Lorna Collins
@sensinglorna.bsky.social
Artist | Writer | Creative Health/Auto-ethnographic Researcher | Philosopher | Lived experience | Brain injury | Organic psychosis | Madness | Recovery
TEDx: How Creativity Revived Me
TEDx: How Creativity Revived Me
Many exciting things are happening. Watch this space. #ACreativeTransformation
@headwayuk.bsky.social
@uclh.bsky.social
@unibirmingham.bsky.social
Coconuts, Belgium
University of Messina, Sicily
and more.
#acquiredbraininjury #recovery #psychosis #organicpsychosis #art #community
@headwayuk.bsky.social
@uclh.bsky.social
@unibirmingham.bsky.social
Coconuts, Belgium
University of Messina, Sicily
and more.
#acquiredbraininjury #recovery #psychosis #organicpsychosis #art #community
May 2, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Many exciting things are happening. Watch this space. #ACreativeTransformation
@headwayuk.bsky.social
@uclh.bsky.social
@unibirmingham.bsky.social
Coconuts, Belgium
University of Messina, Sicily
and more.
#acquiredbraininjury #recovery #psychosis #organicpsychosis #art #community
@headwayuk.bsky.social
@uclh.bsky.social
@unibirmingham.bsky.social
Coconuts, Belgium
University of Messina, Sicily
and more.
#acquiredbraininjury #recovery #psychosis #organicpsychosis #art #community
Nevertheless, she persisted (see text in the picture)…
April 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Nevertheless, she persisted (see text in the picture)…
In the midst of #ACreativeTransformation in Manchester with workshop leader Eleanor May Blackburn. We all wrote something unique, but were united in our earnestness to express ourselves, given the opportunity, the stimulus and freedom to say what we want. A special moment.
Report out soon🌟
#writing
Report out soon🌟
#writing
April 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
In the midst of #ACreativeTransformation in Manchester with workshop leader Eleanor May Blackburn. We all wrote something unique, but were united in our earnestness to express ourselves, given the opportunity, the stimulus and freedom to say what we want. A special moment.
Report out soon🌟
#writing
Report out soon🌟
#writing
Are you interested in #AI healthcare technology, #psychosis and #acquiredbraininjury? We are running an experimental workshop discussing these things with #ACreativeTransformation at Birmingham University on May 19. Very limited spaces, sign up now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/act-2-in-b...
ACT 2 in Birmingham: The brain, psychosis and AI technology
An experimental workshop for clinicians, researchers, people with lived experience
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April 8, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Are you interested in #AI healthcare technology, #psychosis and #acquiredbraininjury? We are running an experimental workshop discussing these things with #ACreativeTransformation at Birmingham University on May 19. Very limited spaces, sign up now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/act-2-in-b...
I am at Euston station heading up 🔝 for #ACreativeTransformation in Manchester! A writing workshop for young people with lived experience of #acquiredbraininjury. Epic 🌟☄️✨
April 4, 2025 at 6:34 AM
I am at Euston station heading up 🔝 for #ACreativeTransformation in Manchester! A writing workshop for young people with lived experience of #acquiredbraininjury. Epic 🌟☄️✨
I am absolutely thrilled to have a feature in @headwayuk.bsky.social's Spring newsletter. This is about my story of recovery, my work with #ACreativeTransformation and how I advocate using the arts to support living with acquired brain injury. www.headway.org.uk/media/12887/...
April 1, 2025 at 7:47 AM
I am absolutely thrilled to have a feature in @headwayuk.bsky.social's Spring newsletter. This is about my story of recovery, my work with #ACreativeTransformation and how I advocate using the arts to support living with acquired brain injury. www.headway.org.uk/media/12887/...
There are a few spaces left in the #ACreativeTransformation writing workshop for young people and young carers of people with lived experience of brain injury in Manchester on April 4.
Don’t miss this opportunity, sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-fo...
Please tell everyone you know!
Don’t miss this opportunity, sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-fo...
Please tell everyone you know!
March 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
There are a few spaces left in the #ACreativeTransformation writing workshop for young people and young carers of people with lived experience of brain injury in Manchester on April 4.
Don’t miss this opportunity, sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-fo...
Please tell everyone you know!
Don’t miss this opportunity, sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-fo...
Please tell everyone you know!
I am featured on the @headwayuk.bsky.social soft launch/teaser of the 'Action for Brain Injury Week' campaign. More soon!
www.headway.org.uk/news-and-cam...
#acquiredbraininjury #ABI #traumaticbraininjury #TBI
www.headway.org.uk/news-and-cam...
#acquiredbraininjury #ABI #traumaticbraininjury #TBI
On a good day
Action for Brain Injury Week (ABI Week), 'On a good day, ' is Headway’s 2025 campaign to raise awareness and understanding of brain injury.
www.headway.org.uk
March 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I am featured on the @headwayuk.bsky.social soft launch/teaser of the 'Action for Brain Injury Week' campaign. More soon!
www.headway.org.uk/news-and-cam...
#acquiredbraininjury #ABI #traumaticbraininjury #TBI
www.headway.org.uk/news-and-cam...
#acquiredbraininjury #ABI #traumaticbraininjury #TBI
My latest review for @thementalelf.bsky.social discusses the impact of traumatic brain injury on mental health. Research on this theme is limited & flawed. We need stronger science to support better treatments; the effects of TBI can be enduring & severe.
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Traumatic brain injury has long-lasting mental health effects
Lorna Collins considers an umbrella review of health outcomes following traumatic brain injury published in Nature Mental Health.
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March 12, 2025 at 8:43 AM
My latest review for @thementalelf.bsky.social discusses the impact of traumatic brain injury on mental health. Research on this theme is limited & flawed. We need stronger science to support better treatments; the effects of TBI can be enduring & severe.
www.nationalelfservice.net/other-health...
www.nationalelfservice.net/other-health...
Yesterday I was squawking at Malorees Junior School! I gave 6 classes to little people in years 3, 4 and 6. We made up incredible stories, performed them and started writing. These sessions were based on my beloved “Squawk: A Book of Bird Adventures”, which you can buy here: amzn.eu/d/i4AmP08
March 6, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Yesterday I was squawking at Malorees Junior School! I gave 6 classes to little people in years 3, 4 and 6. We made up incredible stories, performed them and started writing. These sessions were based on my beloved “Squawk: A Book of Bird Adventures”, which you can buy here: amzn.eu/d/i4AmP08
Today I'm speaking with @roxanabaiasu.bsky.social at @phenolab.bsky.social on 'Transformative Paradoxes of Mad Sense', a talk based on lived experience, art practice & philosophical reflections (post-structuralism, existentialism, phenomenology) on madness and sense...being human. shorturl.at/oxw6S
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March 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Today I'm speaking with @roxanabaiasu.bsky.social at @phenolab.bsky.social on 'Transformative Paradoxes of Mad Sense', a talk based on lived experience, art practice & philosophical reflections (post-structuralism, existentialism, phenomenology) on madness and sense...being human. shorturl.at/oxw6S
February 28, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Here it is: “ACT2 on NRU”
Using visual arts to tell our stories after brain injury, a course of art workshops with inpatients at the Neurorehabilitation Unit, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, April-May 2025.
Find out more: email lorna.collins6@nhs.net
acreativetransformation.org
Using visual arts to tell our stories after brain injury, a course of art workshops with inpatients at the Neurorehabilitation Unit, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, April-May 2025.
Find out more: email lorna.collins6@nhs.net
acreativetransformation.org
February 18, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Here it is: “ACT2 on NRU”
Using visual arts to tell our stories after brain injury, a course of art workshops with inpatients at the Neurorehabilitation Unit, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, April-May 2025.
Find out more: email lorna.collins6@nhs.net
acreativetransformation.org
Using visual arts to tell our stories after brain injury, a course of art workshops with inpatients at the Neurorehabilitation Unit, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, April-May 2025.
Find out more: email lorna.collins6@nhs.net
acreativetransformation.org
I'm very keen to connect with young people with lived experience of #acquiredbraininjury for a free writing for wellbeing workshop in #Manchester on March 7. Travel expenses paid (up to £30 per participant).
Please connect, share info around all your networks: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-fo...
Please connect, share info around all your networks: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-fo...
Writing for wellbeing through lived experience of brain injury
For young people and young carers (aged 16-25) of people with lived experience of brain injury.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I'm very keen to connect with young people with lived experience of #acquiredbraininjury for a free writing for wellbeing workshop in #Manchester on March 7. Travel expenses paid (up to £30 per participant).
Please connect, share info around all your networks: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-fo...
Please connect, share info around all your networks: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-fo...
Everyone needs a ginger cat in their lives. Here is Mr. Tigga, purring, determined to preen away all our worries or concerns. The phone is in the way, sorry Mr. T. He's determined to get as close as possible ...❤️🩹...
February 4, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Everyone needs a ginger cat in their lives. Here is Mr. Tigga, purring, determined to preen away all our worries or concerns. The phone is in the way, sorry Mr. T. He's determined to get as close as possible ...❤️🩹...
Reposted by Lorna Collins
Making sense of one’s identity in the context of psychopathology is a question of such enormous difficulty that it eventually exhausts us.
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/psychopath...
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/psychopath...
Psychopathology, Exhaustion, and Identity
Diagnostic manuals cannot tell us who we “really” are
www.psychiatrymargins.com
February 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Making sense of one’s identity in the context of psychopathology is a question of such enormous difficulty that it eventually exhausts us.
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/psychopath...
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/psychopath...
Reposted by Lorna Collins
Confessions of an Ambivalent Psychiatrist
A guest essay by the psychiatrist Susan Mahler on her experience of depression (including treatments with ECT) and how she finds herself in a position where both lived and professional experience are failing her
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/confession...
A guest essay by the psychiatrist Susan Mahler on her experience of depression (including treatments with ECT) and how she finds herself in a position where both lived and professional experience are failing her
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/confession...
Confessions of an Ambivalent Psychiatrist
Susan Mahler, MS, MD, is a writer and psychiatrist who practices in North Adams, MA.
www.psychiatrymargins.com
February 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Confessions of an Ambivalent Psychiatrist
A guest essay by the psychiatrist Susan Mahler on her experience of depression (including treatments with ECT) and how she finds herself in a position where both lived and professional experience are failing her
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/confession...
A guest essay by the psychiatrist Susan Mahler on her experience of depression (including treatments with ECT) and how she finds herself in a position where both lived and professional experience are failing her
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/confession...
Reposted by Lorna Collins
International Merleau-Ponty circle on health and healing
January 31, 2025 at 9:18 AM
International Merleau-Ponty circle on health and healing
It’s very wet and blowy…I’m in Stratford, bringing #ACreativeTransformation to @ucl.ac.uk. I'm meeting a student who is joining and evaluating the project, and giving a #LivedExperience seminar about the brain, trauma and creativity. It is always inspiring to meet the MASc #CreativeHealth students!
January 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
It’s very wet and blowy…I’m in Stratford, bringing #ACreativeTransformation to @ucl.ac.uk. I'm meeting a student who is joining and evaluating the project, and giving a #LivedExperience seminar about the brain, trauma and creativity. It is always inspiring to meet the MASc #CreativeHealth students!
Reposted by Lorna Collins
I will be a co-facilitator at this event. If you are in the UK and work with (or know any) young people who have experienced brain injury, please share 🙏
Exciting update about our writing workshop for young people in Manchester. We can give each participant up to £30 to support travel expenses to attend the event. If you are interested in joining us do get in touch, we would love to support you to come along. Sign up here: shorturl.at/daPPU
January 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I will be a co-facilitator at this event. If you are in the UK and work with (or know any) young people who have experienced brain injury, please share 🙏
Reposted by Lorna Collins
Tell me what you want, what you really really want: lived experience involvement in co-developing outcome measures www.nationalelfservice.net?p=212822
"Have you ever asked people with lived experience what they think the main outcomes of your study should be?"
"Have you ever asked people with lived experience what they think the main outcomes of your study should be?"
Lived experience involvement in co-developing outcome measures.
Laura Hemming blogs a systematic review which explores the involvement people with lived experience in the co-development of mental health outcome measures.
www.nationalelfservice.net
January 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Tell me what you want, what you really really want: lived experience involvement in co-developing outcome measures www.nationalelfservice.net?p=212822
"Have you ever asked people with lived experience what they think the main outcomes of your study should be?"
"Have you ever asked people with lived experience what they think the main outcomes of your study should be?"
Exciting update about our writing workshop for young people in Manchester. We can give each participant up to £30 to support travel expenses to attend the event. If you are interested in joining us do get in touch, we would love to support you to come along. Sign up here: shorturl.at/daPPU
January 22, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Exciting update about our writing workshop for young people in Manchester. We can give each participant up to £30 to support travel expenses to attend the event. If you are interested in joining us do get in touch, we would love to support you to come along. Sign up here: shorturl.at/daPPU
Today I am at the Neurorehabilitation Unit, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, planning the course of workshops we are running for inpatients in the Spring. I am excited, grateful and feeling very creative with this opportunity. #ACreativeTransformation
January 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Today I am at the Neurorehabilitation Unit, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, planning the course of workshops we are running for inpatients in the Spring. I am excited, grateful and feeling very creative with this opportunity. #ACreativeTransformation
Looking for young people and young carers (age 16-25) of people with lived experience of #acquiredbraininjury for a writing workshop in Manchester on 7th March, 13:00-15:00.
For more information and to sign up for this free event: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-fo...
Please tell everyone you know!
For more information and to sign up for this free event: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-fo...
Please tell everyone you know!
Writing for wellbeing through lived experience of brain injury
For young people and young carers (aged 16-25) of people with lived experience of brain injury.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 17, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Looking for young people and young carers (age 16-25) of people with lived experience of #acquiredbraininjury for a writing workshop in Manchester on 7th March, 13:00-15:00.
For more information and to sign up for this free event: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-fo...
Please tell everyone you know!
For more information and to sign up for this free event: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-fo...
Please tell everyone you know!