sharing such difficult, painful & often deeply traumatic experiences.

I am profoundly grateful to everyone who has chosen to share their experiences. Your words carry such weight & importance. Thank you for your support. I will keep you updated on the study as it progress. 3/3

absolutely fine. You can submit whatever you've already written. There's no obligation to answer every question. Every single piece of testimony is valued.

Me & my supervisors have been incredibly moved by the response & we recognise the immense emotional labour involved in 2/3

There are currently 50+ questionnaires still in progress, as of this afternoon.

To ensure everyone has time to finish, I’m extending the deadline by one week to: 11pm Monday 8th December.

Thank you so much to everyone who has shared, contributed & trusted me with their experiences. 2/2

itself then becomes its own form of harm, which, as it was realised post-2010, can be shared in the study. Does that make sense? I suppose it would be a form of delayed harm, which would be different to a primary harm that was immediately recognised. 3/3

in 2018, during therapy, a psychologist told their patient that an incident which occurred on a ward in 2004 was unlawful & unethical, and learning this made the patient re-evaluate their time on the ward, causing distress, and feelings of shame/betrayal/etc. The realisation 2/3

Hi, I'm sorry about the 2010 cut-off; the study is focusing on contemporary harms. While we cant use testimony of harm from before 2010 - if you didnt recognise that you were harmed until after 2010, and the *realisation itself* caused you harm, you are welcome to share that. For example, if in 1/

Thank you ❤️

Hi, the study is part of my PhD - the testimonies people submit will be used in my thesis & also written up into academic papers & articles. Everything will be anonymised, so nobody can be identified. The aim is to contribute to a greater understanding & awareness of harm in mental health services.

Thank you, I appreciate that ❤️ I participated in a lot of studies beforehand to get an idea of what types of design might be good and how to make it more accessible.

back and forth, and take as long as you want to fill it in bit by bit - whatever works best for you! Your safety & comfort are the most important thing though, so absolutely prioritise yourself xx 2/2

Hi Charlotte, absolutely no worries, there's no rush or pressure. If you want, you can download the questionnaire from the website to have a look at the questions first. Also, the online questionnaire saves your answers when you move to each new page, meaning if you use the same device you can go 1/

Thank you ❤️

the other types of questionnaire are all available on the study website, along with an extensive FAQs section, contact details, and further information about the study: hiddenharms.wordpress.com
If you have any questions, please get in touch via email, or DM me. 7/7

share your experiences via an online questionnaire; a postal questionnaire; a questionnaire you can download and post/email back; and an Easy Read questionnaire for people with accessibility needs. The online questionnaire is available here: tinyurl.com/yt2ydvxx 6/7

published in the public domain - including blogs, books, magazines, articles, zines, poems, social media posts and survivor research. In this second part, I will be collecting direct testimony from survivors by questionnaire. There are multiple options for taking part: you can 5/7

centre the voices & lived-experiences of those affected, & contribute to a greater understanding and awareness of the many ways people can experience harm in mental health services.

In the first part of the study, people submitted their experiences of harm which were already 4/7

not recognised as harmful by professionals. This study is exploring any & all types of harm people have experienced (between 2010-2025) - with a focus on harms which are not well recognised, or not yet recognised at all. The study has named these "Hidden Harms". The aim is to 3/7

Currently there is a limited understanding of what can be harmful in services, & how that harm impacts people. People who have experienced harm from mental health services often describe many different ways that harm can occur, but often these experiences are not believed, or 2/7