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Get Involved In Your Own Care – part four

10/12/2021 Validate Admin 1 Comment

The fourth and final part of Beccy’s blog series about getting involved in your own care, looking at the lessons she’s learned…

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Posted in: Blog, Service User Involvement Filed under: development, growth, involvement, learning, personal development

Get Involved In Your Own Care – part three

02/11/2021 Validate Admin 1 Comment

The third part of Beccy’s blog series about getting involved in your own care, this time looking at taking positive…

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Posted in: Blog, Service User Involvement Filed under: involvement, perspective, risks

Get Involved in Your Own Care – part two

01/10/2021 Validate Admin Leave a comment

The second part of Beccy’s blog series about getting involved in your own care, about trying something new and learning…

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Posted in: Blog, Service User Involvement Filed under: care, involvement, support

Personalities in Action: My reflections as an Assistant Psychologist

04/09/2021 admin Leave a comment

Gemma’s been working at the network as an Assistant Psychologist since 2020 and will be changing job roles soon. She’s…

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Posted in: Blog, Service User Involvement Filed under: involvement, PIA

Get Involved in Your Own Care – part one

10/08/2021 Validate Admin Leave a comment

Beccy’s new series of blog posts is about tapping into her own experiences as a resource for empowering herself and…

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The good things in lockdown

30/07/2020 admin Leave a comment

Times are strange and stressful and they’re affecting us all in different ways. Former service user Beccy has noticed some…

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Posted in: Blog Filed under: guilt, lockdown, positives

How Writing Keeps Me Alive (Never Give Up)

15/07/2020 admin Leave a comment

Author and mental health campaigner Michelle Torez writes about her experiences with mental health services, the inadequacies she’s found in the…

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Posted in: Blog Filed under: abuse, poetry, writing

Discovering myself

01/07/2020 admin Leave a comment

Former service user James Smith has written about his story of growing up with feelings he couldn’t make sense of,…

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Posted in: Blog Filed under: care, relationships, suicide

The power of a label

12/06/2020 admin 7 Comments

Sally-Ann shares her experiences of having the label Personality Disorder attached to her, how harmful it has been to her…

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Posted in: Blog Filed under: abuse, CSA, label, stigma

Sophie’s poem

29/04/2020 admin 6 Comments

Service user Sophie King has written this poem about her experience with PDMCN, particularly her care coordinator Steph. The PD…

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Posted in: Blog Filed under: care coordinator, poem
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