Mandy Crandale
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works at NSUN - National Survivor User Network - all views shared are my own
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Synergi Project
11 months ago
🫶🏿🎋Our upcoming Abolition in Practice Group is on the theme of Somatic abolitionism, decolonizing ‘wellness’, embodied social justice & the body as a resource & locus of trauma 📅: Monday 14th April ⏰: 12-2pm 💻: Online (zoom) 🔗Register your place using link in bio!
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dr courtney buckler
11 months ago
New explainer from me, via NSUN - on what the welfare proposals are, what they might mean for those living with mental ill-health, and what you can do about them 👇
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Just Treatment
11 months ago
🚨 The govt’s planned disability cuts are a deadly attack on mentally ill & disabled people. On May 6th, young people who rely on PIP are heading to Parliament to fight back. 📢 Help fill the room: email your MP now & urge them to attend 👉
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell your MP to oppose deadly disability cuts
The government’s planned disability cuts are a deadly attack on already vulnerable communities. Benefits such as PIP provide a lifeline to those of us who live with debilitating mental illness. The H...
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-mp-to-oppose-deadly-benefits-cuts/
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National Survivor User Network
11 months ago
"It is a bitter feeling, to have believed so intrinsically that you could change the thing that broke you, only to leave feeling worse than when you started." Charli Clement explores the ways in which lived experience is increasingly commodified.
www.nsun.org.uk/the-possibil...
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The Possibility of a Lived Experience Industrial Complex
Charli Clement asks whether lived experience is becoming its very own industrial complex, and if not, how we can prevent it from becoming one.
https://www.nsun.org.uk/the-possibility-of-a-lived-experience-industrial-complex/
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Zarah Sultana MP
12 months ago
The independent regulator has announced a £2,500 pay rise for MPs. At a time when disabled people are facing the biggest cuts to disability benefits on record, this is simply wrong. I’ll be donating mine to charities supporting disabled people in Coventry & across the country.
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Disabled People Against Cuts - DPAC
12 months ago
#WelfareNotWarfare
The list of all local actions including the central one in London with times and addresses Check your local area ⬇️
dpac.uk.net/2025/03/welf...
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#WelfareNotWarfare - list of local actions - DPAC
National Day of Action - Wednesday 26th March ---- DPAC Aberdeen Wednesday 26th March, 12pm Outside Marischal College, Broad Street, Aberdeen ---- Brighton
https://dpac.uk.net/2025/03/welfarenotwarfare-list-of-local-actions/
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Campaign for Disability Justice
12 months ago
We’ve united with Scope,
@disrightsuk.bsky.social
@dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social
and
@turn2us.bsky.social
against cuts to disability benefits. Together, we’ve published an open letter urging the govt to safeguard them. Read the full letter on Scope’s website.
buff.ly/FhxKY7U
#Disability
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Dr Jay Watts
12 months ago
If anything, the UK’s mental health crisis is one of UNDERdiagnosis not OVERdiagnosis. 📉APMS study found: Less than half of those with severe distress get treatment. Only a third needing primary care support have a diagnosis. The real issue is not overdiagnosis but undercare.
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Joseph Rowntree Foundation
12 months ago
✉️ Read our letter with Scope and others urging the Government to protect disability benefits. [5/5]
bsky.app/profile/jrf-...
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National Survivor User Network
12 months ago
The media’s engagement with people with lived experience of mental ill-health, trauma and distress can be unethical. To improve the process, we are conducting a 3-stage research project, starting with a short survey. Complete it to enter a £20 Love2Shop prize draw.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/researc...
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Research Project: media engagement for people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress or trauma
Three-stage research project into the experiences of people with lived experience of mental ill-health, trauma and distress engaging with the media, and the development of guidelines to improve them.
https://www.nsun.org.uk/news/research-project-media-engagement-for-people-with-lived-experience-of-mental-ill-health-distress-or-trauma/
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“You could just listen to me”: the erasure of lived experience in healthcare is the powerful new blog in the Limitations of Lived Experience series from
@nsunnews.bsky.social
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"You could just listen to me”: the erasure of lived experience in healthcare
We must continue to use our lived experience to rewrite the narrative of those that try to erase us.
https://www.nsun.org.uk/you-could-just-listen-to-me-the-erasure-of-lived-experience-in-healthcare/
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Public Law Project
12 months ago
When the DWP makes a mistake, who should pay the price? We wrote to Liz Kendall with 30+ charities & welfare experts, warning that “official error” Universal Credit overpayment debt is pushing hundreds of thousands into unexpected debt.
@the-independent.com
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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DWP forces over 680,000 people to pay for its own mistakes
Exclusive: The DWP must ‘take responsibility’ for its mistakes, campaigners say
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/dwp-payments-universal-credit-housing-benefit-b2712354.html
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Labour’s proposed disability benefit cuts are nothing short of terrifying, say campaigners - truly chilling news
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Labour’s proposed disability benefit cuts are nothing short of terrifying, say campaigners
The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) cuts appear to be focused on the Personal Independent Payment (PIP), reports award-winning disabled journalist Rachel Charlton-Dailey
https://open.substack.com/pub/theleaduk/p/labours-proposed-disability-benefit?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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A great read as always, don't miss the latest issue of
@asylummagazine.bsky.social
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Disability News Service
about 1 year ago
A report by the United Nations has called on the UK government to take “corrective measures” to address the impact of cuts to disability benefits introduced under Conservative governments, just as Labour ministers prepare to introduce further such cuts.
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UN calls for ‘corrective measures’ to Tory disability benefit reforms, just as Labour prepares cuts of its own
A report by the United Nations (UN) has called on the UK government to take “corrective measures” to address the impact of cuts to disability benefits introduced under Conservative governments, jus…
https://buff.ly/eSottMX
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Campaign for Disability Justice
about 1 year ago
Our Campaign Leader
@carolinejc.bsky.social
tells
@johnpring.bsky.social
"we implore the government not to make unfair changes based on condition specific criteria" in response to research showing no evidence to support call for PIP cuts.
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Recovery in the Bin
about 1 year ago
voxpoliticalonline.com/2025/03/05/c...
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Cutting benefits will harm the economy - not help it - Vox Political
Cutting benefits will harm the economy, not help it - Rachel Reeves's financial illiteracy may harm millions of us
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2025/03/05/cutting-benefits-will-harm-the-economy-not-help-it/
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Recovery in the Bin
about 1 year ago
We have started a petition to Bluesky Social PBC CEO Jay Graber
@jay.bsky.team
to Enable Private Accounts on Bluesky. So survivors and others who need private accounts can safely leave X/Twitter and come to Bluesky, pls share and sign.
www.change.org/EnablePrivat...
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Sign the Petition
Enable Private Accounts on Bluesky
https://www.change.org/EnablePrivateAccountsonBluesky
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National Survivor User Network
about 1 year ago
The NSUN weekly bulletin arrived in member inboxes on Monday afternoon, full of news, free events and paid opportunities for individuals with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress or trauma. Scroll for a selection of its contents 🧵
www.nsun.org.uk/our-members/...
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Become an NSUN member
Our network is made up of individuals with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress, and/or trauma, as well as user-led grassroots groups.
https://www.nsun.org.uk/our-members/join-us/
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dr courtney buckler
about 1 year ago
Excited to be setting up Mad Campaigns Lab! 💫 A drop in space for Mad and Disability justice campaigners, through
@nsunnews.bsky.social
. Focus will be on skillsharing, solidarity, and strategy. Register interest & input below 👇
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Association of Mental Health Providers
about 1 year ago
It's
#EatingDisordersAwarenessWeek
and we're highlighting the voices of people who support those living with an eating disorder who are changing the narrative. Look out for the
#Blogs
on our website later this week and get involved with
@beatedsupport.bsky.social
:
edaw.beateatingdisorders.org.uk
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Hel Spandler
about 1 year ago
Spring issue of Asylum out soon! Special issue on surveillance guest edited by Stop Oxevision.
@stopoxevision.bsky.social
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Synergi Project
about 1 year ago
🗣️Join us for an online panel discussion with Zinesters Hamja Ahsan, Seleena Laverne Daye & Dal Kular about their work & thoughts about the past, present & future of zine-making!📚 📅Friday 21st February ⏰3-4:30pm 💻Online via Zoom 🔗Register using link in bio
#mh#zine#bpoc#le
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National Survivor User Network
about 1 year ago
"The “we know best” mentality of many mental health services invalidates and demotes living experience." In the first blog of 'The Limitations of Lived Experience' series,
@mandycrandale.bsky.social
imagines genuine co-production in mental health.
www.nsun.org.uk/living-exper...
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Living experience: looking toward genuine co-production in mental health
The “we know best” mentality of many mental health services – rooted in the prevalence of the paternalistic medical model – invalidates living experience and demotes it beneath knowledge learnt in a l...
https://www.nsun.org.uk/living-experience-looking-toward-genuine-co-production-in-mental-health/
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Association of Mental Health Providers
about 1 year ago
It's
#RandomActsOfKindnessDay
, and while many people encourage you to show kindness to others. Lots of people forget to show it to themselves. Here are some reminders of ways you can be kind to yourself. 👇
#Kindness
#MentalHealth
#SelfLove
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National Survivor User Network
about 1 year ago
Featuring over 15 artists and poets, Mad Kin Zine is about the kin we craft outside of psych spaces to keep our communities safe. Kat Hudson on creating a space to demand alternatives to psychiatry and policing, to exchange tools, to dream, to mobilise.
www.nsun.org.uk/mad-kin-we-k...
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MAD KIN: we keep us safe
Mad Kin Zine is about the alternative kin we craft outside of psych spaces to keep our communities safe.
https://www.nsun.org.uk/mad-kin-we-keep-us-safe/
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Here I am chatting with our Head of Communications & Menmbership, Amy, about how I've been settling in to the post after 7 months.
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about 1 year ago
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Synergi Project
about 1 year ago
💌🌹Kicking off our Valentine's Series - a collection of written pieces exploring radical acts of love & community care with a beautiful piece by Jerome Sewell 📖Read it by following link in bio!
#mentalhealth
#love
#radical
#ValentinesDay
#bpoc
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National Survivor User Network
about 1 year ago
This is your last chance to attend tomorrow’s virtual monitoring, evaluation and learning training for user-led groups! Taking place from 2-4pm, sign up for free via the link below.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/free-mo...
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Free monitoring, evaluation and learning training for user-led groups
After the popularity of our monitoring, evaluation and learning training session in November 2024, we are once again offering NSUN members free places on a session led by NSUN's Learning Partner and f...
https://www.nsun.org.uk/news/free-monitoring-evaluation-and-learning-training-for-user-led-groups-feb-2025/
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Make Space
about 1 year ago
The Arts & Ourselves zine is here! 🌟 The zine is a 36-page reflection on self-harm in its many forms. With writing, memes, and poetry - it is about our own lives, on our own terms. View the zine [and plain-text version] at:
makespaceco.org/artsandourse...
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Civil Society
about 1 year ago
Unlock’s new chief executive discusses her journey into the charity sector, the ‘vulnerability’ of staff with lived experience, and hope for the future...
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Paula Harriott: ‘I’m still one of very few lived experience CEOs’
Unlock’s new chief executive discusses her journey into the charity sector, the ‘vulnerability’ of staff with lived experience, and hope for the future...
https://www.civilsociety.co.uk/news/paula-harriott-i-m-still-one-of-very-few-lived-experience-ceos.html#sthash.gt5Tihd7.dpuf
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Centre for Mental Health
about 1 year ago
🧵Today we launch the
#FutureMinds
campaign, urging the Government too see support for children’s mental health as an investment in the future of our society – a future we cannot afford to jeopardise. The costs of inaction are far greater than the investment we could make now to turn the tide. 1/11
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Mind
about 1 year ago
Thank you Lady Gaga. Such an important message to kick off LGBT+ History Month. Your words will reach so many 💖 CC: Grammys
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