“Disordered eating is a symptom showing us that a person is experiencing distress”
In my opinion, in the area of mental health, we talk too much about disorders and not enough about recovery and freedom.
In 1952,...
Part 2: Are we all neurodivergent nowadays?
Editor’s Note: Mad in America and Mad in the UK are jointly publishing this four-part series on neurodiversity. The series was edited by Mad in...
Part 1: Neurodiversity—what exactly does it mean?
Mad in America and Mad in the UK are jointly publishing a four-part series on neurodiversity over the next four weeks. The series was...
Unquestioningly striving to adapt to harmful circumstances may be self-harm
According to the Online Etymology Dictionary resilience comes from the Latin “resileins” and “resilire”. Derived from “re” meaning “back” and “salire” meaning “to jump...
Why the fail, why the lacklustre drug-heavy mental health services?
It’s been on my mind: what do these labels matter – whether I have ‘unusual sensory experiences’, am ‘schizophrenic ‘, ‘shitso’ ,‘voice-hearer’ or ‘on...