#Psychiatric

Awais Aftab

awaisaftab

1/ I do think a lot of problems with current practices in psychiatry have to be do with system issues, however, these system issues have been synergistic with a variety

President-Elect MJ

mjoneillnoise

Thoughts on R U OK Day (From Someone Who Just Had A Mental Breakdown and Nearly Died A Buncha Times) In Australia, we like to think of certain issues as

Durgadas Allon Duriel

DurgadasADuriel

I’d really like someone who believes severe mental illness can be cured by energy work to spend a week in my old job as an intensive psychiatric social worker and

Noah Halpin

Noah_Halpin

THREAD: So under the guise of COVID, where they assumed that no one would notice, the psychiatric team at the National Gender Service have began insisting that ADULT patient‘s parents

Luke Sheridan Rains

sheridan_rains

Our new paper looks at why rates of involuntary hospitalisation are rising. It was conducted by the @MentalHealthPRU for the #MHAReview in 2018. We were interested in whether there have

Indigo Daya

IndigoDaya

“Why I’m a mad activist”THREAD 1/1137 years ago I was a victim of child sexual abuse, by a man who abducted me.The police did nothing. My mother said to never

Dr Chloe Beale 🏳️‍🌈

DrChloeBeale

I’d like to campaign for certain words and phrases to be banished forever from the psychiatric lexicon. Starting a list, with explanations. Please join in. ‘Medically cleared’. This is obvious,

AAdhira 🌙🇮🇳

Aadhiraspeaks

Past life regression ThreadReincarnation and Karma are integral part of Sanatan Dharma. Western world however denied it due to lack of scientific evidence.How ever time to time there were attempts

Eilionóir Flynn

eilionoirflynn

Some initial thoughts on the disability discrimination section of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission Report. First, more work is needed to seek out & respect the views of disabled

Chris

chr1s_2_far

one of many things that fucks me off with these pricks is that they don’t care about compulsory medical intervention until it affects them, I bet he’s got no clue

SidebarWithSindi

sindivanzyl

When I started chronic medication for #depression , I was started on:• Fluoxetine/ Prozac : antidepressant • Clobazam/ Urbanol : anti-anxiolytic• Trazodone : antidepressant• Lamotrigine/ Epitec : mood stabiliser• Loprazolam/

Post-Liberal Pete 🇬🇧

post_liberal

‘Almost a third of 17-year-olds have tried cannabis and one in ten have tried harder drugs, such as cocaine, ecstasy and ketamine, with similar rates of experimentation regardless of parents’

Mallory Moore

Chican3ry

Please stop saying "trans women are among the least privileged in our society".It's really not a very good way of understanding either the issues trans women face, nor is it

Awais Aftab

awaisaftab

My view:i) Use of diagnostic concepts such as schizophrenia requires balancing reliability, validity, & utility, & there can be reasonable disagreement in how they are best balanced. ii) I think

Micah Allen

micahgallen

In my experience, with enough data you do find lots of correlations between psychiatric symptoms and "cogneuro" measures, but always r ~ 0.15-.20. maybe .3 for very general measures like

The Silent War Room

SilentWarRoom

Expanding the #FreeAssangeNOWCall campaign to the acting DoJ Pardon Attorney:Rosalind [email protected] can both call *AND* email her directly.-----Background and specific pointers to raise with the Par

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