In conversation with two lived experience speakers discussing the vicious circle of stigmatisation, psychiatric diagnosis, and criminalisation for racially minoritised individuals.

 

Dr Colin King MBE: Sectioned at 17 with schizophrenia, homeless and restraint, he made the transition to become a mental health practitioner, commissioner, researcher, teacher and lived experience activist.

Ajibola Lewis: A lawyer whose son Seni died as a result of restraint at the Bethlem in 2010.After a decade of campaigning, the Mental Health (use of force) Bill, known as Seni’s Law, received royal assent in 2018, which increases the oversight and protection from the use of force in mental health settings.