About
This Week in Mentalists (TWIM) has been a fixture of the mental health blogosphere for several years. It was initially hosted at the late Mental Nurse blog, and latterly at The Madosphere, which is also dearly departed.
This blog represents the the first time it will have had its own special home!
TWIM is a weekly digest of selected writings from blogs across the Madosphere, our affectionate name for the mental health blogosphere. It is published on Saturday or Sunday, whilst TNIM – This News in Mentalists, a weekly round-up of mental health news – is usually published on Wednesdays. We also have occasional caption competitions, just for fun.
A group of volunteer authors take it in turns to write the digests, which enables a wide base of mental health blogs to be reviewed. We cover blogs from professionals and patients alike, although they should not be commercial in nature (ads are fine; a blog that has the primary function of promoting a business is not). Now and again you may even find writings from people who fall into both brackets 
From time to time, we also post entries that deviate from these formats. Usually these are for our (often puerile) entertainment, but not always. Although the Madosphere is full of humour, obviously a lot of serious issues crop up in this arena, and sometimes we feel that these require more in-depth examination than you’d get in one of our standard digests.
If you’d like to suggest blogs (or stories) we haven’t yet covered, please see this page – or, alternatively, if you’re a blogger who’d like to write for us, please see here.
This Week in Mentalists is currently co-edited by Pandora, author of the inexplicably award-winning borderpsychosisdissociandepressivething disorder blog, Confessions of a Serial Insomniac. Her co-editor is Zarathustra, who originally ran the late Mental Nurse blog, and is now co-editor of social and health care journal The Not So Big Society. However, as noted above, the project is written collaboratively, by mentalists and professionals (and, occasionally, laypeople with an interest in mental health) across the globe.
Enjoy!
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Dear writers of This Week in Mentalists,
As the media intern for a non-profit focusing on mental health advocacy, I recently came across your organization in my online search for mental health resources and believe there is an excellent opportunity for cross-promotion between our Web sites.
Peers Envisioning and Engaging in Recovery Services, or PEERS, is a consumer-run agency that is leading the innovative Social Inclusion Campaign in Alameda County, California. The mission of the campaign is to promote social inclusion of and end stigma and discrimination against individuals with mental health issues.
One way we hope to promote social inclusion is by asking members of the community to make a personal commitment to end mental health stigma. By taking the “Stigma Stops with Me” Facebook pledge on our website (http://www.peersnet.org/pledges/makepledge) or on our Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/PEERS-Peers-Envisioning-Engaging-in-Recovery-Services/82259569303), you will be bringing people together to combat mental health stigmatization and advocate for the betterment of the community as a whole. We also welcome any friends, family, or colleagues you have who may be interested to pledge as well.
In addition, we are interested in placing your link and logo on the PEERS Web site as a “Community Partner” at http://www.peersnet.org/partners. In return, we would appreciate a PEERS logo and link placement on your site if you are able.
Thank you, and I look forward to the opportunity of working together!
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RE “This Week in Mentalists is currently co-edited by Pandora, author of the inexplicably award-winning borderpsychosisdissociandepressivething disorder blog, Confessions of a Serial Insomniac.”
Clearly Pan wrote this blurb because someone else, I’d hope, wouldn’t call her award-winning “inexplicable”.I suppose other readers will also guess that another editor wouldn’t put her down that way, but it’s easier for me because I’ve seen the same self-deprecating humor by her before.
Pan is a talented writer, her self-deprecation is charming and seems innocent, but it isn’t factual. All people who are self-employed, even writers, need to get used to self-promotion. Perhaps choosing the words (or not devaluing oneself) will make the idea of one’s high value more clear to oneself and more real.
I challenge you to take out the “Inexplicably” from this paragraph! It is explicable to all readers of her blog, entirely so. I’d encourage her to act “as if”. She already is an award winning writer, full stop.