This book takes the themes, energy and passions of the AD4E events – bringing together many of the event speakers with others who have stories to tell and messages to share in the struggle to challenge diagnosis.

We are very lucky to have this online support network in place because it’s very hard if not impossible to find in many areas of the globe. This book takes the themes, energy and passions of the AD4E events - bringing together many of the event speakers with others who have stories to tell and messages to share in the struggle to challenge diagnosis.These posts are designed to serve as a public forum for a discussion—broadly speaking—of psychiatry and its treatments. When I pointed out that this was akin to wearing signs saying “I’m a n****r” or “I’m a sp*c” my comment was removed. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can work wonders on some people with prolonged bouts of sadness brought on by negative thinking. Challenges your view of the medical model and shows the links with our current and past experiences, the traumas we’ve faced and the adversity we live with.

People came from London, Wales, Scotland and Ireland to discuss the culture of psychiatric diagnosis, evidence of a growing popular resistance to the “broken brain” narrative. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. She represents the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) on the steering committee for the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence, is part of the `Mad in the UK' team and is a founding member of `United for Integrity in Mental Health' (UIMH). an institutional process that absolved my lack of human connection and moral responsibility because I wasn’t caring for this patient, I was prison guarding them.There will be space for questions, discussion and the sharing of ideas making for a uniquely powerful and hopeful learning experience.

These too are ways that the survivors of abuse decide not to face their own feelings, and instead to abuse other survivors. One of the shared ambitions of the administrator group is that we can ultimately develop this resource into a much-needed “Mad in the UK” site. Despite the progressive image conveyed by British critics of psychiatry (both professionals and survivors), the biomedical discourse in the UK is still deeply embedded in public consciousness and actively promoted in anti-stigma campaigns and media reporting.

Jo campaigns for a paradigm shift away from the bio medical model narrative of mental distress toward a more appropriate trauma informed response. Finally, spoken word artist Jasmine Gardosi ended the day by bringing one of my own poems—inspired by voice hearer and activist Eleanor Longden—to life.