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What Do Handforth Parish Council, Mental Health Activists & LXPs Have in Common?
I was one of the people who managed to wangle a Zoom invite to Handforth Parish Council’s infamous 3h Zoom meeting that was mercilously...
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Tamar
- Nov 24, 2019
- 11 min
Part 3: Maybe it’s not the Hypomania?
So yes... Parts 1 & 2 detail impacts of Hypomania. But why pathologise this? Maybe Hypomania is a perfectly normal response to an insane...
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- Nov 24, 2019
- 3 min
Part 2: Hypomania & Fire Fighting
Last night I really lost it. Short backstory: most people who know me already are well aware that after spending all of 2019 pushing...
Tamar
- Nov 24, 2019
- 3 min
Part 1: Hypomania & Candles
I started writing this morning. Woke up with my mind buzzing and needing an outlet to stream it out somehow. The process of writing...
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- Oct 24, 2019
- 1 min
Join The LXP Revolution!
LXP Leaders Conference 2019 Pioneer are thrilled to be able to offer the opportunity for you to join in with LXP LEADERS conference, even...
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- Sep 19, 2019
- 1 min
Talking Madness & Gender @ Festival Of Confidence
I'm really excited to be delivering a workshop at #FestivalOfConfidence on Gender & Madness. Why are women given different mental health...
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- Sep 12, 2019
- 5 min
BIGSPD Elections Round 2!!!
The results of the BIGSPD (British & Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder) committee elections came in last week. There were...
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- Jul 19, 2019
- 4 min
TWO Authors Attending Next #MadStudies Meeting
Exciting news!!! Our next Mad Studies group will feature not one - but TWO authors attending!!!! Dr. Sarah Carr is the author of the...
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- Jul 18, 2019
- 3 min
A #MeToo Moment for Lived Experience Practitioners?
I've just got off the phone to Hollie, who has written an explosive blog, partly prompted by me starting the blogging challenge and...
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- Jul 17, 2019
- 11 min
Lobbying Sir Norman Lamb - Part 3: Meeting @ Parliament Offices
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...
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- Jul 16, 2019
- 10 min
Lobbying Sir Norman Lamb - Part 2: Joining Forces to Prep
Yesterday I blogged about all of the personal experiences I'd had, along with noticing those of others, that had motivated me to email...
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- Jul 15, 2019
- 15 min
Lobbying Sir Norman Lamb - Part 1: How It All Started
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...
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- Jul 14, 2019
- 1 min
7-Day Blog Challenge!!!
I may have been busy lately with work, lobbying, and fighting the most stubborn tonsillitis bug ever... but I have most definitely...
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- Jul 14, 2019
- 6 min
Vote #LXPs for BIGSPD Elections 2019!!!
BIGSPD (British & Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder) currently have vacancies for two new Executive Committee members....
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- May 10, 2019
- 9 min
Lived Experience Practitioners & The Emotional Labour of Conferences
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...
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- May 1, 2019
- 2 min
Mad Studies: A Call To Social Justice
Tomorrow we are meeting for our fourth Mad Studies Group in Birmingham, where we will be discussing: A Call For Social Justice, the Black...
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- May 1, 2019
- 3 min
Mad Studies: David tackles 'Madness & The Demand for Recognition'
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...
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- Mar 29, 2019
- 6 min
Mad Studies: Barbara on Beresford
Barbara Norden is one of the members of the Birmingham Mad Studies group, facilitated by Pink Sky Thinking. Barbara is a Service User...
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- Feb 23, 2019
- 2 min
Daisy The Cat will now Officially Allocate all Winners of Pink Tat!!!
So.... I am joining the hordes of annoying people begging for subscribers to their random YouTube channels. There is more to this than...
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- Feb 23, 2019
- 2 min
March Mad Studies Group
Are you a Lived Experience Practitioner (LXP)? (Mad) Academic? Student? Clinician? Service User? Carer? All welcome! ‘Mad Studies’ is a...