Mental Health
Many of us as community advocates have dedicated our lives to defending the marginalised and uplifting those that society has tried to hold down. For some of us, this has become our professional job. For others, it is something done on a voluntary basis. Both are as valid as each
Neurodiversity
We often discuss anxiety and depression amongst the Autistic population. Some such as myself and Autistic and Living the Dream have pushed to get lesser discussed mental health concerns into the zeitgeist, but there is a problem with how it is framed in a more general sense. When most people
Addiction
When we consider harm reduction strategies for drug-users, we often think about education on the safer use of drugs. Things such as safer injection practices and "tasting the hit" to reduce accidental overdoses. While things such as safe consumption rooms and needle exchanges can reduce a lot of
Mental Health
Over the past decade or so, we have seen a surge in the awareness of so-called "mental illness". While the concept of telling people you are struggling has served a good purpose, the concept of "illness" has actually disempowered people who have these particular neurodivergences and
Mental Health
If there is one recurring theme I come across time and again in my work, it's that reduced psychological wellbeing in Autistic people is inherently linked to our sense of identity. As Autistic people, we consistently treated poorly by wider society, and we internalise the attitudes that are
Neuroqueer Theory
Below is the transcript of the podcast interview I did with Natasha Golding about my book The New Normal: Autistic musings on the threat of a broken society with references to my poetry collection Existence. The podcast can be found here, and both books are available on Amazon here. Natasha
Autism
I extremely excited to announce that my first solo authored book has been published. The book is called The New Normal: Autistic Musings on the threat of a broken society. At the time of writing, the eBook is available through kindle, and kindle unlimited, and the paperback version will be
Autistic Wellbeing
For a while now, it has been a dream of mine to make Autistic knowledge sharing my career. I love the Autistic community, and want to help improve the environments thar we exist in. That is why I am happy to announce DGH Neurodivergent Consultancy. Launching this business will help
General Wellbeing
This article was Co-Authored by David Gray-Hammond and Katie Munday Trigger Warning: Discussion of mental health It is a surprisingly contentious discussion to have, but the neurodiversity paradigm does not just apply to autistic people and ADHD'ers. Neurodivergent is a broad and inclusive term that applies to any
Psychosis
This article was Co-Authored by Tanya Adkin and David Gray-Hammond Trigger Warning: Death, drug and alcohol use, suicide, systemic failure, mental health crisis, inpatient psychiatric care. The 13th of September 2022 saw the opening of inquests into the deaths of two teenage boys. Ben On the 8th of April 2020,
Mental Health
Up until about a year ago, I still sat firmly in the camp that, while I viewed myself as multiply neurodivergent, I was mentally ill. Over the past year I have been unlearning this lesson, and realising that mental "illness" is completely unquantifiable, and instead, I was suffering
Trauma
In recent years mental health has become more widely talked about, thanks to the popularisation of the "it's okay not to be okay" trope. On the surface this is a wonderful approach to the normalisation of Mental health issues, but does it have a darker side?