Reports and resources
Papers, reports articles from Mind's campaigns and policy work, our journal Open Mind and our MindThink project to debate future mental health policy.
All resources:
Openmind:
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The right to exist
There was no gentle coaxing in the eating disorders unit, remembers Alex Williams
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The times they are a-changing
The social and political climate now facing those of us with mental health problems seems to me to reflect the traditional battles between good and evil that are the stuff of legend.
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Thirty years on
I was at the theaatre with a friend. The fuzzy feeling in my head and my slightly sore throat weren't detracting from my enjoyment of the play.
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Those postnatal blues
Research has shown that 12-15 per cent of women experience postnatal depression.
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Treading water
It was 1992 when I first became involved in the mental health system. I got to know a young man who, like me, is Black and has a love of African jazz music.
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Trying to keep afloat
Water can introduce us to a new way of being, says Daphne Wood
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Unworkable and regressive
The draft Mental Health Bill represents the next stage in a process of consultation which has included the Richardson Committee Report, the Government Green Paper, the Health Committee Report and finally the White Paper.
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Vision and reality
Is independent mental health advocacy working for black and minority ethnic service users? asks Marcel Vige
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We're here, we're mental, get used to it
What did you get for Christmas? I'm starting 2003 with (among other things) two excellent T-shirts.
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What price sanity?
Medication has robbed Lisa Barker of some of the best days of her life.
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Who owns the mind?
Provocative alternatives to understanding madness and treatment, based entirely on first-hand experience, are pioneering new ways of thinking, says Gail A. Hornstein
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Why we hate
Hatred has been in the news. We've seen pictures of Muslims in the Middle East and in Indonesia demonstrating their hatred of the USA, and Americans plaintively asking, "Why do people hate us?"