There have been many campaigns for choice and more compassionate approaches to mental health yet little has changed in the psychiatric system. This report may, however, prove ground-breaking, in that it sets out to note and challenge the many harms perpetrated by...
This is an online (zoom) discussion on June 30th (in England, (different for Scotland and Wales) for people with all kinds of experience of systems, whether homelessness, social care, mental health or criminal justice. Please see the website (see in heading) for more...
The Convenor of Bristol Soteria has sent this account of the launch meeting. First Bristol Soteria Network Meeting 29th February, 2020 A small group of us met in central Bristol for our first meeting as a local group. We were all from different backgrounds but shared...
In these physically isolating times we still endeavour to heed E. M. Forster’s advice to ‘only connect.’ There’s much current advice out there too, on how best to cope positively with imposed isolation at home, and I won’t replicate it....
I love this poem by John Clare at this time of year, and hear it in my mind’s ear when I’m on an early morning walk and see the ‘pilewort’, commonly known as celandine, unfurling its petals to the day. A ‘pingle’ is a small enclosed...
Join us for Compassionate Mental Health in Cardiff this March28th January 2020