Can a Scottish psych like Samei Huda explain why drug abuse related hospital admissions in Scotland are down, but drug abuse related deaths are up (both by substantial amounts)?

Venezuela loses its last glacier years ahead of predicted as it shrinks down to an ice field | ⁦Jacek Debiec MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎⁩ theguardian.com/environment/ar…

NHS privatisation wastes our public money. #EndNHSPrivatisation

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Looking forward to speaking at this great event next week!

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Guys I have just received a message from this ICU doctor in Gaza who desperately needs our help to fundraise about £5000. Can we do this? His toddler was seriously injured and he needs to reunite with her and his wife. Counting on you all 🤞…

Antipsychotic Use and Risk of Breast Cancer in Women With Severe Mental Illness 🚨

Study Design

👉Nested case–control study.
👉 women aged 18–85 years with schizophrenia/schizoaffective/other nonaffective psychotic disorder/bipolar disorder

Main Findings :…

My book is available to preorder in the #Spanish edition as well as being available in English! #Mexico #ocd #toc #psychiatry #psychology #psychtwitter #mentalhealth #SaludMental South West London and St George's NHS University of Hertfordshire

This is dangerous, unethical and has to stop! I've had breast cancer ( treated by surgery) and thankfully was treated by a surgeon who had spent 5 years at medical school followed by over 10 years in postgraduate training and not just a 2 years course !

Should I ever need breast I will only consent to be operated on by a medically qualified fully trained surgeon.

Which why those who go about loudly proclaiming mental illness does not exist to politicians are playing into the hands of those on the right who rub the their hands with glee and want to cut benefits

There is no mental health condition that is 'mild' in and of itself. Some people with depression or anxiety have milder symptoms (as with physical conditions: immune, metabolic, etc.). But many are severely affected. What happened to mental health parity? theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Trending in #MultidisciplinaryPsychology :
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1) How subjective idea valuation energizes & guides creative idea generation

2) Unprompted thought & affective well-being

3) Enhancing mental health practitioners’ self-rated clinical competencies to work with…

Why research ‘client expectations of therapy’?

If there is limited choice, then client ‘expectations’ of a specific therapy merely describe an ill-informed prediction of mediocrity

Ask instead what people prefer, want, hope for, wish could be the case, embody what they need!

Worth noting Lousada does not claim to be a regulated health professional and has no accredited or recognised qualifications that I can see.

His website says he offers 'a combination of coaching, bodywork and psychotherapy.'

... and also states that he 'not claim that the work…

Great opening to the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society conference with EDI informed events.

This is a serious challenge for NHS management. My gut feeling is that the Suicide Crisis Centre has to be listened to, while at the same time I wonder how representative this is survey is - looks more like a valid collective complaint than representative statistics.

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Tonight #Panorama revealed the tragic fact behind sending NHS patients to private hospitals for operations: people die.

Sign our petition demanding Wes Streeting MP and Victoria Atkins invest in the NHS, not private profits 👉🏼 weownit.org.uk/act-now/end-pr…

A little article of mine about persecutory beliefs ('paranoia', 'suspiciousness'), on some lovely work by Iris Vilares and team : authors.elsevier.com/a/1itWq8jVtv5U… I'd be most interested the views of people who have experienced psychosis (@tokyoslumbers ?), and ofc colleagues.

So true about how competing for funding destroys the well-being of academics and corrupts science:

Keir Harding I’m similarly conflicted about not wanting to rob people with mental illness of agency, but I’ve also been in a place where euthanasia felt like my only option (if it had been available) but after accessing robust therapy, I’m no longer in that headspace.