Starting in just under an hour, so if you want to join @peterkinderman.bsky.social & @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social there’s still time to sign up.. #AD4E #DropTheDisorder

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

Delighted to see that the @mad-in-america.bsky.social Rethinking Mental Health #podcast is number 1 in Goodpods #Psychiatry all time chart. Give us a listen if you get the chance 🎧 goodpods.com/leaderboard/...

Article in the BMJ recommending ‘conceptual alternatives to diagnosis’ such as the #PTMFramework. Via @profrobhoward.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Mental health conditions are over diagnosed theconversation.com/are-mental-h...

He isn't disputing that their suffering is real 'It's our response that's the issue. We routinely pathologise, label and medicate kids' emotions and behaviours'. New book by Sami Timimi out tomorrow www.thetimes.com/article/f5b1...

'As soon as one theory is discredited, the advocates of the biological paradigm turn to another, putting forward a new set of ropey, inconclusive and ambiguous studies as putative evidence' (from Chemically Imbalanced). Article by Bruce Levine www.madinamerica.com/2025/03/do-c...

Excellent article by neurologist Suzanne Sullivan on our medicalising culture and how escalating diagnosis (depression, ADHD, autism) is harmful and preventing recovery. 'We are becoming victims of too much medicine and it is time to turn back the dial.' www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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...

By John Cromby. The chemical imbalance story 'has persuaded some people to imagine that they have faulty brains, rather than awful lives..It has provided politicians with a smokescreen that helps conceal the toxic effects of capitalism.' www.madintheuk.com/2025/02/what...

This is a brilliant peice on how the pro-diagnosis & pro-psychiatry left, are letting the left down more broadly: "When [left-wing] activists talk uncritically about depression, they breathe life into a construct thoroughly shaped by capitalist imperatives.' www.madintheuk.com/2025/02/what...

Robert Whitaker answers reader questions in this #podcast. “The World Health Organization has twice issued documents saying we need a radical change away from the disease model and towards a human rights model that recognizes social determinants of health." www.madinamerica.com/2023/12/robe...

My response to @awaisaftab.bsky.social. The essence of his and others' challenge to our serotonin paper is 'depression might be associated with specific brain processes, including those involving serotonin. And because it might be, we should assume it is.' joannamoncrieff.com/2025/02/03/w...

'dishonesty about the serotonin imbalance theory of depression has resulted in.. a distorted view of the nature of our humanity that not only has had major negative treatment consequences but harmful cultural and political consequences as well' www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/30/n...

Those who defend the neurobiological view of depression invert 'the most basic precepts of science. An idea or theory is unproven until it is proven, not the other way round' joannamoncrieff.com/2025/02/03/w...

'In Chemically Imbalanced, Moncrieff thoroughly answers the question of whether it has been a good or bad thing to convince people to believe that their depression was a biological-chemical event' Review by Bruce Levine www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/30/n...

How Big Pharma monetised depression. 40 years of the disease model...has left us sicker & unhappier than ever before. There's little reason to believe that more of the same will fix our problems, & plenty...to think it will continue to make them worse. unherd.com/2022/10/the-...

Happy to be quoted in today’s Times on the current mental health crisis: “It’s not about taking away support, it’s about offering the right kind of support”. www.thetimes.com/life-style/h...

🧵Both the far left & far right misunderstand the fiscal crisis surrounding mental health disability. The far left advocates for more of the over-medicalising same (pushing for increased funding to support ever-escalating disability claims) which in the current climate is fiscally unsustainable...1/4

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...

When you were given antidepressants to correct your serotonin levels in your brain did anyone do any measurements before you started taking them? Did anyone measure afterwards to see if they’d returned to within normal range?

Chemically Imbalanced is out next week! In it, I explore the media reaction to our serotonin review, including how it reflected a new political alignment around mental health issues lnk.to/chemicallyim...

"Coyne’s blogs were verbose and erratic, often veering into personal attacks. He freely fabricated conspiracies and leveled baseless accusations that obscured whatever legitimate critiques he might have had."

"Boris Johnson says he is ‘spectrum-y’ sometimes. Johnson is just the latest male member of the elite to try to use autism as an excuse for his actions." www.independent.co.uk/voices/boris...

Diagnostic categories in mental health do not distinguish people or brains "Our results did not support the validity of existing diagnostic labels of ASD, ADHD, and OCD as distinct entities with respect to phenotype and cortical morphology." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The problem is, whether we like it or not, we can't really choose our treatments. There are different tariffs for different diagnoses/treatments, so you get what you're given depending on what's thought to be wrong with you. See my paper The Tour de NICE, midpsy.uk/publications

Here’s the madintheuk site .. we’ll post recently published blogs as well as old favourites here! www.madintheuk.com

With Nigel Farage back on Question Time and with around 300,000 reads in over 144 countries but still with no response from Question Time Here's @docrussjackson.bsky.social's open letter to the BBC about widely held concerns about why bias on #bbcqt is not going away @yorksbylines.bsky.social

Capitalism is using neurodivergence "to dismantle subcultural rebellion by labelling 'deviant' behaviour to make it acceptable enough to be integrated into the mainstream". Is neurodivergent activism truly radical or surreptitiously enabling the status quo? www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...

@dailymail.co.uk cover the potential role of antidepressants in tragedies like this and the need for people to be warned www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

The #PTMFramework is not a new concept to simply write alternative trauma narratives. The framework is a set of optional principles to draw on. It’s also a way of highlighting adversity, social inequalities & social injustices so we can all make better sense of life experiences.

Good to be up on bsky. Following the storm of interest provoked by our 2022 review, I am pleased to announce the publication of my book telling the story of the serotonin theory of depression from the beginning to recent challenges. Due out Jan 2025. To pre-order lnk.to/chemicallyim...

#Grateful to be part of @KyrieFarm lived exp committee where every voice truly matters. Ppl from diverse disciplines working for the good of the whole community #CollectiveVision. Values central. A beacon of #hope & #possibility restoring #dignity for ppl & rooted in #healing💙

Excellent discussion bw @justin_garson and @jf_moore It is so important to conceptualize mental health problems beyond the "disorder-framework", https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/02/madness-evolved-signal-justin-garson-strategy-versus-dysfunction/

Hello #Bluesky. 👋 We started Mad in America in 2012 with the aim of critically reviewing the science behind psychiatry and its diagnoses. We provide personal stories, reviews of scientific literature, podcasts, online events and original MIA reporting. Visit us here: www.madinamerica.com

The perfect gift for those who seek non-medicalised understandings to human distress & suffering: ‘Drop The Disorder + Do Something’ www.pccs-books.co.uk/products/dro... Contributory authors inc myself & many others… @lisatmsa.bsky.social @theflyingchild.bsky.social @indigodaya.bsky.social

The Power Threat Meaning Framework: An Alternative to Psychiatric Diagnosis #PTMFramework youtu.be/2iT5JKyKLpQ?...

Good morning. Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.

"For the left, over-medicalisation harmfully commodifies our suffering for vast pharmaceutical profit...depoliticises distress by framing it as an individual issue...and undermines community solidarity by isolating struggles as personal rather than collective." www.madinamerica.com/2024/09/righ...

“Despite having more access to medication in the US than ever, over 50,000 Americans died by suicide last year — the highest number ever recorded. It’s the biggest open secret in neuroscience — psychiatric medications often don’t work.” www.vox.com/future-perfe...