There is no 'them and us' - there's#OnlyUs. Whatever our mental health label, 4/4 of us are human beings. 'Come out' by wearing a badge :'-) [views my own]
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As survivors, service users, mad people, disabled people, we are targets for state violence, through the Health & Social Care systems, through the Benefits system. Our reactions to this, our ways of coping with this, should not be pathologised, medicalised.
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*UPCOMING CREATIVE WRITING COURSE AND WEBINAR*
Life Writing with ISPS-US - 8 week course beginning 12/20 with @TanFrankUK
Rewriting the Narrative - Webinar 12/6 from 4pm EST
with @sarahfayauthor and @TanFrankUK
eventbrite.com/o/isps-us-772…
#creativewriting #memoir #psychosis
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Today's #MadStudies at 5pm: Save Mad Studies MSc at Queen Margaret University, and taking on funders that bypass Mad Scholars/Researchers & #LXP led organisations to give funding to 'allies' instead. #Saneism is still alive and well, people! Get booking!! pinkskythinking.com/so/e0OkD…
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We are empathic beings who feel for each other. Our very success as a species is rooted in our ability to be aware of each other's needs, to notice each other's pain and to experience deeply felt physiological and emotional empathy.
Empathy is remembering that everybody has a story. Multiple stories. And remembering to make space to hear someone else’s story before immediately telling your own.
Kae Tempest
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Asylum will be at The People's History Museum, #Manchester on Saturday 14th Oct for 'Nothing about us without us' exhibition event. Drop in and meet the talented artists and activists who created this exhibition.
ALT A series of photographs of the nothing about us without us exhibition featuring artwork and banners.
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Women In Horror Films is BACK! 4-5 November 2:00PM-5:00PM GMT hosted by @FreudMusLondon
Join for an extended Halloween celebration 🎃
Livestream open to international registrants 🌍 #psychoanalysis #FilmTwitter #onlinecourse
Click for all the details➡️freud.org.uk/event/projectio…
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The Mental Health Act is 40 years old this week and we desperately need the UK government to update it.
But we can’t do it without you.
Today is our day of action. We need you to sign this petition and share it with everyone you know 👇
bit.ly/raisethestandard
ALT The Mental Health Act is outdated. It's not fit for purpose. It needs reform. Before the next election. Sign our petition.
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How many of us have to die for this to be different? So many of our peers lost due to systemic neglect & exclusion. Believe suicidal people. @TraumaPhDandMe was kind, compassionate, incredibly knowledgeable & intelligent & was deserving of care & support. Another devastating loss
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North East London NHS Foundation Trust @NELFT charged with corporate manslaughter over hospital death of 22-year-old female patient dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
The Outsider; Colin Wilson (1956). Not one woman featured. Does anyone know is there a version written about women creatives? Or even a critique of his complete absence of female content? @JulesEvans11
Speechless with grief. But not for long. Sing out, Sisters!
Sinead O'Connor - Famine (Official Music Video) - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=EZIB6Msl…
Presumably this is worth going to? @Nottsferatu666 @psycstar The Lair of the White Worm - 35th Anniversary | Broadway broadway.org.uk/whats-on/lai…
New hero, Conor Eldred-Earl at Systemic Family Therapy & Autism Conference. Wow such an inspiration! Advising NHS England on coproduction - maybe there’s hope afterall?! #systemicautism
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Today launch #soteriayorkshire so if you live near Hebden Bridge join us at Hebble End Coffee Lounge HX76HJ 12.00. A coffee & chat & stroll along the canal #walkforsoteria then return to cafe to share our ideas for forming a group @nsoteria @Rufusmay @AbleLaura @HelenSh88789810
And it’s not just MHS I think what @Sectioned_ is getting at is it’s workplaces too.
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soterianetwork.org.uk AGM at the amazing Birchcliffe Centre in Hebden Bridge. Can’t believe how many folk managed to get there in spite of train strikes! Must have been over 80 people wanting to see more compassionate non coercive safe places. Together we can do it!
The used-to-be-crazy (his words) @HoratioClare at @SoteriaUK AGM Wonderful event full of lovely people. @lovebillybragg @JamesScurryUK @SafelyHeldSpace Let’s create compassionate spaces for when we go crazy.
