peer support – A New Vision for Mental Health

What’s Eating Oregon? Peer Respites, The Lund Report & Beyond

Author: Editorial 11th September 2023 0 Comments

This article by Sera Davidow has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “Peer respite has gained a fair amount of ground since its start. With now over three dozen peer respites across the country, the numbers still fall far…
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Clients & Patients, Mad in America, peer respites, peer support, peer-run crisis services, Sera Davidow, USA

What I have learnt from helping thousands of people taper off antidepressants and other psychotropic medications

Author: Editorial 9th September 2021 0 Comments

Adele Framer has written an article for the journal Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology. The abstract says: “Although psychiatric drug withdrawal syndromes have been recognized since the 1950s – recent studies confirm antidepressant withdrawal syndrome incidence upwards of 40% – medical information…
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Adele Framer, antidepressants, Clients & Patients, deprescribing, discontinuation syndrome, peer support, psychotropic drugs, tapering, Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology, withdrawal syndrome

Lived experience of mental health: Benefit or hindrance?

Author: Editorial 28th August 2020 0 Comments

“Lived experience of poor mental health matters for representation, so why do some think otherwise? Michelle Jamieson explains… “ This article on the website of theGIST (the Glasgow Insight into Science & Technology) has been written by Michelle Jamieson. It begins: “Lived experience…
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experts by experience, Glasgow Insight into Science & Technology, lived experience of mental health, Michelle Jamieson, peer research, peer support

Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs and Withdrawal

Author: Editorial 6th July 2020 0 Comments

This guide has been written by Will Hall. The publishers say: “The Icarus Project and Freedom Center’s 52-page illustrated guide gathers the best information we’ve come across and the most valuable lessons we’ve learned about reducing and coming off psychiatric medication. Based…
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drug withdrawal symptoms, Freedom Center, Icarus Project, peer support, Psychiatric Drugs, Will Hall

Co-Production in Mental Health

Author: Editorial 21st February 2019 0 Comments

The full title of this report from the New Economics Foundation (NEF) is “Co-Production in Mental Health: A Literature Review”. It was commissioned by the mental health charity Mind. The NEF understands co-production to be “a relationship where professionals and citizens…
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Clients & Patients, co-production, facilitating, mentoring, mind, New Economics Foundation, peer support, self-determination theory, Service User Network, wellbeing

Searching for a Rose Garden: challenging psychiatry, fostering mad studies

Author: admin 30th June 2017 0 Comments

The publishers ( PCCS Books , 2016) of Searching for a Rose Garden describe it as “an incisive critique of all that is unhelpful about sanestream understandings of and responses to mental distress. Drawing on world-wide survivor activism and scholarship, it explores…
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books, Clients & Patients, Mad Studies, madness, paradigm shift, peer support, psychiatry, survivors, trauma-informed approaches