#Psychiatry

Jack Turban MD 🏳️‍🌈 🧠

jack_turban

That’s a pretty bold statement with no linked evidence, @mashagessen. You left out that these bills are also opposed by every major medical organization (American Psychiatric Association, American Academy of

Niamh Shields

eatlikeagirl

It blows my mind that a lot of the misinformation on ADHD come from an anti-psychiatry and especially anti-ADHD Scientology campaign. That it isn't real, that it is over-diagnosed (SPOILER:

Dr. Juliette McClendon

DrJulietteM

The stain of racism is deep within the origins of Psychiatry and Psychology. History lesson thread...1/14 Early in its lifetime, psychiatry played a central role in justifying chattel slavery. The

Elise Kumar 🤷‍♀️ Extremely Earnest 🚪👻

elisekumar

Although psychiatry is relatively new and pathologising neurodivergent traits is also new... neurodivergence is not new. And before we were pathologised we were far from being accepted or supported. Before

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

Tyler Black, MD

tylerblack32

Psychiatry pro tip:If you are suspicious but not certain your patient is manic, they almost certainly are not.The bleeding of "mania" leads to significant overmedication and inappropriate prescriptions of substances

Prof Zenkus

anthonyzenkus

Psychology perpetuates the lie that negative behaviors of victims of capitalism are diseases and the destructive behaviors of the ruling class are never considered a problem.But - the ruling class'

Hajer Nakua

HajerNakua

“The neuro-essentialist discourse pushes aside this relationship by suggesting that academic and social failures, which are actually more frequent in disadvantaged children, result from their intrinsic neurodevelopmental dysfunctions of g

Brittany Moyce Gruber

brittany_moyce

TW: suicide In 2018, I faced serious mental health challenges, exacerbated by #chronicillness and reached a point where I planned to take my life. My #academic and #research productivity had

sapphic suplex

128harps

here’s a quick thread on this essay and the ‘ADHD is caused by capitalism’ discussion and what i think it gets wrongand why people need to stop arguing on twitter

Graham Pechenik

calyxlaw

Psychological support in psilocybin therapy?Compass publishes new “formal & scalable methodology“$CMPS also has pending patent applications on elements of psilocybin-assisted therapyCould patents stop others from offering psychologi

Walter M Chesnut

Parsifaler

1) CRITICAL!!: The entirety of COVID-19 is cholinergic. Children have less severe cases overall as their cerebral cortex has not developed AChE-reactive cholinoceptive pyramidal neurons. They are less likely to

Dr Benjamin 'Ward Viking' Janaway 💙

drjanaway

A few weeks into adult #psychiatry and what I have learned so far to be important;1) Time; is everything. Mental Illness and suffering robs us of time, and finding it

Daniel E. Gih MD

DrDanielGih

Had a few students recently ask me if “research” is necessary to successfully match in #psychiatry. Simple answer: no (unless applying to a research track.)A thread #MedStudentTwitter #psychtwitter What

Periel Shapiro פריאל

PShapMD

Psychosis on Twitter?Curious about a realistic delusion that my patient has regarding government surveillance, I found myself scrolling in fascination through Twitter feeds and Facebook groups full of borderline-believable content,

Morganㅡ

agirlwakingup

You know what I realized recently. psychiatry basically teaches you to be helpless & keeps you dependent. It presents itself as a way to 𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 patients ("this drug saved me.")

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