From Mad in the UK: Three years ago, on 29 July, a small group of us gathered together in Hyde Park, London. It was something we set up through Antidepressant Risks, the not-for-profit I founded to improve informed consent around antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs, raise awareness of their potential harms and adverse effects, and give voice to those whose experiences are too often overlooked or dismissed.
There was no stage, no formal programme, no infrastructure. Just people who had been affected, directly or indirectly, by prescribed medication and who felt that something important was missing from public conversation.
What was missing was space.
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