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@cdaly72 “It’s all your fault!” Incredible and spot on.

I've been re-watching Years and Years over the past few days. Such a brilliant series, with events that are almost a premonition of what's happening just a few years later. One character says, 'Do you remember years ago? We used to think the news was boring.'

Finland tracked every gender-referred adolescent in the country for up to 25 years. Their psychiatric needs didn't improve after 'gender reassignment'. They surged. A landmark peer-reviewed study just dropped. Here's what it found. 🧵

@LexieLovesBooks @Telegraph @dr_musgrave As someone who’s father had bipolar - although only after being prescribed escalating doses of ssri and who was left on a medication that caused encephalitis. I do believe these drugs have a place but I think they are prescribed to liberally

@LexieLovesBooks @Telegraph @dr_musgrave You’re right it doesn’t and yet many people are medicated for being sad - as a healthcare professional who was prescribed an ssri aged 17 from which I have never been able to withdraw from, as someone who lost their brother to suicide at 24 after being prescribed seroxat

🗣️ "Perverse incentives are currently labelling a generation of children as neuro-diverse, while locking many into a dependence on state benefits," writes @dr_musgrave. 🔗: telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/0…

@LexieLovesBooks @Telegraph @dr_musgrave I think we over medicate. Giving someone an incurable diagnosis which must be managed for the rest of their life is not always helpful. Many ‘sad’ people have been treated for depression often with devastating consequences. Pretty much all of us qualify under the current dsm.

@elliebatch @Telegraph @dr_musgrave Sadness is significantly different to depression. Understanding that is helpful. Being energetic is again massively different to having ADHD. And we don't medicate everything first. There are other strategies used/offered for many things. You sound like a tik tok talking shop.

@USMortality On balance, the effects of the virus were magnified whilst the effects from the vaccine were minimised (hidden). The fact that the latter did nothing to mitigate the former is also relevant. Everyone on the planet knows this now and either admits it or pretends otherwise

🍿💪 Well done Stefan!

@LexieLovesBooks @Telegraph @dr_musgrave I don’t agree, I don’t think stigma is much of an issue. Sharp increases in diagnoses and medication in recent years - 10% increase in the last year in the uk. Do we have to pathologise every single human condition/emotion?

@elliebatch @Telegraph @dr_musgrave A dx is only burdensome because of the stigma that exists in society. Understanding the why of something, even if it is mild or temporary can be and usually is part of the solution. And if something is mild, they don't usually straight up offer medication especially to children.

@LexieLovesBooks @Telegraph @dr_musgrave I agree that a dx can help some children when symptoms are extreme but for many with mild symptoms a dx is burdensome - a lifelong label that defines them. The impacts of medicating a developing brain are largely unknown.

@elliebatch @Telegraph @dr_musgrave Not every case is going to need medication. And a dx helps a child or person understand the world that they're in, work their way through. It can be part of the solution. If people were more supportive and understanding.

@LexieLovesBooks @Telegraph @dr_musgrave No I’m very clear where the distress is coming from just not sure the solution is to pathologise the distress and medicate it.

@elliebatch @Telegraph @dr_musgrave Camhs has been under funded for years, ed psych the same. Young children recent went through the pandemic where their schooling and development was significantly altered with no plans for support. And you're not sure where the distress is coming from?!

@LexieLovesBooks @Telegraph @dr_musgrave Maybe not every energetic child, I should have said why so many. Why is the prevalence of diagnosis SO high and is it helping them? As a mum of 3 who works in urgent treatment I’ve never seen a generation so psychologically distressed with waiting lists for camhs into years

@elliebatch @Telegraph @dr_musgrave They're not. GPs cannot diagnose ADHD. And not every child with ADHD is medicated. Maybe use some critical thinking skills before falling down the trap door there.

@MichaelRosenYes Rash is a very late sign and yet it seems to be the defining characteristic that people look for.

For your information: when Eddie died of meningitis, he didn't have a rash on his body. I discovered after he had died (as I was pulling him from his bed) that he had a rash in his armpits.

@rayaddisonlive Our UTC saw 140 today ( staffed based on 60). 60% should’ve been GP, 40% required our services and 20% should’ve stayed at home and put on a plaster/taken 2 paracetamol. Most arrived after 5pm after they’d finished work/picked up kids - not exactly urgent..!

Hellish day in A&E. The doctors and nurses are working flat out but the constant stream of patients is just too much. When I was a kid if you went to A&E you saw people with broken arms and bloody eye patches, things cut off or sticking out of their head. Today it was just people who couldn't get a GP appointment. Why do we not have enough doctor's surgeries in this country? Is it financially unviable to run one, too expensive to become a GP, or no longer a sought after career? What the hell is going on?

@Keir_Starmer Butter has a bloody security tag on it!

Tackling the cost of living is my government’s number one priority. National Living Wage and the Pension Triple lock increased from April. Rail fares frozen. Extending free school meals, 5p fuel duty and capping bus fares at £3. Change does not happen overnight, but change is happening.

@DrHuw @chelseajade7426 Perhaps they were knocking off 3 minutes early to get cracking on the 14 hours online mandatory training they haven’t had the opportunity to complete in ‘work time’ ?

@chelseajade7426 I wish it was - these type of people really do exist in the NHS

Sharon is every NHS Agenda for Change manager…

@Heccles94 Calling the Covid jab a ‘vaccine’ has done more harm to vaccination programs than any strident anti-vaxxer could’ve hoped

Anti-Vax conspiracies kill and cause harm. Vaccinate your kids.

@IanCopeland5 Base rate?

92% of US Measles cases are in the unvaccinated. But vaccines don't work.... Right?

@IanCopeland5 5 year survival for pancreatic ca with conventional treatment is dismal. He did pretty well

Steve Jobs was a billionaire. Steve Jobs was diagnosed with a treatable form of Pancreatic cancer. Steve Jobs refused conventional treatment in favor of an "all fruit diet". Steve Jobs died 7 years after diagnosis. There is no "alternative cancer therapy". Thats 🐂💩...

@USMortality @NBCNews Just call the cough a different name and not test for it that way you’ll see cases fall through the floor.

@NBCNews Nonsense. The vaccination has never been shown in a double blinded placebo controlled trial to prevent whooping cough cases.

Whooping cough cases soar as vaccination rates drop. nbcnews.com/health/kids-he…

Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real? #IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill