Politics in Mind: Distress/Neurodiversity/Madness
A starter pack of diverse (and regularly disagreeing) survivors, service users, consumers, mental health researchers, workers and advocates who have critical conversations on mental distress.
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@simonkkatterl.bsky.social
@alexandrapaton7.bsky.social
Lived experience advocate passionate about mental health, trauma and digital health. Organisational psychologist. Labrador lover.
@jessmckenzie.bsky.social
Peer Support. Consumer Academic. Reflective Practice Master. Mad Trauma Surviver.
@discocat.bsky.social
Medical research development, lived experience advisor, and writer on neurodiversity, motherhood, mental health, & research at catladyatthedisco.substack.com. Daily cat pics of Luigi included.
@janenosworthy.bsky.social
she/her. mental health social worker. DEI & governance specialist. reformed lawyer. VAD advocate & Dying With Dignity Victoria board member. views my own.
@grahampringle.bsky.social
Complex trauma-informed & human rights-based outdoor therapy researcher and practitioner, ISSTD, Outdoors Qld, Youth Flourish Outdoors. Yuggera country, Australia Orchid: 0000-0003-2295-9573
@pgooding.bsky.social
Socio-legal academic @latrobelaw, ARC DECRA Fellow, Honorary Fellow @MDI_unimelb // Disability & health-related law & politics, including technology // sometimes muso
@colinpenter.bsky.social
policy & project work in mental health & social policy; opposes marketisation, privatisation and corporations; campaigner, researcher & writer; voracious reader of poetry & non-fiction, lives in Boorloo (perth) on Whadjuk boodjar
@nicholasprocter.bsky.social
Suicide Prevention and Trauma Informed Care. Latest Book https://www.amazon.com.au/Mental-Health-Person-centred-Nicholas-Procter/dp/1108984622 Professor at https://www.unisa.edu.au/ National Representative for @iaspinfo.bsky.social
@kgreenstien.bsky.social
PhD candidate - touch in psychedelic/MDMA therapy Former DFV/SA response worker Non-prohibitionist critical psychedelia Euphorically queer and childfree by choice 🇺🇦 🍉
@maxloomes.bsky.social
President of ASTSS. Psychologist and researcher looking to integrate social justice into Mental Health https://linktr.ee/maxloomes
@bernmcsherry.bsky.social
Writer, Emeritus Professor of Law and Aspiring Botanical Artist https://www.bernadettemcsherry.com/
@ailsarayner.bsky.social
Human rights for those of us diagnosed with mental conditions and/or psychosocial disabilities
@thementalelf.bsky.social
🌤️ Hello, I’m the Mental Elf! 🌳 Follow me to keep up to date with the latest reliable #MentalHealthResearch. 🗓️ Coming soon: #IoPPNfestival, London, 14th May 👓 https://www.nationalelfservice.net/mental-health/ 🔗 https://linktr.ee/thementalelf
@thementalelves.bsky.social
I live with mental distress. Interested in alternative approaches outside the system and creating lived experience and peer support spaces. Harmed by critical psychiatry, mad survivor, forced to avoid services to prevent further harm.
@byronstol.bsky.social
Rusted On Socialist, Way Left of Labor, Queer 🏳️🌈, Atheist, Grumpy Old Bastard, Secular Humanist, Political Junkie, Male Survivor CSA SA FV, Mental Health Consumer, NDIS Participant. Wadawurrung Country, Victoria, Australia.
@indigodaya.bsky.social
she/her | mad survivor artist & activist | peer support | doing a creative practice PhD in (mad + survivor-led + arts-based + non-carceral) psych alternatives My links: https://linktr.ee/indigodaya #Abolition #MadStudies #CSA #PsychSurvivor
@awaisaftab.bsky.social
Psychiatrist with philosophical interests | Conversations in Critical Psychiatry (Oxford University Press, 2024) | Psychiatry at the Margins www.psychiatrymargins.com
@bluntshovels.bsky.social
Grumpy optimist. Writes about the NDIS and disability. Wiradjuri country bluntshovels.au
@lucyfoulkes.bsky.social
Psychologist at University of Oxford | Adolescence + mental health | Advocating for a more nuanced, compassionate understanding of teenagers Linktr.ee/lucyfoulkes
@simonkkatterl.bsky.social
He/him | Mental Health Law, Regulation & Human Rights Advocate | Lectures RMIT, Deakin, UTS | Bylines in the Guardian & the Age | Research: https://shorturl.at/DpKkE