Pink Sky Thinking

So yes... Parts 1 & 2 detail impacts of Hypomania. But why pathologise this? Maybe Hypomania is a perfectly normal response to an insane environment. Longer ...

Last night I really lost it. Short backstory: most people who know me already are well aware that after spending all of 2019 pushing myself to the limit to t...

I started writing this morning. Woke up with my mind buzzing and needing an outlet to stream it out somehow. The process of writing soothed it somewhat and I...

LXP Leaders Conference 2019 Pioneer are thrilled to be able to offer the opportunity for you to join in with LXP LEADERS conference, even if you missed out o...

I'm really excited to be delivering a workshop at #FestivalOfConfidence on Gender & Madness. Why are women given different mental health diagnoses to men? Ha...

The results of the BIGSPD (British & Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder) committee elections came in last week. There were two spots. The winn...

Exciting news!!! Our next Mad Studies group will feature not one - but TWO authors attending!!!! Dr. Sarah Carr is the author of the recently published 'I am...

I've just got off the phone to Hollie, who has written an explosive blog, partly prompted by me starting the blogging challenge and checking it was ok to sha...

The moment had finally come to make our way to Portcullis House. Some of the security staff had swapped over, so there was still some novelty about a Mermico...

Yesterday I blogged about all of the personal experiences I'd had, along with noticing those of others, that had motivated me to email Sir Norman Lamb to set...

One of the joys of living with slightly different wiring to whatever is considered 'normal' is that I'm rather persistent if I can see that something is impo...

I may have been busy lately with work, lobbying, and fighting the most stubborn tonsillitis bug ever... but I have most definitely neglected my blog and webs...

BIGSPD (British & Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder) currently have vacancies for two new Executive Committee members. The group currently ha...

I've had a few false starts on writing this. It first began as the gem of an idea after discussion spawned attending a National Institute of Health Research ...

Tomorrow we are meeting for our fourth Mad Studies Group in Birmingham, where we will be discussing: A Call For Social Justice, the Black & Minority Ethnic(B...

The Easter break saw much smaller group convene for Mad Studies. We had a very informal meetup, and spent the first half of the meeting sharing experiences ...

Barbara Norden is one of the members of the Birmingham Mad Studies group, facilitated by Pink Sky Thinking. Barbara is a Service User Activist who has been a...

So.... I am joining the hordes of annoying people begging for subscribers to their random YouTube channels. There is more to this than being a friends whore...

Are you a Lived Experience Practitioner (LXP)? (Mad) Academic? Student? Clinician? Service User? Carer? All welcome! ‘Mad Studies’ is a field of scholarship,...

Two weeks ago, twelve of us gathered round a table at Java Coffee Lounge in Moseley for our first 'Mad Studies' group. As the organiser and failitator, I wa...