Asylum Magazine
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The radical mental health magazine since 1986. Distributed by @pccsbooks Retweets and likes do not equal endorsement. Email- [email protected]
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Committed: An Insider View on Czech Mental Heath Institutions by Jitka Nelb Sinecka. Asylum 31.4 winter 2024. Read the full article here.
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As a result of the mania likely developed from anti-seizure medications that the doctors loaded me with, before and after a sudden brain tumor surgery, I suddenly found myself committed to a...
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'Staff controlled surveillance is not safety.' Article featured in Asylum 32.1 spring issue 2025. Read the full article here.
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"This is not a functioning system—it is abandonment with a paper trail". OPEN LETTER - Halt planned restructure of mental health services that will harm the city of Manchester's most vulnerable. Via @CHARMManchester.
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RT @CHARMManchester: CHARM, @GMMHUnison and Unite(GMMH) wrote to @NHS_GM and @MayorofGM regarding our concerns GM may adopt Palantir - a s….
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Arm Tickling: The mystery of subconscious self-soothing by James Collector. From the Winter 2021 issue of Asylum [28.4].
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I did it again last night. When the lights went out, lying in bed, both my arms raised toward the ceiling. My right hand began to gently graze my left arm, then vice versus. It’s a slow, repetitive...
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My very complicated relationship with my brain by Hannah. Summer issue of Asylum Magazine. Read the full article on my website.
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I remember talking to someone who described AuDHD as the combination of “either crashing and speeding through life or lagging behind it” and honestly I’ve never heard a sentence that has described...
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RT @cxnnor: @HoCpetitions Mental health support shouldn’t feel like resistance. That’s Mental started because most support doesn’t support,….
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RT @ThatsMentalOrg: New Resources Section is now out .Write Letters, Know Your Rights, Harm Reduction. We are b….
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Plain-English, trauma-informed support with no gatekeeping. Built by survivors, for everyone.
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A totally sensible letter to you, from a teenager under section. Sample article from the Summer 2025 issue of Asylum.
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Dear reader, My name is (name redacted), I am currently in an inpatient unit for my mental health. I’ve been under CAMHS pretty much all my childhood. As someone who is an inpatient and has a lot...
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Can service users/psychiatry survivors/mad activists write articles poetry or make artwork for us?. A: Absolutely, we welcome anyone with lived experience to contribute to us. We are a magazine for service users and allies.
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Committed: An Insider View on Czech Mental Heath Institutions by Jitka Nelb Sinecka. Article from the Winter 2024 issue of Asylum Magazine. Read the full article here
asylummagazine.org
As a result of the mania likely developed from anti-seizure medications that the doctors loaded me with, before and after a sudden brain tumor surgery, I suddenly found myself committed to a...
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My very complicated relationship with my brain by Hannah. Summer issue of Asylum Magazine. Read the full article on my website.
asylummagazine.org
I remember talking to someone who described AuDHD as the combination of “either crashing and speeding through life or lagging behind it” and honestly I’ve never heard a sentence that has described...
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Thinking of sending us an article? Here are our guidlines for contributors.
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his page is a set of notes to help contributors send in their submissions for issues of Asylum Magazine.We are always looking for original articles, pictures and creative writing. Read through these...
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Please register and attend this meeting on Friday 18th July. Show your solidarity and discuss what we can do to defend the right to protest. Registration link
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RT @Dis_PPL_Protest: #BinUCBill . 📢London Protest! . 📢Protect Future Claimants! .📢Bin Universal Credit Bill.📢Wednesday 9th July 2025.📢4pm….
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A totally sensible letter to you, from a teenager under section. Sample article from the Summer 2025 issue of Asylum.
asylummagazine.org
Dear reader, My name is (name redacted), I am currently in an inpatient unit for my mental health. I’ve been under CAMHS pretty much all my childhood. As someone who is an inpatient and has a lot...
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Fury: An unorthodox madzine collage – guest blog by Dina Poursanidou. @KonstantinaPou1.
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Dina Poursanidou explores how she used a large collage to express her anger at being physically restrained while sectioned on a psychiatric ward.
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RT @jaunty_aphorism: They build the policies. We live the consequences. I wrote a poem imagining what would happen if the people in charge….
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An imagining: if those who built our suffering were forced to live inside it
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Asylum Magazine is distributed by @pccsbooks .They are an independent mental health publisher based in the UK. Get in touch with them to find a subscription plan that works for you.
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Open letter to the Integrated Care Board and the Mayor’s office to call them to stop Palantir technology being used in Manchester’s NHS services.
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We have now updated the form. It can be signed by organisations and individuals. We encourage everyone to ask organisations they are affiliated to, to sign. Your name will not appear immediately, but...
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