#mentalillness #disability Stressing the mentally ill out by increasingly harsher welfare policies is a mind bogglingly idiotic and counterproductive thing to do in order to make more people with a mental illness genuinely fit and able for work.

I've written a blog post about my first and second psychotic experiences and the main differences. Not sure why, really, but it's there for anyone who is interested. odnejad.blogspot.com/2024/04/fantas…

Scoop: former Tory deputy chairman picks a fight with an avocado, or rather, an advacado (sic).🥑

Dr Annie Hickox Dr Evans (MSc, PhD) 🧠 That’ll be 200 guineas - or whatever our Harley Street friend charges when he isn’t cosying up to his right-wing political friends.

Dr Evans (MSc, PhD) 🧠 Keep an eye on your blood pressure, don’t drink to excess and enjoy your life. That’s the best brain health advice you’ll ever get!

Oops 😬

Thank God someone has finally stood up to the harassment of this vile individual.

‘Deprioritising women’s health’ is a euphemism for wilful disregard for women’s heath. Which affects us all. theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

btw i do sincerely appreciate that some critical psychs are attempting to engage with my work instead of using lawyers to try to silence it. i have tons more respect for that than i do for those who simply try to discredit or silence mad and neurodivergent critics of their work.

This is what a ‘hate march’ actually looks like.

great reporting by Sara Luterman on our recent article on the history of neurodiversity theory and the various controversies surrounding it.

(also lol'd at the quote 'Actually I have no idea what Robert Chapman is')

19thnews.org/2024/04/neurod…

for the avoidance of any doubt, i am happy to call myself anti-psychiatry. but i think it's important to distinguish different kinds of anti-psychiatry. i like laing, foucault, and basaglia. i do not like szasz, breggin, and contemporary bourgeois critical psych.

Lisa Wallace🐠 Samei Huda Samei speaks up more about potential harms of medication than pretty much anyone else on mental health Twitter

I’m not ignoring that at all I’m just pointing out how anti psychiatry discourse gets taken up by the right wing #happytohelp

Helpful words on the discipline of writing openly about mental illness.
I hope that my fellow bloggers out there find this provides a bit of inspo:
“If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk

But anyway it's interesting when we consider that right wingers often claim that recognizing neurodivergent impairments hinders us being able to take responsibility and achieve things and so on - seems the ideology does not fit with the science.

Interesting finding: neurodivergent people who believe ND traits are natural and that ND people share similar traits 'were more likely to say that they themselves could achieve and overcome obstacles' and reported higher 'self-efficacy' (h/t Joshua Habgood-Coote)
psyche.co/ideas/essentia…

This is a beautiful tribute to a mum who was lost too soon.
She left the gift of her beautiful and creative daughter, Anneli 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 behind.