Really looking forward to our friend and ally Johann Hari popping in to our zoom room for a chat about his work. Hear how he challenges the culture of diagnosis and disorder and ask him your questions! Join us 🧡 Donation only places available. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1136180349...

Well, are they? 🤷‍♀️ 🫤 Sign up to reserve your place at the AD4E festival here (donation only) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1224759932... @drnaomifisher.bsky.social

Join us online this Wed to hear Child &Adolescent Psychiatrist Sami Timimi talk about his book ‘Searching for Normal: A New Approach to Understanding Mental Health, Distress and Neurodiversity’ &his work that challenges the pathologising of emotional distress. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1222883701...

Another reason why you won’t want to miss this year’s #adisorder4everyone Festival! ~Donation only ~CPD cert - 8 hrs ~Recorded to watch afterwards ~Connecting with a community that wants to see change In association with V-Day Sign up now! eventbrite.co.uk/e/122475993292…

Grossly Flawed Paper Denies that Antidepressant Withdrawal Effects are “Clinically Meaningful” By John Read madintheuk.com/2025/07/gros... #AntidepressantWithdrawal #WithdrawalEffects #PsychDrugWithdrawal #ComingOffMeds #TaperingMeds #PsychMedAwareness #PharmaAccountability #DoNoHarm

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Tomorrow! (Thur 10th Jul) Join clin psych Dr Zandra Bamford for this powerful exploration of #InternalFamilySystems (IFS) as a radical, non-pathologising approach to healing. This workshop offers a chance to deepen self-awareness & rethink old assumptions. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1225119558...

@madintheuk.bsky.social www.madinamerica.com/2025/07/ect-...

For those who’ve not read the most recent Drop the Disorder book did you know you can download a sample off kindle for free!? It includes my intro, Sami Timimi’s chapter on why he wrote INSANE MEDICINE & my interview with Joanna Moncrieff about her crucial work Download it! amzn.eu/d/bS0wRxI

What Would True Informed Consent for Antidepressants Actually Look Like? By MITUK admin madintheuk.com/2025/07/what... #InformedConsent #MedicalEthics #PatientAutonomy #EthicsInPractice #ConsentCulture

TOMORROW EVENING! Bring more ‘ZEN’ to your therapeutic & support work with this Buddhist inspired workshop. Limited places left now. Recorded for delegates who can’t make it live. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1144389292...

Jan Winhall has worked with many people in the trauma space from Steve Porges to Janina Fisher & this evening she’s sharing her wisdom with us! Don’t miss it! CPD - 2 hours Still places available at the moment. Recorded for delegates who can’t attend live. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1100154253...

Join us for a powerful hour online tomorrow evening (5 June) with AD4E ally, Prof Emmy van Deurzen – existential therapist, philosopher and unapologetic challenger of the medicalisation of emotional distress. FREE tickets available Sign up! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1136159496...

Join @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social & @peterkinderman.bsky.social for an audience with an ally Tuesday 3rd June www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-audienc...

Starting in an hour! Recorded for delegates who can’t attend live. CPD -2 hours www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1106166747...

A little look into @platfform.org bookshelves - radical help, drop the disorder and time to think - helps you get a little under the skin of who we are

Starting at 12.00 today. Recorded for delegates who can’t make it live. CPD -2 hours Sign up here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/5625142643...

April 2025 in Review Visit our website to catch up with any blogs you may have missed! madintheuk.com/blogs/ #MadInTheUK #VoicesForChange #MentalHealthdebate #mentalhealthdiscourse

Reflecting on the blogs of 2024: January-March Visit our website to catch up with any blogs you may have missed! madintheuk.com/blogs/ #MadInTheUK #VoicesForChange #MentalHealthMatters

Withdrawal syndromes: lost in translation www.madintheuk.com/2025/05/with... #WithdrawalSyndrome #AntidepressantWithdrawal #PsychiatricDrugWithdrawal #MadInTheUK​

This Friday, with @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social! We'll be exploring 'whole community' approaches to mental health, understanding the circumstances and experiences that lay at the root of distress - and what all this means to ways of working that make a lasting difference. Book here: buff.ly/Re6c4HM

Today at 12.30 (UK) Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist Professor Sami Timimi and Professor of Critical and Social Psychiatry (UCL) and NHS psychiatrist Joanna Moncrieff will be talking about their books and answering your questions. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1100158847...

‘… so every one of us scored an #ADHD diagnosis!’ Professor Peter C Gøtzsche of The Institute for Scientific Freedom scientificfreedom.dk at a recent AD4E ‘An Audience with an Ally’ event. For more audiences with allies check here… bit.ly/41DUsQB

Then, 21st May, we'll be back with @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social to talk about challenging the diagnosis of personality disorder, and the real stories we've been hearing and sharing. How can we better understand the distress this diagnosis can mask? Sign up here: buff.ly/srMi9x6

It’s our connections and communities around us that form the most significant basis for our mental health. On 9th May, we’ll be talking to @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social about our community-focused approach to mental health at an online event – you can sign up here:

Time to read / reread this very important @madintheuk blog by @drjamesdaviesbskys.bsky.social www.madintheuk.com/2024/09/righ...

The Power Threat Meaning Framework has arrived at Bluesky! Don’t forget to follow! @ptm-framework.bsky.social

@jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social @mad-in-america.bsky.social #DroptheDisorder #adisorder4everyone #itswhathappenednotwhatswrong #stoppathologisinghumandistress

‘Every single person needs to have their story heard…’ @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social chats with V (formerly Eve Ensler) in a chapter from 'Drop the Disorder + Do Something!' (PCCS Books). RT for your chance to win a copy! www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Join @profjohnread.bsky.social 11th March for an interesting presentation on whether psychiatric diagnoses are scientifically valid & reliable, along with @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/is-psychia...

What an extraordinary woman ♀️

My upcoming book uses original research to reveal how the chemical imbalance theory of depression was weaponised by Pharma, aided by the medical profession, to change the way we think about ourselves and what it means to be human

Right-Wing or Left-Wing: Who Really Owns the Critique of Over-Medicalisation? Read more here: www.madintheuk.com/2024/09/righ...

A TEDxNHS talk by Joe Tudor. "I felt lost and confused when I was told I had a chemical imbalance. My journey since has brought me the things I now value the most in my life." A short but powerful video full of wisdom and humour. Please share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7GN...

I've finally got something to post about! New feature on changing attitudes to #BPD diagnosis, for Therapy Today: www.bacp.co.uk/bacp-journal... @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social

To demedicalise distress is not to delegitimise distress. One can honor, respect and care for profound suffering without labeling it as illness, pathology or disorder.