This degree of media silence is unusual if we place this in a historical perspective- •hunger strikes and force feeding of the Suffragettes was amply covered in the British press •hunger strikes by members of the IRA generated “copious media attention”.

www.bbc.com/news/article... Recent research by @hspandler.bsky.social (Professor of Mental Health), a leading historian of Psychiatry and LGBT+ health, suggests that [aversion therapy through electroshock] was far more widespread than previously documented

Hey @mind.org.uk and @autisticsociety.bsky.social - why are you quoted in here as welcoming this? How is this likely to help people with mental health issues, autism or ADHD when it’s clearly about saving money and cutting off people’s benefits? www.bbc.com/news/article...

All the billionaires, tax evaders, offshorers and fascists are backing Farage

@mind.org.uk why are you supporting this? You know the only reason is to cut services www.bbc.com/news/article...

Absolutely monstrous, this is racist, classist, and disablist. Vile National Front level bigotry from the Starmer regime.

Oh look Sue Marsh blocked me because I pointed out she's a sell out. After years of disability activism she took a 70k job (it would be more now) with Maximus

Organised torture is Israeli state policy www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

'They act all-knowing, but they’re not. I learned what I know from other survivors, and it is actually better knowledge. It speaks to the epistemic value of our everyday narratives, including the horrors and humiliations'

Hope is here: help us deliver it www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere...

You work for Maximus you sold out

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history. Now let’s get to work. transition2025.com

the other types of questionnaire are all available on the study website, along with an extensive FAQs section, contact details, and further information about the study: hiddenharms.wordpress.com If you have any questions, please get in touch via email, or DM me. 7/7

share your experiences via an online questionnaire; a postal questionnaire; a questionnaire you can download and post/email back; and an Easy Read questionnaire for people with accessibility needs. The online questionnaire is available here: tinyurl.com/yt2ydvxx 6/7

Hi, I'm v new to bsky. I'm a PhD student focusing on harm in UK mental health services, & I would like to hear about your experiences of harm in services between 2010-2025. (Mental health services includes NHS, charities, companies, private therapists & other orgs) 1/7 tinyurl.com/yt2ydvxx

We’ve now got UK politicians making actual policy announcements and plans based on bigoted Social Media rhetoric, rather than experts and evidence. We’re truly and utterly fucked.

If you've not seen the #waitrose posts ⬇️ Where "volunteering" and work placement schemes are used to exploit chronically ill, disabled and neurodivergent people. It's dire... All this talk about working people ah? @rachelcdailey.bsky.social @francesryan.bsky.social

It's very scary that the NHS now has to find billions more for Trumps medication tariffs

Just @mind.org.uk having a bake-off with the DWP, who regularly impoverish people with mental health issues and drive them to suicide. Cake or death? Or let them eat cake? 🤔

Inspired by an earlier design by the brilliant #rubyetc

Work should not be a healthcare outcome. It should be the last step of "recovery" for those who are able to get to that stage and for whom it is a positive step. Employment and healthcare should not be conflated, ever... And if someone can't work, they can't work.

Taking away eligibility for the Covid vaccine from almost anyone under 75, including carers, healthcare workers and most clinically vulnerable people, is a national scandal. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Semi-regular update on how many jobs there actually are for disabled people in the UK, according to DWP Find a Job All Jobs: 110,774 Fully Remote: 673 Of which are disability confident: 92 Of which are part-time: 5 BUT 3 of them are in care homes, so TWO WHOLE JOBS

I know you're worried about the level of Keir Starmer's cuntiness. Digital ID is another measure to make Keir Starmer even more loathsome, making the border between him and a bucket of fascist shit indistinguishable. Getting rid of Keir Starmer would make for a fairer Britain.

I don't think anyone in the community who campaigns pro or anti psychiatry should be as lauded and uncritically platformed as Moncrieff is. Because this is the result, their dogma becomes politically useful. And I don't believe any Dr who claims GB news is a neutral media platform.

Our Highest Honour: Lifetime Fellowship of the unknown survivor- to everyone living with mental distress and illness who has lived through another year, we persist. Love Rita xxx ##RITBhonours

My council tax is £1,184 Buckingham Palace's is £1,828 What’s yours? #KingsRansom£1828

was interviewed by @johnpring.bsky.social for Disability News Serivce about my response to the far right gathering last weekend, and my disappointment that racist disabled people don't see they will be victims of fascism too www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-peo...

Meanwhile, in England, £ millions in public funds are being handed over to genocide enabling surveillance company, Palantir, to force 'AI' into health, social work, education and children’s services archive.is/ymsNZ

Saturday: Musk declares a nascent civil war on a giant screen in front of 100,000+ people. No action taken. Tuesday: Imagery of Trump and Epstein is projected on a wall. Police make 4 arrests on suspicion of "malicious communication." Oh yes Peter Kyle, free speech is "alive and well". For some.

@mind.org.uk www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli... This guy was Head of Policy and Campaigns at MIND, will you be producing a statement, asking if any service users were affected?

FYI Universal Credit for a single person is £4,801.68 per annum for which you will be harassed, coerced and threatened constantly via your own mobile phone by the DWP, while in media you will be called scrounging workshy scum by the LABOUR party.

NEWS: Bernie Sanders says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. 20 members of Congress have now said the G-word, @premthakker.bsky.social reports. Read the updated list of every politician, expert, and human rights group to call it a genocide: zeteo.com/p/who-says-i...

Same shit, different Ghoul www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/1b0c8b2...

"Whistleblower warned police against axing mental health callouts" - Strictly speaking, I cautioned them against axing mental health callouts they should still be going to, but near enough. Also nice to see @wmpolice.bsky.social did not deny ignoring my concerns. www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

A hate-driven agenda stoked by politicians & pundits has fuelled violence, intimidation & division. But we know the truth: ❌ Free speech is NOT a cover for hate speech ❌ Inciting hatred is NOT defending freedom ❌ Migration is NOT to blame for political and economic turmoil. It’s a scapegoat.

A patient’s perspective: Oxevision* is retraumatising * now called LIO health

Who will get a RITA Awards for Excellence in Awfulness? #RITASawards Who will get honoured? #RITBhonours Be there! Put up a photo of what you or your pet is wearing, we might give you an award!

The folk shouting about “protecting women and girls” as they form gangs are the very same who, in another century, would have lit the pyres for any woman even vaguely deviant — branding her a witch and burning her alive. Groupthink and violence has always worn the mask of virtue.

This is the future of England unless we stop this www.facebook.com/share/v/16zj...

Here is Fedaa ❤️ a pediatrician from Gaza 🇵🇸.. living with my family through the famine we have lost every thing .. struggling to keep my family safe . Living literally in starvation .. your help no matter small give us chance to survive .. please share 🙏 chuffed.org/project/save... #freePalestine

Think about every pro-Israel person who denied this was the plan for the past 22 months; who gaslit you; denied this to you; pretended this wasn't the plan. And then never believe those liars about anything ever again.

What are your experiences of being asked in healthcare about your employment status as a pt? Does it always feel necessary? Do you feel directly or silently judged if you're unemployed? Do you feel it impacts on your care if you are unemployed/in receipt of benefits?

Basically rich people (note that includes MP’s) get 20 more healthy years than the poorest 10th. The rich enter pension age healthy, the poor will have to work over 15 years while unwell.

new research project exploring how Palestinian solidarity is silenced, disciplined or managed in British mental health care. We will share the sensitive and underrepresented stories that demonstrate racism’s presence inside our health care institutions, training spaces and the therapy room