Annie Hickox

Imagine being hugged by Miller.

Mental illness is all to real to those struggling with it, and to their families.
Don’t accept denial as an answer.

It’s very hard to get someone de-registered from the HCPC unless you can show they are causing harm to patients.
In my view, anti-psychiatry actually does put patients at risk.

What a shame to see professors in elite positions arguing against the stark reality of mental illness.
Denial increases stigma and shaming of patients seeking effective treatments.

Schizophrenia exists.

Mental illness exists.

Psychiatric medications can be life-saving.

Psychotherapy can be life-saving.

Don't let misinformed people like @profjohnread.bsky.social tell you otherwise.

Enough with the anti-psychiatry propaganda and stigma. ✌️

Loving this content linking Zohran with improved mental wellbeing.

When you stop using X then open it back up after a while, you realize how obviously it’s designed to elevate vicious jerks who share Musk and Trump’s cruelest, dumbest beliefs. Harder to see when you’re addicted to it; blazingly apparent from the outside looking in.

Journalists: It’s bad for you!

So true.
I only left X a few days ago and when I took a peek at it yesterday the polarisation and sheer malice was absolutely blatant.
Not going back unless there is a change of hands at the help.

Interesting article, Tim.
One of the refreshing things about Bluesky is that this won’t be met with a chorus of ‘it was the psychotropics..’
Mental illness and physical health vulnerability go hand in hand.

Doubling of respiratory deaths in people with severe mental illness Jonathan Monk-Cunliffe reviews a systematic review finding that people with severe mental illness have a higher risk of respiratory mortality.

@jonathanstea.bsky.social @dranniehickox.bsky.social

Mamdani would have been smeared and purged by Labour.
Don’t let them pretend they are progressive.
@owenjones.bsky.social

You are absolutely right.
To see Labour pretending that they wouldn’t have seen Mamdani as a thread is laughable.

We go to sleep in a better country than we woke up in. Thank you to everyone who worked for these coast-to-coast victories, for this utter repudiation of Trumpism, for economic justice and a country for all of us, not for white supremacy.

*Virginia

Thank you!

N.Y.C. Mayor Live Updates: ‘This City Belongs to You,’ Mamdani Says as He Celebrates Victory

This is what optimism feels like.
(And congrats to Virgina on your first woman governor!)
hhttps://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/04/nyregion/nyc-mayor-election?smid=nytcore-ios-shareis is

NHS staff bearing brunt as ‘ugly’ racism of 70s and 80s returns, says Streeting Exclusive: Health secretary and NHS England chief warn of winter pressures and rising levels of abuse

Glad to see the government talking openly about this, at last.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

What a lot of baloney.

Must have been very traumatic for him, the poor dear.

WAMC on the Road from Bard College's "JOY: Loving the World in Dark Times" conference presented by the Hannah Arendt Center The Hannah Arendt Center's 17th annual fall conference on JOY: Loving the World in Dark Times on the campus of Bard College in Annandale. The conference offers a crucial lens for finding meaning and c...

‘Loving the World in Dark Times.’
Interesting recorded discussion at Bard College’s Hannah Arendt Center.
Worth a listen.
www.wamc.org/podcast/the-...

Mrs Ramsay, Virgina Woolf’s protagonist in To the Lighthouse, was actually referring to her young children who had been sniping about a family friend.
However, here on social media - as in the political world - we see such sniping so often that it has become assumed and normalised.

One of my favorite facts: neurons and skin cells are 'cousins'.

Intelligence is a phenomenon that lives at boundaries. The semipermeable cell membrane is where the ball got rolling.

I wrote an essay riffing on this idea.

yohanjohn.com/axispraxis/f...

Trump’s Raids Terrorize Catholics — Pope Leo’s Top Cardinal Calls It an ‘Assault on Millions’ Seminarians are leaving the country, priests worry they could be next, and Pope Leo XIV insists the Church must stand with its most vulnerable faithful.

Cardinal Robert McElroy, a Pope Leo ally who serves as archbishop of Washington, doesn’t mince words about what’s happening.

“We are witnessing a full-scale governmental assault designed to produce fear among millions.

“It's an instrument of terror.”

“My advice, as in everything, is to read widely and think for yourself We need more dissent and less dogma.”
― Camille Paglia

I must say I’m very pleased not to have encountered any anti-psychiatry here so far.

Terrible.
It used to be quite a trailblazer.
Sorry for your circumstances.

What a timely posting, at a time when I have just left Twitter because of how deeply unpalatable anti-psychiatry dogma had become.
Thanks so much for sharing.

It’s the way they tell ‘em.😂
Honestly, you couldn’t make it up.

Fantastic!
I’d love a link to your performances.
Love the Last Goat in Bergen County…he really captures it.