Platfform’s new report, ‘The Hidden Harm of the diagnosis of personality disorder’, which will be launched at our sold-out event this Thursday 12 February, will call for change to the treatment of people given the diagnosis of personality disorder. …
As we hurtle through February, and the Christmas break becomes a fading distant memory, this is the time of the year when I do a little bit of looking back – and lots of looking forward.
As we work to highlight the importance of the Housing Support Grant, Kirsty shares this honest and compelling look into the realities of what it actually takes to support people facing a crisis.
World Mental Health Day focuses this year on psychological support in a humanitarian Crises. But how do the ripples of this spread, and how can we protect our mental health in a world that feels increasingly uncertain?
It can feel like an overwhelming question. Here’s three big things we think are important to understanding the answer.
An event in Cardiff has sparked conversations around a simple truth: healing can be found in community, and community means all of us. Here’s how it played out, who came to join us, and the things we heard on the day...
It’s time for real change in Wales; for us to hear the voices of activists, people with lived experience of poor mental health, and staff within the system who have seen things not working. For their tireless campaigning to be reflected and enshrined in Government intent – and for that intent to turn into tangible action.
What we are witnessing here is not a new problem, nor is it isolated to a lack of funding, or just to burnt out staff. It's been baked into the mental health system since before it began...
“I feel that I cannot win. I feel I have no agency. My trauma is belittled. Mental health professionals have labelled me as manipulative, demonstrative, childlike, badly behaved, more difficult than others, and less deserving of care.” …
Jen Daffin reflects on the recent Bevan Commission conference, and how solving the problems faced by the NHS will take more than just trying harder.
At Platfform, we believe hope is a way of being, a process. It is why we are excited that we have received funding from the Moondance Foundation for two years of a ground-breaking project in the Caerphilly area.
