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Published in: TransformationHow group therapy taught me to survive oppressionThere is no guide to how to discuss your most painful experiences with strangers. Group therapy becomes a microcosm...
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Published in: TransformationIn Lebanon, young people are challenging mental health stereotypesTradition, corruption and political negligence continue to stigmatise mental illness, but the new generation is...
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Published in: TransformationFrom Gaza to the UK: mental health isn't just a medical problem, it's politicalWe have to interchange ‘mental illness’ with words like ‘suffering’, and emphasise political action alongside...
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Published in: TransformationLea's story: my days as a mad girlIn immaculate clinics people are segregated, held down, drugged, often with no other purpose than to control them...
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Published in: TransformationIt's off to fucking work we go: the politics of workplace miseryNot only is psychological distress in the workplace seen as normal, it is valorised. As more stress equals more...
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Published in: TransformationI was arrested 75 times: how violent policing destroys mental healthPolice harassment drove me into hospital. Why aren't we questioning their tactics? This is the final article in...
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Published in: TransformationPanic and the city: I thought I was dying two or three times a weekThere was no apparent trigger to my panic attacks, they were caused by the capitalist city itself. Part of...
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Published in: TransformationWhat’s normal? The politics of psychiatric labelingPsychiatrists are consistently expanding the boundaries of mental illness using scientific claims only weakly...
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Published in: TransformationTime does not always heal: state violence and psychic damageMy partner Alfie Meadows was nearly killed when a police officer hit his head with a truncheon at a demo. After...
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Published in: TransformationOn beauty: Special K adverts, body dysmorphic disorder, and Lupita Nyong'oNone of us can escape from the vicious reality of our cultural obsession with 'beauty', but I was lucky to survive...
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Published in: TransformationActivists talk mental healthA feminist, a squatter, an environmentalist and a human rights activist speak: how does taking action affect mental...
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Published in: TransformationTo survive bipolar disorder, I needed people who didn't love meThere is a unique hope in a stranger's kindness. Despite my catatonic state, despite barely recognising the people I...
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Published in: TransformationFeminism helped me survive a forced marriageI have Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result of fleeing a forced marriage a decade ago. Writing and...
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Published in: TransformationMental health: why we're all sick under neoliberalismWe don't understand mental health, allocating the label only to those who are struggling, so its political causes...
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Published in: TransformationDemand homes not jails: queer homelessness is being criminalizedCities globally are starting to criminalize homelessness: banning begging and making free food provision illegal. I...
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Published in: TransformationHow to win friends and influence the new economyLoneliness is as strong as smoking or alcohol abuse as an indicator of premature mortality. When Lisa Cook found she...
