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Four years ago today at this time I walked out of court. I had been released on bail after being arrested for being suicidal. I was charged with breach of

All these takes on Nikki’s death telling people with eating disorders that “help is out there”If you’re about to RT one, stop.Which do you think is better for someone feeling

Mental health professional jargon translator:“She might be suicidal but she has capacity” = I don’t have skills to help, and I don’t understand capacity“Family/carer is over-involved” = someone actually cares

Mental health services:“Call the police, they have mental health teams now”“We can’t see you but I’m going to call the police to do a welfare check”“If you don’t, we’ll call

Interesting study, I know may be a difficult read for people involved in the history of harm reduction in self harm which predates and differs significantly from the way the

I’m going to say it.People are being put at risk by the way people with experience of mental health problems and attempted suicide are expected to tell their stories. There

Has anyone asked people who have experienced psychological, physical and sexual trauma in childhood whether they want to be asked what happened to them over and over and over again

Reading a series of psychiatric papers from the 1980s. They talk about using “punishment” and aversion ‘treatment’ on people who self harm. These include electric shocks, cattle prods, face coverings,

About to speak @rcpsychLiaison #LiaisonConf about my experiences of receiving and not receiving help in the emergency department after self harm. First time giving a talk to psychiatrists.. @rcpsych Inspiring

I found this in my flatIt’s the bag my clothes, underwear, and burns dressings were put into by police after I was arrested in the emergency department six years ago.

I’ve only ever written fragments about what happened in the mental health hospitals and eating disorder units I was detained in as a child in the 1990s. I always felt

Thinking about the time I was taken to the emergency mental health team by police and I said I wanted to wait outside because I was scared of hospital. A