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  • #Neorecovery: A Survivor Led Conceptualisation And Critique #MHNR2019
  • Put PIP and WCA Assessments On The Record
  • A Simple Guide To How To Be A Good Psychotic
  • A Simple Guide To Avoid Receiving A Diagnosis Of ‘Personality Disorder’
  • A Simple Guide To Co-Production
  • Stepford Recovery College
  • The RITB-Warwick-Edinburgh Neoliberal Mental Wellbeing Scale

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  • RITB Poster Download
  • 3 Point Plan To Make DWP Support People During Covid-19 Outbreak
  • “I could justify your death to the coroner”: The Misuse of Positive Risk Taking in Mental Health
  • Neorecovery, Neoliberalism and Enforced ‘Positive’ Risk Taking
  • Peer Support Worker Competence Framework: co-option in the name of co-production

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[covid19] We need your help! Recovery in the Bin needs to hear from as many people as possible in the coming weeks to find out how the pandemic is affecting mental health services. We’re already hearing about community services being shut, a lack of practical support, mass discharges from acute wards, CTOs and extended leave being rushed through to force patients into self-isolation at home, and of course, the changes coming to the Mental Health Act. Please let us know in the comments, our DMs or email about what is happening in your area and how it’s affecting you. This will really help us keep track of what’s going on and work out where people might be most vulnerable and where they might slip through the cracks in the system #recoveryinthebin #sectioned #covid19 #coronapanic #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealth #mentalhealthnurse #recoveryjourney #mentalhealthtips #mentalillness #mentalillnessrecovery #disabilityrights #disabilityactivism
Content note: covid19 We are working hard as a group to figure out ways to support people during these difficult times. Our main focus at the moment is reducing social isolation and anxiety that the pandemic is understandably bringing up for people. So we’ve arranged a Twitter chat for people to get together tonight and share their tips on how they’re coping (or just spam us with cute animals). Those of us with chronic health conditions are uniquely placed in understanding social isolation - some of us have been doing it years! We will also be looking very closely at the emergency legislation being brought in by the government and how this might affect people in practice, particularly in relation to Mental Health Act detentions and changes to community mental health provisions #recoveryinthebin #covıd19 #pandemic #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthmatters #coronavirus #covid19news
Content note: COVID-19 Here are some ideas on how to cope with the mental effects of the coronavirus pandemic. We are also planning a blog on the practical effects and how to mitigate them. If you have ideas on how to cope with the mental effects of the outbreak please comment below! How are you looking after your mental health during this time? TEXT READS: The coronavirus news can be particularly mentally taxing for those of us already experiencing mental health problems. Here are some reasons why. The UK government has shown in its response to the outbreak that it does not care about disabled, elderly or otherwise vulnerable citizens. That is personal to many of us. Some of us are now experiencing a worsening of anxiety or psychotic symptoms because of the news. Some of us are already isolated and the thought of self-isolation feels like it could finish us off. Some of us are having our usual mental health support and therapy disrupted. Already we are hearing some Community Mental Health Teams have stopped home visits due to the outbreak. Some of us have already been state-ordered into ‘quarantine’ for our health in the past, through detentions under the Mental Health Act. The prospect of this happening again is triggering. Our suggestions: Here’s some ideas on how to mitigate the damage on your mental health during the outbreak. Comment with your own suggestions below! Use content warnings for posts on COVID-19; Mute words on social media to limit your exposure to the news; Set up Skype/FaceTime dates with your friends; Set up ‘online dates’ with self-isolating or isolated friends to watch films together or binge TV series. Press play at the same time and its like you’re watching together; Make small goals and lists of things you can/want to do at home. Most importantly, please check in on your friends in the coming weeks and months!!! Surviving the effects of this outbreak will be a marathon, not a sprint. Remember to go easy. #covid19 #coronavirus #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealth #mentalillness #mentalhealthmatters #recoveryinthebin #recoverycommunity #radicalmentalhealth #disabilityawareness
Content note: suicide and psychiatric abuse/neglect. New blog - the latest in our series on positive risk taking in mental health. Link in bio. You can also share and read it at our website with the link http://bit.do/positiverisk2 “Discharging someone with expressed suicidal intent is the equivalent of discharging someone in the middle of a heart attack... you’re gambling with people’s lives.” #recoveryinthebin #BPD #EUPD #bpdawareness #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthmatters
Last month, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman released a survey of experiences of NHS mental health care in England. It’s pretty damning. We have turned it into an infographic but you can read the full report at www.ombudsman.org.uk These findings will come as no surprise to those of us using (or working in) services, and we would argue the results are just the tip of the iceberg. There is much work needed to get mental health services to even a basic standard of care #recoveryinthebin #NHScrisis #mentalhealthrecovery #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealth #mentalillness #mentalillnessawareness #nhs70 #NHS #mentalhealthstigma
This is the first in a series of blogs we are doing about ‘positive risk taking’ in mental health services. It’s written from a patients perspective. Read the full blog at our website - link in bio. Or use this link: http://bit.do/positiverisk #recoveryinthebin #austerity #neoliberalism #BPD #bpdawareness #EUPD

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  • Article in Critical MH Nursing Network
  • Asylum – Autumn 2015 p 21 (Principles)
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  • Social Work Action Network (SWAN)
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