“We cannot allow a system that is meant to help and support people to instead continue to ignore their rights.”
Before Christmas, New Script organiser Lisa Morrison wrote a blog for @madintheuk.bsky.social detailing the stark findings of an international survey on ECT and women.
A Disorder for Everyone's festival offers a whole day of change-making talks, presentations and conversations - all challenging the culture of diagnosis and disorder.
Have a look at the programme and book on the link below ⬇️ Please share!
🗓️Friday, 7 November 2025
📍9:00 - 17:00
⌚Online
Trauma-Informed Care and the PTMF: How Does It Work in Practice?
By Peter Simons
madintheuk.com/2025/10/trau...
#TraumaInformedCare #PTMF #TraumaAwareness #MentalHealthResearch #CompassionateCare #RecoveryOrientedPractice #HealingTogether #PsychologicalSafety #MadInAmerica
Facing the truth about World Mental Health Day
By Jo Watson
madintheuk.com/2025/10/faci...
#WorldMentalHealthDay #WMHD2025 #WMHD
#FacingTheTruth #DistressNotDisorder #ReclaimTheNarrative #ChallengingTheNarrative
#MentalHealthReclaimed #BeyondTheBiomedicalModel #SolidarityNotStigma
Really looking forward to our friend and ally Johann Hari
popping in to our zoom room for a chat about his work.
Hear how he challenges the culture of diagnosis and disorder and ask him your questions!
Join us 🧡
Donation only places available.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1136180349...
Well, are they? 🤷♀️ 🫤
Sign up to reserve your place at the AD4E festival here (donation only)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1224759932...
@drnaomifisher.bsky.social
Join us online this Wed to hear Child &Adolescent Psychiatrist Sami Timimi talk about his book ‘Searching for Normal: A New Approach to Understanding Mental Health, Distress and Neurodiversity’ &his work that challenges the pathologising of emotional distress.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1222883701...
Another reason why you won’t want to miss this year’s #adisorder4everyone Festival!
~Donation only
~CPD cert - 8 hrs
~Recorded to watch afterwards
~Connecting with a community that wants to see change
In association with V-Day
Sign up now!
eventbrite.co.uk/e/122475993292…
Grossly Flawed Paper Denies that Antidepressant Withdrawal Effects are “Clinically Meaningful”
By John Read
madintheuk.com/2025/07/gros...
#AntidepressantWithdrawal #WithdrawalEffects #PsychDrugWithdrawal #ComingOffMeds #TaperingMeds #PsychMedAwareness #PharmaAccountability #DoNoHarm
Tomorrow! (Thur 10th Jul)
Join clin psych Dr Zandra Bamford for this powerful exploration of #InternalFamilySystems (IFS) as a radical, non-pathologising approach to healing. This workshop offers a chance to deepen self-awareness & rethink old assumptions.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1225119558...
For those who’ve not read the most recent Drop the Disorder book did you know you can download a sample off kindle for free!?
It includes my intro, Sami Timimi’s chapter on why he wrote INSANE MEDICINE
& my interview with Joanna Moncrieff about her crucial work
Download it!
amzn.eu/d/bS0wRxI
What Would True Informed Consent for Antidepressants Actually Look Like?
By MITUK admin
madintheuk.com/2025/07/what...
#InformedConsent #MedicalEthics #PatientAutonomy #EthicsInPractice #ConsentCulture
TOMORROW EVENING!
Bring more ‘ZEN’ to your therapeutic & support work with this Buddhist inspired workshop.
Limited places left now.
Recorded for delegates who can’t make it live.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1144389292...
Jan Winhall has worked with many people in the trauma space from Steve Porges to Janina Fisher & this evening she’s sharing her wisdom with us!
Don’t miss it!
CPD - 2 hours
Still places available at the moment.
Recorded for delegates who can’t attend live.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1100154253...
Join us for a powerful hour online tomorrow evening (5 June) with AD4E ally, Prof Emmy van Deurzen – existential therapist, philosopher and unapologetic challenger of the medicalisation of emotional distress.
FREE tickets available
Sign up!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1136159496...
Join @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social & @peterkinderman.bsky.social for an audience with an ally Tuesday 3rd June
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-audienc...
Starting in an hour!
Recorded for delegates who can’t attend live.
CPD -2 hours
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1106166747...
🧡
A little look into @platfform.org bookshelves - radical help, drop the disorder and time to think - helps you get a little under the skin of who we are
Starting at 12.00 today.
Recorded for delegates who can’t make it live.
CPD -2 hours
Sign up here
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/5625142643...
April 2025 in Review
Visit our website to catch up with any blogs you may have missed! madintheuk.com/blogs/
#MadInTheUK #VoicesForChange #MentalHealthdebate #mentalhealthdiscourse
Reflecting on the blogs of 2024: January-March
Visit our website to catch up with any blogs you may have missed!
madintheuk.com/blogs/
#MadInTheUK #VoicesForChange #MentalHealthMatters
Withdrawal syndromes: lost in translation
www.madintheuk.com/2025/05/with...
#WithdrawalSyndrome #AntidepressantWithdrawal
#PsychiatricDrugWithdrawal #MadInTheUK
This Friday, with @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social! We'll be exploring 'whole community' approaches to mental health, understanding the circumstances and experiences that lay at the root of distress - and what all this means to ways of working that make a lasting difference.
Book here: buff.ly/Re6c4HM
