One of my specialisms is mental health! I mostly write first-person accounts of life with psychosis which I’ve had through adulthood.
Take a look at some of my pieces… or scroll down further for public speaking & feedback!
Why wasn’t I arrested for my crimes? June 2017, Chat it’s fate
How blogging can help improve your mental health & your bank balance, March 2017, Metro UK
5 unusual ways to improve your mental health, March 2017, Metro UK
It’s time to get creative and make a film about mental health, March 2017, Positively Scottish
It’s Fandabby – tackling mental health through colourful T-shirts, February 2017, Positively Scottish
How my working class background has held me back more than my mental health issues, February 2017, Metro UK
Why schizophrenia need not rob us of a life in academia, The Guardian, February 2017
To the batcave, Published in The Lancet Psychiatry, December 2016
Football therapy, Published in The Lancet Psychiatry, December 2016
MRI scans may give early Alzheimer’s alert (scroll to the box at the bottom of the page), The Mail on Sunday, November 2016
14 of the best mindfulness retreats, Metro UK, August 2016
14 things you only know if your parents split up, Metro UK, August 2016
Ray of Light, Published in The Lancet Psychiatry, July 2016
Occupational therapy on a forensic ward, Published in The Lancet Psychiatry, January 2016
Learned Recovery – Published in The Lancet Psychiatry, December 2015
First aiders for the mind help beat a mental health crisis, Published in the Mail on Sunday, December 2015
14 things not to say to someone with schizophrenia, Published in Metro UK, November 2015
15 things to know before dating someone with schizophrenia, Published in Metro UK, November 2015
12 things you only know if you have schizophrenia, Published in Metro UK, October 2015
Hands on Healing – Published in Psychologies September 2015
Facing the Axe: The Recovery Colleges That Prevent Mental Health Crisis – Published in the Mail on Sunday
– published in Healthy magazine
Sure of you – published in The Lancet Psychiatry
Light on the Darkness – published in Times Higher Education Supplement
Yes, You Can Always be Happy! – published in the Mail on Sunday
I’m Mad, Not Bad – published in the Independent
Compassion Focused Therapy Teach Sufferers to be Kind to Themselves – published in the Mail on Sunday
Am I Crazy to want a Baby when I’m Schizophrenic? – published in the Mail on Sunday
Academics Fall Short on Mental Health – published in Disability Now
– Published in the Mail on Sunday
– Published in Open Mind
Once dismissed as pretentious but now brain scans prove Eastern philosophies can treat mental illness – published in the Mail on Sunday
Single Female Writer, 31, GSOH, Schizophrenic, WLTM Similar – published in the Mail on Sunday
PUBLIC SPEAKING
One hour talk with time for questions on life with psychosis, Lloyds Bank, May 2016
Here’s some feedback on twitter:
- Thank you
@EricaCamus for a candid and enlightening talk in#groupIT#MHAW16. It was a treat listening to you! @EricaCamus really enjoyed your talk today. Very informative and made me smile too 🙂
90 minute opening keynote on living with psychosis for charity’s 50th anniversary, Off the Record (youth mental health charity in Bristol), September 2015
One hour talk on Wellbeing and overcoming difficulty, King’s High Warwick girl’s school, July 2015
Presented my interview with Elyn Saks at SMHRN conference on Stigma at the University of Edinburgh, December 2014
Gave an hour talk on stigma at the University of Edinburgh, September 2014
Talk to patients & staff at a private mental home in Fareham on “Ways into work”, July 2014
Gave a talk on stigma and did a broadcast interview with Elyn Saks at the Janssen conference March 2014 titled “Schizophrenia: New Routes to Better Care”…
Here’s some feedback on that event:
- ‘Erica Camus’ talk during the stigma session was excellent
- The most powerful session I attended today was the Stigma breakout session. Both speakers were very inspirational
Time to Change Meet the Media, March 2013: Talk with Denise Welsh, Alastair Campbell and Fiona Phillips. I was a media volunteer on the panel of 5, talking about mental health in the printed press.
Being Erica 