‘The government must stop assuming technology is the answer and start listening to what patients are actually telling them.’ theconversation.com/what-people-...

Remembering moods - or not? doctor-and-patient.com/2025/07/01/a...

Thank you RCPsych Books for this award - I’m overcome! Sadly I wasn’t able to be in Wales, but had a lovely weekend in the city of the most famous psychiatrist ever!

Patients and psychiatrists doctor-and-patient.com/2025/05/31/c...

Or even your Saturday morning lie down… It doesn’t need to be hard work!

While doing your Saturday morning clean or weekend run, take a listen to this conversation between @rebecca99.bsky.social @suzypuss.bsky.social and me about women’s mental health with @cambridgeup.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/7t5j...

🎧 New episode of Hot off the Press 🎧 @katewomersley.com hosts @suzypuss.bsky.social and @rebecca99.bsky.social in a powerful discussion on women’s mental health and the challenges in psychiatric treatment. 🧠 Listen to the full episode 🔗 cup.org/3Sp74qJ #MentalHealthAwareness

Book 20 of 2025 #AnImprobablePsychiatrst by @rebecca99.bsky.social - really great biography it is so interesting to read her perspectives both as patient and doctor. It is also very well paced. #Psychiatry #BipolarAffectiveDisorder

What can be done to improve women's mental health? For @cambridgefestival.bsky.social & @cambridgeup.bsky.social, I spoke with @suzypuss.bsky.social & @rebecca99.bsky.social about their careers, being patients, & new books Out of Her Mind & An Improbable Psychiatrist www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzDE...

Heading home from RCPsych National Resident Doctors’ Conference - some really lovely comments about my talk & met some great people, thank you! But best of all were the comments about my jeans… #EmpoweringThighsTransformingLives

Critical Psychiatry - a few thoughts doctor-and-patient.com/2025/04/05/c...

98% who signed up for our webinar attended, & there were excellent questions on gender bias in psych diagnosis, expectations on women to respond to 'talking cures', & personality disorder. Inspiring, as ever, to share an online stage w @rebecca99.bsky.social & @suzypuss.bsky.social (sly screenshot)

www.thenational.scot/news/2504815... Grateful to be interviewed about mental illness & my experiences. Poignant on Mother’s Day - sad memories, also great happiness. #AnImprobablePsychiatrist

Can't make it into town for one of our talks? No problem! 🙌 @cambridgefestival.bsky.social are holding an online event with Professor Linda Gask @suzypuss.bsky.social and Dr Rebecca Lawrence @rebecca99.bsky.social to talk about their new books, both of which you can purchase on our website. 🔗👇

Looking forward to playing in this - and especially to hearing our wonderful conductor Andrew Lees play solo violin! Please join us! 🎻

@suzypuss.bsky.social @rebecca99.bsky.social

All in Her Mind www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/all-in-her...

My daughter is staying with us, & went to prepare her lunch this morning. ‘When it says - “use by October” on this packet of wraps - which October do you suppose it means?’ she enquired. I hung my head in shame.

Wonderful library, wonderful women speaking: Breaking the Silence - exploring the stigma of women’s mental health with @rebecca99.bsky.social @suzypuss.bsky.social @katewomersley.com at the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.

A great evening, wonderfully hosted by @katewomersley.com MRCPsych! Xx

A lovely review, thank you so much! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

My daughter will be a doctor in summer. 4 years honours psychology 1 year working in a care home 4 years grad medicine She’s a star! And she’s only just found out she’ll stay in Scotland for FY1. Not where she’ll actually be. She doesn’t complain. I do for her. @elinor_tipper

Lots of discussion about causes & treatment of mental illness on social media. Mine is a tale of what happened to me, not of the rights & wrongs. That’s why I ask you to read it - not to prove anything, just to hear my story. And take from it what you will.

Appalling. Very grateful to my husband for the hours he spent with my parents today. Why does it have t be so hard?

Very nearly sold out! If you’ve been thinking about joining us at The Royal College of Physicians (Edin) on 7/3/25, grab the last few tickets quick… 🎟️ 🎟️ @suzypuss.bsky.social @rebecca99.bsky.social www.rcpe.ac.uk/events/break...

Loved #ScotWin25 yesterday, thank you @RCPsychScot for inviting me! I was honoured to join such fabulous speakers. And I really loved seeing people!! Please forgive me if I seemed a bit bemused at times-prosopagnosia & maintenance ECT not good together. Never mind presbyopia..!

Choosing ten books- not easy! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This recent BJPsych paper shows an increased risk of multiple adverse neonatal outcomes among children of mothers with mental disorders - yet UK Govt @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social has just removed its targets for obstetrics (all women's health, in fact) and mental health... tinyurl.com/4r9zp2ek

Personality disorder diagnosis 'turned my life upside down' www.bbc.com/news/article... #MadSky

Great blog post!

It will be wonderful

Looking forward to speaking and listening at this!! www.rcpsych.ac.uk/events/confe...

Your International Women's Day plans sorted? Join @suzypuss.bsky.social & @rebecca99.bsky.social speaking with me about their new books on women's health, today's psychiatry, & being a doctor with a mental illness. Booking open, & tickets moving excitingly fast! 7/3/25 www.rcpe.ac.uk/events/break...

Health warnings about alcohol give only half the story www.economist.com/leaders/2025... from The Economist

Please read my book to find out what it’s like to have a severe mental illness - and a fulfilling life. I don’t like having to take treatment - who does? - but I think it’s probably kept me well. Available from CUP & Amazon youtu.be/jkXzCP4eGeI?...

Now booking! Looking forward to seeing clinicians 👩‍⚕️ , brain folks 🧠 bookworms 📖 🪱 and any other takers - all welcome (if Edinburgh is too far away, why not join us online?)

Please please read my book ‘An Improbable Psychiatrist’ www.amazon.co.uk/Improbable-P... before deciding whether depression is an illness or not, & whether antidepressants work. In fact - don’t decide, keep an open mind. Far better.

Why seeing the same doctor could save your life theconversation.com/why-seeing-t...

Thank you x

Wondering how to spend International Women's Day (Fri 7/3/25)? Join @rebecca99.bsky.social , @suzypuss.bsky.social & me by the fireside at The Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh from 6pm, as we discuss their new books, An Improbable Psychiatrist & Out of Her Mind www.rcpe.ac.uk/events/conve...

Happy 2025! & thank you so much to those who have read my book ‘An Improbable Psychiatrist’. If not, it’s widely available (incl CUP & Amazon). I’m so grateful to all readers and welcome any reviews (Goodreads & Amazon). Thank you!

Still getting through this delightful secret Santa gift of craft chocolates from Glasgow based Bare Bones chocolate. Loving the wild chocolate tastes from different part of the world.