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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Early Eurostar to Brussels, then Leuven, to give a fairly radical talk for the big launch of #Coconuts ❤️🥳👀

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Nevertheless, she persisted (see text in the picture)…

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

In the midst of #ACreativeTransformation in Manchester with workshop leader Eleanor May Blackburn. We all wrote something unique, but were united in our earnestness to express ourselves, given the opportunity, the stimulus and freedom to say what we want. A special moment. Report out soon🌟 #writing

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Are you interested in #AI healthcare technology, #psychosis and #acquiredbraininjury? We are running an experimental workshop discussing these things with #ACreativeTransformation at Birmingham University on May 19. Very limited spaces, sign up now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/act-2-in-b...

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ACT 2 in Birmingham: The brain, psychosis and AI technology

An experimental workshop for clinicians, researchers, people with lived experience

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I am at Euston station heading up 🔝 for #ACreativeTransformation in Manchester! A writing workshop for young people with lived experience of #acquiredbraininjury. Epic 🌟☄️✨

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I am absolutely thrilled to have a feature in @headwayuk.bsky.social's Spring newsletter. This is about my story of recovery, my work with #ACreativeTransformation and how I advocate using the arts to support living with acquired brain injury. www.headway.org.uk/media/12887/...

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

There are a few spaces left in the #ACreativeTransformation writing workshop for young people and young carers of people with lived experience of brain injury in Manchester on April 4. Don’t miss this opportunity, sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-fo... Please tell everyone you know!

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

My latest review for @thementalelf.bsky.social discusses the impact of traumatic brain injury on mental health. Research on this theme is limited & flawed. We need stronger science to support better treatments; the effects of TBI can be enduring & severe. www.nationalelfservice.net/other-health...

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Traumatic brain injury has long-lasting mental health effects

Lorna Collins considers an umbrella review of health outcomes following traumatic brain injury published in Nature Mental Health.

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Yesterday I was squawking at Malorees Junior School! I gave 6 classes to little people in years 3, 4 and 6. We made up incredible stories, performed them and started writing. These sessions were based on my beloved “Squawk: A Book of Bird Adventures”, which you can buy here: amzn.eu/d/i4AmP08

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Today I'm speaking with @roxanabaiasu.bsky.social at @phenolab.bsky.social on 'Transformative Paradoxes of Mad Sense', a talk based on lived experience, art practice & philosophical reflections (post-structuralism, existentialism, phenomenology) on madness and sense...being human. shorturl.at/oxw6S

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FULL PROGRAM - A. Y. 2024-2025

The PhenoLab activities will start on September 14, 2024 Lectures and discussions will be held in English. For any query or information, an...

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Here it is: “ACT2 on NRU” Using visual arts to tell our stories after brain injury, a course of art workshops with inpatients at the Neurorehabilitation Unit, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, April-May 2025. Find out more: email lorna.collins6@nhs.net acreativetransformation.org

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I'm very keen to connect with young people with lived experience of #acquiredbraininjury for a free writing for wellbeing workshop in #Manchester on March 7. Travel expenses paid (up to £30 per participant). Please connect, share info around all your networks: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-fo...

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Writing for wellbeing through lived experience of brain injury

For young people and young carers (aged 16-25) of people with lived experience of brain injury.

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Everyone needs a ginger cat in their lives. Here is Mr. Tigga, purring, determined to preen away all our worries or concerns. The phone is in the way, sorry Mr. T. He's determined to get as close as possible ...❤️‍🩹...

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Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Making sense of one’s identity in the context of psychopathology is a question of such enormous difficulty that it eventually exhausts us. www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/psychopath...

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Psychopathology, Exhaustion, and Identity

Diagnostic manuals cannot tell us who we “really” are

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Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Confessions of an Ambivalent Psychiatrist A guest essay by the psychiatrist Susan Mahler on her experience of depression (including treatments with ECT) and how she finds herself in a position where both lived and professional experience are failing her www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/confession...

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Confessions of an Ambivalent Psychiatrist

Susan Mahler, MS, MD, is a writer and psychiatrist who practices in North Adams, MA.

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Rosa Ritunnano @rritunnano.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

International Merleau-Ponty circle on health and healing

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

It’s very wet and blowy…I’m in Stratford, bringing #ACreativeTransformation to @ucl.ac.uk. I'm meeting a student who is joining and evaluating the project, and giving a #LivedExperience seminar about the brain, trauma and creativity. It is always inspiring to meet the MASc #CreativeHealth students!

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Gemma Wrigley @gemmawrigley.com · 27/01/2025

I will be a co-facilitator at this event. If you are in the UK and work with (or know any) young people who have experienced brain injury, please share 🙏

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The Mental Elf @thementalelf.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Tell me what you want, what you really really want: lived experience involvement in co-developing outcome measures www.nationalelfservice.net?p=212822 "Have you ever asked people with lived experience what they think the main outcomes of your study should be?"

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Lived experience involvement in co-developing outcome measures.

Laura Hemming blogs a systematic review which explores the involvement people with lived experience in the co-development of mental health outcome measures.

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Exciting update about our writing workshop for young people in Manchester. We can give each participant up to £30 to support travel expenses to attend the event. If you are interested in joining us do get in touch, we would love to support you to come along. Sign up here: shorturl.at/daPPU

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Today I am at the Neurorehabilitation Unit, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, planning the course of workshops we are running for inpatients in the Spring. I am excited, grateful and feeling very creative with this opportunity. #ACreativeTransformation

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Looking for young people and young carers (age 16-25) of people with lived experience of #acquiredbraininjury for a writing workshop in Manchester on 7th March, 13:00-15:00. For more information and to sign up for this free event: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-fo... Please tell everyone you know!

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Writing for wellbeing through lived experience of brain injury

For young people and young carers (aged 16-25) of people with lived experience of brain injury.

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Awesome day with #ACreativeTransformation at Headway Surrey. We were recruiting participants to make films called 'User guides to acquired brain injury', made by and for people with lived experience. Great to work with project partner Beth and the Headway team in this exciting, creative venture.

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

‘Writing for wellbeing through lived experience of brain injury’, a workshop on March 7th for young people + young carers (aged 16-25) of people with #livedexperience of #braininjury, led by neurodivergent actor/poet Eleanor Blackburn at 42nd Street, Manchester. Sign up here: bit.ly/WritingForWe...

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

It is a strange experience to be reading a review of the immensely stimulating 'Too Mad to be True III: The Paradoxes of Madness' conference, only to discover a discussion of my very own intervention. MAD FAME! open.substack.com/pub/awaisaft... #madsky #philsky #philosky

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

A different plane of seeing, expressed clumsily — impossible to capture.

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Matthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

There, where the danger is greatest, the saving power grows

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Anyone else in need of a rescue after Christmas? Mr. Tigga has your remedy. Rest up and be calm…

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

…the dogs’ Christmas, in front of the fire 🔥 ❤️

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

A recent commission of a young horse whose untimely, horrific death really touched me. I felt very emotional as I painted his beautiful profile and reflection, dancing away but somehow always here. Watercolour, pastel, graphite on paper. #artsky #paintersky ❤️‍🩹

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Happy winter solstice everyone! Six months ago, for the summer solstice, I went on BBC Radio 4 to talk to @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social about time and, you guessed it, Henri Bergson! You can listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, The illusion of time, the summer solstice & the philosophy of comedy

Mark Miodownik, Emily Herring, Rob Newman and Fay Dowker consider Time with Matthew Sweet.

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

The new logo for #ACreativeTransformation, ACT 2. What do you think? We have much to do in 2025. Watch out for creative outbursts in #film, #poetry, performance, visual arts, #storytelling in eXtended Reality with #AI Technology and more -- for people with lived experience of acquired #braininjury.

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Timothy Hines @timothy-hines.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

youtu.be/4CFiT1E_S3w?... my movie 10 days in a madhouse has reached 1.4 million views on Cinema cinemas streaming on YouTube. You can watch it for free with ads or on one of dozens of other platforms. Starring Christopher Lambert with Kelly LeBrock.

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10 Days in a Madhouse (Based on a True Story) Full Length Movie

YouTube video by Cinéma Cinémas

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

A bear I saw, with clawed paws that were stamps of my own handprints. Curious. So I drew it.

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Sofia Jeppsson @jeppsson.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Great paper by @awaisaftab.bsky.social . Detailed and nuanced. Ends with a call for personalised treatment - something every clinician agrees with in theory, but in practice, there's often a paternalistic "meds for all" regime.

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Making sense of the literature on antipsychotics and long-term functioning: taking natural history and personalization seriously | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core

Making sense of the literature on antipsychotics and long-term functioning: taking natural history and personalization seriously

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Top beat news! #ACreativeTransformation #ACT2 = funded by @artscouncilengland.bsky.social. The project begins on 1/1/25 making films, working with artificial intelligence, performing poetry with young people + visual art workshops with inpatients, always supporting people with acquired brain injury.

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Suggestions please: I’m looking for a place to take my beloved registered Pets As Therapy dogs Wilby and Foxy, ideally a centre supporting people with brain injury, or I’m open to suggestions…a place around Buckinghamshire or Oxford. Wilby and Foxy give so much…I just want to share this. ❤️‍🩹

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Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Making sense of the literature on antipsychotics and long-term functioning: taking natural history and personalization seriously My new article in Psychological Medicine (open access) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Making sense of the literature on antipsychotics and long-term functioning: taking natural history and personalization seriously | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core

Making sense of the literature on antipsychotics and long-term functioning: taking natural history and personalization seriously

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

...meanwhile...in case you were wondering how Wilby did in his first canicross dog race yesterday...he was absolutely paw-some. Sorry. Amazing running! #dogsky #canicross #whippet

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Remnants from the few minutes I spoke at the #madstudies symposium- madness, art and non/sense. Our cracks make us stronger and more beautiful; art provides existential support. Thank you Guattari + the ancient Japanese art of kintsukuroi. Merry Christmas everyone. 2025 is going to be even better...

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Before the conference, with Wilby, our debut at Cani-cross!

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Today I'm talking about mad art, mad non/sense and living, with a little Guattari + Nietzsche, at the #madstudies symposium. This event launches the momentous 'Mad Studies Reader' with a cocktail of very colourful people speaking from multiple perspectives. Join us: www.idha-nyc.org/mad-studies-...

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Mad Studies Symposium — IDHA

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I saw her and then I drew her…is she a puppet on strings pulled by somebody else’s grand narrative? Or a decapitated head hanging/swinging on her skin’s taut edges? Or is she in fact me? Do I see versions of myself? #hallucination #madsky #psychsky #philsky #artsky

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Morning all. Here you see Wilby and I in the dress rehearsal for our debut running race (together) on Sunday! Fingers crossed we don't drown or get blown away by Storm Whateveritscalled. Time to reflect upon the transience of b/Being. #runnersky #philsky #dogsky #naturesky

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I will never, ever get over this.

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

My brainy 🧠 friends @proftonydavid.bsky.social @matthewbroome.bsky.social @awaisaftab.bsky.social @jrbneuropsiq.bsky.social this is for you…have you read Liveing or Oliver Sacks on Liveing or do you know my neurologist friend Klaas Arts?

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Lorna Collins @sensinglorna.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

For #neuropsychiatry #neurology #madness birds in the bluesky, I received this wonderful rare book in the post, Liveing's 'On Megrim, Sick-Headache...Pathology of Nerve-Storms' from Klaas Arts, signed by and with correspondence from the maestro, my hero #OliverSacks. Thanks Klaas! What a sheer gem!

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