When Telling the Truth Can Cost You Your Freedom
Growing concern over the Mental Health Act 2025 as disabled people fear detention, discrimination, and human rights breaches. Learn what’s at stake and how communities are fighting back.
Stress, Autoimmune Disorders, and Relapses: When Pressure Becomes Harm
Exploring the link between stress, autoimmune disorders, and relapses, and how intimidation, coercion, and toxic environments can devastate health. Includes practical steps to stop harassment and protect well-being.
Women and ADHD, Why It’s Missed For Years
Women with ADHD are often diagnosed late due to masking, hormonal changes, and outdated stereotypes. Learn why ADHD in women is missed for years and how better awareness can change lives.
Charity Donations, Gifting & Tax Benefits (UK Guide)
Learn how charity donations and gifting can provide UK tax benefits, including Gift Aid and corporate relief, while supporting DisabilityUK.org’s mission to empower disabled people, fund start-ups, and help individuals build purpose, skills, and lasting legacies.
Mental Health Does Not Discriminate
Mental health does not discriminate. A lived-experience perspective on anxiety, depression, OCD, trauma, stigma, and why careless media rhetoric harms vulnerable communities seeking support and hope.
Corporate Harassment: Definition
A detailed guide to corporate harassment law in the UK, including legal definitions under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 and Equality Act 2010, FOI rights, and whether accusing a journalist of “harassment” for information requests is lawful.
Priority Services Register (PSR) Guide, Third Party Charges
Power cuts can be dangerous for disabled people, especially those relying on medical equipment. Learn whether you can be charged for emergency callouts, how third‑party faults are handled, and how the Priority Services Register protects vulnerable households.
Disability Discrimination at Its Finest
A proposed DWP benefits payment card to replace cash could severely restrict disabled people’s freedom, autonomy, and access to essential disability-related living costs. This article explains why the proposal risks reinforcing disability discrimination and stigma.
Your Rights as a Mental Health Patient
Mental health patients have legal rights. Learn about reasonable adjustments, consent, ableism, coercion, and how to handle controlling GPs under UK law.
When Stigma Comes From Home: My Experience With Mental-Health Judgement
A first-person account of mental-health stigma within a traditional rural Polish family: why it’s hard to explain mental health to older generations, how judgement impacts wellbeing, and what the statistics say about stigma and discrimination in Poland.