvin @DLG1984
47 Followers 2K Following 🇨🇦Fr/Eng. Intérêts: Justice sociale, ÉDI, accès à la justice, sanisme, homophobie, classisme... Interests: Social Justice,DEI,#A2J, sanism,homophobia,classism
The Muslim Lived Expe.. @MuslimLXNetwork
3 Followers 22 Following The Muslim Lived Experience Network 📿☂️ Building a peer-led community of healthy and resilient Muslim minds 🌤️🌳
"What is a Crisis Hou.. @crisishouses
1 Followers 43 Following PhD research project on residential #crisishouses in England and Wales. Funded by @KESS_Central
Serena Short - McIllw.. @SCMcillwraith
420 Followers 3K Following Mom 2 Learning Disabled Mental health Beautiful person - my world, I worked 25 yrs body said not no more by 45 Severe lifelong disability Justice/Equality NOW
Siân 🏳️🌈�.. @Sian_L_S
3K Followers 2K Following Working class woman. In that order. White antiracist. Mother. Sex trade abolitionist. Angry yet hopeful.
Chops💙 @Chops70936234
196 Followers 915 Following
Heidi Gomm @gommheidi1
137 Followers 444 Following Passionate about truth telling + failures in Mental Health. Wish to remember Sam Gomm and help others with a memorial and garden for the bereaved.
Lizzie stephens @Lizziestep43071
22 Followers 104 Following proud mum of 2, wife, mental health nurse 😁🦕🦄 lover of rainbows, cake and muddy walks
Bayo @Bayo__UK
1 Followers 87 Following A space to find collectives, organisations and services from across the UK -- for the Black community -- to support our mental health
Migrant Destitution F.. @MigrantFundGM
535 Followers 458 Following A fund for people living in GM who are made destitute by the UK immigration & asylum system. Cash grants/Partnership/Advocacy Administered by @McrCommCentral
Becca Jiggens should .. @beccajiggens
5K Followers 3K Following Disability / Law / Employment: research - practice - activism. PhD at Leeds. Anti-genocide. All views my own & shared by my employer, who is also me. She/Her.
AVeryVeryVeryDoneBlon.. @blonde_done
271 Followers 285 Following (they/them). Proudly banned from Leicestershire. #ActuallyAutistic. ACAB & ACAT forever. One Planet, One People, United We Stand 💚 ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼
William Gilmour @RealGilmour
428 Followers 886 Following He/Them | Director @SaferUseDotScot | Strategic Intern @LeadersUnlocked | Psychotherapy Student | #StopTheDeaths
c @77845a
296 Followers 1K Following
Juan Carlos Rincón E.. @jkrincon
175K Followers 4K Following Mis opiniones no representan a mis gatas. Editor de Opinión en @elespectador. Cocreador de #LaPulla, @lapuesverdad. Hicimos un libro sobre salud mental.
Vicky Shenton @shenton_vicky
53 Followers 640 Following
Janet Garner @JMGarner5
189 Followers 240 Following Co-ordinator of service user and carer involvement at the University of Central Lancashire, mother, daughter, sister and now, Doctor of Professional Practice!
gw @gwanony_
486 Followers 3K Following think for yourself; RT may or may not be (qualified) endorsement
Charlie Kiley @ItsCharlieKiley
5 Followers 74 Following 🌻 Chronically ill AuDHDer | Devon 🧠 Speaker, Activist, Consultant 💌 [email protected]
James Poulter @JamesMPoulter
3 Followers 16 Following
Deprescribe Matrix �.. @JosephHarvey01
1K Followers 638 Following Patient-Expert in Deprescription & De-diagnosis | For consultation, resources, and my story, DM or contact me at: [email protected]
Wakefield Growing Hea.. @wakefield0_19
298 Followers 391 Following NHS Health visitors & school nurses supporting the health and wellbeing needs of children and young people aged 0-19. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm. Call us on 0300 373 0944
May @May30781860
16 Followers 324 Following
Lawrence Janes @AutisticLaw
50 Followers 190 Following
UnisResistBorders #We.. @UnisNotBorders
6K Followers 3K Following Unis Resist Border Controls opposes any complicity with border controls on British university campuses. RT=/= endorsement. #BordersKillKnowledge
Lewis Anstee @AnsteeLewi76056
21 Followers 36 Following
thewellbeingconsultan.. @thewellbeingco5
313 Followers 3K Following Rethinking chat on Child Psychotherapy in a fast changing and difficult world. Mum, runner, tea drinker, business owner.
fawn @splendid_fairy
62 Followers 51 Following they/them/their(s) // trying to figure out how to exist after 10+ years of isolation due to abuse and mh issues // queer, brainweird, scared but surviving
Jefferson @jeffbrooke29
332 Followers 530 Following Advocate for mad rights, Mental Health Anarchist, Peer Solidarity, Mutual Aid for All, Love my cats
bipolar @damienlucas77
2K Followers 5K Following #mentalhealth#bipolar#bipolardisorder#anxiety#depression#mentalhealthmatters#mentalillness#stress#mentalhealthsupport#suicideprevention#mania
Momento @Join_Momento
5 Followers 21 Following Feeling it? Share it! Express yourself with emotions, not just words. Momento!
Shevonne Matheiken (s.. @GoCarpediumDoc
5K Followers 5K Following Psychiatry Registrar (doctor) 🇮🇳 🇬🇧 IMG. Mum #Neurodiversity #ChoosePsychiatry #YouAreNotAlonePodcast #Inclusion #NHSCEP8 #Stigma
Dr Jay Watts @Shrink_at_Large
37K Followers 9K Following Consultant clinical psychologist/ activist/ neuroqueer bluestocking. Former Lived Experience Worker. Future failed poet. Will question ideology for cake ❤️ 🥄🎭
Recovery in the Bin #.. @RITB_
12K Followers 1K Following User Led critical theorist & activist group. Anti-Ableist. #StopSim #Neorecovery #PdInTheBin https://t.co/L4jyTzOJ5R
Wren @jaunty_aphorism
5K Followers 1K Following Lesbian 🏳️🌈 | Autistic | Mad™ | PTSD/DID | She/They | Sometimes there's no words. But silence is still talking | #StopSIM #JusticeForZoe
Rachel @RRowanOlive
6K Followers 2K Following Give it to the lesbians, they love a banner | Rent-a-mental (autistic type): research/art/writing | Linguistics, disability, psy disciplines | Trustee @NSUNNews
Keir Harding @Keirwales
17K Followers 5K Following Occupational Therapist Providing training, consultancy & alternatives to long term hospitalisation for those who self harm and are recurrently suicidal
louis appleby @ProfLAppleby
35K Followers 2K Following researcher & govt adviser on suicide prevention & mental health. may also tweet on nature, arts & whatever happens.
Fluctuating levels of.. @TraumaPhDandMe
5K Followers 3K Following PhD drop-out. Now a bit broken/lost. Lesbian. She/Her. Depression/trauma/a bit mad. 🏳️🌈🌻🎠 (Advanced warning: I'm beyond terrible at DMs!)
Hollie @HoppyPelican
7K Followers 5K Following Activist. Lived Experience Lead. Consultant LXP. Psychology Grad. Integrative Counsellor. Sweary Leftist. 🏳️🌈
Dr Chloe Beale 🏳�.. @DrChloeBeale
10K Followers 574 Following Consultant liaison psychiatrist. Mental capacity law bore. Fond of a lengthy jog. May contain cats
Mental Health @Sectioned_
36K Followers 731 Following Languishing | #DustbinPatient | #PillShaming (yes it was me) | #HeadClutcher | #SkankyMental | #ptsd from psychiatric detention | 🏊♀️🚴 CN: my whole timeline
Peter Beresford @BeresfordPeter
19K Followers 21K Following service user activist,mental health, disability, welfare issues, committed to participation, UEA, Essex and Brunel University London, Co-chair Shaping Our Lives
Rethink Mental Illnes.. @Rethink_
248K Followers 4K Following Leading the way to a better life for everyone affected by mental illness. This account is monitored 9-5, Monday-Friday. 🔗 Linktree: https://t.co/NkhRKsalC9
Asylum Magazine @AsylumMagUK
9K Followers 2K Following The radical mental health magazine. Distributed by @pccsbooks.Retweets and likes do not equal endorsement. Email- [email protected]
James Downs @jamesldowns
16K Followers 5K Following Mental health writer, researcher, expert by experience. Professionally & pathologically flexible. Creative arts. Practicing courage, creativity, compassion.
The Mental Elf @Mental_Elf
103K Followers 27K Following Follow me to keep up-to-date with reliable #MentalHealth research. Coming soon: #ImproveAct Manchester #BIGSPD24 Belfast #BAP2024 Birmingham
The Power Threat Mean.. @PTMFramework
33K Followers 1K Following A conceptual alternative to psychiatric diagnosis.
sloth communism @DrRJChapman
10K Followers 2K Following Philosopher (derogatory) | Order EMPIRE OF NORMALITY: NEURODIVERSITY AND CAPITALISM https://t.co/bZN59Y9Q0h | they/them | @[email protected]
Indigo Daya @IndigoDaya
9K Followers 4K Following she/her | cis | Mad artist & activist | Emancipatory peer support | Survivor of child sexual abuse & carceral psychiatry | PhD candidate: #SliceSilence project
Centre for Mental Hea.. @CentreforMH
61K Followers 2K Following Speaking up for social justice in mental health.
Bayo @Bayo__UK
1 Followers 87 Following A space to find collectives, organisations and services from across the UK -- for the Black community -- to support our mental health
TransActualCIC @TransActualCIC
518 Followers 439 Following Advocating, informing and empowering. By trans people, for trans people. Press: [email protected] Social media policy: https://t.co/HKqhbTzaeh
Trans Safety Network @trans_safety
30K Followers 163 Following Monitoring organised harm against trans people in the UK. Donate: https://t.co/FCki86QgOF
ImogenDay @imogendayx
136 Followers 91 Following Mental Health, Disability and Anti-Austerity Campaigner. Sister of Philippa Day. All views my own.
fawn @splendid_fairy
62 Followers 51 Following they/them/their(s) // trying to figure out how to exist after 10+ years of isolation due to abuse and mh issues // queer, brainweird, scared but surviving
AHPN @AHPN
502 Followers 596 Following The African Health Policy Network (AHPN) campaign to improve the health and wellbeing of Africans living in the UK, and to reduce health inequalities
HUMBER ALL NATIONS AL.. @all_humber
308 Followers 570 Following HANA is a specialist infrastructure organisation supporting members of the BAME Communities and Associations particularly in the Humber Region.
We Belong @WeBelong19
5K Followers 1K Following We're young migrants and proud to call the UK home. We're campaigning to get out of the Home Office loop and on with our lives. #OutOfTheLoop #OnWithOurLives
Middle Eastern Women .. @MewsOrg
936 Followers 1K Following MEWSo supports Middle Eastern, North African & Asian women in London to rebuild their lives. We fight to end harmful practices and VAWG. [email protected]
SICK @aSICKmagazine
3K Followers 465 Following a thoughtful magazine by sick & disabled people ✨ issue 5 out now 💥
Sophina Mariette @MarietteS1996
49 Followers 28 Following Psychiatric Survivor, Lived Experience Expert and Campaigner #StopOxevision
Puffin @autisticpuffin
1K Followers 803 Following She/her. Autistic. I like books and puffins. Mainly talking about my experiences of autism, anorexia, and mental health services 🌻🐧🐆📚
end police violence @LCAPSV
10K Followers 424 Following London Campaign against Police and State Violence: community organising against police and state brutality in South London and beyond. email: [email protected]
Red in the Spectrum @redinspectrum
67 Followers 64 Following Beyond Neurodiversity 'Awareness' - training and organising for rights and change https://t.co/nbd4QjZKbp
Alaina.Heath @Alaina__Heath
6 Followers 110 Following Grants and communities coordinator @nsunnews All views expressed are my own
Anandi Ramamurthy @Anandimanc
800 Followers 704 Following researcher, writer & mother challenging racism & oppression. https://t.co/dDfz5IYoqj @CHARMmanchester Views expressed are my own.
Chloe (she/her) @ChloeSApter
3K Followers 285 Following I talk about being an autistic ADHDer, mental illness, iatrogenic harm, & co-production. Views my own.
SOAS Detainee Support.. @sdetsup
13K Followers 581 Following SDS is an abolitionist visiting group working in solidarity, not charity, with those detained │ [email protected] │ https://t.co/BvSu8SddDG
Tippa Naphtali @TippaNewsSpotta
677 Followers 649 Following Social justice campaigner, community development, social business enterprise practitioner and father. (Founder of @4WardEver & @fund_memorial)
Simran Kaur @Marquee__Moon
821 Followers 2K Following I live for music and chocolate. Done bits and boobs for @Browngirlmag @BurntRotiMag @AsianWomanFest blog. 🪐 Supporter of *all* women.
Buckinghamshire Disab.. @BuDs_UK
5K Followers 4K Following A community of disabled people working together to remove the barriers which disable us. Registered Charity 1102511 #Fair4All #Reach4Work
Not Safe For Treatmen.. @notsafeft
173 Followers 114 Following An art collective exploring navigations of the mental health system. (NEW PROJECTS PENDING)
Aqsa ( She/Her) 🇵�.. @aqsa_sz
666 Followers 2K Following trying and often failing, to stay sane in a cruel world. All views my own.
Lesbians and Gays Sup.. @lgsmigrants
16K Followers 647 Following Through fundraising and direct action, we stand in solidarity with all migrants. We build on a proud history of queer solidarity to say: no one is illegal.
Southwark Copwatch @CopwatchSthwrk
1K Followers 219 Following Abolitionist collective intervening in policing in the London borough of Southwark. DM or email us at [email protected] to get involved ! 💥
Lacey @Lacey_artist
1K Followers 395 Following 23 / London / Artist exploring trauma, psychiatric treatment, feminism, madness 🎨📷🐈🪷 Thoughts and views are my cat’s #TraumanotPD
Lara Ferguson 🇪�.. @Lara_Fergie99
6K Followers 1K Following armchair activist 🛋️ passionate about all things mental health, madness, eating disorders #TraumaNotPD #MadTwitter currently inpatient they/them
Patrick Strudwick @PatrickStrud
40K Followers 8K Following Special Correspondent @theipaper. Previous LGBT Editor BuzzFeed News. Specialist Journalist of Year 2018. Rep @unitedagents [email protected] 🏳️🌈
Real @RealDPO
987 Followers 1K Following Real is #Disabled people working together for #real choices. Please get in touch if you or someone you know in #TowerHamlets needs #information or #support.
Ellie Wildbore @EllieWildbore
2K Followers 701 Following Service User - C-PTSD, Anorexia🌟Mental Health Lived Experience Practitioner working in Research @shscft 🌟Burns Survivor 🌟Views my own🌟 Roller skate mad 🛼
Kas✨ @_kasthomas
1K Followers 934 Following MSc psychology & education grad 📚 inpatient w/ bipolar disorder. tweets about patient advocacy, trauma, iatrogenic harm #MadTwitter 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇰🇷
York Disability Right.. @YorkDRF
1K Followers 510 Following Led by disabled people, we work to promote equal access to human rights for all disabled people who live or work in York. RTs are not endorsements
Julia Macintosh @jm_juliamac
190 Followers 542 Following journaling coach / co-editor, Unpsychology Magazine / https://t.co/auqwwvtj0F
4WardEverUK @4WardEver
1K Followers 1K Following One-stop campaign media, news, resources & information. End custody deaths, injustice and capital punishment. (also see @RedAlertWM & @fund_memorial)
Tribe @TribeAlliance
48 Followers 76 Following A brand new platform offering fresh perspectives on mental health, criminal justice and climate.
m @madsubjectivity
898 Followers 3K Following they/them. @projectLETS psychiatric trauma clinic facilitator & peer mental health advocate | MFT trainee & applied community psych
Access Social Care @AccessCharity1
1K Followers 2K Following We provide free legal advice and information for people with social care needs, helping achieve a better quality of life. #NeverMoreNeeded
Jodie @jodietbeck
2K Followers 1K Following Social justice, care and abolition w a fizzy pop on the side \ Policy and Campaigns @libertyhq \ @ouremptychair @lips_choir \ She/her \ Views my own
P.E. Moskowitz @_pem_pem
40K Followers 2K Following ⚝⚝⚝ https://t.co/zOTZuKD3Sc ⚝⚝⚝ is a newsletter about why your brain feels bad, and what to do about it. it's like self-help, but in a systemic way.
Transport for All @TransportForAll
18K Followers 921 Following Disabled-led campaign group fighting for transport justice. Join our movement: https://t.co/D7Cm6bRz3d
A Sophisticated Insul.. @Pdisaninsult
547 Followers 264 Following New account for Sophisticated Insult exhibition, a creative art space for people who reject the PD construct and/ or have been harmed by the diagnosis
Alex @acaaugustin
250 Followers 139 Following Comms @HJusticeLdn | @ResilientMH | [email protected] | #RehearsingFreedoms | he/him | Personal account, please look at my pinned tweet 🙏🏾
Dilhani Wijeyesekera @DilWijey
2K Followers 1K Following Campaigns, racial justice, youth, women. Former director @restlessdev @amnesty @comicrelief | Yoga teacher | Now @BaobabUK | Trustee @britdoc | Tweets all mine
Mental Health Liberat.. @mhliberation_
85 Followers 75 Following Emerging anti-oppressive, lived experience led, mutual support network for those living with psychological distress. DM for link to join our Whatsapp network!
achilles hil @hil_aked
3K Followers 3K Following Research & policy @Medact | 🇵🇸 Author @Verso Friends of Israel: the Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity | 🏳️⚧️ they/them | Views mine | https://t.co/za9IqzwAFW
Bekah @100beks
540 Followers 568 Following she/her • Mental health participation worker, former lived experience DTC practitioner, @ScHARRPubHealth & @UoMAnthropology graduate • Opinions ≠ my employers
Red Medicine @Red_Medicine__
1K Followers 116 Following A podcast about the politics of health, medicine, and the body
Stop Oxevision @StopOxevision
911 Followers 584 Following Campaign to stop Oxevision, body worn cameras and other camera surveillance systems being used to breach patient rights on UK psychiatric wards #StopOxevisionNEW REPORT on SIM, 'Criminalising Distress', shows police are still embedded in mental health services, and other coercive, punitive practices continue, despite NHS England’s 2023 directive for them to be ‘eradicated’. #StopSIM medact.org/criminalising-…
“Lived experience” or “community”: which term is most appropriate to use when including mental health service users in your health and care research projects? Dive deeper into the nuances in this report by @NSUNnews: nsun.org.uk/resource/explo…. #mentalhealth #cei #livedexperience
A thorough and well considered response to #CassReport: denouncing it for flawed methodology, undermining of young people's agency, weaponisation of mental health & pathologisation of trans people, blatant disregard of crisis in UK mental healthcare & blatant transphobia 👇
Last week, the Cass Review's final report was published. Many trans-led organisations have expressed concerns about the impact it will have on care for trans people. We have concerns around aspects of the mental health context. Read our response: nsun.org.uk/news/nsun-resp…
@NSUNnews “stand in solidarity with those for whom the publication of this report has caused distress, and echo calls from trans-led organisations for the findings of the review to be treated with caution”. nsun.org.uk/news/nsun-resp…
New on the website: a template for making a complaint about Oxevision or similar surveillance. Please share with people who may find it useful stopoxevision.com/complaints-tem…
"Overall, the Cass Review advocates for greater restriction on medical transition and a stronger focus on psychological treatment. We fear that mental health is being weaponised in the Cass Review to gaslight trans people and discourage them from transitioning."
Last week, the Cass Review's final report was published. Many trans-led organisations have expressed concerns about the impact it will have on care for trans people. We have concerns around aspects of the mental health context. Read our response: nsun.org.uk/news/nsun-resp…
Thank you for this, @NSUNnews
Last week, the Cass Review's final report was published. Many trans-led organisations have expressed concerns about the impact it will have on care for trans people. We have concerns around aspects of the mental health context. Read our response: nsun.org.uk/news/nsun-resp…
Please share. We could not of kept our group going without support from @NSUNnews
Are you an NSUN user-led group member organising an event in the next few months? NSUN is making five small grants of up to £150 available for BSL interpretation or palantypists for your event. Find out more and apply below. nsun.org.uk/news/small-gra…
Just want to say how grateful I am to @NSUNnews They are true role model for how a mental health charity can support people at a grassroots level Multiple initiatives and campaigns I have been involved in would not have been possible without NSUN 🖤
Are you an NSUN user-led group member organising an event in the next few months? NSUN is making five small grants of up to £150 available for BSL interpretation or palantypists for your event. Find out more and apply below. nsun.org.uk/news/small-gra…
"Vulnerability is complex and looks different for everyone." Read a joint explainer from @migrants_rights and, our partner, @NSUNnews on vulnerability and the importance of tackling harmful root causes as part of the #WordsMatter campaign.
Instead of passively using the term 'vulnerable', we must interrogate the systems that create + exacerbate vulnerability, so that we can collectively tackle the root causes of harm. Read our joint explainer with @NSUNnews: buff.ly/3J9IVj0 #WordsMatter #Vulnerability
🗣️We're holding a free legal workshop with Sistren Legal Collective on 17th May to discuss ways to structure initiatives legally, whilst also remaining true to the #radical roots of #userled BPOC groups. Follow the link to register 🎉 Pls share ♥️ synergiproject.org.uk/event/free-wor…
@NSUNnews @cbuckler_ This is brilliant. Very readable, thorough, considered. A really important report. Most of the quotes felt very relatable.
"There is not a singular, neatly unified “community” of people with lived experience from which to draw knowledge: we all have different experiences, needs, and views on what needs to change"
Who is left behind within lived experience community work? How are the terms “community” and “lived experience” co-opted for interests other than our own? Find out this and more in our new report by @cbuckler_ . nsun.org.uk/resource/explo…
The onus was on me. I had to “take responsibility”. I “had capacity”. I was responsible for the breakdown in the therapeutic relationship. I was simply “critical of mental health services”. My blog for @NSUNnews on trauma-informed care: nsun.org.uk/we-should-be-s…
If trauma-informed care caused me more trauma, then what type of therapy can I – a trauma survivor – seek out? My blog for @NSUNnews on why we should be sceptical of trauma-informed care: nsun.org.uk/we-should-be-s…
'It explores whether those with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress and trauma could be considered a “community”, and also how the term “community” is assumed or forced upon us from outside.'
'This report explores the meaning of “community” in the mental health lived experience landscape.' It was a joy to be able to contribute to this report on 'Exploring “community” and the mental health lived experience landscape' by @NSUNnews Link: nsun.org.uk/resource/explo…
This report sounds really interesting 👇
ICYMI: we have just published a new report looking into the terms "community" and "lived experience". If you'd like to hear more about it, you can join us at our network meeting next week (Thurs 21st, 4-5.30pm). Register here: nsun.org.uk/news/nsun-netw…
Very good read; . “lived experience” requires a very particular relationship to our own distress, identities, histories, and/or trauma. We are constantly having to invoke and remember things that are painful. "
📢NEW REPORT: Exploring “community” & the mental health lived experience landscape This report explores whether those with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress & trauma could be considered a “community”, & how the term can be forced upon us. nsun.org.uk/resource/explo…
'Those running co-production initiatives can capitalise on the breadth of the term “lived experience”; cherry-picking people they involve to tick a box of having involved “the community”.'
📢NEW REPORT: Exploring “community” & the mental health lived experience landscape This report explores whether those with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress & trauma could be considered a “community”, & how the term can be forced upon us. nsun.org.uk/resource/explo…
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