Mandy Crandale

Image description 1: Maroon background with flowers with orange dotted border. There is pictures of Liberated to The Bone book by Susan Raffo and My Grandmothers Hands by Resmaa Menakem as well as a video picture of vice video titled A Therapist Breaks Down How Our Bodies Carry Racial Trauma. Text description: Abolition in Practice Group. Theme: What's the Body got to do with it? Date: Monday 14th April. Time: 12-2pm.Where:Online (zoom).

🫶🏿🎋Our upcoming Abolition in Practice Group is on the theme of Somatic abolitionism, decolonizing ‘wellness’, embodied social justice & the body as a resource & locus of trauma

📅: Monday 14th April
⏰: 12-2pm
💻: Online (zoom)

🔗Register your place using link in bio!

#bpoc #le

@nsunnews.bsky.social

New explainer from me, via NSUN - on what the welfare proposals are, what they might mean for those living with mental ill-health, and what you can do about them 👇

Tell your MP to oppose deadly disability cuts The government’s planned disability cuts are a deadly attack on already vulnerable communities. Benefits such as PIP provide a lifeline to those of us who live with debilitating mental illness. The H...

🚨 The govt’s planned disability cuts are a deadly attack on mentally ill & disabled people.

On May 6th, young people who rely on PIP are heading to Parliament to fight back.

📢 Help fill the room: email your MP now & urge them to attend 👉 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

The Possibility of a Lived Experience Industrial Complex Charli Clement asks whether lived experience is becoming its very own industrial complex, and if not, how we can prevent it from becoming one.

"It is a bitter feeling, to have believed so intrinsically that you could change the thing that broke you, only to leave feeling worse than when you started."

Charli Clement explores the ways in which lived experience is increasingly commodified.

www.nsun.org.uk/the-possibil...

The independent regulator has announced a £2,500 pay rise for MPs.

At a time when disabled people are facing the biggest cuts to disability benefits on record, this is simply wrong.

I’ll be donating mine to charities supporting disabled people in Coventry & across the country.

#WelfareNotWarfare - list of local actions - DPAC National Day of Action - Wednesday 26th March ---- DPAC Aberdeen Wednesday 26th March, 12pm Outside Marischal College, Broad Street, Aberdeen ---- Brighton

#WelfareNotWarfare

The list of all local actions including the central one in London with times and addresses

Check your local area

⬇️

dpac.uk.net/2025/03/welf...

"Dear Chancellor, We fear the cost of cuts is too great." Open letter. Scope logo. Campaign for Disability Justice logo.

We’ve united with Scope, @disrightsuk.bsky.social @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social and @turn2us.bsky.social against cuts to disability benefits.

Together, we’ve published an open letter urging the govt to safeguard them.

Read the full letter on Scope’s website.
buff.ly/FhxKY7U

#Disability

If anything, the UK’s mental health crisis is one of UNDERdiagnosis not OVERdiagnosis.

📉APMS study found:

Less than half of those with severe distress get treatment.
Only a third needing primary care support have a diagnosis.

The real issue is not overdiagnosis but undercare.

✉️ Read our letter with Scope and others urging the Government to protect disability benefits. [5/5]
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Research Project: media engagement for people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress or trauma Three-stage research project into the experiences of people with lived experience of mental ill-health, trauma and distress engaging with the media, and the development of guidelines to improve them.

The media’s engagement with people with lived experience of mental ill-health, trauma and distress can be unethical.

To improve the process, we are conducting a 3-stage research project, starting with a short survey.

Complete it to enter a £20 Love2Shop prize draw.

www.nsun.org.uk/news/researc...

"You could just listen to me”: the erasure of lived experience in healthcare We must continue to use our lived experience to rewrite the narrative of those that try to erase us.

“You could just listen to me”: the erasure of lived experience in healthcare is the powerful new blog in the Limitations of Lived Experience series from @nsunnews.bsky.social

DWP forces over 680,000 people to pay for its own mistakes Exclusive: The DWP must ‘take responsibility’ for its mistakes, campaigners say

When the DWP makes a mistake, who should pay the price?

We wrote to Liz Kendall with 30+ charities & welfare experts, warning that “official error” Universal Credit overpayment debt is pushing hundreds of thousands into unexpected debt.

@the-independent.com

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Labour’s proposed disability benefit cuts are nothing short of terrifying, say campaigners The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) cuts appear to be focused on the Personal Independent Payment (PIP), reports award-winning disabled journalist Rachel Charlton-Dailey

Labour’s proposed disability benefit cuts are nothing short of terrifying, say campaigners - truly chilling news

A great read as always, don't miss the latest issue of @asylummagazine.bsky.social

UN calls for ‘corrective measures’ to Tory disability benefit reforms, just as Labour prepares cuts of its own A report by the United Nations (UN) has called on the UK government to take “corrective measures” to address the impact of cuts to disability benefits introduced under Conservative governments, jus…

A report by the United Nations has called on the UK government to take “corrective measures” to address the impact of cuts to disability benefits introduced under Conservative governments, just as Labour ministers prepare to introduce further such cuts.

Our Campaign Leader @carolinejc.bsky.social tells @johnpring.bsky.social "we implore the government not to make unfair changes based on condition specific criteria" in response to research showing no evidence to support call for PIP cuts.

Cutting benefits will harm the economy - not help it - Vox Political Cutting benefits will harm the economy, not help it - Rachel Reeves's financial illiteracy may harm millions of us

voxpoliticalonline.com/2025/03/05/c...

Sign the Petition Enable Private Accounts on Bluesky

We have started a petition to Bluesky Social PBC CEO Jay Graber @jay.bsky.team to Enable Private Accounts on Bluesky. So survivors and others who need private accounts can safely leave X/Twitter and come to Bluesky, pls share and sign.
www.change.org/EnablePrivat...

Become an NSUN member Our network is made up of individuals with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress, and/or trauma, as well as user-led grassroots groups.

The NSUN weekly bulletin arrived in member inboxes on Monday afternoon, full of news, free events and paid opportunities for individuals with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress or trauma.

Scroll for a selection of its contents 🧵

www.nsun.org.uk/our-members/...

Excited to be setting up Mad Campaigns Lab! 💫 A drop in space for Mad and Disability justice campaigners, through @nsunnews.bsky.social. Focus will be on skillsharing, solidarity, and strategy. Register interest & input below 👇

Cream background with an orange and green box and speech marks. Words read: "Eating disorders are so much more than just food. A lot of the time they are coping mechanisms for broader and complex issues. Source is Beat Eating Disorders 2025."

It's #EatingDisordersAwarenessWeek and we're highlighting the voices of people who support those living with an eating disorder who are changing the narrative.

Look out for the #Blogs on our website later this week and get involved with @beatedsupport.bsky.social : edaw.beateatingdisorders.org.uk

Spring issue of Asylum out soon! Special issue on surveillance guest edited by Stop Oxevision.
@stopoxevision.bsky.social

Image description: Blue Aqua background with yellow torn page border. There is a black synergi flower logo at the top of the page. There is also a red speech bubble and yellow speech bubble. There is photos of Zinesters Hamja Ahsan, Seleena Laverne Daye and Dal Kular. There are blue star shapes alongside these photos. The text reads: Building our own archives: Zines as a tool for resistance. Panel Discussion. Date: Friday 21st February. Time:3-4:30pm. Where. Online (zoom). Register your place using the link in our bio.

🗣️Join us for an online panel discussion with Zinesters Hamja Ahsan, Seleena Laverne Daye & Dal Kular about their work & thoughts about the past, present & future of zine-making!📚

📅Friday 21st February
⏰3-4:30pm
💻Online via Zoom

🔗Register using link in bio
#mh#zine#bpoc#le

Living experience: looking toward genuine co-production in mental health The “we know best” mentality of many mental health services – rooted in the prevalence of the paternalistic medical model – invalidates living experience and demotes it beneath knowledge learnt in a l...

"The “we know best” mentality of many mental health services invalidates and demotes living experience."

In the first blog of 'The Limitations of Lived Experience' series, @mandycrandale.bsky.social imagines genuine co-production in mental health.

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It's #RandomActsOfKindnessDay, and while many people encourage you to show kindness to others. Lots of people forget to show it to themselves. Here are some reminders of ways you can be kind to yourself. 👇

#Kindness #MentalHealth #SelfLove

MAD KIN: we keep us safe Mad Kin Zine is about the alternative kin we craft outside of psych spaces to keep our communities safe.

Featuring over 15 artists and poets, Mad Kin Zine is about the kin we craft outside of psych spaces to keep our communities safe.

Kat Hudson on creating a space to demand alternatives to psychiatry and policing, to exchange tools, to dream, to mobilise.

www.nsun.org.uk/mad-kin-we-k...

Here I am chatting with our Head of Communications & Menmbership, Amy, about how I've been settling in to the post after 7 months.

💌🌹Kicking off our Valentine's Series - a collection of written pieces exploring radical acts of love & community care with a beautiful piece by Jerome Sewell

📖Read it by following link in bio!

#mentalhealth #love #radical #ValentinesDay #bpoc

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Free monitoring, evaluation and learning training for user-led groups After the popularity of our monitoring, evaluation and learning training session in November 2024, we are once again offering NSUN members free places on a session led by NSUN's Learning Partner and f...

This is your last chance to attend tomorrow’s virtual monitoring, evaluation and learning training for user-led groups!

Taking place from 2-4pm, sign up for free via the link below.

www.nsun.org.uk/news/free-mo...