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It's great to see the #joinin hashtag being promoted again this year - particularly for those feeling lonely or alone this #Christmas(& who don't want to be) who are looking to connect!

Peer support in mental health webinar 2.00-4.30pm GMT, Mon 20 Jan Tickets going fast! eventbrite.co.uk/e/peer-support… With Mental Health Policy Research Unit Sonia Johnson Dr Andrew Grundy PhD (acgrundy.bsky.social) Steve Gillard, Una Foye, Ruth Cooper, Natasha Lyons & Co-Production Collective

Am getting this in early - Mon 20th Jan #BlueMonday (aka the most 'depressing' day of the year) is not only complete #pseudoscience, it also propagates a definition of #depression & its treatment that trivialises & thereby stigmatises it. Activists should steer well clear of it!

Really looking forward to this #MentalHealth Question Time event on the theme of peer-support. The MHPRU have done some fantastic research in this area!

Reminder that there's no independent research into the physical & psychological safety of digital observation or on the ethics & acceptability of its implementation. 'Filming me sleep on ward made my mental health worse' via BBC News (UK) bbc.com/news/articles/…

Really thrilled to be training another cohort of service users & carers in our '#Research Methods for Lived Experience & Public Involvement Researchers' course. Fantastic first day together!

🚨 Publication alert: Really honoured to have supervised this mixed methods systematic review on the impacts of antipsychotics on eating-related outcomes. Big well done to Rasha and the whole SUSTAIN Research team! researchgate.net/publication/38…

Really looking forward to delivering my keynote on Lived Experience Leadership at the NIHR Mental Health Implementation Network's PPI celebration event today! Mental Health Policy Research Unit

So excited to be giving a keynote on 'The Promise & Pitfalls of Lived Experience Research' at the #MentalHealth Student Conference up in Manchester today! The day's theme is on 'The role of lived experience in mental health research'. UoM Mental Health Research Group NMSW Research The University of Manchester

Found this really insightful 'Disability, Work and Starmer’s Cruel Cuts' madintheuk.com/2025/03/the-di… via @MITUKTeam #DisabilityBenefits #DisabledLivesMatter #MentalDisability

Really important read: 'It Costs More to be Disabled, Whatever the Government Says.' recoveryinthebin.org/2025/02/27/it-… via Recovery in the Bin #DisabilityBenefits #DisabledLivesMatter #MentalDisability

Important read: 'People with severe mental illness twice as likely to be disconnected by utility companies' bigissue.com/news/social-ju… #DisabledLivesMatter #MentalDisability #DisabilityBenefits

🚨 Publication alert Really thrilled to say that I've a paper out on 'The traumas of hostile voice-hearing experiences in the context of acute psychiatric admissions: a lived experience testimony' researchgate.net/publication/39…

Off the back of some of the issues raised in my most recent paper... I'm really thankful to have been offered another round of clinical psychology sessions in secondary care, which started today, to hopefully help process some of these traumas. #MentalHealth #trauma #therapy

Why are positive representations of people with a #schizophrenia diagnosis/label so hard to find in the media? #WorldSchizophreniaDay

We desperately need media guidance on the reporting of homicide & #schizophrenia/#psychosis (as we do for reporting on #suicide). #WorldSchizophreniaDay bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Was absolutely thrilled to give a keynote this afternoon London South Bank University - LSBU The British Academy event for Early Career Researchers on 'Disrupting power & privilege: strategies for change' using examples from Mental Health Policy Research Unit & from my own lived experience!

🚨 Publication alert Really thrilled to have this First Person Account published in Schizophrenia Bulletin! 'Moments of Regaining “Insight”—An Unrecognized Trauma' #MentalHealth #Schizophrenia #psychosis #trauma academic.oup.com/schizophreniab…