Tania Gergel

Really looking forward to joining fellow speakers for the #WorldBipolarDay webinar.

Advance Choice Documents - what are they? Should I have one? - Money and Mental Health Policy Institute Advance Choice Documents let people record treatment preferences & financial wishes in advance, guiding their care during crisis or illness.

In our latest blog, @drtgergel.bsky.social - Director of Research at Bipolar UK - explains how Advance Choice Documents work and the difference having one can make when we become unwell - both to our mental health and our finances. 👇

🔗 www.moneyandmentalhealth.org/advance-choi...

'Reducing the Delay in the Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder: A Qualitative Study'
Better primary care tools/education/clinical pathways/links to 2dry care needed.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/HVAY27...

Pls can you help?
Research @BipolarUK are designing new website content & would love to hear from you about what cd be helpful to include
Pls click on the Research tab at bipolaruk.org, & contact research@bipolaruk.org to let us know what could be useful to include.

Setting the research agenda for mental health At a time when publicly funded research is under intense scrutiny, it is apposite to ask who should influence where and how the money is spent. At The Lancet Psychiatry, we believe patients and their ...

V. important editorial from @thelancet.bsky.social Psychiatry highlighting importance of lived experience involvement & real-world feasible implementation science in order to have real impact/translatability
Setting the research agenda for mental health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Episode 1: The Science of Bipolar Disorder Bipolar disorder is more than just mood swings. It’s a journey marked by intense highs of mania and debilitating lows of depression. But within this condition exist millions of people who live unique ...

Excellent & informative podcast on bipolar from expert team
@umich.edu
Prechter Foundation
Episode 1: The Science of Bipolar Disorder | Michigan Medicine

Episode 1: The Science of Bipolar Disorder | Michigan Medicine www.michiganmedicine.org/michigan-med...

The Good Life course has broadened and eased our minds - Dementia Diaries

Fabulous feedback about #AGoodLifewithdementia course run by George Rook. Here in a #DementiaDiaries recording we hear what the course has meant to the participants

dementiadiaries.org/entry/22896/...

Analysis: Why are suicide rates so high in bipolar disorder, and what can we do about it? Writing in The Conversation, Professor Dr Tania Gergel (UCL Psychiatry) explores why suicide is so common in people with bipolar disorder.

Writing in The Conversation, Professor @drtgergel.bsky.social (@uclpsychiatry.bsky.social) explores why suicide is so common in people with bipolar disorder.

Why are suicide rates so high in bipolar disorder, and what can we do about it? The celebrity chef’s story sheds light on the hidden dangers of bipolar disorder.

Why are suicide rates so high in bipolar disorder, and what can we do about it? theconversation.com/why-are-suic...

Excited to be appointed Honorary Visiting Professor in Division of Psychological Medicine & Clinical Neurosciences/Cardiff. Huge privilege to join inspiring team, doing ground-breaking research.
Many thanks @cardiffuni.bsky.social @gw4alliance.bsky.social @thencmh.bsky.social @bipolaruk.bsky.social

Dummies Guide to “The British Professor Leading the Controversial Backlash Against Antidepressants” British journalists and editors, this is for you

Dummies Guide to “The British Professor Leading the Controversial Backlash Against Antidepressants”

British journalists and editors, this is for you

www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/dummies-gu...

It's been fabulous, truly, to have this past couple of weeks free of suicidal feelings. I attribute that to med changes that lowered depression, constantly challenging negative thinking, and helpful therapy from both my psychiatrist and therapist. Support from family and a good cat are also key.

#GW4 researchers📢

Are you maximising the reach of your research by incorporating or enabling open research practices in your work?

The #GW4OpenResearchPrize is open for submissions - apply by 14 February.

Find out more: gw4.ac.uk/gw4openresea...
@gw4alliance.bsky.social

Adverse mental health inpatient experiences: Qualitative systematic review of international literature Trauma has a well-established link with poor health outcomes. Adverse experiences in mental health inpatient settings contribute to such outcomes and …

New systematic review 'Adverse mental health inpatient experiences: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Broad in coverage and ideas, shows need to think beyond physically coercive interventions & consider wider environment when assessing adversity of inpatient experience

Yes completely.
People conflate Van Gogh's "madness" with his genius and romanticise both.

Study identifying cross-ethnicity genetic risk factors for depression.
Yet more hope to increase understanding & improve treatment, even while the media focuses on anti-psychiatrists who dismiss depression as an illness.

Great opportunity for people who have taken part in lived experience involvement work to share their views for @nsunnews.bsky.social

Porto - Import your Tweets to Bluesky - Chrome Web Store A chrome extension to import all your tweets to bluesky at a click of a button

v useful link if you want to move your tweets across from X to Bluesky - chromewebstore.google.com/detail/porto...

Yes. You might think that when your most prominent advocate turns out to be someone kicked off Fox News for being too far right it would give you pause for thought…

graphic launching UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology on Blue Sky

We're excited to join BlueSky! Make sure to follow us for the latest news from the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology.

2/2 I suppose that rigorous rebuttals which demonstrate the flaws in a piece of research are just not considered interesting by @thetimes.com journalists.
rdcu.be/d50Xp
@sameerjauhar.bsky.social @jfhayes.bsky.social @profrobhoward.bsky.social @dranniehickox.bsky.social @carminepariante.bsky.social

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...

1/2 V. disappointed to see this article making headlines yet again, with no mention of its deep methodological flaws and the vilification of its opponents.

www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a...

Managing Cluttered, Racing, and Disordered Thoughts Do cluttered, racing, or disordered thoughts disrupt your daily life? Do you understand the differences between them? In this episode, Gabe Howard, who lives with bipolar disorder, and Dr. Nicole Washington, a board certified psychiatrist, unravel what…

Managing Cluttered, Racing, and Disordered Thoughts @gabehoward29

Many thanks - am excited to set up on a new platform.

Is everyone moving to #Bluesky ?

Yes - @Rebecca99LT is a psychiatrist who has been treated with #ECT and shared her experiences multiple times.
See, for example, her new book -

x.com/doctorid/statu… doi.org/10.1017/978100…

Very valuable new study about need to include people with lived experience in shared decision-making relating to risk and what might help or hinder this process

x.com/DrNafisoAhmed/…

Exploring questions such as:
a) evidence for effectiveness.
b) does long-term side-effect burden outweigh benefits?
c) why is this is the paradigm if may be incompatible with what large numbers of people living with bipolar see as desirable and effective?

If you have lived experience of bipolar, pls join our @BipolarUK Research Community to hear about opportunities for research & lived experience advisory involvement.

Pls share widely and RT & thanks if you've already joined!

bipolaruk.org/research-partn…

Also on advance choice documents/statement/directives in mental health please check out and share

x.com/DrT_Gergel/sta… advancechoice.org