Depression isn’t a game, shouldn’t be taken lightly, and isn’t going to magically disappear by telling those struggling to get over it. It can be soul-crushing, heartbreaking, and life-stealing. It can destroy lives and even end them.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

I wish we lived in a land where if journalists heard the president call one of their colleges "piggy" or suggest another of their colleagues, who was butchered for what he wrote, in some way had it coming, they would close their laptops, leave as soon as possible, and ask to be reassigned.

America voted. The fruits of racism, sexism, bigotry and "the poorly educated" out voting the educated. See more poison fruit for the 40 million Americans on SNAP benefits who voted for The Trump Crime Family👇 missouriindependent.com/2025/08/01/f...

Extra points for the butcher's MacBeth handwashing gestures: 'Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine Making the green one red.'

The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...

Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:

South Carolina's abortion bill is so extreme even anti-abortion groups have doubts

Very hard for me to accept that people "didn't know what they were voting for" when it takes 9 seconds of him speaking — any 9 seconds — to understand his whole deal.

The government haven’t thought this through, which makes me think this knee jerk Reform-like idea was cooked up in a moment of desperation. I even wonder if they are being guided or at least influenced by Trump/Miller’s deportation policies.

#Naloxone can save lives for people who use opioids We aren't offering it enough to them, even after an overdose jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed” basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again. i feel that with my dad.

CSA trigger warning: So after my mother blamed me for getting molested by my teacher at age 11, she also stopped feeding me breakfast or lunch. The hysterical need to pass on the guilt and punishment to the survivors is real. Hence the "14 is old enough" comment. The hysteria is the tell.

When is rape not rape? Apparently, it’s when a sex offender says so.

People who need asylum should be granted durable forms of protection. Making people re-apply for refugee status every couple of years not only adds to the bureaucratic costs (since people’s risk of persecution rarely changes so quickly) but it also enhances the trauma of people who just need safety.

Confiscating jewellery from vulnerable ethnic groups reminds me of a very unsavoury period of history.

A strong immigration system doesn't need to be a cruel one. It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution. This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.

Courtesy of Dr. Allen Frances, esteemed US psychiatrist, from X. Patients with new onset severe mental illness should be evaluated neurologically. V @dranniehickox.bsky.social x.com/bmjmentalhea...

The vast majority of people who have immigrated into Britain did so because they were invited and we needed them for work. This is a fact the Media and all the racists want to ignore.

I don’t care.

The metrics put her consistently in the top 5 of philanthropy ito proportionate giving. Not bad at 36%, c/w Buffet’s 30% and her ex’s single digit giveaways The Zucks are even more deplorably stingy. www.forbes.com/sites/forbes...

We are expected to flatter bigots in order to prove we are non-partisan? Great writing by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social in her book of essays, No Straight Road Takes You There.

It’s lovely here on #Bluesky and we don’t miss the drama of X. Oh wait!😳😳 Seems like Musk finally got his comeuppance and it stings like hell. I can imagine his sleepless nights at ver an attack by an octogenarian. www.forbes.com/sites/danidi...

What if you tried experiencing having one first?

When I stood in a police cell, in a role to triage the mental health of someone who had just cut his father’s tongue out, before murdering him, emotional confusion did not spring to mind 🤷‍♀️

I think this is what is meant by the term ‘blind privilege’.

Fathers' rights activism is a rabbit hole that leads to a shithole. Almost (?) as bad as redpill. Legitimate problems and concerns turned into something toxic and harmful.

“ChatGPT repeatedly assured Soelberg he was sane—and then went further, adding fuel to his paranoid beliefs. A Chinese food receipt contained symbols representing Soelberg’s 83-year-old mother and a demon, ChatGPT told him.”

“Erik, you’re not crazy.” A murder-suicide shows how ChatGPT fueled a dangerous man’s paranoia. A very disturbing story. Companies, regulatory bodies and medical groups need awareness of these risks with AI applications. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/o... A well balanced article on ADs by @awaisaftab.bsky.social

How to Wreck the Nation’s Health, by the Numbers www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

From contraception to menopause: why women face a higher risk of stroke theconversation.com/from-contrac...

"As attacks on abortion intensify across the U.S., lawmakers should use their power to do away with harmful parental involvement laws." Read us and @hrw.org in @theprogressivemag.bsky.social breaking down our new report documenting the impact of these laws: progressive.org/op-eds/abort...

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

Alternative treatments are unregulated, unpredictable, and unscientific. They can often pose huge risks to people with mental illness.

They want children to be afraid. They want them to grow up understanding the power of the state.

Imagine calling yourself a mental health professional while insisting mental illness doesn’t exist. That’s a great way to avoid taking any responsibility for the quality of payitnt care. Glad to see @jonathanstea.bsky.social calling out this chicanery.

If you’re pro-MAHA because you agree with their stance against anti-depressants, then you also own this policy of internment camps for homeless people with mental illness and addictions. Be careful what you wish for.

This is essential reading shedding light on what is a far-right attack on the BBC as a public broadcaster

Oh look. There really are "no go areas" in England. And they're marked by St George's flags www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

This is what a year of psychotherapy is like.

Just how has Donald Trump shown in any quantifiable measure that he has anything but disdain for our Military? Where is there any substantive evidence of true reverence, of authentic respect, of real gratitude? johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/donald-tru... Veterans Day

When a movement that claims they are in favour of informed consent and against coercive treatment find themselves in a carnal relationship with MAHA/MAGA, things can get awkward. Be careful what you wish for.

Anti-psychiatry professors when confronted with the reality of mental illness:

@dranniehickox.bsky.social @jonathanstea.bsky.social

Very thoughtful post by @samwoolfe.bsky.social about the harm that can arise when men make masculinity and sexual performance too much a part of their identity.

Can't believe there are conversations about ending the BBC. This is like listening to a family calmly discussing whether to shoot it's dog, or burn down the house.