The Society of St James (SSJ) is a Hampshire-based homelessness charity that provides accommodation and support to over 2500 people each year. Here the charity’s team explore why homelessness in Portsmouth and the surrounding area [… read more ]
Ian Parker has been a dinghy sailor for 50 years and a dinghy instructor for almost as long. In 2001 he spent some time in mental hospital and is a recovering alcoholic. Here, Ian reports [… read more ]
Sometimes when the cold grips the town it grips Matt Wingett‘s heart too and, during the recent snowy weather, he felt the need to get outside. Encountering Donald, a man struggling with residential housing and [… read more ]
45 years ago, Christine Lawrence started her career as a psychiatric nurse at Knowle Hospital near Fareham. Later in life she would publish Caught in the Web, a fictionalisation of those early experiences. How did [… read more ]
Following an unflinching account of her recent suicide attempt published on S&C earlier this week, Emily Priest returns with a video of her slam poetry performance of Turn It Off, a poem exploring the reality [… read more ]
S&C’s community reporter and reviewer, Emily Priest, returns from her recent break to give an unflinching and brave account of her own experiences and explain why we all need to start talking about mental health. [… read more ]
Local writer and historian Emily Turner was inspired by the recent Edward King exhibition at Portsmouth City Museum and is running her own research project exploring the creativity of patients in mental health institutions. She [… read more ]
Lauren Sherry shares a poignant family story of abuse, addiction and violence, and argues that such suffering needn’t necessarily lead to the misery of victimhood. From an early age I knew my dad was an [… read more ]
Each morning Portsmouth University student Megan Langdon wakes up and has a stretch, before grabbing her phone and finding out the latest news from her friends. While she uses Facebook and Instagram a lot, she’s now convinced that the best app for [… read more ]
This summer students will sit tougher GCSEs in English and maths. As the exam season looms on the horizon, Portsmouth GCSE student, Tanzeela Rahman, reports on the pressure on teenage students’ mental health as they [… read more ]
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