Mandy Crandale
@mandycrandale.bsky.social
works at NSUN - National Survivor User Network - all views shared are my own
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🫶🏿🎋Our upcoming Abolition in Practice Group is on the theme of Somatic abolitionism, decolonizing ‘wellness’, embodied social justice & the body as a resource & locus of trauma
📅: Monday 14th April
⏰: 12-2pm
💻: Online (zoom)
🔗Register your place using link in bio!
#bpoc #le
@nsunnews.bsky.social
📅: Monday 14th April
⏰: 12-2pm
💻: Online (zoom)
🔗Register your place using link in bio!
#bpoc #le
@nsunnews.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
🫶🏿🎋Our upcoming Abolition in Practice Group is on the theme of Somatic abolitionism, decolonizing ‘wellness’, embodied social justice & the body as a resource & locus of trauma
📅: Monday 14th April
⏰: 12-2pm
💻: Online (zoom)
🔗Register your place using link in bio!
#bpoc #le
@nsunnews.bsky.social
📅: Monday 14th April
⏰: 12-2pm
💻: Online (zoom)
🔗Register your place using link in bio!
#bpoc #le
@nsunnews.bsky.social
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New explainer from me, via NSUN - on what the welfare proposals are, what they might mean for those living with mental ill-health, and what you can do about them 👇
Labour's Disability benefit reforms will push 340,000 people into poverty, exacerbating the harms of a welfare system that is already killing people.
NSUN is appalled by these proposals (1/3).
NSUN is appalled by these proposals (1/3).
April 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
New explainer from me, via NSUN - on what the welfare proposals are, what they might mean for those living with mental ill-health, and what you can do about them 👇
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🚨 The govt’s planned disability cuts are a deadly attack on mentally ill & disabled people.
On May 6th, young people who rely on PIP are heading to Parliament to fight back.
📢 Help fill the room: email your MP now & urge them to attend 👉 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
On May 6th, young people who rely on PIP are heading to Parliament to fight back.
📢 Help fill the room: email your MP now & urge them to attend 👉 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell your MP to oppose deadly disability cuts
The government’s planned disability cuts are a deadly attack on already vulnerable communities. Benefits such as PIP provide a lifeline to those of us who live with debilitating mental illness. The H...
actionnetwork.org
April 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
🚨 The govt’s planned disability cuts are a deadly attack on mentally ill & disabled people.
On May 6th, young people who rely on PIP are heading to Parliament to fight back.
📢 Help fill the room: email your MP now & urge them to attend 👉 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
On May 6th, young people who rely on PIP are heading to Parliament to fight back.
📢 Help fill the room: email your MP now & urge them to attend 👉 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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"It is a bitter feeling, to have believed so intrinsically that you could change the thing that broke you, only to leave feeling worse than when you started."
Charli Clement explores the ways in which lived experience is increasingly commodified.
www.nsun.org.uk/the-possibil...
Charli Clement explores the ways in which lived experience is increasingly commodified.
www.nsun.org.uk/the-possibil...
The Possibility of a Lived Experience Industrial Complex
Charli Clement asks whether lived experience is becoming its very own industrial complex, and if not, how we can prevent it from becoming one.
www.nsun.org.uk
April 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"It is a bitter feeling, to have believed so intrinsically that you could change the thing that broke you, only to leave feeling worse than when you started."
Charli Clement explores the ways in which lived experience is increasingly commodified.
www.nsun.org.uk/the-possibil...
Charli Clement explores the ways in which lived experience is increasingly commodified.
www.nsun.org.uk/the-possibil...
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The independent regulator has announced a £2,500 pay rise for MPs.
At a time when disabled people are facing the biggest cuts to disability benefits on record, this is simply wrong.
I’ll be donating mine to charities supporting disabled people in Coventry & across the country.
At a time when disabled people are facing the biggest cuts to disability benefits on record, this is simply wrong.
I’ll be donating mine to charities supporting disabled people in Coventry & across the country.
March 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The independent regulator has announced a £2,500 pay rise for MPs.
At a time when disabled people are facing the biggest cuts to disability benefits on record, this is simply wrong.
I’ll be donating mine to charities supporting disabled people in Coventry & across the country.
At a time when disabled people are facing the biggest cuts to disability benefits on record, this is simply wrong.
I’ll be donating mine to charities supporting disabled people in Coventry & across the country.
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#WelfareNotWarfare
The list of all local actions including the central one in London with times and addresses
Check your local area
⬇️
dpac.uk.net/2025/03/welf...
The list of all local actions including the central one in London with times and addresses
Check your local area
⬇️
dpac.uk.net/2025/03/welf...
#WelfareNotWarfare - list of local actions - DPAC
National Day of Action - Wednesday 26th March ---- DPAC Aberdeen Wednesday 26th March, 12pm Outside Marischal College, Broad Street, Aberdeen ---- Brighton
dpac.uk.net
March 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
#WelfareNotWarfare
The list of all local actions including the central one in London with times and addresses
Check your local area
⬇️
dpac.uk.net/2025/03/welf...
The list of all local actions including the central one in London with times and addresses
Check your local area
⬇️
dpac.uk.net/2025/03/welf...
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We’ve united with Scope, @disrightsuk.bsky.social @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social and @turn2us.bsky.social against cuts to disability benefits.
Together, we’ve published an open letter urging the govt to safeguard them.
Read the full letter on Scope’s website.
buff.ly/FhxKY7U
#Disability
Together, we’ve published an open letter urging the govt to safeguard them.
Read the full letter on Scope’s website.
buff.ly/FhxKY7U
#Disability
March 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
We’ve united with Scope, @disrightsuk.bsky.social @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social and @turn2us.bsky.social against cuts to disability benefits.
Together, we’ve published an open letter urging the govt to safeguard them.
Read the full letter on Scope’s website.
buff.ly/FhxKY7U
#Disability
Together, we’ve published an open letter urging the govt to safeguard them.
Read the full letter on Scope’s website.
buff.ly/FhxKY7U
#Disability
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If anything, the UK’s mental health crisis is one of UNDERdiagnosis not OVERdiagnosis.
📉APMS study found:
Less than half of those with severe distress get treatment.
Only a third needing primary care support have a diagnosis.
The real issue is not overdiagnosis but undercare.
📉APMS study found:
Less than half of those with severe distress get treatment.
Only a third needing primary care support have a diagnosis.
The real issue is not overdiagnosis but undercare.
March 17, 2025 at 10:47 AM
If anything, the UK’s mental health crisis is one of UNDERdiagnosis not OVERdiagnosis.
📉APMS study found:
Less than half of those with severe distress get treatment.
Only a third needing primary care support have a diagnosis.
The real issue is not overdiagnosis but undercare.
📉APMS study found:
Less than half of those with severe distress get treatment.
Only a third needing primary care support have a diagnosis.
The real issue is not overdiagnosis but undercare.
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✉️ Read our letter with Scope and others urging the Government to protect disability benefits. [5/5]
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🏠 Without PIP, 700,000 more disabled households could be pushed into poverty.
Cutting this or other disability benefits would increase hardship for some of the poorest in society - something morally indefensible.
Read the letter in full here: www.scope.org.uk/campaigns/op... 3/3
Cutting this or other disability benefits would increase hardship for some of the poorest in society - something morally indefensible.
Read the letter in full here: www.scope.org.uk/campaigns/op... 3/3
The cost of cuts to disability benefits: Our open letter to the Chancellor | Disability charity Scope UK
Right now, the government is considering changes to disability benefits. But for millions of disabled people, these benefits are a lifeline. They are the difference between surviving and being pushed ...
www.scope.org.uk
March 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
✉️ Read our letter with Scope and others urging the Government to protect disability benefits. [5/5]
bsky.app/profile/jrf-...
bsky.app/profile/jrf-...
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The media’s engagement with people with lived experience of mental ill-health, trauma and distress can be unethical.
To improve the process, we are conducting a 3-stage research project, starting with a short survey.
Complete it to enter a £20 Love2Shop prize draw.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/researc...
To improve the process, we are conducting a 3-stage research project, starting with a short survey.
Complete it to enter a £20 Love2Shop prize draw.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/researc...
Research Project: media engagement for people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress or trauma
Three-stage research project into the experiences of people with lived experience of mental ill-health, trauma and distress engaging with the media, and the development of guidelines to improve them.
www.nsun.org.uk
March 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The media’s engagement with people with lived experience of mental ill-health, trauma and distress can be unethical.
To improve the process, we are conducting a 3-stage research project, starting with a short survey.
Complete it to enter a £20 Love2Shop prize draw.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/researc...
To improve the process, we are conducting a 3-stage research project, starting with a short survey.
Complete it to enter a £20 Love2Shop prize draw.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/researc...
“You could just listen to me”: the erasure of lived experience in healthcare is the powerful new blog in the Limitations of Lived Experience series from @nsunnews.bsky.social
"You could just listen to me”: the erasure of lived experience in healthcare
We must continue to use our lived experience to rewrite the narrative of those that try to erase us.
www.nsun.org.uk
March 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
“You could just listen to me”: the erasure of lived experience in healthcare is the powerful new blog in the Limitations of Lived Experience series from @nsunnews.bsky.social
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When the DWP makes a mistake, who should pay the price?
We wrote to Liz Kendall with 30+ charities & welfare experts, warning that “official error” Universal Credit overpayment debt is pushing hundreds of thousands into unexpected debt.
@the-independent.com
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
We wrote to Liz Kendall with 30+ charities & welfare experts, warning that “official error” Universal Credit overpayment debt is pushing hundreds of thousands into unexpected debt.
@the-independent.com
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
DWP forces over 680,000 people to pay for its own mistakes
Exclusive: The DWP must ‘take responsibility’ for its mistakes, campaigners say
www.independent.co.uk
March 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
When the DWP makes a mistake, who should pay the price?
We wrote to Liz Kendall with 30+ charities & welfare experts, warning that “official error” Universal Credit overpayment debt is pushing hundreds of thousands into unexpected debt.
@the-independent.com
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
We wrote to Liz Kendall with 30+ charities & welfare experts, warning that “official error” Universal Credit overpayment debt is pushing hundreds of thousands into unexpected debt.
@the-independent.com
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Labour’s proposed disability benefit cuts are nothing short of terrifying, say campaigners - truly chilling news
Labour’s proposed disability benefit cuts are nothing short of terrifying, say campaigners
The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) cuts appear to be focused on the Personal Independent Payment (PIP), reports award-winning disabled journalist Rachel Charlton-Dailey
open.substack.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Labour’s proposed disability benefit cuts are nothing short of terrifying, say campaigners - truly chilling news
A great read as always, don't miss the latest issue of @asylummagazine.bsky.social
Don't miss @asylummagazine.bsky.social's spring issue, and join us on March 13th, 6.30-7.30 for the online launch with @stopoxevision.bsky.social!
www.nsun.org.uk/news/asylum-...
www.nsun.org.uk/news/asylum-...
Attention ⚠️
The Spring 2025 Special Asylum Issue on Digital Surveillance is out ❤️
Guest-edited by @stopoxevision.bsky.social
With the support of @nsunnews.bsky.social
The Spring 2025 Special Asylum Issue on Digital Surveillance is out ❤️
Guest-edited by @stopoxevision.bsky.social
With the support of @nsunnews.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 10:39 AM
A great read as always, don't miss the latest issue of @asylummagazine.bsky.social
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A report by the United Nations has called on the UK government to take “corrective measures” to address the impact of cuts to disability benefits introduced under Conservative governments, just as Labour ministers prepare to introduce further such cuts.
UN calls for ‘corrective measures’ to Tory disability benefit reforms, just as Labour prepares cuts of its own
A report by the United Nations (UN) has called on the UK government to take “corrective measures” to address the impact of cuts to disability benefits introduced under Conservative governments, jus…
buff.ly
March 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
A report by the United Nations has called on the UK government to take “corrective measures” to address the impact of cuts to disability benefits introduced under Conservative governments, just as Labour ministers prepare to introduce further such cuts.
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Our Campaign Leader @carolinejc.bsky.social tells @johnpring.bsky.social "we implore the government not to make unfair changes based on condition specific criteria" in response to research showing no evidence to support call for PIP cuts.
Ministers have sat on research for three years that linked the sharp increase in claims for disability benefits with a deterioration in disabled people’s health, an increase in the financial hardship they were facing, and their need for independence.
Research that ministers sat on for three years shows no evidence to support call for PIP cuts
Ministers have sat on research for three years that linked the sharp increase in claims for disability benefits with a deterioration in disabled people’s health, an increase in the financial hardsh…
buff.ly
March 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Our Campaign Leader @carolinejc.bsky.social tells @johnpring.bsky.social "we implore the government not to make unfair changes based on condition specific criteria" in response to research showing no evidence to support call for PIP cuts.
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We have started a petition to Bluesky Social PBC CEO Jay Graber @jay.bsky.team to Enable Private Accounts on Bluesky. So survivors and others who need private accounts can safely leave X/Twitter and come to Bluesky, pls share and sign.
www.change.org/EnablePrivat...
www.change.org/EnablePrivat...
Sign the Petition
Enable Private Accounts on Bluesky
www.change.org
March 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
We have started a petition to Bluesky Social PBC CEO Jay Graber @jay.bsky.team to Enable Private Accounts on Bluesky. So survivors and others who need private accounts can safely leave X/Twitter and come to Bluesky, pls share and sign.
www.change.org/EnablePrivat...
www.change.org/EnablePrivat...
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The NSUN weekly bulletin arrived in member inboxes on Monday afternoon, full of news, free events and paid opportunities for individuals with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress or trauma.
Scroll for a selection of its contents 🧵
www.nsun.org.uk/our-members/...
Scroll for a selection of its contents 🧵
www.nsun.org.uk/our-members/...
Become an NSUN member
Our network is made up of individuals with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress, and/or trauma, as well as user-led grassroots groups.
www.nsun.org.uk
March 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The NSUN weekly bulletin arrived in member inboxes on Monday afternoon, full of news, free events and paid opportunities for individuals with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress or trauma.
Scroll for a selection of its contents 🧵
www.nsun.org.uk/our-members/...
Scroll for a selection of its contents 🧵
www.nsun.org.uk/our-members/...
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Excited to be setting up Mad Campaigns Lab! 💫 A drop in space for Mad and Disability justice campaigners, through @nsunnews.bsky.social. Focus will be on skillsharing, solidarity, and strategy. Register interest & input below 👇
We are soon to launch Mad Campaigns Lab: a new drop-in networking space for members interested in/working around campaigning on issues relating to Mad and Disability justice.
Register your interest and input your thoughts by clicking below.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Register your interest and input your thoughts by clicking below.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Mad Campaigns Lab: A new NSUN offering
NSUN is looking to start a new offering for members: the Mad Campaigns Lab.
About the survey
This survey is for people who would like to sign up for the Mad Campaigns Lab. Responses will help us to ...
docs.google.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Excited to be setting up Mad Campaigns Lab! 💫 A drop in space for Mad and Disability justice campaigners, through @nsunnews.bsky.social. Focus will be on skillsharing, solidarity, and strategy. Register interest & input below 👇
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It's #EatingDisordersAwarenessWeek and we're highlighting the voices of people who support those living with an eating disorder who are changing the narrative.
Look out for the #Blogs on our website later this week and get involved with @beatedsupport.bsky.social : edaw.beateatingdisorders.org.uk
Look out for the #Blogs on our website later this week and get involved with @beatedsupport.bsky.social : edaw.beateatingdisorders.org.uk
February 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
It's #EatingDisordersAwarenessWeek and we're highlighting the voices of people who support those living with an eating disorder who are changing the narrative.
Look out for the #Blogs on our website later this week and get involved with @beatedsupport.bsky.social : edaw.beateatingdisorders.org.uk
Look out for the #Blogs on our website later this week and get involved with @beatedsupport.bsky.social : edaw.beateatingdisorders.org.uk
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Spring issue of Asylum out soon! Special issue on surveillance guest edited by Stop Oxevision.
@stopoxevision.bsky.social
@stopoxevision.bsky.social
February 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Spring issue of Asylum out soon! Special issue on surveillance guest edited by Stop Oxevision.
@stopoxevision.bsky.social
@stopoxevision.bsky.social
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🗣️Join us for an online panel discussion with Zinesters Hamja Ahsan, Seleena Laverne Daye & Dal Kular about their work & thoughts about the past, present & future of zine-making!📚
📅Friday 21st February
⏰3-4:30pm
💻Online via Zoom
🔗Register using link in bio
#mh#zine#bpoc#le
📅Friday 21st February
⏰3-4:30pm
💻Online via Zoom
🔗Register using link in bio
#mh#zine#bpoc#le
February 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
🗣️Join us for an online panel discussion with Zinesters Hamja Ahsan, Seleena Laverne Daye & Dal Kular about their work & thoughts about the past, present & future of zine-making!📚
📅Friday 21st February
⏰3-4:30pm
💻Online via Zoom
🔗Register using link in bio
#mh#zine#bpoc#le
📅Friday 21st February
⏰3-4:30pm
💻Online via Zoom
🔗Register using link in bio
#mh#zine#bpoc#le
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"The “we know best” mentality of many mental health services invalidates and demotes living experience."
In the first blog of 'The Limitations of Lived Experience' series, @mandycrandale.bsky.social imagines genuine co-production in mental health.
www.nsun.org.uk/living-exper...
In the first blog of 'The Limitations of Lived Experience' series, @mandycrandale.bsky.social imagines genuine co-production in mental health.
www.nsun.org.uk/living-exper...
Living experience: looking toward genuine co-production in mental health
The “we know best” mentality of many mental health services – rooted in the prevalence of the paternalistic medical model – invalidates living experience and demotes it beneath knowledge learnt in a l...
www.nsun.org.uk
February 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
"The “we know best” mentality of many mental health services invalidates and demotes living experience."
In the first blog of 'The Limitations of Lived Experience' series, @mandycrandale.bsky.social imagines genuine co-production in mental health.
www.nsun.org.uk/living-exper...
In the first blog of 'The Limitations of Lived Experience' series, @mandycrandale.bsky.social imagines genuine co-production in mental health.
www.nsun.org.uk/living-exper...
🚨This new briefing by @centreformh.bsky.social explores the commercial determinants of mental health.
Business practices influence economic, social, environmental and cultural surroundings, leading to widespread impacts on people's mental health.
www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/publications...
Business practices influence economic, social, environmental and cultural surroundings, leading to widespread impacts on people's mental health.
www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/publications...
The commercial determinants of mental health - Centre for Mental Health
This briefing explores how business practices can influence the public's mental health and how to mitigate the risks they pose.
www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk
February 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM