The future of psychiatry is experimentally dangerous!

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Don’t miss this online #PTMFramework webinar on Oct 21st www.bps.org.uk/event/develo...

#PTMFramework webinar 21st October 2025 www.bps.org.uk/event/develo...

It's time for a new kind of political party - one that belongs to you. Sign up at yourparty.uk.

Wow. In under 24 hours, 200,000 people have signed up to build a real alternative to poverty, inequality and war. Something special is happening - be part of it at yourparty.uk.

Fun House – A Section 136 Pantomime in Five Acts By TheDedicatedAMHP madintheuk.com/2025/07/fun-... #Section136 #MentalHealthAct #PoliceAndMentalHealth #DetainedUnder136 #136Experience #MentalHealthLaw

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

I’d vote for a party led by @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social & it’s needed to challenge Farage!

Stop handing out medicalised labels like good patient stickers, start listening to people’s stories & hearing what’s happened to them. The psychiatrists pity party might not be necessary if they learned how to understand & make sense of human suffering & distress.

Meet Lara, My Anorexic Part By Katarina Lundgren madintheuk.com/2025/06/meet... #AnorexiaRecovery #Recovery #DissociationAwareness #TraumaSurvivor #SexualAbuseSurvivor #Trauma #FromPainToPower #ReclaimingMyVoice #HealingIsMessy #UnlearningSilence #RecoveryIsPossible

We shouldn’t cut support for disabled people - we should tax the ultra-wealthy instead. Over 65,000 people have signed my petition for wealth taxes, not cuts - as part of our campaigning to get as many MPs as possible to vote down these cuts. Add your name here 👇 www.change.org/p/tax-wealth...

Raising low social housing rents to meet the most expensive ones will leave millions of low income households unable to pay the rent! They can barely afford to pay basic living costs as it is!

May 2025 in Review Visit our website to catch up with any blogs you may have missed! madintheuk.com #MadInTheUK #VoicesForChange #MentalHealthdebate #mentalhealthdiscourse #MentalHealthReform #PsychiatricSurvivor #MadInTheUK #EndPsychAbuse #MentalHealthJustice

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...

I am very curious about how this event will go tonight and hope to meet some of you there. #existential

Join Laura Delano & @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social ok Wednesday 30th July for a celebration of Unshrunk www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/join-autho...

Join @emmyvandeurzen.bsky.social & @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social tomorrow for another amazing #AudienceWithAnAlly #AD4E #DropTheDisorder www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-audienc...

Join @emmyvandeurzen.bsky.social & @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social tomorrow for another amazing #AudienceWithAnAlly #AD4E #DropTheDisorder www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-audienc...

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

From Pathology to Humanity: Reclaiming Mental Wellbeing in Psychiatry By Luuk Westerhof madintheuk.com/2025/06/from... #ReclaimHumanity #FromPathologyToHealing #Salutogenesis #HealingNotLabeling #HumanCenteredCare #LivedExperienceMatters #PsychiatryReform #MentalHealthMatters

You’re Not Crazy by Sylvie Leber I want others who have PTSD to know that, yes, recovery is tough going, but you can rebuild trust in the world and your future. www.madinamerica.com/2025/05/your...

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

What does consent mean in practice? A ‘lived experience’ perspective By Cathy Wield www.madintheuk.com/2025/05/issu... #ConsentAwareness #PsychiatricConsent #InformedConsent #MentalHealthReform #PatientRights #EndForcedTreatment #HumanRightsInHealthcare #SystemicChange

This will further medicalise human distress. It’s time the UK gov’t invested in community crisis houses staffed by survivors where holistic humane alternatives to iatrogenic harms of pathologisation of suffering would be more effective. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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

Withdrawal syndromes: lost in translation Official figures ‘bear no relation to the depth and duration of suffering. www.madintheuk.com/2025/05/with... #WithdrawalSyndrome #AntidepressantWithdrawal #PsychiatricDrugWithdrawal #MadInTheUK

Lucy was 13. Groomed, isolated, coercively controlled. But the law says it’s not domestic abuse, because she was under 16. While boys are radicalised by violent misogyny online, girls are left unprotected. This is state failure. ➡️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Women should not have to challenge CPS decisions, but thankfully this woman courageously did ✊🏻 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.’ - Karl Marx

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

Power, Privilege & Controlling the Narrative: Vested Interests in ‘Mental Health’ By David Hansen www.madintheuk.com/2025/05/powe... #MentalHealthPolitics #PowerAndPrivilege #TherapyIsPolitical #VestedInterests #NarrativeControl #MentalHealthNarratives #MentalHealthDebate

www.madintheuk.com/2025/04/the-... A view from the Netherlands - the UK mental health system is broken.

UK's first female press photographer Christina Broom, Pageant of Women’s Trades and Professions, Women's Suffrage protest, 1909 #womensart

Damning first person account of accessing UK MH system. Its leaders should sit up & take notice… Left to rot in the UK NHS mental health system likened to being in a prison www.madinamerica.com/2025/04/the-...

New WHO Guidance Calls for Paradigm Shift in Mental Health Policy by Leah Harris The guidance emphasizes shifting away from institutional mindsets and practices, the biomedical approach, and the use of psychotropic drugs. buff.ly/HziXmQG

Looking to recruitment participants who are eligible & interested into a really important, yet under researched area, please share & get in touch ✨ @jrefox.bsky.social

Lucy Johnstone and Jacqui Dillon will be offering a series of training days to the Older Adults service in Cardiff and Vale, focusing on Trauma-Informed Care and the #PTMFramework. The first two days were delivered this week.

How the hell does any increase in a child’s blood pressure & heart rate equate to a benefit? This type of narrative is dangerous because the longer term health implications of these drugs are unknown 😠 Stop harming children with drugs

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

How boarding school sometimes breaks the spirits of girls. A powerful account by a survivor www.madintheuk.com/2025/04/the-...

Omg amidst all the grim news this made me laugh. Thanks @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Thinking of all the UK mothers who have had their children removed or taken from them & cannot share this day.

novaramedia.com/2025/02/17/t... #PTMFramework

Impressive list of activities and achievements by #PTMFramework Committee in 2024. See pages 26-27. cms.bps.org.uk/sites/defaul...