I was very sad to hear of the defacing with red paint of what was probably once a very good portrait of His Majesty

You can come from another planet, have two hearts, traverse space and time in a telephone box whilst battling aliens that eat souls…….but you can’t be black or gay, because that’s just unbelievable!

2) The deaths R horrific & I have every sympathy 4 the victims families. It is though import. 2B concerned about vilification of Calocane. Jayne Zito started a mental H campaign after her husband was killed by Clunis. Clunis died in a MH institution - Calocane may well do also.

radical optimism Jeff Browndyke Prof Scott Ayton Madhav Thambisetty Simon Mead Lon S. Schneider, MD Timothy Daly, PhD Nicolas Villain Eric Widera, MD Andrew Lees Robert Howard Jason Cohen Seb Walsh Michael Schöll Vincent Planche Stefano L. Sensi Alberto J Espay Kasper Planeta Kepp Gill Livingston Ryan Townley Jesse F Ballenger (mastodon.world/@jfballenger) Jason Karlawish James Rupert Fletcher Adam M. Brickman Dr. Jennifer Manly Sarah Ackley, PhD FORTUNE TIME Erin Prater, M.A.², CHES® TIME Financial Times Hannah Kuchler CTAD NIH Alzheimer's Association Howard Gleckman American Geriatrics Society Kathy Liu Richard Merrick Nancy Lundebjerg (she/her/hers) Nathaniel Chin U.S. FDA EU Medicines Agency CDA-AMC NICE IQWiG - Account stillgelegt / Account inactive Haute Autorité de santé University of Utah Deseret News 6.2% of all 70-year-olds are eligible for Lecanemab treatment extrapolates to an approximation that around 5.9 million Europeans and 2.2 million US residents could be eligible. neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WN… via Ingmar Skoog et al

Dr Annie Hickox Not treating psychosis is the equivalent of not treating epilepsy. It’s not even debatable.

Side effects of meds are to be expected, but have to be weighed against their necessary & beneficial effects.

All of this must be discussed in a medical, not philosophical, context.

A big impact of more locum consultants is that they can’t be clinical supervisors. Therefore trainees are supervised by consultants who are semi-retired who tend to be less in touch with Royal College of Psychiatrists requirements, or/& don’t work on the trainees’ wards so don’t know the patients…

Sad news coming in that Supergran AKA Gudrun Ure has passed away at the grand old age of 98. 😢

What does it mean to be an expert in the person? The Court of Protection decides: mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk/what-does-it-m…

Robert Howard Not sure if this is a rhetorical question or not, but there are ongoing trials for Semaglutide in AD.

classic.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04…

As doctors, we teach someone our skills so that they may one day exercise them independently.
The time available for training is finite, so we should think carefully about how we spend those precious hours & who exactly will replace us.

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NANDINI CHAKRABORTY For too long psychiatry (rcpsych) has jumped on 'well being bandwagon)
There is clear difference between improved well-being and mental illness
Those of us who live/have lived with MI are still excluded, still have worse outcomes.
Society only cares when there is a disaster

I want legitamite, concrete, *scientific* evidence that SSRIs are overprescribed. I want evidence that this litany of people who in fact do not have a depressive or anxiety disorder are prescribed an SSRI. Until I see that, I say: 'I dismiss your claim.'

In reality many seek to find rare birds, some do, but as a Norfolk birder who has found more than most said to me, they are called rare because they are rare. Many hours of not finding rare birds despite considerable effort is the reality.

This really is crucial - I feel there is a growing belief, encouraged by some Con MPs and parts of the right wing press - that 'they' (foreign students) are taking 'our kids places'. This is not just wrong, it is upside down - 'they' are *funding* 'our kids' places.

Thought-provoking thread from Alan Woodall. And he’s right to ask that Royal College of Psychiatrists take on leadership of colleagues in deciding what we can and cannot do with the services at our disposal. It mustn’t be for individual psychiatrists to feel caught between what they can and might do.

Why as a clinician would you not want to send a message to your patients to help reassure them that no matter who they are, they’re safe with you?

The AG's appeal against Valdo Calocane's sentence has unsurprisingly been rejected. As I argued in last month's Crim LR , this has caused further distress to the families & risks damaging public confidence in the judiciary. She should not have made it
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I find intellectually unsatisfactory and clinically unhelpful to deny the diversity of mental health disorders, some strongly grounded in neurobiological factors, some strongly based on psychological trajectories, and most based on the interaction of both kinds of variables

Looking after one’s “mental health” doesn’t mean it can prevent a mental illness from happening.

Can it prevent cases of dementia?