Robert Freudenthal

@carolinebos Great to hear from you!

@RobFreudenthal I haven't seen you here in forever Rob! So good to see you again!

Absolutely agree Mental illness is part of the human condition. It's hard for us to accept but it's true. There never will be "one approach" that solves mental illness. Sometimes (most of the time) noone is to blame.

@dredbeveridge @aluzri1 @rcpsych Sure! In my view geopolitical analyses are best kept out of RCPsych talks but guess that boat has long sailed... IMO we comment and campaign on these v important issues as citizens not as psychiatrists

@RobFreudenthal @aluzri1 @rcpsych It's not all on there - the diagram was built up as the talk went on...

Helpful article, the arguments could be applied to most "zero" campaigns -- The zero suicide approach: style over substance | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/44ura8H

"Lockdowns are not suitable for every country. In the pandemic, richer nations pressured low- and middle-income countries to introduce lockdowns, with disastrous consequences... the result was massive impoverishment which will take years to recover from." From today's guardian

Some truths that need to be applied to assisted dying: --- State power is not experienced by everyone the same Doctors and judges do not know the inner workings of an individual's mind Power tends to expand when given the opportunity

"very small number of people" In Holland, >5% of all deaths are from assisted dying, and the number increases every year

Meet @DrJBhattacharya just nominated by Trump as the new NIH Director “Lockdowns were an enormous & catastrophic mistake.. We should recoil with horror.. Covid policies violated medical ethics & crushed ability for physicians/scientists to discuss facts/evidence.. many silenced"

@LucyPednekar @dredbeveridge @DrLadeSmith @rcpsych @RoySocMed In that context some patients do have palliative care needs (eg around pain, extreme frailty etc) and palliative care can be necessary otherwise people can be left with unmet care needs Thankfully in eating disorder context this is v rare

@LucyPednekar @dredbeveridge @DrLadeSmith @rcpsych @RoySocMed Yes - lots of difficulties all round! The argument I will put forward at RSM is that it is impossible to predict when change might occur for someone else and therefore treatment should always be offered, however there are also practical/ethical/legal limits to coercive care

A forgotten issue in a forgotten population- but people living with severe mental illness deserve the best palliative care when they need it. It's good to see this being considered as a key step towards #parityofesteem @DrLadeSmith @rcpsych @RoySocMed

Oh dear, if "there will be psychiatrists involved" is considered an adequate safeguard then help us all

In today’s @PrivateEyeNews, I ask why lead prosecution expert Dr Dewi Evans has not even been contacted by @Thirlwall_Inq to give a statement and to give evidence. He diagnosed definitive murders where dozens of others had failed, and he thinks if he’d been called in earlier, he would’ve stopped Letby in her tracks. Surely the inquiry needs to hear this? I also don’t understand why the police have not been in touch with him after he passed on another 25 suspicious cases over a year ago (and has recently spotted a 26th). And finally, I don’t understand how all the independent experts for the prosecution spotted murder and attempted murder but no substandard care. Whereas experts who have looked at the case notes since, have spotted seriously substandard care but no definitive evidence of murder. How can experts looking at the same notes hold such different views? All in @PrivateEyeNews

*for me, this contributes to the dehumanisation of Gazans and others caught up in this conflict, and shallowness of supposed soliday expressed in the West: usual principles are discarded in favour of Gazans being treated like objects in the ideological warfare of others

V helpful article exploring the question of why (unlike those fleeing other wars to seek safety) there is no campaign to grant Gazan refugees asylum, for those that seek it*

This CS Lewis quote applies here:

Lucy Letby: The Killer Questions File on 4 examines some of the most contentious statistical, scientific and medical evidence in the Lucy Letby trial. 🎧 Listen on @BBCSounds. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

This is weak leadership PM is the elected leader of the country, and should have an internal moral core that on an issue like this, should be articulated and brought under democratic process for scrutiny Citing a promise to a celebrity campaigner isn't it

Medical experts and scientists have told #Fileon4 they have new concerns about how some of the evidence used in the trial of baby-killer Lucy Letby was presented in court and raise questions over the safety of her convictions. File on 4 | @BBCSounds bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…