Dina’s Blog




Very encouraging feedback on Asylum magazine from New Zealand…

A week and a half ago I came back from Australia and New Zealand…I went Down Under for 2 weeks for a conference on Service User Academia in Melbourne and then I went to New Zealand to stay with a colleague…fantastic trip, a very rich experience on many levels …I was sorry to come back…

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Why did I need 20 years of intensive psychotherapy to get where I am today, if I could have done it in just 12 weeks?

Last weekend I watched the first episode of Bedlam, a four-part series on mental health/mental illness on Channel 4, which – according to the programme information – seeks to ‘boldly challenge myths and taboos about mental illness, as well as promote better awareness and understanding of mental health issues, through unprecedented access to the patients and staff of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) – the world’s oldest psychiatric institution’ (Link to programme). Read more