No Longer Legally Detained: From Inpatient Care to Activism, Empowerment and Art with Hannah Whitfield
About this episode
Hannah Whitfield discusses her journey from inpatient care to activism and the transformative power of art in mental health recovery.
Have you ever been in and out of hospital so many times that everyone around you quietly stopped believing you'd ever get better, so you started to believe it too? This episode is for you." This week on the Full of Beans Podcast, I'm joined by Hannah Whitfield, a creative activist, writer, speaker, performer and founder of Legally Detained - a lived-experience-led creative platform transforming survival into power through art, activism and unapologetic storytelling. Her work explores neurodivergence, trauma, mental health systems, eating disorder recovery, inclusion and the power of creative expression. Through speaking, writing, performance, consultancy and her podcast No Longer Legally Detained, Hannah challenges systems that ask people to become smaller to survive, and instead creates work that says: we were never broken - we were surviving worlds that were never built with us in mind. In this episode, we explore: Where Legally Detained came from Hannah's experience of psychiatric admissions Being placed on a ward that didn't believe her eating disorder was "real" Becoming a "revolving door patient" across CAMHS, adult services, and secure care The problem with BMI criteria as…
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Host: Hannah Hickinbotham
Guest: Hannah Whitfield
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Organizations: Legally Detained
Books & works: No Longer Legally Detained
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