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March in Review.
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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
Psychiatric Force and Conversion Undermine Recovery2
By Laura Lopez-Aybar
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#PsychiatricCoercion #MentalHealthRecovery #MadInAmerica #SurvivorLed #MentalHealthJustice
March in Review.
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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
Finding support outside ‘the system’ By MITUK admin
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#MentalHealth #SuicideSurvivor #AnxietyAwareness #MentalHealthRecovery #PersonalDevelopment #MentalHealthAdvocacy #RecoveryJourney
IED
By Annie Hazzard
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#Poetry #Trauma #MentalHealth #SpokenWord #PoetryCommunity
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
Neurodiversity – The Opium of the People
By John Hoggett
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#NeurodiversityDebate #CritiquePsychiatry #MentalHealthAndCapitalism #ADHDControversy #SocialModelOfDistress #BeyondDiagnosis #LeftPoliticsUK #PsychiatryIsPolitical
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
Neurodiversity – The Opium of the People
By John Hoggett
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#NeurodiversityDebate #CritiquePsychiatry #MentalHealthAndCapitalism #ADHDControversy #SocialModelOfDistress #BeyondDiagnosis #LeftPoliticsUK #PsychiatryIsPolitical
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
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
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
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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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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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
My DIY Recovery from “Bipolar Disability” Part 2: Healing By Catherine Heseltine
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#MentalHealthRecovery #PsychiatricSurvivor #LivedExperience
My DIY Recovery from “Bipolar Disability” Part 1: Searching For Safety
By Catherine Heseltine
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#MentalHealthRecovery #PsychiatricSurvivor #LivedExperience
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
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
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
The Power Threat Meaning Framework: What Every Therapist Needs to Know. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-power-...
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‘What’s the Matter With Tony Slattery?
By Lucy Johnstone
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#TonySlattery #TraumaInformed #MentalHealth #Psychiatry #SurvivorVoices #MediaCritique
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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I’m no longer suicidal, but…
By MITUK admin
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#MentalHealthAwareness #PeerSupport #RecoveryStory