Casual Mental Health Stigma in The Guardian today
People that know me will be fully aware that I have a bit of a bee in my bonnet about the stigma the media has…
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Crying into my tea, instead of rehearsing. – Mental Update 5
Image courtesy of Hannah Hull In a week and a half I’m showing a work in progress of Mental at In-between Time, Bristol. (Afraid the…
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Let’s go fucking Mental. – Fourth Mental Update
“Let’s go fucking Mental. Let’s go fucking Mental. Let’s go fucking Mental.” Is a chant I’ve heard groups of beer fuelled white men sing before……
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Mental Health Crisis – A rough survival guide for supporting.
What follows is an email I wrote earlier this year to a group of friends and activists following a serious suicide attempt that lead to…
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The Mad Genius and other pathetic clichés – Second Update.
The Mad Genius and other pathetic clichés. Or. Why is madness fascinating, terrifying and underwhelming in equal measure? You’ve heard the list; Sylvia Plath, Syd…
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Mental – First Update.
Obviously it was something my therapist said. ‘Do you not think that your adult life has been difficult?’ I replied that it hadn’t, until she…