Anyone with past or present experience of a mental health problem, or of caring for someone with a mental health problem, is welcome to contribute to Sirius Project either by writing a post for our blog or recommending resources for us to list. In some circumstances we also accept contributions from mental health professionals.

Blog Posts

If you’d like to write a post for our blog, please contact us with a few sentences about your idea and whether you’re someone with experience of mental health problems, a carer or a professional. We have no hard and fast rules on subject matter except that your post should be intended to help people with mental health problems or carers in some way. It could be a ‘how to’-type post, a review of a resource you’ve found helpful or a more personal sharing of your experience, for example. A post about how a particular approach  or resource didn’t work for you would also be fine if it was written from the angle of helping others who might be in a similar situation.

Ideas along these lines from people with mental health problems and carers will rarely be refused but you do need to be able to write your post yourself, although we’re happy to edit it for spelling and grammar if you’d like. Ideas from mental health professionals will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Contributors will either be given access to our blog dashboard and instructions on using the WordPress software if necessary, or you can email your post to us for us to publish. A link to your own blog or website, if you have one, can be included.

Recommending Resources

If you’d like to recommend an online resource, UK-based service or book for inclusion on our website, you can either email it to us, or post it in a comment on the relevant page. We cannot promise to add every resource recommended to our listings. However, comments will not be removed unless they break our guidelines below, so even if we decide not to add the resource it will still be on the website for others to see.

Guidelines for comments recommending resources:

• If you wish to post your resource as a comment, please choose a relevant page. Irrelevant links will be removed. If there is no relevant page as yet, please post your resource on this page and we’ll consider adding one.
• If the resource is your own website or book, please do not post it as a comment. Instead, please email it to us and we will decide whether or not to include it. We may delete comments which advertise the poster’s own website or book, particularly if they make a profit from this resource.
• Mental health professionals are welcome to post resources they feel would be helpful to Sirius Project users – for example, a resource you use with your clients or which clients have told you they find helpful.
• Please do not post resources which are likely to be offensive, which show hostility towards people from a particular social group (race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability, class, ethnicity, nationality, age, etc) or which are incompatible with Sirius Project’s recovery focus (for example pro-ana or pro-suicide sites). All such resources will be removed.
• Faith-based resources are welcome as long as the faith in question is clearly stated and the resource does not breach the guidelines above.