another Autistic woman with ARFID the NHS is abusing
Content warning: Saffron’s story around autism, ARFID, and the NHS may be distressing to some readers. It includes commentary on food, eating, mental health, and suicide that some readers may…
pretend all you want that it’s enough
As many of the most mainstream mental health, autism, and learning disability charities praise the new Mental Health Bill – reforming the 1983 Mental Health Act – going to the…
Mental Health Act reforms do not go far enough for Autistic people
The following article is a comment piece from Simone Aspis, project manager for Free Our People Now – a project led by Autistic people and people with Learning Difficulties at…
evidence for job advisers in hospitals is flawed
A report on the South London scheme that put job advisers into NHS hospitals is stacked with statistical biases. That being the case, it means that the positive findings from…
Brazil Indigenous People subjected to soaring rates of suicide
Content warning: this article contains references to suicide, which readers may find distressing. Suicide is a major global public health issue, leading to approximately 700,000 deaths each year. While the…
DWP mental health claimants to be targeted in hospital by Labour
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Labour Party boss Liz Kendall has told the BBC about the government’s plans to coerce people with “serious” mental health problems into work. This involves…
DWP tried to BURY report that its assessments make people sick
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) sat on a report for nearly two years that evidenced how its own processes quite literally make claimants’ health worse. It comes just…
NHS mental health services left 14-year-old girl waiting two years
A teenage girl suffering ‘intense emotional meltdowns’ had to wait two years – almost six times the target – for NHS mental health treatment, it has emerged. England’s Health Ombudsman…
Why women still lose out in the mental health system
For World Mental Health Day, Professor Linda Gask spoke to the Canary from her home in Orkney about her new book, Out of Her Mind: How we are failing women’s…
some claimants denied enhanced rate back payments
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) could potentially owe hundreds of thousands of personal independence payment (PIP) claimants thousands in back-payments. This is thanks to a high court ruling…
Work coaches to be put in NHS mental health services
Can’t work due to bad mental health? You’re a selfish scrounger with no self respect according to the NHS director of mental health Claire Murdoch in the Times On Friday,…
On the anniversary of my girlfriend’s death I still see her humanity
Monday was the five-year anniversary of my girlfriend’s death. She was 28. Ultimately, she died from alcoholism after pneumonia caused her liver to shut down, which then triggered sepsis. She…