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Stick Around: Free Community Resources Inspired by the Power Threat Meaning Framework | BPS This event showcases the Stick Around campaign; a trauma‑informed poster series that uniquely blends Public Health prevention with the Power Threat Meaning Framework.

www.bps.org.uk/event/stick-... May 7th. Online workshop introducing PTMF - inspired community resources

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March in Review.

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#MadInTheUK #VoicesForChange #MentalHealthdebate #mentalhealthdiscourse #MentalHealthReform #PsychiatricSurvivor
#EndPsychAbuse #MentalHealthJustice

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Can we build crisis care outside the broken mental health system? By Catherine Heseltine

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#MentalHealth #CrisisCare #Soteria #PeerSupport #MentalHealthReform #CommunityCare #TraumaInformed

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Psychiatric Force and Conversion Undermine Recovery2
By Laura Lopez-Aybar

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#PsychiatricCoercion #MentalHealthRecovery #MadInAmerica #SurvivorLed #MentalHealthJustice

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March in Review.

Visit our website to catch up with any blogs you may have missed!

madintheuk.com

#MadInTheUK #VoicesForChange #MentalHealthdebate #mentalhealthdiscourse #MentalHealthReform #PsychiatricSurvivor
#EndPsychAbuse #MentalHealthJustice

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Mourning on Schedule: How Grieving Became a ‘Mental Illness’ By Steve McRae

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#Grief #ProlongedGriefDisorder #Bereavement #MentalHealth #GriefAwareness #DSM #Grieving #LossAndLove #EndGriefStigma

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Finding support outside ‘the system’ By MITUK admin

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#MentalHealth #SuicideSurvivor #AnxietyAwareness #MentalHealthRecovery #PersonalDevelopment #MentalHealthAdvocacy #RecoveryJourney

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IED
By Annie Hazzard

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#Poetry #Trauma #MentalHealth #SpokenWord #PoetryCommunity

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As a doctor I felt compelled to agree to ECT- it nearly ruined my life By Cathy Wield

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#ECT #MentalHealthDebate #PatientSafety #Psychiatry #InformedConsent #MedicalHarm
#PatientVoice #LivedExperience

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Neurodiversity – The Opium of the People
By John Hoggett

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#NeurodiversityDebate #CritiquePsychiatry #MentalHealthAndCapitalism #ADHDControversy #SocialModelOfDistress #BeyondDiagnosis #LeftPoliticsUK #PsychiatryIsPolitical

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My impulsive father, and the hidden psychiatric side effects of dopamine-agonist drugs
By Freddie Waite

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#ParkinsonsAwareness #MedicationSafety #ImpulseControlDisorder #DopamineAgonists #ParkinsonsUK #CaregiverStories #PharmaAccountability

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Neurodiversity – The Opium of the People
By John Hoggett

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#NeurodiversityDebate #CritiquePsychiatry #MentalHealthAndCapitalism #ADHDControversy #SocialModelOfDistress #BeyondDiagnosis #LeftPoliticsUK #PsychiatryIsPolitical

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My impulsive father, and the hidden psychiatric side effects of dopamine-agonist drugs
By Freddie Waite

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#ParkinsonsAwareness #MedicationSafety #ImpulseControlDisorder #DopamineAgonists #ParkinsonsUK #CaregiverStories #PharmaAccountability

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No Explanation, Just Labels: Critical Psychiatry Network Letter to the Guardian on the Dangers of Diagnostic Expansion By Evgeny Legedin

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#MentalHealthDebate #Overdiagnosis #CriticalPsychiatry #MentalHealthPolicy #NHS

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As a doctor I felt compelled to agree to ECT- it nearly ruined my life By Cathy Wield

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#ECT #MentalHealthDebate #PatientSafety #Psychiatry #InformedConsent #MedicalHarm
#PatientVoice #LivedExperience

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Congratulations to the DCP award winners 2025 | BPS We are delighted to announce the DCP award winners for 2025.

Very pleased to announce that two of the #PTMFramework authors, Dr Lucy Johnstone and @peterkinderman.bsky.social , have been given a DCP/BPS Lifetime Achievement Award. @bpsofficial.bsky.social

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Congratulations to the DCP award winners 2025 | BPS We are delighted to announce the DCP award winners for 2025.

Very pleased to announce that two of the #PTMFramework authors, Dr Lucy Johnstone and @peterkinderman.bsky.social , have been given a DCP/BPS Lifetime Achievement Award. @bpsofficial.bsky.social

www.bps.org.uk/news/congrat...

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ADHD Diagnoses, Examining the Psyche, Withdrawal and PSSD Risks, ECT Harms and More: Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions
By James Moore

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#MentalHealth #ADHD #Psychiatry #Antidepressants
#PatientVoices #InformedConsent #Neurodiversity #MedicalEthics

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My DIY Recovery from “Bipolar Disability” Part 2: Healing By Catherine Heseltine

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#MentalHealthRecovery #PsychiatricSurvivor #LivedExperience

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My DIY Recovery from “Bipolar Disability” Part 1: Searching For Safety
By Catherine Heseltine

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#MentalHealthRecovery #PsychiatricSurvivor #LivedExperience

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Gestalt Processors: The Body Remembers, the Wound Returns, the Response Makes Sense Epigenetics, Trauma, and Power—Why the Body’s Responses Are Not Pathology but History, Design, and Survival

Distress isn’t failure—it’s memory under power. Epigenetics shows how bodies remember, trauma explains when memory returns, and PTMF explains why responses made sense. Change the conditions, and access—not pathology—shifts.

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New Year Open Letter to the Prime Minister
By Cathy Wield

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#MentalHealthReform #NHSMentalHealth #HumanRights #MentalHealthLaw #Psychiatry #CriticalPsychiatry #LivedExperience #EndCoercion
#DisabilityRights #UKPolitics

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Can and Should we End Coercion in Mental Health Settings?
By Catherine Heseltine

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#MentalHealth #EndCoercion #MentalHealthAct #HumanRights #CRPD #PsychiatricSurvivors #MentalHealthReform #AbolishCoercion #TraumaInCare #LivedExperience

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ADHD Diagnoses, Examining the Psyche, Withdrawal and PSSD Risks, ECT Harms and More: Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions
By James Moore

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#MentalHealth #ADHD #Psychiatry #Antidepressants
#PatientVoices #InformedConsent #Neurodiversity #MedicalEthics

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The Power Threat Meaning Framework: What Every Therapist Needs to Know. Dr Lucy Johnstone outlines the principles of the PTMF, a conceptual alternative to the diagnostic model of distress.

The Power Threat Meaning Framework: What Every Therapist Needs to Know. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-power-...

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Take a look at our most read blogs of 2025.

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‘What’s the Matter With Tony Slattery?
By Lucy Johnstone

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#TonySlattery #TraumaInformed #MentalHealth #Psychiatry #SurvivorVoices #MediaCritique

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How Trauma-Informed Care Is Changing Psychiatry What if depression, anxiety, and psychosis aren’t signs of a broken brain, but survival strategies?

How the Power Threat Meaning Framework helps inpatient staff to see the person behind the label, by offering ‘better ideas’ as well as better interventions. #PTMFramework

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November 2025 in Review

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#MadInTheUK #VoicesForChange #MentalHealthdebate #mentalhealthdiscourse #MentalHealthReform #PsychiatricSurvivor #MadInTheUK #EndPsychAbuse #MentalHealthJustice

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I’m no longer suicidal, but…
By MITUK admin

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#MentalHealthAwareness #PeerSupport #RecoveryStory

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