Dr Hannah Louise Bennett (née Belcher)

Combined Healthcare launches Oxevision on wards - North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust has launched a medical monitoring tool onto a number of its wards.

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An important study on the use of oxevision in psychiatric hospitals. If you have ever accessed any mental health services, please take and share!

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Sensory issues go underrecognized in part because they are processed internally, but also because autistic people, especially women & girls, often learn to mask them.
@drhannahbelcher.bsky.social in the show provides experiential & academic expertise on camouflaging:
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AI therapy: Looking for a therapist who knows a bit about AI being used as therapy, as well as someone who has used AI instead of therapy, to just ask a few questions to. Please DM or email me at Hannah.belcher@kcl.ac.uk.

Chatting Neurodiversity, autism, masking, my book, universities, research, and co-development.@quahrc
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Neurodiversity Matters: Hannah Belcher on (un)masking and mental health research
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My Year of Being and Nothingness. The year I felt nothing.

I wrote about the prodromal stage leading up to my experience of psychosis as an adolescent.
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New publication! Our brilliant PhD student has published her first paper, 'Exploring the involvement of people with lived experience of mental disorders in co-developing outcome measures: a systematic review' in the Lancet Psychiatry!

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Hello Niamh Molloy, Imogen Kilcoyne, Hannah Belcher @drhannahbelcher.bsky.social, Til Wykes - congratulations on your new review published today in The Lancet Psychiatry! As if that isn't exciting enough, we've also published a Mental Elf blog on your work. Please let us know what you think.

Still, my overall impression was that it was a worthwhile read and it is clear that the mental health industry does need a major reform, most notably driven by changes to the sociopolitical and economic landscape we live within. END.

Don't be angry at people who take medication and say it's saved their lives. Don't be angry at people who don't or who have been harmed by medication. This divide only serves to benefit those who make financial gains from our distress and personal experiences. 12/

mistrust, and stigma amongst us with select evidence, that of course makes for a more powerful argument and improves sales, without considering those it will affect. 11/

It's important we remain compassionate to all the different lived experiences of those with mental health difficulties, rather than use the information from books like this as a weapon against each other. 10/

It's saying that 'mental illness' is too often identified as an individual issue rather than a societal problem, that these industries are poorly regulated, and that research can be biased and financially incentivised, which might affect how we've come to view mental distress. 9/

No, this book doesn't tell us that medication categorically never works, that mental illness never exists, nor that diagnostic categories are always inaccurate, or that all psychiatrists only consider biological causes. 8/

Whilst this might be outside the remit of the book, it's important to consider the effects of this information on individuals who are currently struggling with mental health issues. 7/

What this book lacks is lived experience and the voices of those affected, as well as alternatives offered, especially those with severe mental illnesses. It talks about political reforms, but not changes at the individual level. 6/

Although, I was pleased with the mention of IAPT therapies, as I've mentioned in a previous post, how the motive behind introducing these was always to benefit the economy, not the individual. 5/

It's also difficult to overcome the fact that the therapy and wellness industry also could be accused of selling mental health in some way, which could be considered as another form of 'sedation', but which was carefully dodged in the book. 4/

It's hard to ignore the striking finding that psychiatric treatments have increased as mental health has worsened. However, many of the arguments made aren't new and lacked nuance but were persuasive in their use of extreme examples and generalisations 3/

But the title 'sedated' is a little misleading and stigmatising, as medication is not the only focus. The book often veered off too far into politics, and the arguments weren't always clearly linked. 2/

My review of 'Sedated' by Dr James Davies - you might be suprised that I enjoyed reading this book. I learnt quite a lot around the trends in mental health treatment and the economy, education, political movements etc. 1/
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Patience review – this clunky depiction of autism just isn’t good enough A preposterous plot and terrible dialogue make for a deeply uninspired detective drama. Its nuance-free take on neurodivergence is embarrassingly clunky

Currently watching Patience on Channel 4 about an autistic police investigator. I have mixed reviews. This article sums most up, it's a very stereotypical view of autism that's quite outdated. However, I'm glad to see an autistic actor playing the role. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Of course.

Sensory processing disorder would exist but without someone meeting the other criteria for autism.

@looneyfox.bsky.social confused why you've blocked me when I stood up against your sister and called her out? Nevermind.

It's not great for autistic women who tend to enjoy fantasy

Oh they must have changed it

Did it have frogs in it?

Imagination, theory of mind, understanding relationships etc. Pretty stupid for adults.

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