If you are interested in delivering the pivot to prevention, this event should be good.

eventbrite.co.uk/e/demos-delive…

.Pfluft @ploederl.bsky.social is doing the U.S. FDA 's work for them here. It is stunning that their process has approved a drug for children that is more likely to make kids suicidal than relieve their anxiety. FDA's explanation 'we already warn that these drugs increase suicidality'. Shocking.

It's obvious that Rishi Sunak is misusing legit critiques of over-medicalisation to try & advance his agenda of cutting costs & denying the structural determinants distress/disability. Such suffering & its social causes are very real. He's deflecting from what to do about that.

“the duty places a direct obligation upon trusts to be open and honest with patients and service users, and their families, when something goes wrong that appears to have caused or could lead to moderate harm or worse in the future (known as a ‘notifiable safety incident’).”

I don’t agree with you! Totally deluded!

'One hallmark feature of mental illness is mistaking our models of reality for reality itself. Interesting that it’s also a hallmark feature of our mental healthcare' theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Congratulations to Tony Avery who has been re-appointed NHS England National Clinical Director for Prescribing. Read more about recent National Clinical Director appointments here: england.nhs.uk/2024/04/nhs-an…

Susan Hall AM This is a lie. All it's done is show the electorate that you are a liar.

A little hope from some of our friends in the #deprescribing community. youtu.be/YNgYudayhkM?si… Mark Horowitz Anne Guy 💙 I.M. Golden

Huge achievement here Mark Horowitz and David Taylor. Thank you so much for creating this and sharing your work with us all.

#lastlegisitok that 26%of the uk population is prescribed a dependence forming medication? (includes antidepressants)

The World Health Organization and the UN unite on mental health... joint report calls for an end to coercive legislation

madintheuk.com/2024/03/the-wo…

Our mental health crisis is both the easiest & hardest problem to solve. It's easy as we know what we must do: neuter the dominance of the failed biomedical approach. It's easy as, without this dominance, a $40billion annual psych-drug market (& its beneficiaries) would collapse

We updated Royal College of Pscyhiatrists (parody) guidance on Stopping Antidepressants bit.ly/3x05zrv with Wendy Burn CBE (She/her) David Taylor with more advice on 'off-label' use eg. diluting liquids, crushing tablets in water. Endorsed by RCGP Royal Pharmaceutical Society Drug-specific advice here: amzn.to/40o3wrI

Updated version of Stopping Antidepressants from ⁦Royal College of Psychiatrists. Big thanks to ⁦Mark Horowitz⁩ and ⁦David Taylor⁩ for their input. 💊 rcpsych.ac.uk/mental-health/…

I’m sure you all know Tony Benn's Five Questions To Ask The Powerful. They protect democracy.

Given how famous they are, it’s surprising how much worse we’ve got at asking them

“A focus on the harms to patients of overdiagnosis and overtreatment would make a more powerful argument than a focus on costs.”

To be mentally & emotionally wounded by effects of poverty, inequality, discrimination, lack of opportunity, relational deprivation, abuse, overwork, chronic trauma or unmet essential needs is not to be defective, disordered or dysfunctional. It’s to be human.

What’s it like supporting over 100 people individually & 21 support circles per month who are #deprescribing ? I get to hear all the gaslighting doctors do to patients, all the horrific stories of misdiagnosis & polypharm, #PSSD #akathisia #suicide vicarious trauma & burnout.