Government should be offering more support for people who need it, not less.

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Mental health has become a political talking point recently.

Lots of the rhetoric has been stigmatising, harmful and inaccurate.

It’s very distressing, and for some of us triggering, to hear mental health problems used as a political football.

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The problem isn’t that too many people are claiming #PIP . The problem is that too many people are becoming disabled.

Alex Ruck Keene Wendy Burn CBE (She/her) Dr Chloe Beale 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ In severe eating disorders, patients have capacity for many things, such as passing exams, having a clean house, etc, but grossly underestimate the risk of malnutrition to their lives. Using the MHA can be lifesaving. People’s views change during treatment

Wendy Burn CBE (She/her) Asteroid We’re also probably the only branch of medicine that refuses people treatment who are asking for it on the basis that they ‘have capacity’. The former is state-imposed, the latter we’ve cooked up all by ourselves.

There are 1.9 million people stuck on waiting lists for mental health treatment.

Perhaps the Tories should look at their own failures before attacking sickness benefits on which people rely to survive.

This is performative cruelty at its absolute worst.

theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

I love how Rishi says people are “suffering from mental health”. Oh to suffer from having mental health.

People don't choose to be on disability benefits.

It's their last resort.

Stop blaming people with mental health problems.

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Super Post-doc Agnieszka Gidziela presenting our MQ funded work on the shared genetic aetiology of eating disorders and suicide using genome-wide SEM. Full results and paper coming soon 👀

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President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Lade Smith CBE has responded to the Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride’s comments on plans to reform the disability benefits system, in the media today. shorturl.at/iMQT2

A very helpful article warning about potential unintended consequences.
The history of medicine is often littered with unintended consequences

Dear Mel Stride,

PIP has nothing to do with employment.

PIP is for moderate to severe disability and is v difficult to qualify for.

Noone gets PIP 'for' depression or anxiety. It is based on a functional analysis.

Stop playing smoke and mirrors with people's lives.

Jay

If you asked every single person receiving benefits to give two words to describe their experience of the welfare system, I doubt you'd hear a single mention of 'fairness' or 'compassion'