Saying patients with long-standing #eatingdisorders cannot change before we have even worked out what might help them more effectively is premature and unethical. Instead of giving up on people we must be honest about what we don’t know and seek to understand more.

Disabled isn’t a bad word ❤️

Tweets like “gentle reminder that mental illness makes you sad sometimes, and sometimes it makes you quite anxious. But mental illness does NOT [lists common traits of mania and schizophrenia]”

Less than a day after a guy tried to firebomb hundreds of people, we’re back to encouraging people to imagine the creative ways they could kill refugees

The day before my son should have been 26, and on the day the news is reporting 3 suicides relating to the same hospital, I’d like to make a point about the language around suicide. It’s only going to be 3/4 tweets. If you agree, please retweet and let’s see how this goes

👋🏼 18-25?
👋🏽 Right handed?
👋🏾 Woman?
👋🏿 Experience of Anorexia?

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After Sarah Everard’s death, half of the women in the UK (47%) said they had lost trust in the police, according to a YouGov poll – a number we can assume will rise after the latest damning report. graziadaily.co.uk/life/in-the-ne…

ED aren’t transient disorders, they last for years. The brain is very sensitive to starvation. The cortex reduces in size in anorexia but this can be reversed. #FEDRCPsych22

Missed u 💗

When involving people with #livedexperience in your research, please don't consider only what you want to get out of them. Think also about what they might want to get out of taking part, and how the project can serve them to develop and grow as individuals.

Really interesting evening seeing Dr Richard Shepherd talk about his career - one of my favourite things is learn in about other peoples jobs because all I’ve ever known is nursing/therapy.

This entire thread just shows how bananas this website is

I love how every article about how to manage health is always like “reduce your stressors” “manage stress”, as if we don’t live on planet earth in 2022

The implication that those of us who say we're mentally ill are misinformed/naive/being duped/pawns in some wider debate which we're too wedded to the evils of psychiatry to see is hideously stigmatising. We know better than anyone how harmful - & how helpful - psychiatry can be.