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The word 'depression' is a catch-all phrase which, once you get to know a person deeply, tells us very little about the nuances, origins & substance of their experience. I find the phrase clinically unhelpful & the medicalised meanings with which it is laden regularly misleading.

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Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong? (Gift Article) With diagnoses at a record high, some experts have begun to question our assumptions about the condition — and how to treat it.

This is an excellent and thought-provoking article in @nytimes.com about our evolving clinical and scientific understanding of ADHD

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/m...

I am very excited to be talking to Dr Rangan Chatterjee next week about my new book and how we have been misled about the nature of depression and antidepressants. Honoured to be invited to be among so many fascinating guests on the Feel Better, Live More podcast

Government accused of ‘failing’ mental health patients as share of NHS budget to fall The drop comes despite warnings of a deepening mental health crisis

Yesterday, the UK government confirmed that mental health spending as a share of the NHS budget fell last year in England - and is set to fall again next year. 1/3

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mental-health-nhs-funding-wes-streeting-b2723146.html

Are labels like autism and ADHD more constraining than liberating? A clinician argues diagnosis has gone too far A staggering rise in the prevalence of many medical conditions and the cultural attention we pay them is the subject of a new book, The Age of Diagnosis.

'Overdiagnosis leads to overtreatment. Because diagnoses are not inert labels, it can actively create illness and distress.' Diagnostic 'identities' can be 'self-limiting' theconversation.com/are-labels-l...

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Oh my. It's here. The book cover! How beautiful is this? It took some time to develop but we got there and I think you'll agree, it's stunning!

Out in May!

Pre-order your copy here:

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Thanks for sharing. It reminds me of Bronfenbrenner’s system. Did you take inspiration from that?

The real obstacle to reform of our mental health system is the power of established interests to limit our vision of what is possible & to frighten us into believing that our only hope for better care is to fund & upscale more of the failing same.....

Today marks five years of being targeted for being trauma-informed. This is the true cost of speaking out. Dr Jess exposes five years of the shocking tactics and targeting caused by questioning psychiatry and psychology.

Please read this and support Jess.
Today marks five years of being targeted for being trauma-informed. This is the true cost of speaking out. open.substack.com/pub/whatwoul...

After adapting last minute to online training, Emma and I enjoyed co-facilitating a shared learning session for CMHT and SCPTS colleagues on Recognising and Responding to Trauma on Wednesday. First time facilitating break out rooms on MS teams too! 🙌🏻
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Great work. Do you have a copy of the PowerPoint? Or any training you recommend on trauma informed care?

The mental health sector has an elite, & like any elite it tries to stay in power. And the way it does this is by not merely controlling the resources & decision making, but by controlling the cognitive map: what we think, what language we think with & what new ideas are allowed.

Countries like Finland, New Zealand, and Sweden, have non-diagnostic and functional models of mental health care that still align with financial support systems, especially those that focus on functional impairments and life circumstances rather than strict diagnostic criteria. It can and does work.

Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Mad in America, the Biopsychosocial Model, and Psychiatric History On the Mad in America podcast this week we have Robert Whitaker with us to answer questions sent in by readers and listeners.

Robert Whitaker answers reader questions in this #podcast.

“The World Health Organization has twice issued documents saying we need a radical change away from the disease model and towards a human rights model that recognizes social determinants of health."

www.madinamerica.com/2023/12/robe...

The dominance of the medical model in mental health provision has driven & exacerbated mental health disability, which is why I'm bemused by disability activists who ardently support it....

To demedicalise distress is not to delegitimise distress. One can honor, respect and care for profound suffering without labeling it as illness, pathology or disorder.