Hearing Voices at Mind in Camden

Illustration on the topic of what good support looks like and includes, with lots of text drawn from young people's comments in the workshop. For example, young people say: "Don't panic! If you don't know the answer just say so." "Listen, don't dismiss me off-hand." "Don't make me feel like a burden." "Be human, show humility." "Don't just offer quick fixes, I've heard it before."

What does good support look like?

Young voice hearers discussed this question in a research group workshop with @manmetuni.bsky.social, and their views were captured in this brilliant artwork by @imagistic.bsky.social

(larger version here: www.voicecollective.co.uk/professional...)

Sign Up | VOX Scotland We are Scotland’s national collective advocacy organisation for mental health.

Join VOX Scotland! We are run by and for people with lived experience of mental ill health, and membership is free. If you’re an individual with lived experience (past or present), you’re warmly welcome. There’s no need for a formal diagnosis

How my thirst for knowledge and a hearing voices group aided in my recovery — TACFLE - The Australian Centre for Lived Experience I can trace my mood symptoms back to when I was 15. I progressively became more and more depressed and was prescribed antidepressants to alleviate the symptoms. Mood episodes continued to come and go ...

"I always walk out of these sessions with a feeling of empowerment, a feeling that I don’t get with my other mental health related appointments. Personally, it’s given me the space to grow as a person beyond my diagnosis..." (via the @nsunnews.bsky.social bulletin)

www.tacfle.com/mad-archives...

The Muslim Voice A Voice for the Voiceless

The Muslim Voice is a new project offering online peer support groups where Muslim men and women can meet separately to talk about #HearingVoices or other unusual experiences in a safe, supportive environment themuslimvoice.org.uk

Image: Young Black Muslim woman wearing a hijab is sat typing at her laptop, with colleagues stood beside her with clipboards. Text: Managing my mental health during Ramadan. By Zainab Shafan-Azhar.

Quote: For someone who has struggled with feelings of inadequacy, instead of perceiving increased worship as something that is encouraged, I would often see it as a form of pressure. I would constantly feel as though I should be doing more, and that what I was doing was not enough. Zainab Shafan-Azhar

Whilst Ramadan is a time of reflection, gratitude and increased worship, for some with mental health difficulties, this period brings pressure. In her blog, Zainab Shafan-Azhar reflects on her experiences and shares techniques that have helped her: www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/managing-my-...

🚨 Applications are now open for
@sounddeliverymedia.bsky.social's Spokesperson Leadership Programme.

They're looking for 14 grassroots leaders with lived experience of social injustice for the free 7-month programme.

⏰ Deadline: 20 March, 12pm

Apply now: www.sounddelivery.org.uk/spokesperson...

Our facilitator team is looking forward to this event and what we can learn from it. AI comes up in conversation and often in relation to a lack of relational care and community in people's lives but also around wanting to understand ones own experiences.

Event flyer featuring a glitchy image of an anguished-looking classical statue repeated with different levels of colour, grain, and opacity, as if the statue is fading in or out of existence.

EVENT: Hearing voices, suicidality, and 'AI psychosis'

A @uobphenomenal.bsky.social seminar drawing on perspectives from philosophy, mental health research, psychology, and lived experience.

Friday 20 March, 9am - 4.30pm UK time, online and in person.

#HearingVoices #MentalHealthResearch

Survey about the mad movement Please fill in our survey to inform the future work of the Centre for Mad Culture UK.

The Centre for Mad Culture UK invites you to share your views: www.surveymonkey.com/r/mad-movement It takes 5-10 mins and there is an option to join the prize draw for a £30 book voucher.

Patriarchy Leads To Insanity I am hopeful that for me and others, DSM-driven diagnoses like “bipolar” can be seen as more transient states, as part of a greater journey of the soul.

Patriarchy Leads To Insanity
by L.S.

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YouTube video by King's Cultural Community Compassion for Voices: a tale of courage and hope

Have you heard of the compassionate approach to relating to voices? I really like the way this short animation explains it.

youtu.be/VRqI4lxuXAw

Studying Healthy Psychosislike Experiences to Improve Illness Prediction This Special Communication discusses the potential for individuals with unusual beliefs and experiences to provide adversarial examples in generative modeling approaches to understanding delusions and...

Voice hearing can also be observed amongst people who are neither unwell nor psychotic. […] Religious
practitioners endorse hearing God speak to them on occasion.” jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

YOUR NHS STORY MATTERS: share your experience of the NHS crisis with us. Image of patient in NHS hospital with Just Treatment logo.

Our #NHS is at breaking point. Most of us either know someone or have experienced the crisis first hand.

That's why we're gathering stories from people across the country to shine a light on the devastating impact & amplify patient voices.

Share your story: actionnetwork.org/forms/share-...

YouTube video by LondonHVN A Little Insight - Young People who Hear Voices

This #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek please watch and share this short film created by young people who hear voices:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7iJ...

#CMHW #MentalHealth #HearingVoices

Agency in youth mental health CPD eLearning talks to... · Episode

For #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek listen to this podcast by the Royal College of Psychiatrists where Matthew Broome, Rose McCabe, Michael Larkin, and I talk about the importance of agency in youth mental health #epistemicinjustice #philsky #philpsy

Unlearning Medical Education - Medact Calendar This event will feature group discussions and a conversation between Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan and Dr Jo Hartland about their experiences of medical learning.

Join us on Wednesday 25 February at 7 pm on Zoom for a transformative workshop on deconstructing oppressive systems in medical education and exploring new paths toward health justice. www.medact.org/event/unlear...

Biro drawing on a lined sketch pad of two figures walking through a park

Caroline Butterwick shares a deeply personal account of how creativity helped her navigate a recent hospitalisation on a psychiatric ward.

disabilityarts.online/magazine/opi...

Voice Collective Supporting young people who hear, see, or sense things that others don’t.

Visit the Voice Collective website to find resources created with young people who hear, see, or sense things that others don't.
www.voicecollective.co.uk
We offer online peer support groups for young people and their parents & carers, as well as individual support.

#ChildrensMentalHealthWeek #CMHW

📈 In 2023/24, young people waiting over a year for CAMHS treatment increased by 52% on the previous year.

We need to do more to ensure that young people are given access to mental health support when they need it.

#ChildrensMentalHealthWeek

Voice Collective Supporting young people who hear, see, or sense things that others don’t.

Visit the Voice Collective website to find resources created with young people who hear, see, or sense things that others don't.
www.voicecollective.co.uk
We offer online peer support groups for young people and their parents & carers, as well as individual support.

#ChildrensMentalHealthWeek #CMHW

YouTube video by LondonHVN A Little Insight - Young People who Hear Voices

This #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek please watch and share this short film created by young people who hear voices:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7iJ...

#CMHW #MentalHealth #HearingVoices

Policy briefing & NSUN’s position: welfare reform in 2026 At NSUN, our policy work in 2025 was dominated by the fight against cruel and dangerous proposals for welfare reform.

At NSUN, our policy work in 2025 was dominated by the fight against cruel and dangerous proposals for welfare reform.

In this briefing we share a recap of what happened last year, look at what the government is doing next and establish our positioning and plans.

www.nsun.org.uk/news/policy-...

On the left is a photograph of Dr Gavin Francis is wearing hospital scrubs and looking to his right. The scene is bathed in green light. On the right is a photograph of Micha Frazer-Carroll who is lying on some grass, looking to her left where there are copies of her book 'Mad World' on the grass next to her.

Join Dr Gavin Francis, Micha Frazer-Carroll and Natasha Devon at Wellcome Collection to discuss the social, medical and political nature of mental health.

When - 13 Feb
Where - London/Online
Cost - Free

disabilityarts.online/events/lands...

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When A Name Replaces The Story Monica Ross uses her personal and clinical experience to explore how diagnostic language can clarify, constrain, and quietly shape the meaning of a life.

@drmonicaross.bsky.social uses her personal and clinical experience to explore how diagnostic language can clarify, constrain, and quietly shape the meaning of a life.

thepolyphony.org/2026/01/28/w...

YouTube video by The McPin Foundation Ode To Peer Research

Through poetry and hand-crafted animation, we tell the story of lived experience in research at McPin. When researchers work on topics that personally resonate, we call it peer research.

Watch full the animation on YouTube
youtu.be/nAfThPdeL0c

Animation credit: Woven Ink

#PeerResearch

www.outsavvy.com/event/32533/...

Network Seminar: "Hearing voices, suicidality, and AI-psychosis", 20th March, Birmingham and Online Location In person: Assembly Room, The Exchange, 3 Centenary Square, Birmingham, B1 2DR. Online: Teams meeting. Date and time 20th March 202...

birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/12/netw...

You're welcome, great piece :-)

"There is not some vague concept called 'mental illness' or 'mental health'. There are people. Just people — many of whom are perhaps different than some mythological standard called normal... madness is a feature not a bug of the human condition."