Dr J

Thanks. Yes, I think so too. The opposite appears to be often the case too: people who deliver low intensity interventions may be more likely to think of the problem being situated in the client

The world is full of people called disordered for needing what they never got.

Rather than pathologising someone's coping, should we be trying to better understand their lived experience?

Feeling bad in a bad world is not a disorder.
It’s a signal.

Inequality. Discrimination. Environmental degradation
These contribute to making us sick.

Healing needs justice and solidarity, not just helping you to cope with a bad world.

A diagnosis is not a scientific fact.
It’s the story we tell about suffering.

Sometimes it helps.
Sometimes it harms.

But your humanity was never up for debate.

Follow to join us in exploring psychology that values people, not just labels.

They say “gang members” to make you look away.

They say “illegals” so you don’t feel.

They say “alien” so you forget they’re human.

And it works.
Unless we fight it.

When you can't afford rent, food, or safety, of course you're anxious.

It's not your brain that's broken.
It's the system that’s failing.

Mental health isn't just personal.
It's political.

Until we fight inequality, we're not truly supporting well-being.

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Don't worry about it. I'd intended to write a more thoughtful response, but I kinda ran out of thoughts part way through! Great to hear you're really enjoying it :)

IQ tests never measured kindness, creativity, or resilience.

They were designed to stratify, not understand.

We are more than metrics.

Who’s doing work that challenges reductive ideas of intelligence?

They told teachers to teach fascist lies.
Thousands refused.

In 1942 in Nazi-occupied Norway, over 8,000 teachers resisted government orders.

Many were arrested. Beaten.
But they stood firm.

Even a classroom can be a front line.

Together we have power.

They're not "country-wrecking".

They’re already fleeing a wrecked country.

Often wrecked by wars we helped fund.

This isn’t an invasion.

It’s a cry for help.

Voting Reform in the UK to get

fair wages, a working NHS, affordable housing, a decent pension and fair laws

is like employing a crocodile as a lifeguard.

Sometimes things happen because systems are unjust. Sometimes because people make mistakes.

Trusting the process can be beautiful, but it's okay to question it too.

Healing isn’t about ignoring pain. It’s about making space for it, understanding it, and responding with care. (2/2)

Psychology doesn't say that.

Psychology doesn’t tell us that everything happens for a reason

That's a comforting idea from certain philosophies, but there is no evidence for it.

Psychology is about asking why things happen, how we make meaning, and how we survive hardship. (1/2)

That's great Becky 🙂

When a government starts calling people “aliens,” “rapists,” “animals,” and “infestations”.

You’re not watching politics.

You’re watching the machinery of fascism.

The government disappeared their children.

In Argentina, a military dictatorship stole thousands.

In 1977, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo stood in public, week after week.
Holding photos. Holding each other.

Their protest helped bring a regime down.

Together we are strong.

Fight hate with kindness.

Psychology didn't say that.

Grief & loss unfold differently for everyone.

Some people begin to feel lighter after a few months. Others carry ache for years.

Healing isn’t linear. You might feel OK one day & hit a wave of sadness the next.

Be gentle with yourself. You’ll heal in your own time.

In 1943 in Nazi-occupied Denmark, thousands helped over 7,000 Jews escape to safety.

Fishermen. Families. Teachers.

They risked everything

Not for heroism.

But because silence was complicity.

You’re not “bad at coping.”

You’re just living in a world where billionaires rewrite the rules, governments punish dissent, and rights are rationed.

Mental health care should name this.

Because it’s not always your mind that needs fixing
It's your conditions.

When governments turns people against each other solidarity becomes resistance
In 1984, the UK government crushed the miners' strike & stoked homophobia to divide people
But queer activists didn’t turn away
They raised funds, marched, stood alongside miners
When the time came, miners stood with them

I'm a psychologist interested in how people's lack of access to social power leads to distress and suffering.

I'm keen to connect with anyone who's interested in this and what we can do about it.

Governments can lie.
Police can protect power.
The media can distract.

But people remember each other.

In every generation, ordinary people have refused to turn away.

They’ve chosen solidarity — even when it’s hard.
Especially when it’s hard.

We can too.

UK supreme court ruling on legal definition of woman ‘brings clarity and confidence’, says government – as it happened Judges say definition of women and sex in Equality Act 2010 act refers to biological women and biological sex

Laws can define who counts as a "woman".

But laws can't define who deserves dignity, safety, or belonging.

www.theguardian.com/law/live/202...

"... Then they came for the homegrowns

But I did not speak out, because I was not... no, wait... what??!"

Martin Niemöller (roughly)

"First they came for members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua

But I did not speak out because I was not in Tren de Aragua..."

- Martin Niemöller (roughly)

Empathy isn’t a moment. It’s a process.
A slow, spacious way of paying attention.
It deepens over time.
It doesn’t rush to conclusions.
It asks, gently:
What’s it like to be you?

Anyone know why there's been a massive rise in adhd diagnosis over the last 20 years?

Heartwarming to see a mum trying her best to use her teenage daughter's preferred pronoun today (she mostly used 'she', though said 'he' a couple of times and corrected herself).

Does the fact I found this heartwarming mean I've contracted 'woke mind virus'?