First paper from our international ECT survey just out. On all 5 efficacy measures most recipients, and most relatives, reported it either made no difference or made things worse. Some were helped though. Thanks to all 1,144 who completed the survey. dx.doi.org/10.1111/inm....

‘It brings you in and shelters you’: NHS creates ‘recovery gardens’ for staff and patients

The Power Threat Meaning Framework has now moved to Bluesky. Please do follow us! Contact and website details on LinkTree. #PTMFramework #PTMF

Do take a look👇🏼 … this book has already been so helpful for people when it’s hard to know what to say, what to do or how to be!

My precious Dexter🖤🤍. Sharing some of his calm, softness & love. He reminds me to go gently. Its ok if the news is too much. If I cant speak out right now. Those who can will. The abuse has taken enough already. We do what we can with what we have at any time. That’s enough!

‘Walk gently in the lives of others. Not all wounds are visible’👇🏼 It’s easier to remember this with people we like & agree with. Or who agree with us. My challenge is trying to remember this with everyone I interact with. And reflecting on how I’m truly practicing my values!

‘A lot of people just need someone to be kind to them today’🩷💜🧡👇🏼

Happiness is … lying with Dexter watching tv🖤🤍🐾. So #grateful for every year now that I’m not in a psychiatric ward at this time!

Dexter pretending he knows nothing about who peed on the Christmas tree🎄🐾🌨️🙄

Amazing to be a part of this. Being with people sharing hope, pain, creativity, laughter, tears & all working towards transforming our pain into purpose💙. Grateful to be in rooms where I don’t have to explain why it matters #Solidarity #Seen #Action #Equality!

This👇🏼captures how the past swarms leaving you trailing through the treacle of grief despair & what feels like madness. Paranoid, depressed, suicidal they’d have said. Not now. In context it makes sense. Medicalising the ‘symptoms’ of abuse led to more violence #16DaysOfActivism

Read @PPR_Org #NewScript response to the review of the @healthdpt Protect Life 2 Strategy library.nlb.ie/download/74/pd… which amongst other things, fails to target objective need#Give5e#Communityt#Connectiono#Compassiono#Choicece!

#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💙

Lawyer reports outcome of Florida jury trial at which I summarised the ECT research, alongside several other scientists. An historic, precedent setting decision.

Important report on building blocks to end hunger launched by @trusselluk.bsky.social NI today. Poverty is a key driver of mental distress. Delighted to see Deirdre McCausland, #NewScript for Mental Health activist, carrying the message to government about joining these dots.

Morning … Dexter suggests going gently & kindly today. Everybody’s carrying enough already🖤🤍🐾 #InnerVoice #OuterVoice #Soften

Talking to Jane Mulcahy, I discuss why I left my peer trainer role, why I consider myself a survivor of psychiatry & the need 4 education re: trauma & dissociation. Work of #NewScript & the power of community & relationships to help us heal. Link youtu.be/t_Mib94saEQ?fe…#Grateful💙

Talking to @janehmul I discuss why I left my peer trainer role, why I consider myself a survivor of psychiatry & the need 4 education re: trauma & dissociation. Work of #NewScript & the power of community & relationships to help us heal. Link...

My best friend #Dexter🖤🤍🐾

I was speaking at the ASW Conference today about my research ‘Factors that impact the emotional health & well-being of Approved Social Workers’. I was after lunch. @garym213 sent me this🤣👇🏼 #DexterKnows🖤🤍🐾

Dexter sends some love & gentleness🐾🤍🖤 #RememberingGoodness #Kindness #Generosity

Lucy Johnstone @PTMFramework: Over 20 yrs later & $8 billion in genetic research, not a single gene has been identified to cause schizophrenia. What could these amounts have done to address the known causes of distress, like poverty, abuse etc @dropthedisorder #DoSomething🩷💚

Sara shares an overview @PPR_Org #NewScript campaign & @createhopeni powerfully shares her experience of activism & poem ‘I am from’ @dropthedisorder online festival. Order the book & #DoSomething🩷💚...

Great to have a chapter on #NewScript @PPR_Org in this @pccsbooks book & to be contributing to the online festival tomorrow #Grateful! For loads of content & speakers, including a conversation with Jo & Gabor Mate; sign up @dropthedisorder & get the recording🩷💚 #DoSomething!

Love this quote & rather apt for the day that it is! How much we need each other in these times!

At a social event. An ED nurse talked about ‘frequent flyers’. I didn’t have the energy to🙋🏻‍♀️ that’s me, ‘repeat offender; revolving door’. It wasn’t said with malice but language matters. There’s a person behind the label! The causes of my SH & suicide attempts were medicalised👇🏼

It might be a grey day but Dexter never fails to bring some sunshine💛🖤🤍🐾

Dexter does not like the fireworks & nor do I #NervousSystemOverload #TraumaTriggers #Dissociation. Roll on next week!!

Yoga before bed … view from the ground🖤🤍🐾

Today I followed sat nav walking to a lunch date, in car mode! Was very late! Returned to my car & ‘cant park’ was written in the dirt (true on this occasion - mortified). Then tried on a yoga top with 2 layers & failed repeatedly to get both on at same time! #NotCompetent🤦🏼‍♀️

#MondayThoughts Great energy in this💙. Go well & kindly this week!

Dexter captures the turn in weather & longer nights. After a lifetime of attempts to treat ‘major clinical depressions’, I’m realising my dark nights aren’t an illness. Doesn’t make it less hard esp trying to navigate in a world set up to ‘treat’ me! But makes more sense now!

So @garym213 decided to do a word recognition test with Dexter👇🏼🤣… 🖤🤍🐾. It’s good sometimes to just be with innocence, joy & gratitude! For me it’s essential if I’m to keep my eyes lifted, believing that what we each do & every act for good, even though a drop, matters!

Dexter has been with me through some difficult times. Dogs (animals) can sometimes be the only warmth tolerable when being in the world is hard! Ground, soothe, accept & return you to love🖤🤍🐾

Friends who give gifts like these💙🩷. I was literally on my own 7 yrs ago trying to rebuild my shattered life. It’s a little rocky at times but so different! Those close to me know how much completing my research has meant on many levels & I’m so #grateful for their support!

👇🏼and the next time & the next time. How & who we are in the world matters💙

Humbled to have @DainiusPuras speak @PPR_Org #NewScript event on #WMHD. He talks about recovery-focused rights compliant services & supports #Give5: Steps to a Wellbeing Rights Framework. Read more https://bit.ly/4eXBNo2#NewScript#WMHD#Give5scroll down to show your support. Great support to date!

This👇🏼reminds me of the beauty & strength of humility. Don, my mentor, who in many ways saved my life, would say that humility is knowing we’re no better or worse than anyone else. It’s also about not thinking we know it all, being curious & saying sorry when we mess up #Values🩷

Discussing moral distress with 4 nations mh specialist social workers & training for social workers @QUBelfast ASW PG Course this week. Well-being is not just an individual endeavour! Building ‘resilience’ & not addressing systems issues perpetuates harm affecting care & support!

Beautiful Donegal💙

We need each-other as we find our way. That is how we are wired 🩷🤍. I usually dread #WMHD but not this year. Being part of @PPR_Org #NewScript, singing, tears & laughter, we slowly transform our pain into purpose #CollectiveCare #Together #Hope #Possibility #Change #Gratitude

There are times when trying to get through the things of life alongside working through the legacy left by traumas, leaves me overwhelmed, confused & wanting to give it up. My therapist said I must remember that she is walking beside me. Words we don’t say enough #Grateful💙

May some gentle warm light fall softly on places & infuse spaces needing it💛

Service, humility, intention, values, reflection! And I guess for me it’s not doing what we do literally at any cost. But it’s about the cost we must be willing to pay to live our values & do what’s right rather than expedient, especially when it disrupts the status quo!

Sharing some Dexter love & softness in a world that can feel sharp with brokenness. What we carry within & witness around can at times feel too much. We need to look out for each other. I’m grateful for the many people who remind me there is also much goodness, courage & hope🖤🐾