Mental health

Voices

Healing is a justice issue: how can we radicalise the voluntary sector, amid a perfect storm of cuts?

When it comes to recovery from trauma, meeting people’s basic needs such as food, shelter, and physical safety is not enough. In an increasingly harsh environment, charities will need all their imagination and creativity to do more.

Maria Carvalho

Photography

The gloves are on: the boxing charity helping young people bounce back

Alexander Turner

Features

Image of Danny Lydon, who says music gave him an outlet that helped him work through losing his dad

When words fail: Meet the Bristol group nurturing male musicians’ mental health

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Features

How talking clubs are getting Bristol blokes to open up and be vulnerable

I joined Talk Club and learned I can’t regulate my emotions. Then I got schooled by a therapist on toxic masculinity and dangerous role models. But how are you doing, out of 10?

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison
Image of Jess Durdy, who took her own life in 2020 while in a mental health 'crisis house'

Features

Lost opportunities: are inquests failing to prevent future deaths?

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Voices

‘I was finally diagnosed with ADHD at 25. Would I have got this sooner if I was a boy?’

Dolores McGurran
Dolores McGurran

Voices

‘I needed therapy after I gave birth, but now I’m going it alone’

Steph experienced a mental health crisis while having her second child. Therapy saved her, but when it ended she felt loss.

Steph Cullen
Steph Cullen

Features

Bristol mental health patients are still being sent miles from home. How are local services trying to eliminate the damaging practice?

The city’s mental health trust is failing to stop out of area placements, but it's an uphill battle amid high demand for treatment, limited funding and staffing shortages.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Reports

Autistic woman wins damages after police put ‘false and misleading’ information on her record

In the latest in a series of payouts from the force, Avon and Somerset Police were found to hold records incorrectly describing her as having 'split personality, violent when not medicated'.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Reports

Bristol student who took her own life had mental health disorder ignored, judge rules

Natasha Abrahart’s parents argued that her university failed to make allowances for her social anxiety disorder.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Reports

‘Simply inconceivable’ university didn’t owe duty of care to student with severe social anxiety, court told

Natasha Abrahart, a physics undergraduate at the University of Bristol, took her own life the day before she was due to give a presentation.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Features

Laughing it off: how comedy can aid recovery from trauma

A new free art therapy course aims to help people work through mental ill-health through the medium of standup.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers
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