🗣️Please share 💫 join us for the ISPS UK conference ‘Psychosis: Beyond Them & Us, Finding Common Ground’, May 14th, Manchester #trialogue #community #mentalhealth #ISPS #socialjustice #relational #madness #carers #family #survivors #users #psychosis #psychiatry #gmmh #dialogue

Great to present at the critical psychiatry conference today at UCL in London. In the q&a I addressed the co-option of critical ideas by government to justify inhumane cuts to disability. Some of my thoughts below 👇🤓

"Creating team joy & wellbeing: a guide for leaders". This is a super resource, designed by leaders in health & care, to help teams and leaders assess where they’re at, identify how to grow as a team & make meaningful changes to improve team well-being. It includes practical

Our PhD student, Alison Branitsky, has officially published her main outcome paper on the feasibility and acceptability of delivering online hearing voices peer support groups in the NHS! Well done Alison! academic.oup.com/schizbullopen/…

Peer-led, Hearing Voices Groups offer a rare space for meaning-making & mutual understanding outside the biomedical model. Despite strong evidence for their efficacy, they remain underfunded and largely excluded from mainstream mental health services. madinamerica.com/2025/04/what-h…

Please take a moment to sign this petition: ‘Protect Disabled people who cannot work from planned cuts to benefits’. Thank you so much: tinyurl.com/5erjajtv #WelfareNotWarfare

The charity sector as a vision of a depoliticised welfare state (1/7) ⬇️

Charities and even unions have begun wielding NDAs to cow and silence theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

At times like these of worry, its worth looking at the positives that exist now, and the positives that could exist moving forward. 1) No new laws have been introduced, and NO old laws have been removed. 1/

'The idea that depression is in the brain stops us fixing the social problems that cause it in the first place'. Honoured to be interviewed by Krishnan Guru-Murthy on #WaysToChangeTheWorld. A tough conversation. #ChemicallyImbalanced #depression youtube.com/watch?v=BR_SWJ… Flint Books

We’ve over 100 signatures in the first few hours of our healthcare providers’ letter against disability cuts — including doctors, psychologists, nurses, social workers, paramedics, OTs, carers & disabled claimants. Professionals, please sign its evidenced! tinyurl.com/4vav3vnv

The idea that trans women should use men’s toilets, and trans men should use women’s toilets, is completely absurd and unworkable. Research has shown that half of trans people fear using toilets as it is. All of this will simply help drive trans people out of society.

Another important study from Dr Joanna Moncrieff Mark Horowitz @markhoro.bsky.social Dr James Davies (PhD) 💭 et al When will NHS start providing withdrawal support services for the millions who need them? Antidepressants withdrawal effects and duration of use: a survey of pa... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

NDAs can silence victims of abuse & harassment. Let's change this! Sign the petition to ensure the Employment Rights Bill bans NDAs in cases of misconduct. #StopAbusiveNDAs #EmploymentRightsBill you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop… via 38 Degrees

Based on why I have seen, more and more younger psychiatric drug prescribers are sensing that keeping people on unlimited meds for unlimited years is a bad look and also can be riskier than helping them taper off

We have lodged a petition on the government's website to stop disability cuts, it if get's 100,000 signatures it will be considered for a debate in Parliament: Abandon DWP Pathways to Work Green Paper & create National Disability Strategy petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7239…

Withdrawal syndromes: lost in translation Official figures ‘bear no relation to the depth and duration of suffering.’ madintheuk.com/2025/05/withdr… #WithdrawalSyndrome #AntidepressantWithdrawal #PsychiatricDrugWithdrawal #MadInTheUK

I’m very much looking forward to being part of the solidarity team for The Feminist Therapy Network’s pilot course ‘Black Feminism & Womanism: Therapeutic Perspectives’ beginning tomorrow ✨❤️

If you’ve been harmed by a mental health professional (and they can ruin lives, make no mistake), it can be extremely difficult to make sense of and heal from the experience. EXTREMELY difficult. So what happens if that history comes up in a therapy relationship you’re now in?

Thanks to Dr Rangan Chatterjee for having me on his show. It was refreshing to speak to a doctor who understands the enormity of the mistake we have made in allowing Pharma to shape how we understand and respond to our emotions