Psychiatry Is Driving me Mad
https://www.psychiatryisdrivingmemad.co.uk/
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Self Injury Support
Self Injury Support focuses on improving support and knowledge around self-injury by offering support services; creating tools and information; and providing training.
https://www.selfinjurysupport.org.uk/
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WISH
WISH is a user-led women’s mental health charity developing pioneering support services for under-served women and campaigning together for social justice.
Asylum the radical mental health magazine, has been running for nearly 40 years, acting as a platform to voice and discuss all perspectives on mental health.
Mental Illness Is Not a Crime.
StopSIM Coalition
A coalition of service users and allies campaigning for the High Intensity Network’s Serenity Integrated Mentoring (SIM) to be halted and investigated.
Hearing Voices Network

A small national charity for people who hear voices, see visions or have other unusual perceptions.

National Survivor User Network
NSUN is a network of community groups and people who have experience of mental distress, ill-health and trauma who come together to create, challenge, and campaign.
MadCovid is an intersectional mental health community for grassroots survivor and service-user led projects that started during the COVID19 pandemic.

Recovery In The Bin
Recovery in the Bin is a critical theorist and activist collective for mental health Survivors and Supporters who are fed up with the co-option of mental health “recovery”.
mind.org.uk
beateatingdisorders.org.uk
mentalhealth.org.uk
samaritans.org
Akathisia Alliance
Psychiatrist. Psychopharmacologist. Scientist. Author. Blog that is updated daily and offers reader debate. He is a leading expert on antidepressant induced psychosis and has been an expert witness on most high profile cases where antidepressants have been thought to be the cause of homicides, violence and suicide.
Olly was prescribed Citalopram over the phone. After just four days of taking this, he was overwhelmed and compelled to end his life suddenly. Olly’s Future is a campaign to ensure that the first time a patient is prescribed an anti-depressant, that they are seen by a doctor, face to face, so that they know the risks and possible side-effects.
Advice Links
All of these are ‘battle tested’ and have been used successfully by our members, if you have other recommendations based on successful real world direct lived experience please let us know Contact
ESA WCA & Universal Credit LCW & LCWRA assessment Advice wcainfo.net
PIP Assessments Advice pipinfo.net
Benefit Calculator and Advice entitledto.co.uk
Citizen’s Advice on PIP citizensadvice.org.uk/benefits/sick-or-disabled-people-and-carers/pip/
Citizen’s Advice on ESA/WCA citizensadvice.org.uk/benefits/sick-or-disabled-people-and-carers/employment-and-support-allowance/
Citizen’s Advice on Universal Credit https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/benefits/universal-credit/
Turn 2 Us Advice turn2us.org.uk/Your-Situation/Ill-Injured-or-Disabled#Benefits
Find Your Nearest Law Centre lawcentres.org.uk/about-law-centres/law-centres-on-google-maps/alphabetically
A Practical Guide For Healthcare Professionals On How To Support Clients Dealing With The Social Security System asylummagazine.org/2018/08/supporting-claimants-a-practical-guide-by-jay-watts/
Winvisible on PIP winvisibleblog.wordpress.com/2018/05/16/pip-personal-independence-payments/
Winvisible: Exemption from Face To Face Assessments ESA, Universal Credit & PIP winvisibleblog.wordpress.com/2017/12/10/benefit-exam-exemptions-briefing-for-professionals/
How to Record Your Assessment https://recoveryinthebin.org/put-pip-and-wca-assessments-on-the-record/
Fees Apply-
Benefits & Work Tried & Tested Guides benefitsandwork.co.uk
Big Book Of Benefits Super Detailed Super Practical Guide To Everything! bigbookofbenefits.com/about/
Welfare Rights Books cpag.org.uk/shop/publications
Welfare Rights Handbook disabilityrightsuk.org/shop
RightsNet rightsnet.org.uk