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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 nov...

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

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 th...

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

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

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...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...