www.psychiatryisdrivingmemad.co.uk/post/i-was-a... A really poignant piece by Wren Aves

This event looks really interesting

www.nsun.org.uk/wp-content/u... This is the full report by @nsunnews.bsky.social on the engagement of people with lived experience of madness and distress with the media

A really important read. Worth noting if you're encouraging story sharing through research, outreach, activism or charity, whether or not the media's involved. Continually shocks me how little consideration is made past getting people to share stories about what may happen to them as a consequence.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crazywise-... An amazing film ❤️

The reality is that what the DWP deem to be "non permanent" will end up being permanent & possibly life threatening if the £ needed to cover the additional costs of disability, aids, support & additional healthcare is cut. And the extra cost will need to be met by NHS & Social Care.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... In disbelief....😡😰

🌱 Culturally inclusive parenting programme benefits UK families in deprived urban areas RCT of 674 diverse parents: Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities improved wellbeing & parent-child relationships at modest cost. buff.ly/5TSRONA #MentalHealth #Parenting

Autistic Mental Health Conference 2026! Until 31st March 15% off early-bird offer! We will start announcing speakers over the next week or so; please keep watching this space! neurohubcommunity.org/2026-autisti... #autisticmentalhealthconference #ActuallyAutistic #autism #autistic #mentalhealth

for my essay, “The Politics of Anti-Sanity,” in @asylummagazine.bsky.social, these were my planned remarks at the launch! anti-sanity will inaugurate a tradition of mad critique and politics that expands its sight beyond psy-services to the wider dominance of sanity and reason in social life. 1/2

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb... Please support this campaign to establish a Radical Bookshop in the North East of England ❤️ The Bookshop will stock @asylummagazine.bsky.social

A receptionist can be heard apologising that nobody was available that afternoon, and advising that if she did not leave, police or security would be called.' It boggles my mind that nobody, not even the duty person, could bother to attend the office that afternoon to talk with Miss Mclellan.

'Miss McLellan went to NSFT’s clinic in Walker Close, Ipswich. Videos recorded by Miss McLellan were played to the court, in which she said she would not be leaving until she had spoken with a mental health practitioner. /1

www.itv.com/watch/news/p... Heartwrenching and enraging 😥😡

Asylum Magazine is 40. One of the most consistently thought-provoking voices on mental health in the UK. Rooted in grassroots perspectives, unwavering in its commitment to featuring a diversity of opinion and critique that puts many academic debates to shame. Still a bit punk.

asylummagazine.org/2026/03/edit... The 40th year anniversary issue of @asylummagazine.bsky.social is out Read here the reflective Editorial by @hspandler.bsky.social, the Asylum Editor-in-Chief

these will be my remarks at the launch event if you can’t make it! @asylummagazine.bsky.social but please attend if you can :)

Tonight!!

@asylummagazine.bsky.social publishes some of the most interesting and fascinating (and most politically radical and thought provoking) writing on madness anywhere in the world. it is the oldest publication in the modern Mad movement. the current issue celebrates their 40th anniversary.

in 3 months, the essay will be posted on my blog. asylum allows for reposts so if you haven’t asked for a copy or can’t pay for a subscription, it will eventually be on my blog. but i do encourage you all to purchase a subscription. @asylummagazine.bsky.social is worth paying for and supporting.

i hope the development of anti-sanity will inaugurate a tradition of mad critique and politics that expands its sight beyond psychiatry to the forms of reason that give psy-disciplines their coherence and necessity. @asylummagazine.bsky.social launch is in 2 days!!!!

I have been subscribed for a while now and really appreciate asylum. A piece I wrote last year about the Linnemann Debakel was edited and published in this issue, it's an honour.

A Reminder @asylummagazine.bsky.social is celebrating its 40th year this year ❤️ The anniversary Spring 2026 Issue is out! We are having its online launch on 23 March at 6pm GMT Registration link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Come and join us❤️

it’s exciting having three essays either published or forthcoming in @asylummagazine.bsky.social their titles are below: -Sane Emotional Experience (Summer 2024) -The Politics of Anti-Sanity (Spring 2026) -The Importance of Naming Ourselves (forthcoming)

@asylummagazine.bsky.social is celebrating its 40th year this year ❤️ The anniversary Spring 2026 Issue is out! We are having its online launch on 23 March at 6pm GMT Registration link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Come and join us❤️

archive.ph/2026.03.16-1... Really interesting piece on psychiatric euthanasia Thank you @suzypuss.bsky.social for drawing attention to it

Anti-sanity is a questioning, and not a prescription, of ideology. from my recent essay in @asylummagazine.bsky.social

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www.psychiatryisdrivingmemad.co.uk/post/an-open... Absolutely brilliant blog by Wren Aves ❤️ On how mad people's stories are taken and retold without their permission, leading to an erasure of their experience and personhood

www.nsun.org.uk/why-cant-you... Interesting blog on self-harm via @nsunnews.bsky.social

This appeared somewhere in the USA (from Facebook)

The right is always happy to weaponise mental health and disability. It just depends on the day whether they’re arguing you’re incapable because of it or you’re faking having it.

Every hospital in England has been urged to disobey an NHS directive to use software operated by controversial US analytics software company Palantir www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Because we need humour these days...🤗

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“Right now, a vulnerable person in the middle of a mental (or physical) health crisis may have to call firm after firm, and government agencies on top, repeating the same painful, possibly embarrassing or triggering explanation again and again"

If mental health is important to you then support this this publication, it's such an important voice!

www.madinamerica.com/2026/03/with... A really interesting blog on how the use of AI Chatbots As "Therapists" makes the "therapeutic culture" more entrenched in our lives and what this means for our human relationships and sense of community