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starfish health and wellbeing is part of the Starfish Group delivering mental health services across the UK.
England, United Kingdom Katılım Ocak 2017
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Compassionate, collaborative care for self-harm/suicidal thoughts saves lives
A Borderline Personality Disorder diagnosis can be applied too readily and cause harm
My view - can act as a barrier to accessing best care due to stigma and prejudice
What do you think? Pls vote 🙏🏼
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The amazing @wordsbyHG sharing insights into the therapeutic benefits of @LEGO_Group , play & activity based mindfulness.
Canary@TheCanaryUK
Over the past 30 years, LEGO has been used as a therapeutic tool for both children & adults. Many people benefit from this intervention, but how exactly does LEGO help adults heal from trauma? Guest author @wordsbyHG delves into the issue. Read more: thecanary.co/opinion/2024/0…
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Messing about with the brain: a response to commentaries on ‘Depression: why electricity and drugs are not the answer’ | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/49FkzZe
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Rose Cartwright was told 'the root cause of mental illnesses are biological abnormalities in the brain' but realised this was not true and not helpful theguardian.com/society/2024/a…
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Great study. 27 years after our first review showing child abuse is a cause of psychosis. How many more studies like this before psychiatry actually starts asking and listening?
Admissions for psychosis following agency-notified child maltreatment ... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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The metaphor of the medical model hides the problems we face in life & focuses away from the things we need to deal with. #medicalisation #emotionaldistress #AD4E theguardian.com/society/2024/a…
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Childhood trauma isn't just about what happened; it's also about what didn't happen.
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One in 9 girls and 1 in 20 boys under the age of 18 are sexually abused.
Where is the similar outrage at the absent or overmedicalisation of care?
Where the concerns about safety?
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Excited to be part of this conference today, organised by @TeesPsych students and South Tees Well-being network
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Assuming a diagnostic identity won't save you from structural harm, erase your trauma or heal relational deprivation. It won't lead to political uprising or systemic reform, but will just further entrench the widespread depoliticisation/commodification of socially-rooted distress
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Instead of using social policy to tackle the systematic drivers of the nation's ever worsening mental health, our politicians call for 'more anti-stigma campaigns, mental-health-aid at work & better access to GPs', as if this is the real solution. You see the problem here, right?
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From Mad in the Netherlands: If coercion doesn’t work, why is it used it so much?
madintheuk.com/2024/04/if-coe…
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Hardest Geezer: The man who ran the entire length of Africa bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
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Another taboo topic: do ‘antipsychotics’ cause withdrawal symptoms? @joannamoncrieff @markhoro @CEP_UK @MarnieWedlake @dranneguy @IndigoDaya @Institute_PDW tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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Walk and talk (just a bit faster) @RonnieBage
Nicholas Fabiano, MD@NTFabiano
Fast walkers have higher IQ and larger brains than slow walkers. 🧵1/9
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Wellbeing Alternatives to the Medicalisation of Human Distress delivered by South Tees Wellbeing Network inc @Iain_caldwell @makingsenseofuk -#AD4E teeswellbeingnetwork.org/events
Dr James Davies (PhD) 💭@JDaviesPhD
The number of psych-diagnoses has vastly expanded over the last 40 years, with each newly coined 'disorder' creating a fresh and fattening market for treatments. As Robert Spitzer the creator of DSM-III summed it up: "The pharmaceuticals were delighted with the DSM".
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