Kate Swaffer she/her ❤️🌈🖤🌈💛🌈

This cartoon captures the denial & downplaying of antidepressant withdrawal by leading figures in British psychiatry (in their own words....). This is what patients have been up against....

@markhoro we can only hope @markhoro :-(

Really important study showing that reducing psychiatric drug use in people with dementia reduced psychiatric symptoms such as hallucinations, apathy, depression and reduced falls. I hope the people on this platform advocating for increased use of psychotropics in this population despite evidence read it carefully. Link below.

Rejecting The Health Care Trap - "An oligarch-funded think tank is trying to preemptively undermine Medicare For All even before Democrats win back power. Some candidates are rejecting the ploy." levernews.com/rejecting-the-… concerning 🙄

Meant to add you @DiverseAlz (ps I'm very rarely here these days!!!) xx

For those of us who care about the safety of people with #dementia, this is more than worrying levernews.com/the-campaign-t… @flavin_theresa @Dem_Adv @joannamoncrieff @robwipond @MarkHorowitz @AndrewKaufmanMD @DrDaleBredesen @DementiaAllianc @jball49

Agree, and this is why rising rates of antidepressant use among young women is so worrying. Many will have been on antidepressants for 10 years or more when they get pregnant and getting off them after this amount of time is frequently difficult

@fraveris @TomVargheseJr True. @KateSwaffer

@DiverseAlz @drshibley thanks for the tag... I can't recall where I may have written or presented about this! If you find it, please let me know xx

Okay, sure @kateswaffer has written about her experiences with sleep. At least, thought had read something once. Hopefully, she'll respond next time she is here on X or does anyone else know cc @drshibley #diversealz

Now the emphasis could be on @DementiaAllianc (Dementia Alliance International) cofounded by @KateSwaffer. #diversealz

Bet you didn't know that one of the @dementiaalliance initiatives started from a conversation via #diversealz many years ago so now remembering Romina Oliviero and of course @KateSwaffer

#AusDisLit nonfiction from 2026 by Kate Swaffer @KateSwaffer The continuing pathologisation of dementia kateswaffer.com/2026/03/11/the… kateswaffer.com/2026/03/11/the…

End placement poverty in Australia. Please consider signing this VIP petition. actionnetwork.org/petitions/expa…

Happy New Year... My first blog for 2026! #Dementia #DisabilityRights #UNCRPD #Audism #Stigma #Discrimination #BenevolentOthering #BanBPSD kateswaffer.com/2026/01/07/dem… @flavin_theresa @DementiaAllianc @johnzeisel @dementia_aat @demrescommunity @DementiaUK @DiverseAlz @alzheimerssoc

@HomanNews truth

🚨 BREAKING: Jim Carrey just went on a rant claiming President Trump is “tearing the country apart,” “destroying institutions,” and acting like a “used car salesman.” Seriously? What’s your response to Jim Carrey? 👀

Sigh. Another day, another meta-analysis which claims that continuing drugs is better than stopping them when they are stopped in 2 weeks or less. The absolute state of this field.

I've spent years exposing what SSRIs actually do. Now I'm exposing the larger system. Psychiatry is one tentacle. Mind control is the body. New series begins now.

New Resource for people with #Dementia & their #CarePartners & families: "Staying Active with Dementia" kateswaffer.com/2025/12/17/new… @flavin_theresa @DementiaAllianc @DementiaAus @dementia_aat @DiverseAlz @AlzheimersNZ @AlzDisInt @dr_shibley @Resthaven_SA @anglicare_aust @DemSupportAu

@joannamoncrieff Most of these issues apply to the mistreatment, institutionalisation, segregation in locked wards and overmedication of people with #dementia in part due to the harmful labelling #BPSD it is 100% time to #BanBPSD

1) confounding stress and distress with mental disorder; 2) ignoring context 3) the rise of internet self-diagnosis; 4) loose and fuzzily defined diagnostic criteria; 5) careless diagnosis 6) marketing; and 7) tying benefits to diagnosis rather than level of functioning.