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, 201911 min read
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...
Tamar
Nov 24, 20193 min read
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, 20193 min read
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...
Tamar
Oct 24, 20191 min read
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...
Tamar
Sep 19, 20191 min read
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...
Tamar
Sep 12, 20195 min read
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...
Tamar
Jul 19, 20194 min read
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...
Tamar
Jul 18, 20193 min read
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...
Tamar
Jul 17, 201911 min read
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...
Tamar
Jul 16, 201910 min read
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...
Tamar
Jul 15, 201915 min read
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...
Tamar
Jul 14, 20191 min read
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...
Tamar
Jul 14, 20196 min read
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....
Tamar
May 10, 20199 min read
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...
Tamar
May 1, 20192 min read
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...
Tamar
May 1, 20193 min read
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...
Tamar
Mar 29, 20196 min read
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...
Tamar
Feb 23, 20192 min read
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...
Tamar
Feb 23, 20192 min read
March Mad Studies Group
Are you a Lived Experience Practitioner (LXP)? (Mad) Academic? Student? Clinician? Service User? Carer? All welcome! ‘Mad Studies’ is a...
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