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YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

Just wow!

@zackpolanski.bsky.social absolutely kills it in the @greenparty.org.uk party political broadcast.

"Let's make hope normal again"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxt4...

What Would True Informed Consent for Antidepressants Actually Look Like?
By MITUK admin

madintheuk.com/2025/07/what...

#InformedConsent #MedicalEthics #PatientAutonomy #EthicsInPractice #ConsentCulture

Being a good person is now a revolutionary act.

Acceptance is rebellion.
Brotherhood is dangerous.
Kindness is subversive.
Empathy, a threat.
Decency? Treason.

In an age of engineered cruelty,
To care is to resist.
To stand with the vulnerable is
To stand against empire.

One in four young people in England have mental health condition, NHS survey finds Rates are higher in young women as in young men and mental ill health up across age groups, study shows

Nearly 40% of women have a "mental health condition" says survey. Can't we ditch that language & the ideology it propagates & rather say: such women are in emotional pain, often for obvious socio-relational reasons. This take obliges a different response.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Eight simple steps to transform the way you listen

Deep listening is about dignity. It’s recognising the humanity in someone, even when their ideas repel you.

Let's not call for more resilience, diagnoses, drugs, medicalisation & neurofication to address escalating rates of poor mental health, let's call for new social policy to tackle its social determinants & properly fund demedicalised psycho-social support. That's it in a nutshell.

The anger about what happened and what didn’t happen, what was seen and what was ignored - that anger is justified.

That MH professionals judge the anger of survivors of abuse, decide that it’s inappropriate and an indicator of a disordered personality is an abomination

A Psychological Approach to Understanding & Preventing Suicide (Free Training)

We’ve developed a suite of learning modules funded by NHS Education Scotland.

The aim of these modules is to get to the heart of this most tragic of human outcomes.

suicideresearch.info/resources/#n...

33. I'm Gonna Derail This Entire Podcast // Peter Olusoga The Strong Men Podcast · Episode

Morning. If you fancy listening to me talking about men's mental health, notions of masculinity, burnout, and such, give this a listen.

Only if you want, obvs.

I can't tell you what to do.

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Around 1.8 million adults were prescribed psychological therapy in England last year, compared to nearly 9 million prescribed antidepressants. The imbalance isn't in our brains it's in our provision.

Sign the Petition Petition for Change in the Mental Health System and Psychopharmacology

Petition for Change in the Mental Health System and Psychopharmacology
"people that have suffered considerable harm & long-term debilitating ailments from inappropriate prescribing & de-prescribing of MH medications is rapidly increasing - largely unacknowledged..."
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If you oppose NHS privatisation, please could you repost this? I’m fed up of being told that we’re ‘radical’ - most people oppose NHS privatisation! Let’s send a message to those destroying the NHS! 🚨💙

An awful legacy of DSM culture is that a generation of psychs & therapists now believe its legit (in no time) to shoehorn complex humanity into a crude, pre-established psych-construct, & keep them their via confirmation bias. This isn’t ‘experience’ at work but ‘indoctrination’.

This is concerning given the number of people now taking antidepressants too…

It’s time to review antidepressants as the dominant approach. They’re causing more harm than help for many. AND do nothing to address roots causes.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) reports that nearly a quarter of the UK population now suffers 'material deprivation' (being unable to properly heat their homes or feed their families).... And we wonder why mental & emotional anguish escalates....

Antidepressants: what you need to know Who should take them? What are the side-effects? When — and how — should you stop?

@thetimes.com article by Rachel Kelly on limitations of antidepressants: 'I needed therapy and lifestyle changes to address how I handled stress, what I thought was a worthwhile life, and how to manage and handle my tendency to low mood.' www.thetimes.com/article/f638...

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...

Why aren’t we talking about what’s happening to women in mental health care? It was utterly shocking to read Scout Tzofiya Bolton’s description in the Guardian a week ago of how she was re-diagnosed from having bipolar disorder to having a diagnosis of emotionally…

lindagask.com/2025/01/28/w...

And saying 'antidepressants work' obscures this important fact that antidepressants are drugs that change the normal state of the brain and mind in ways we do not fully understand and are not certain are safe or harmless

Five unanswered questions about antidepressants and depression Whether antidepressants are a good option for relieving depression is in the spotlight again, in a new book, Chemically Imbalanced, by one of the medicines’ leading critics, British psychiatrist, Dr J...

A review of my new book, Chemically Imbalanced, highlighting the lack of evidence for any proposed biological mechanism of depression and some harmful effects of antidepressants eg withdrawal effects. Mentions PSSD (persistent sexual dysfunction) inews.co.uk/news/five-un...

Do antidepressants work? This British professor says they don’t Joanna Moncrieff is a professor and NHS psychiatrist who dared to argue that depression is not a physical illness. As a result she has been abused by peers — and championed by Tucker Carlson. Is her t...

Thanks to the Sunday Times and @julsmith.bsky.social for covering my upcoming book, highlighting how antidepressants may well do more harm than good and why the medical establishment has been so reluctant to consider this possibility www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a...

Coroner issues warning about antidepressants after suicide of royal’s husband Thomas Kingston, son-in-law of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, had been prescribed SSRIs A coroner has issued a warning about the effects of antidepressants prescribed by a Buckingham Palace doctor to the son-in-law of Prince and Princess Michael of…

Coroner issues warning about antidepressants after suicide of royal’s husband

Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were Harmed, and the Mainstream Media Failed Us All American psychiatry, the medical community, and mainstream media have betrayed the American public by failing to make this scandal known.

Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were Harmed, and the Mainstream Media Failed Us All

An MIA Report by Robert Whitaker
https://buff.ly/4h42ad4

I was once asked, by an extremely privileged & exclusively private practice surgeon, why all Emergency Medicine doctors were socialists.

I think it's because we see the full breadth of societal failures and how for the lack of simple, cheap measures, people are wilfully kept in suffering & misery.

Curb antidepressant prescribing to improve mental health, say campaigners A group of 31 medical professionals, researchers, patients’ representatives, and politicians has called on the UK government to reverse the increase in antidepressant prescribing seen in the past deca...

“Rising antidepressant prescribing is not associated with an improvement in mental health outcomes at the population level, which, according to some measures, have worsened as antidepressant prescribing has risen.” Our piece in the BMJ:

www.bmj.com/content/383/...

‘A pill for every ill’: doctors say Australia overprescribing antidepressants to mask toxic social conditions Antidepressants can be helpful but they can’t fix chronic stress caused by social problems like debt, poverty, racism or domestic violence

"Too many people are being prescribed antidepressants to deal with stressful life events or social problems, according to a growing chorus of doctors and researchers."

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

DR OPHER: 'Thomas Kingston's suicide shows risk of antidepressants' DR SIMON OPHER MP: The tragic suicide of Prince Michael of Kent's son-in-law has highlighted the potential serious risks of antidepressant drugs.

Very pertinent article in Sunday Mail 22 Dec 2024 ...

www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-14217921/DR-SIMON-opher-mp-suicide-michael-kent-son-law-potential-risk-antidepressant-drugs.html

YouTube video by TEDx Talks Understanding my depression | Joe Tudor | TEDxNHS

For an alternative narrative around depression listen to this brand new TED talk by Joe Tudor
It's refreshingly honest and insightful

youtu.be/X7GNLetBOqM?...

#depression
#mentalhealth