When clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. - Carl Sagan, 1995

National Curriculum in Reproductive Psychiatry (NCRP) Responds To FDA Panel On SSRI Use In Pregnancy ncrptraining.org/press-releas...

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Samaritans to close at least 100 branches across UK and Ireland

This doctor CAN confirm this shocking truth! @jonathanstea.bsky.social

The director of the Gender Violence Clinic, University of Maryland Carey School of Law, suggests that there is reluctance to fund research “that will bring attention to an uncomfortable dilemma..’those policing the crime and those committing it are often the same person.’”

Mifepristone has been used by millions of women for over two decades, with 25+ years of data supporting its safety and efficacy. www.statnews.com/2025/07/19/e...

Why the antagonism over the rise in autism diagnoses? It’s actually good news | Gina Rippon

So we can now turn notifications on on BlueSky. Game changer! @micmicmic1.bsky.social @profrobhoward.bsky.social @suhana.bsky.social @drkwildschut1984.bsky.social @matthewbroome.bsky.social

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@rcpsych.bsky.social cannot support the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill for England and Wales in its current form and is once again urging MPs to look at our concerns ahead of the pivotal Commons Report stage debate and Third Reading. More here: www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-fea...

The #RCPsychIC25 Newport, Wales, programme is out highlights: 📌Alzheimer’s blood biomarkers 📌 New research approaches to problematic usage of the internet( Dan Stein) 📌 Assisted dying 📌 What must change to improve women’s mental health care?(Linda Gask) www.rcpsych.ac.uk/events/congr...

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Romanian run-off the most crucial on Europe’s ‘Super Sunday’ of elections

We are 1week into @rcpsych.bsky.social #registrar elections c 6 excellent candidates-please do make time 2vote! #rcpsych @mivpsych.bsky.social @drjongoldin.bsky.social @wendyburn.bsky.social @shahidlatif.bsky.social @derektracy.bsky.social @sameihuda.bsky.social @samueljtromans.bsky.social

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1/2🧵Month by month we encounter resistance ( tr:anxiety) from carers and relatives when it is time to deprescribe antipsychotics in people with #dementia Severe aggressive and non aggressive agitation in dementia warrants time limited treatment with Risperidone. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39432286/

I wrote this book to empower people to take their mental health into their own hands. I wanted to teach the language of pseudoscientific grift so that you know when it’s spoken. This is a kind of mental health support I’m unable to provide in the role of clinician.

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@rcpsych.bsky.social - #digital clinicians u have until 17th Feb 2submit Poster4 Better Data, Better Care Annual Conf #rcpsychdata25 @mivpsych.bsky.social @wendyburn.bsky.social @sameihuda.bsky.social @drjongoldin.bsky.social @fabida3.bsky.social @derektracy.bsky.social @profrobhoward.bsky.social

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Dr Sarah Griffiths from UCL is running workshops w/ people living w/ dementia to better understand how they can be involved in Patient & Public Engagement research. Email: [email protected] Phonel: 020 3108 6699. Read More: https://buff.ly/40kTjg8

This week’s #CookbookCorner – the first of 2025! – stars Danube: Recipes and Stories from Eastern Europe by the wonderful @irinageorgescu.bsky.social. Read more about it and get her recipe for Mǎmǎligǎ la Cuptor – Baked Cornmeal with Sour Cream, Cheese and Eggs: www.nigella.com/cookbook-cor...

But what if the disinformation campaign emerges organically, over years, via individual opinions and blogs by those who have respect and credibility among peers? The Antipsychiatry movement is a case in point. #MedSky #PsychSky #MadSky

I hear what you guys are saying about the Oscars, and how they're a celebration of life, and the show must go on, blah-blah-blah, so-on-and-so-forth. It all makes a degree of sense, but to me it still feels like Nero fiddling while Rome burns. Or in this case, wearing fancy clothes while LA burns.

Dune, Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks hugely important for me growing up

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Your cognitively intact elderly parent may make decisions that you disagree with. They may even make decisions that could shorten their life. They have the right to make these decisions. It’s OK for you to not like this and also not try to control or change it. #palliativecare #medsky

Failure to retain the staff trained in the UK, letting skilled & knowledgable staff leave by focus on numbers of staff not retention This is failure @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social @nhsengland.bsky.social @nhsemployers.bsky.social

You can see my discussion of efficacy here: www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-case-f... Bottomline is that antidepressants have meaningful effects that are comparable to psychotherapy and other medical treatments, some patients respond particularly well, some patients require a few trials for... /1

Other differences of a major depressive syndrome from ordinary sadness: - syndromic - pervasive, continuous, less responsive to happy events - lasts for weeks to months - not rarely complicated by mood-congruent psychosis

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Homeopathy is more effective the less it’s used.

If RFK Jr. is confirmed. @donttreadonkids.bsky.social

The worrying rise of the 'cure-all' cancer diet @newsweek.com @alycecollins.bsky.social www.newsweek.com/cancer-surge...

There’s something quite odd and unsettling about British media’s uncritical fascination with her opinions.