Indebted to Wren for this article + others on psychiatryisdrivingmemad.co.uk. Reflects my experience so much. ‘I think it is likely I will die by suicide one day + my inquest will simply record that I refused to engage with MH services therefore nothing could have been done to help me.’

Patients take a risk when speaking out and this person is incredibly brave to do so As well as the issues raised in the article, we received images from a different person at the same Trust. When it’s dark in the garden, they can see full view of the screen in the office

"Specialist teams linked to the benefits system will instead assess the sick and decide how best to keep them in work." What DWP Health Assessors whose work is so bad that most claimants win at appeal? Who trigger so many with questions such as 'why haven't you killed yourself?"

There is no such thing as “a sick note culture.” There is a record high NHS waiting list, crippling housing costs, widespread food poverty, stagnant wages and inadequate benefit rates, a broken social care system, dire mental health services, and closed Sure Start centres.

Today the PM issued some cold and borderline inhuman rhetoric on benefit reforms. Again he wants to make life harder for Disabled and vulnerable people after announcing a "chilling" set of reforms to force people back to work. This persecution has to end. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Mind Please also share this after todays disability benefits attack by the government Please share so they gets lots of responses from the disabled community, their carers and healthcare professionals gov.uk/government/cal…

It threatens unscientific psychiatry

79.3% of psychiatrists recommended immediate antidepressant treatment for a person with depression, but only 39.1% would follow that recommendation themselves. 🧵1/10

STILL NOT SAFE FOR TREATMENT: APRIL 2025 at St Mary's Works, Norwich. CALL TO ARTISTS AND WRITERS ✨ Information below. Please share and email [email protected] if you'd like more information or to get involved.

Her name is Hadley Duvall, and you need to hear her story.

after the evidence of endless whistleblowers not me, not you, but the new Health Secretary says the CQC is not fit for purpose and is a hopeless regulator. will they get rid of it. is it reformable? I doubt it. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Mh services told to "check for gaps in the care of people with severe mental illness" Check for gaps?? GAPS?? 😂😂😂😂😂 There's a bloody big gap alright, its called "where mental health services used to be". Where have these people been living exactly?? Jfc

Psychiatry and science...not often seems to happen

Members are raising concerns about adult waiting list calls at NSFT mental health What is your experience and what would a good 'check in' call look like for you? We are concerned this is an unaddressed safety and quality issue. Email @[email protected]

ADHD UK The Spectator Michael Gove ipso.co.uk/making-a-compl…

A veteran MP said: “Anyone who has had their disability benefits since 2019 hasn’t had their cases reassessed. It’s worrying that the DWP wouldn’t have even checked to see if they are still unwell. theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

This is completely a lie. I personally have been reassessed twice, some are falling off the 'cliff edge' cos there's not enuf staff. Stop trying to kill disabled people

Front page of the Eastern Daily Press today - Researchers reveal who owns Norfolk, with foreign investors ‘hoovering up’ farmland 👇 edp24.co.uk/news/24984305.…

Six years ago, BBC Panorama aired the #WhorltonHall documentary. Nothing has changed since then Wes Streeting. In fact things are getting worse again right now. Does The Labour Party think it’s acceptable to systemically abuse autistic people and people with learning disabilities and