We have to interchange ‘mental illness’ with words like ‘suffering’, and emphasise political action alongside...

In immaculate clinics people are segregated, held down, drugged, often with no other purpose than to control them...

Not only is psychological distress in the workplace seen as normal, it is valorised. As more stress equals more...

Police harassment drove me into hospital. Why aren't we questioning their tactics? This is the final article in...

There was no apparent trigger to my panic attacks, they were caused by the capitalist city itself. Part of...

Psychiatrists are consistently expanding the boundaries of mental illness using scientific claims only weakly...

My partner Alfie Meadows was nearly killed when a police officer hit his head with a truncheon at a demo. After...

None of us can escape from the vicious reality of our cultural obsession with 'beauty', but I was lucky to survive...

A feminist, a squatter, an environmentalist and a human rights activist speak: how does taking action affect mental...

There is a unique hope in a stranger's kindness. Despite my catatonic state, despite barely recognising the people I...

I have Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result of fleeing a forced marriage a decade ago. Writing and...

We don't understand mental health, allocating the label only to those who are struggling. So good mental health, and...

Cities globally are starting to criminalize homelessness: banning begging and making free food provision illegal. I...

Loneliness is as strong as smoking or alcohol abuse as an indicator of premature mortality. When Lisa Cook found she...