A&E support following self harm must not become another Coronavirus casualty
Access to medical care during the Covid-19 crisis remains essential for people who have self harmed, writes Rachel Rowan Olive.
‘In Secure’: patient portraits – the boxer
For the first in MHT’s In Secure series, we meet a young boxer-turned-inpatient at a medium secure mental health hospital.
When being ‘out of touch with reality’ is your reality
Writer Erica Crompton has experienced psychosis for much of her life, at times believing herself to be Britain's most wanted criminal.
Here’s how enacting your values may reduce the impact of chronic pain
Up to 85% of people with chronic pain suffer from depression. In this article, CBT therapists Michael O'Sullivan and Caroline Neal explore how being closer to your values can lessen…
How mental health crisis care is impacted by Coronavirus
Campaigners fear new Coronavirus legislation will erode the rights of people who live with mental ill health, distress, or trauma.
Average CTO duration in South London is four times longer than govenment projections
In the first large, observational study with a control group in England and Wales, research funded by the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre has found that Community Treatment Orders (CTOs)…
The label of bipolar disorder has freed me rather than pigeonholed me
A diagnosis has the potential to hinder, validate, exclude, or liberate someone. Here, Ann-Marie D'Arcy Sharpe reflects upon how her diagnosis of bipolar disorder has impacted her life.
A psychiatric unit can aid my recovery, but only if my needs as an autistic person are accommodated
Emily Burke uses her experience of being admitted to psychiatric wards to highlight the adjustments that can be made to make this already unfamiliar and often uncomfortable environment a bit…
Phagophobia: ‘I have a phobia of eating in case I choke on my food and die’
Rita Mahal illuminates the difficulties that come with being scared of eating for fear of choking and dying.
I was part of a gang who understood what it meant to be different
Rita Mahal writes for Mental Health Today about how she 'found her people' in hospital and a rehabilitation facility, helping her come to terms with living with mental illness.