On average it can take a woman will be assaulted 35 times before she looks for help. 79% of women never disclose. Worried they won’t be believed Fear of the perpetrator Feeling responsible for the abuse May not have physical injuries Have nowhere to go Share children

🧵Rightly, many men have asked what they can do about male violence. It’s a big and nuanced topic, but here are some real-life tools + tasks men can do to help women be safer: 1) Acknowledge + own the fact that male violence against women is an issue without defensiveness + ego

Thinking about all the people trapped in psych wards right now, especially those who were never really a threat of harm. The diagnose and drug method ruins so many lives, and it’s so difficult to get out of the “cult of mental illness” once you’re in. Wishing them some peace.

Good question.

“The pandemic of mental anguish that afflicts our time cannot be properly understood, or healed, if viewed as a private problem suffered by damaged individuals.” It’s now the time to re-politicise our approach to mental pain & distress. ― Mark Fisher

One more time for those at the back: you can’t tell if someone is abusive in their domestic relationships just cos they are nice to you or people you know.

The word "depression" has turned into an umbrella term representing anything upsetting, distressing, sad, feeling unmotivated or fatigued … regardless of cause. It’s completely lost it’s meaning. Exactly how Pharma & the medical industrial complex want it. RESIST

Consistency is one of the most important modeled behaviors for people impacted by trauma It’s our role to show that safe relationships can exist We model boundaries If our clients become ambivalent b/c we are inconsistent the bond has been broken Understand your roles please

And this describes how ambivalence is created which causes the relationship dynamics with people w/ this (mis) diagnosis “The borderline” is a person w/ understandable reactions to her experiences We need to stop the patholologizing of human suffering #TraumanotPD

Here is the disconnect: Trauma doesn’t increase the risk of these diagnoses TRAUMA is the issue These symptoms are trauma responses- understand how trauma impacts the brain/CNS, somatic, attachment, emotion regulation & motivates behaviors & these diagnosis are minimized

#TraumaResponseSyndromeModel What people experience are an accumulation of trauma responses that mimic MI but are actually understandable reactions to our experiences (even the uncomfortable ones) & the biomedical model doesn’t meet the needs of people impacted by trauma

How about we eliminate BPD & learn how trauma motivates behaviors, impacts brain/CNC, attachment & emotion regulation I had 4 PD DX in my 25 years in the MH system all of them wrong #nolongerBPD

Dr. Nicole LePera Signs someone lacks accountability: ~calls you too sensitive ~tells you to let it go ~claims you live in the past ~focuses on your response not their own actions ~focuses on your reactive abuse not their abusive behaviours ~starts fights, screams & yells each time you try to

Maybe you’re not depressed. Maybe you’re just experiencing the normal human emotion of: sadness. Humans aren’t supposed to be happy 24/7

Chronic negativity is a coping mechanism most people don’t even know they use because it’s so reinforced in society.

People need to stop pathologizing human suffering 👇

Quote of the year. My 9 year old grandson said yesterday “ I don’t care if I’m Booksmart because I’m smart with the ladies” 🤣💥

"Psychiatric labels don't correspond to known biological pathologies that treatments can then target & ‘cure’. They're rather socially constructed labels ascribed to collections of feelings & behaviours deemed disordered by the psychiatric committees compiling DSM." #Sedated

Mother Nature is the best therapist on earth,

Another predator is coming down!!! #SeanCombs