Stories
- Article
How the mental health system fails Black people
Accessing mental healthcare as a Black woman can be a challenging experience. Rianna Walcott shares her story, alongside those of three other women, to reveal the barriers she faced.
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My illness made me an activist, but now I’m exhausted
Emily Bashforth’s illness made her an advocate but now she’s battling burnout. She argues why we all need to be mental health activists, not just those with lived experience.
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Stigma, schizophrenia and being transgender
When he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, Ashley McFord-Allister discovered that the medical world will not continue gender confirmation treatment while treating a mental health condition. Here he exposes the prejudice behind this attitude.
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Is it really OK to not be OK?
Our mental healthcare system is still the poor relation of services that treat physical illness, and the pandemic has shone a spotlight on this situation. Campaigner James Downs argues for fundamental change.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Marcé Society
Date: 1982 - 1996Reference: PP/WDS/B.7Part of: Wendy Savage: archives (1935-)- Books
- Online
Insanity, its causes, prevention, and cure : including apoplexy, epilepsy, and congestion of the brain / by Joseph Williams.
Date: 1852- Books
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The rights of the insane and their enforcement / by Clark Bell.
Bell, Clark, 1832-1918.Date: [between 1880 and 1889]- Videos
Brainwaves.
Date: 1991- Books
Thrive : the power of evidence-based psychological therapies / Richard Layard and David M. Clark.
Layard, Richard, 1934-Date: 2014