“Healing isn’t a lifestyle brand” Brilliant

Let me make this absolutely clear. Last night bombers took off, drones were launched and missiles were fired from Russia. Ukrainian air defences knew they were coming, but had no idea what their targets were, because the President of the United States prohibited vital

From one of the giants in the field - wise, compassionate, great sense of humour Chapter 3 : Teaching schizophrenic patients to talk to themselves

Worthy interview Great journalists. Jeffrey Goldberg and Anne Applebaum discuss the Signal group chat | New ... youtu.be/OXkG8Kqxhwk?si… via YouTube

Basically a consistent 1 in 5 experienced psychological distress over last 30 years. With 16-34 age group showing increase since 2010. Economic deprivation a strong predictor.

How do the trauma gurus self deceive themselves into believing what they are saying? It’s a key question for our times. Cognitive dissonance. “I’m just not the sort of person who could be wrong”. But they are

Key summary: Moderate improvements in depression, large improvements in anxiety - but stroke survivors need to start a talking therapy within 6 months.

#ICYMI - New research from UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology reveals how our brains predict what we’re about to see—before it even happens. This predictive function may be essential not only for perception but for decision-making and learning. buff.ly/jDaTF7x

Invented as a term recently in 2001, the number of papers with “trauma-informed” in the title or abstract is over 130,000. It spread like a virus. There also has been an incredible 13,233 dissertations written by PhD students who will become the next generation of academia.

The brain keeps the score and keeps updating it! (or doesn’t in some cases)

I am HORRIFIED, I tell you HORRIFIED, that people would rather not have to work their way through incomprehensible gibberish that is deliberately written to be unreadable x.com/GaetaAmy/statu…

An increasing number of people believe that they have awakened their AIs to sentience, and that they are communicating with lost or remembered souls.

In 2025, I have admitted 12 cases of psychosis to the hospital with LLM involvement. 1. This actually isn't new or AI-specific. 2. And no AI does not causes psychosis. And most importantly, 95% of what you're reading on X about "schizophrenia" is medically inaccurate. 🧵

“Why metaphor ≠ mechanism — and why the field must choose: art, science, or honest pluralism.” Brilliant, important theme.

Myers-Briggs isn't a personality test—it's a sorting hat for adults!🧙‍♂️ Shown to be halfway between science and your zodiac sign. But why so loved? Because too hard to think of yourself in a 5 dimensional space! except for INTP :) of course #MyersBriggs #Psychology

In a strange contortion of logic, it’s not unusual to hear, “I thought it was just me, but now I know it was my ADHD”, with ADHD then simultaneously occupying a role as an identity and the function of ‘something that’s not me’

Once you understand Gabor Maté's method, you can see he's a charlatan & uses oldest trick in the book "you have unresolved pain from your childhood" Who's not going to respond that schtick? He's been doing this a long time See this classic from 2014 peele.net/lib/mate.html

Absolutely extraordinary exchange between Israel and China 👇 I've never seen such a heated exchange come out of top-level forum in China (this is from the 12th Beijing Xiangshan Forum that started yesterday), this normally never happens. The guy speaking is Yan Xuetong, the

“These findings suggest that CBT-I is an acceptable and efficacious intervention for managing insomnia in chronic disease populations, supporting its use as a first-line treatment across diverse patient groups.”

"It is a truism of epic proportions that habits have a tendency to remain habitual. The psychoanalysts do not like this formulation, so they have christened it “resistance.” - Andrew Salter