Dr Annie Hickox
@DrAnnieHickox
Consultant Clinical Psychologist+Neuropsychologist + PhD. Private Practice/NHS 40 years. . Bennington College, Edinburgh University. 100% personal account.
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http://dranniehickox.co.uk 06-04-2015 20:16:48
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#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.
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!
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…
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
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.