Transparency Statement

A Note on Safety, Accessibility, and AI Use

Life After Being Sectioned is a deeply personal lived-experience project.

The stories, reflections, and insights shared here come from my own life: from psychosis, bipolar disorder, psychiatric hospitalisation, sectioning, discharge, diagnosis, recovery, and the long process of making sense of it all afterwards.

They come from the heart.

I also want to be honest that I sometimes use AI tools to help me shape, structure, edit, and present this work.

For me, AI is not a lazy shortcut. It is an accessibility tool.

Writing about experiences like psychosis, sectioning and hospitalisation is not easy. These are emotionally intense subjects, and I am aware that many people who find this website may be feeling vulnerable, frightened, recently discharged, or still trying to understand what happened to them.

I do not want to write carelessly. I do not want to overwhelm people. I do not want to share raw pain without holding it responsibly.

AI helps me slow down, organise my thoughts, soften language where needed, and turn difficult lived experience into something clearer, safer, and more compassionate to read.

As an autistic, disabled creator, I have to be realistic about my energy, capacity, executive functioning, communication needs, and emotional limits. Not everyone can simply sit down and produce polished, high-level public writing about trauma, madness, recovery and identity without support. For some of us, tools like AI make communication more possible, not less authentic.

That does not make the work less human.

The experiences are mine. The values are mine. The care behind this project is mine. AI helps me express it in a way that protects both me and the people reading.

Life After Being Sectioned is also a free, unfunded, one-person project. I have chosen to keep this website free because I believe support after psychiatric hospitalisation should be accessible to the people who need it, without paywalls or subscriptions.

Because I do not currently have the resources to hire professional editors, designers, or illustrators, I have also used AI to help create some visual materials, including mind maps and summary graphics. These are intended to make complex ideas easier to understand and more accessible.

I understand that people have different views about AI, especially around art, labour, environmental impact, trust, and creativity. I take those concerns seriously.

As this project grows, I hope to gradually replace more AI-generated visuals with my own hand-drawn illustrations, and where possible, collaborate with human creatives who connect with the mission of this work.

If you are a writer, editor, illustrator, designer, researcher, mental health professional, or lived-experience contributor who would like to collaborate, I would genuinely love to hear from you via my Contact page.

This website exists because I needed something like this when I left hospital and could not find it.

At its core, Life After Being Sectioned is human: human experience, human care, human mess, human meaning. AI is one of the tools that helps me make that care visible, accessible, and sustainable.