Children Should Not Be Diagnosed With a Personality Disorder in the UK

If you have any skin in the MH game in the UK please add your name to the 600 MH professionals, bereaved parents and those affected by the dx who have signed👇

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Strange to be opening a play which makes the radical proposal that people with learning disabilities are people just like the rest of us in the week that the government has decided to dehumanise them more than ever.

For those who don’t know much about PIP, the eligibility criteria are extremely high & difficult to meet.
It is also, crucially, not an out-of-work benefit but a way of meeting some of the myriad additional costs disabled ppl face incur due to our inaccessible & hostile society

I know quite a few of the Long Covid community are taking both anticoagulants & SSRIs (with & without AF) so just a heads up on this from the BMJ out today.

Risk of bleeding increased by 33% in first few months of taking both. Will go dig into the full article now.

Looks one to defo add to my 📚

Highly recommended show for trainees and colleagues to watch. UCL DClinPsy King's DClinPsy RHUL_Dclinpsy UHDClinPsy UCLUS Angela Hassiotis Rory Sheehan Vaso Totsika Prof Ryan Stephen Unwin jermynstreettheatre.co.uk/show/laughing-…

Laughing Boy: New play tells the tragic tale of Connor Sparrowhawk channel4.com/news/laughing-… via Victoria Macdonald Jermyn Street Theatre

Prof Ryan ❤️

🚨 Last chance to book a place at our book launch 25 April 5pm with Professor Ahmed Hankir, author of Breakthrough and psychiatrist with lived experience. @kscior UCL Brain Sciences UCL Psych & Lang Sci UCL DClinPsy eventbrite.co.uk/e/ahmed-hankir……
Professor Ahmed Hankir
MSH Foundations

I've signed Mencap's petition calling on Department of Health and Social Care to stop people with a learning disability and autistic people being detained in mental health hospitals when they could be living in the community with the right support. Will you sign too? secure.mencap.org.uk/WasteOfLives?r…

Friends in London, UK & beyond! I have collaborated with my dear friend & colleague Professor Katrina Scior for the launching of my book, ‘Breakthrough’ at University College London on the 25th of April. Link in the original post. Come join us, it’ll be fun! We hope to see you there!

🚨 Places still available to meet Professor Ahmed Hankir at his book launch and chat over a drink afterwards. As many folk have already bought 'Breakthrough', we've just added £5 ticket incl drinks reception. Or pay £15 + get signed copy of book incl. eventbrite.co.uk/e/ahmed-hankir…

One of our new UCLUS funded projects. A delight to work with Stay Up Late and interview for research staff with their assistants Rahan and Jason. Even managed to squeeze a pint + a burger in Hove in afterwards.

We've signed Mencap's petition calling on Department of Health and Social Care to stop people with a learning disability and autistic people being detained in mental health hospitals when they could be living in the community with the right support. Will you sign too?

secure.mencap.org.uk/WasteOfLives?r…

Mencap My Life My Choice Down's Syndrome Association People First (Self Advocacy) Sally Phillips DSRF_UK LDE Self-Advocates Katrina Scior Gig Buddies Down's Syndrome Scotland

This is important! Please retweet. Many researchers have asked us to have a control comparison group recruited the same way and with the same measures. If you have never exerienced mental illness or ill-health, please consider that your contribution could help those that do!

We are currently updating the RCPsych resource on Being sectioned. Let me know if you have any suggestions:

rcpsych.ac.uk/mental-health/…

🚨 Exciting opportunity for a Research Asst to work with us UCLUS and our friends Stay Up Late on evaluating #GigBuddies . Excellent prep for a research or clinical career. Application by CV + covering letter by 4 April 1pm.