We can also agree that the overdetermination of mental suffering leads to inappropriate diagnosis and medication, but can we agree that ideological framing of all experience as normal is farcical? Or would we frame the hallucinations of cannabis as such?

Shall I do my own version of this?

It’s gross when people who can’t prescribe try to discredit the very idea that prescription medicines are therapeutic. Not only is it very hard to get an ADHD diagnosis (many remain undiagnosed) & treatment, but ADHD meds are among the most evidence based treatments that exist…

Finally, the Sun-lit Uplands

Excellent. Be sure to add it to your publications.

Out of interest

Does a 2 year degree make one an expert? Or should I have CCT'd during medical school?

Sword lad.
Really?

Yeah.
Paint the walls
Magic up 10 extra staff
Force the ward team to smile
Random managerial appearances

The dermatology team when they're rounding on their 2 inpatients and run into residents from other specialties doing 30 hour shifts.

A recent study showed 1/5 of people referred to #psychiatry OPDs are #actuallyautistic . If your clinical experience is that this is much lower, you’re probably missing #autism in your patients. This 🧵 will explain why that’s a problem, why it happens, and how to stop 1/35

At some point it feels inevitable that Laurence Fox will end up in prison.

Harriet Vogt Dr John Read Many of the patients I see don’t get anywhere near a clinical psychologist, as they are too unwell for that luxury
His tweet that I quoted was the nonsense, you missed that
Btw, I have 20 years of direct clinical experience too

I just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone supporting me and trying to make me feel better. It's actually making me cry.
Thank you to all you lovely people, you will never know how much you are helping me pick myself back up.

I've had mental health professionals treating me say that life is hard for everyone. True, but that's so dismissive and unhelpful in the face of dealing with mental illness. Like, I knew that already, so is this to point out I'm not trying hard enough or to show disdain?

I'm both team 'f*ck bad psych treatment practices' and 'f*ck people who grift off patients who experienced bad psych treatment'.
They're both awful and leave mentally ill people with nothing.