"Giving sick and disabled people the skills and support they need is at the heart of our mission to unlock work" (New Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden) Discuss

Get rid of Liz Kendall, and they get replaced by some ghoul who wants people to be bullied even more by the DWP when they’re too unwell to work... www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/cost-of...

Just finished reading the latest magazine. Fascinating and moving as always. ❤️

asylummagazine.org/2025/09/mumm... One of the 3 free sample articles in the Autumn 2025 Issue of @asylummagazine.bsky.social

@asylummagazine.bsky.social went to an Antiracist Festival in Athens, Greece, on Sunday 21 September. The Festival had Palestine as its focus.

We couldn't be in better company! @asylummagazine.bsky.social 😊

In Denmark, if you’re pregnant and the government thinks you will be a bad parent because you were abused as a child, they can give you a test asking “what’s glass made of?” and “what’s the big staircase in Rome called?”If you fail they take your baby after birth. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

recoveryinthebin.org/2025/09/19/r... Honours indeed! Many congratulations to @dollysen.bsky.social and @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social and @asylummagazine.bsky.social and other winners and all at @ritb.bsky.social ❤️🤜🤛❤️

A week tonight (6pm UK time) 😊 Come and join us! Don't forget to register 🤗 bit.ly/Asylum-launc...

"For others to listen to me, I have to mask. I have to pretend I am not autistic, I have to carefully curate my language so that others value my experiences." Who decides the value of lived experience? Zahra explores this question in our latest blog. www.nsun.org.uk/who-decides-...

“Investing in mental health means investing in people, communities, and economies". That needs to be the priority.

Honoured to have a poem about PTSD included in this issue. Looking forward to hearing from all the other contributers on the 26/09 online launch.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/borderingm... Two books on migration and reproductive justice (social justice)

www.nsun.org.uk/trauma-menta... Another poignant piece on the close links between migration/refugee status and mental health

I see DID as a well of deep adaptive potential to withstand harm that no child should ever have to adapt to, the flipside of this is the tenacious power that people with dissociative conditions can reclaim to heal and function on their terms. There's no excuse not to treat it.

www.together-uk.org/lived-experi... www.together-uk.org/sign-up-to-t...

www.nsun.org.uk/news/migrati... Poignant piece on the close links between migration/refugee status and mental health

Because humour saves us....😊

www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/why-has-cr... "What has become of critical psychiatry when the very arguments for emancipation are now echoed in the mouths of those who would deny the existence of mental illness altogether and defund mental health care?" (Awais Aftab, psychiatrist in the USA)

www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/how-... "People rarely reduce their experiences [of psychosis] to medical symptoms. Many describe them in terms of spirituality, trauma, or cultural traditions"

A painting by a Greek artist (Panos Balomenos) who lives and works in Finland The Greek writing on a packet of cigarettes reads: "The World Health Organisation warns: The hysterical simplification of reality harms seriously yourselves and those around you" Really timely message...💔

This issue also includes a review of The Black Dogs of Glaslyn, by my friend and colleague, Guy Holmes.

The Tetris thing has been debunked but even if it hadn't, it's incredibly rude and weird how much the internet has decided that "go play Tetris" is an appropriate response to someone opening up about trauma. Stop it. www.madinamerica.com/2021/10/tetr...

Wages not Weapons: Trade unions overturn support for military spending hikes < CND cnduk.org/wages-not-we...

Three in four people who used a food bank last year were disabled, new figures have revealed, while the government was setting out plans to slash disability benefits. www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

asylummagazine.org/2025/09/just... Free sample article from the Autumn 2025 Issue of @asylummagazine.bsky.social 10 September - International Suicide Prevention Day In memory of Adam 💔❤️‍🩹 Adam took his own life having been repeatedly failed by the mental health and other systems

10 September- Suicide Prevention Day "Suicide Prevention isn’t just about hotlines or awareness campaigns. It’s about changing the systems that make life unlivable—poverty, racism, ableism, queerphobia, colonisation, and violence" (Tacfle, the Australian Centre for Lived Experience)

The Online Safety Act is ballooning in scope. Bumping up 'self-harm' content as a priority offence means these sort of posts will be stripped from social media for adults and kids. ORG's James Baker explains how this change to the law will result in therapeutic or support content being censored.

Childhood Trauma Is a Global Mental Health Crisis, Researchers Warn A survey of more than 16,000 youth across three countries shows a clear link between adverse experiences and mental illness. By Richard Sears www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/chil...

www.eventbrite.ca/e/resisting-... The Webinar will take place at 9.30pm London time

What is not to love about Snoopy? 😁

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust was fourth from bottom in its category www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

Absolutely brilliant cartoon 👏

asylummagazine.org/2025/09/mumm... Free sample article from the Autumn 2025 Issue of @asylummagazine.bsky.social

asylummagazine.org/2025/09/crac... Another free sample article from the Autumn 2025 Issue of @asylummagazine.bsky.social

asylummagazine.org/2025/09/just... ****References to suicide One of the free sample articles in the Autumn 2025 Issue of @asylummagazine.bsky.social

Online launch event Friday 26/9 for the @asylummagazine.bsky.social Autumn issue. I am looking forward to hearing contributors speak to their work, and to reading my poem, 'A psychiatric hospital is not a factory' (an obvious point, you'd think, but one sadly now only upheld from the margins) 😠🤜🤛🙏

Registration Link for the online launch bit.ly/Asylum-launc...

Join us for the online launch of the Autumn 2025 Asylum Magazine Issue Friday 26th September,6-7pm British Summer Time All welcome ❤️

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Poignant piece pointing to the devastating consequences of racism for people's sense of safety and community

Because we need humour in our times...😁

Oxehealth is launching in Australia this month under the new name, LIO. From the marketing material it seems they are doing what they initially did in the UK, before our campaign, and not mentioning the word camera. www.alpha.global/blog/news-in...

asylummagazine.org/2025/09/asyl... The Autumn Issue 2025 of the Asylum magazine is out❤️ With 3 sample articles that can be downloaded free of charge on the Asylum website