The Truth Project
Listening, hearing and campaigning together.
Throughout the mental health system and beyond, people have hugely varied experiences. In a traumatised system, where power is not shared equally, and where people’s voices are not always listened to, it is vital that we bear witness to people’s stories.
Platfform’s Truth Project is our approach to hearing and bearing witness to people’s experiences. We will be looking at different aspects of the mental health system, and more widely, to understand what is happening to people.
From listening, hearing and respecting those stories, we will be able to campaign together for the change we need to see.
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Stories from: The diagnosis of personality disorder
This diagnosis doesn’t tell us the full story – or the reasons behind people’s distress.
In these stories from within the medical system, people share their first-hand experiences, their lives after diagnosis, and the stories that the label can’t tell us.
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Stories from: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
We want to make sure that people’s stories of receiving or requesting support from Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services are heard.
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Survey: A Diagnosis of Personality Disorder
Platfform has been campaigning to have the use of the diagnosis in Wales reviewed. We want to make space for people’s stories to be heard within those calls for change.
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Survey: Experiences of CAMHS
We want to make sure that people’s stories of receiving or requesting support from Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services are heard.
