Chris Young

Square Pegs | Substack These are challenging times for people like you and me. It's time we used our collective power for change. Join us. Click to read Square Pegs, a Substack publication. Launched 10 months ago.

#WhatTheFuck if none of the previous links are good enough for you, you can find us at 8pm tonight on Substack, here squarepegsuk.substack.com

We'll be talking about the #UglyLaws that existed in the US until the mid 1970s

SquarePegsCIC - Twitch Square Pegs Experts by Experience Community Interest Company is not just an organisation, it is an ambitious movement that aims to redefine mental health services through co-creation, transparency and...

#WhatTheFuck tonight at 8pm

If YouTube isn't good enough for you, you can find us here on twitch

m.twitch.tv/squarepegscic/

Or on X (yeah, I know!) @SquarePegs_UK

Square Pegs Experts By Experience This is the Video Channel for Square Pegs Experts By Experience Community Interest Company Based in the UK, it's our aim to put people with a living experience of mental illness/ mental health proble...

#WhatTheFuck links

You can find us tonight at 8pm on the Tube of You here www.youtube.com/@SquarePegsUK

Remember...The Ugly Laws...crammed full of 'What the Fuckedness'

This evening in #WhatTheFuck 8pm UK time, we'll be discussing the Ugly Laws

...a law from 1867-1970s USA, deemed it illegal for "any person, who is diseased, maimed, mutilated or deformed in any way, so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object, to expose himself or herself to public view."

EXCLUSIVE: the DWP has a secret team planting benefit fraud propaganda in the mainstream media In an exclusive report, the Canary reveals that the DWP has internal guidance on placing propaganda in the MSM - including doxing claimants

“A secret team inside the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is seeding stories in the mainstream media to fuel the bullshit narrative around rampant benefit fraud.”

www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

If you work in the 'specific DWP team responsible for spreading this benefit fraud PR to the client media' then know *you* are working a bullshit job that wastes tax payers money and you are the net negative to this country. May your conscience eat you alive.

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Square Pegs Presents... PD² Society & Culture Podcast · PD² with Square Pegs is a database of testimony for all the people with a label, or diagnosis of personality disorder who have experienced prejudice and discrimination at t...

@mind.org.uk

#PersonalityDisorder
have you ever heard the prejudicial terms #FrequentFlyer #Manipulative #AttentionSeeking and #Incurable and you’ve done nothing to challenge it?

You need PD² Join us

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@qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social

Have you witnessed #PrejudiceAndDiscrimination against people labelled with #PersonalityDisorder and done nothing?

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor”
Desmond Tutu

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@bpsofficial.bsky.social

The PD² podcast is out today

This is a continuation of our work, but no longer linked to, with the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health

#PersonalityDisorder
#PrejudiceAndDiscrimination

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@mickmckeown24.bsky.social

2 episodes of the PD² are out today

#PersonalityDisorder
#PrejudiceAndDiscrimination

A continuation of, but no longer linked to. work we started with @rcpsych

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Square Pegs Presents... PD² Society & Culture Podcast · PD² with Square Pegs is a database of testimony for all the people with a label, or diagnosis of personality disorder who have experienced prejudice and discrimination at t...

@danwarrender.bsky.social 2 episodes of PD² are out today

#PersonalityDisorder
#DatabaseOfTestimony
#PrejudiceAndDiscrimination

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Square Pegs Presents... PD² Society & Culture Podcast · PD² with Square Pegs is a database of testimony for all the people with a label, or diagnosis of personality disorder who have experienced prejudice and discrimination at t...

PD² #PersonalityDisorder

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor

Desmond Tutu

#MentalHealth professionals have you witnessed prejudice & discrimination & done nothing?

Your silence is violence

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Sign the Petition Save Freeview TV for Lynette and millions of others who depend on it!

Please take a look at this proposal to exclude millions of our fellow citizens from accessing mainstream media

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Square Pegs Presents... PD² Society & Culture Podcast · PD² with Square Pegs is a database of testimony for all the people with a label, or diagnosis of personality disorder who have experienced prejudice and discrimination at t...

@qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social

Everyone I’ve interviewed for the PD² podcast, professionals and punters, have experienced and/ or witnessed #PrejudiceAndDiscrimination against people with a label or diagnosis of ‘Personality Disorder’

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Square Pegs Presents... PD² Society & Culture Podcast · PD² with Square Pegs is a database of testimony for all the people with a label, or diagnosis of personality disorder who have experienced prejudice and discrimination at t...

@basw-uk.bsky.social

What stops you from calling out #PrejudiceAndDiscrimination against people with a label or diagnosis of ‘Personality Disorder’

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Square Pegs Presents... PD² Society & Culture Podcast · PD² with Square Pegs is a database of testimony for all the people with a label, or diagnosis of personality disorder who have experienced prejudice and discrimination at t...

PD² #5Questions

5) what can we do to prevent childhood trauma turning into a lifetime of mental ill-health?

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Square Pegs Presents... PD² Society & Culture Podcast · PD² with Square Pegs is a database of testimony for all the people with a label, or diagnosis of personality disorder who have experienced prejudice and discrimination at t...

PD² #5Questions

4) What encourages good practice when working with people with a label or diagnosis of ‘Personality Disorder’

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Square Pegs Presents... PD² Society & Culture Podcast · PD² with Square Pegs is a database of testimony for all the people with a label, or diagnosis of personality disorder who have experienced prejudice and discrimination at t...

PD² #5Questions

3) What does good practice look like when working with someone with a label or diagnosis of ‘Personality Disorder’?

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Square Pegs Presents... PD² Society & Culture Podcast · PD² with Square Pegs is a database of testimony for all the people with a label, or diagnosis of personality disorder who have experienced prejudice and discrimination at t...

PD² #5Questions

2) What do you think perpetuates prejudice and discrimination against people with a label or diagnosis of ‘Personality Disorder’?

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Square Pegs Presents... PD² Society & Culture Podcast · PD² with Square Pegs is a database of testimony for all the people with a label, or diagnosis of personality disorder who have experienced prejudice and discrimination at t...

PD² #5Questions

1) Have you ever experienced or witnessed prejudice or discrimination against someone with a label or diagnosis of ‘Personality Disorder’?

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Square Pegs Presents... PD² Society & Culture Podcast · PD² with Square Pegs is a database of testimony for all the people with a label, or diagnosis of personality disorder who have experienced prejudice and discrimination at t...

#PersonalityDisorder #PrejudiceAndDiscrimination

For the past 2 years, I’ve worked on a project with the NCCMH which is part of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

Although we’re no longer connected, PD² is a continuation of some of that work.

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Square Pegs Presents... PD² Society & Culture Podcast · PD² with Square Pegs is a database of testimony for all the people with a label, or diagnosis of personality disorder who have experienced prejudice and discrimination at t...

@mind.org.uk Prejudice and discrimination against people with a label of #PersonalityDisorder is still rife across services, society and the media

Join us - like/ share/ subscribe/ come on the podcast

Together we are PD ²

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Square Pegs Presents... PD² Society & Culture Podcast · PD² with Square Pegs is a database of testimony for all the people with a label, or diagnosis of personality disorder who have experienced prejudice and discrimination at t...

@rethinkcharity.bsky.social people with a label of #PersonalityDisorder still experience massive prejudice and discrimination from services and wider society

Help us to spread that word - and/ or come on the podcast

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Absolutely no need to apologise - the whole thing feels enormous, but together, we’re enormous-er 🌻

Thank you - we’re pushing for formulation, where diagnoses aren’t used as lazy prejudicial shortcuts to exclusion - where curiosity is valued; where anything with the suffix #PersonalityDisorder is dropped into the skipfire of history

Square Pegs Presents... PD² Society & Culture Podcast · PD² with Square Pegs is a database of testimony for all the people with a label, or diagnosis of personality disorder who have experienced prejudice and discrimination at t...

Many people refused to be part of PD² because of our affiliation with the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the National Collaborating Centre for mental health

That’s over now; they’ll host 3 episodes this year, the rest are ours

I’d love to hear your testimony

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Its origins are as bizarre as its continuation. We’re making an impact. Things are changing - but nowhere near quickly enough for people experiencing the prejudice of uncaring organisations and systems. If you know anyone who’d like to share their testimony, you know where I am 🌻

Thank you. 🌻The language and attitudes aren’t just limited to the Royal College - they’re across all services and society, social and mainstream media.

This language from the Royal College of Psychiatrists is almost unbelievable. Almost. I wonder why people with mental health conditions may find therapy less than helpful. As a close relative of a kind, intelligent, trustworthy, beautiful soul, I can say that this negative ignorance is pervasive.