Kate Swaffer she/her ❤️🌈🖤🌈💛🌈
@KateSwaffer
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PhD Candidate, UniSA. Civil Rights Campaigner. Optimist. Retweets are not endorsements. #IVotedYES 💚 #KaurnaCountry
Adelaide SA
Joined June 2009
Sigh. Another day, another meta-analysis which claims that continuing drugs is better than stopping them when they are stopped in 2 weeks or less. The absolute state of this field.
@ProfRobHoward The review admits the longest taper was just two weeks, with many stopped abruptly. Symptoms emerging after such short tapers are far more likely to reflect withdrawal, not relapse—making conclusions about “no effect of withdrawal speed” fundamentally weak.
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I've spent years exposing what SSRIs actually do. Now I'm exposing the larger system. Psychiatry is one tentacle. Mind control is the body. New series begins now.
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New Resource for people with #Dementia & their #CarePartners & families: "Staying Active with Dementia" https://t.co/UDQNtXq7nK
@flavin_theresa @DementiaAllianc @DementiaAus @dementia_aat @DiverseAlz @AlzheimersNZ @AlzDisInt @dr_shibley @Resthaven_SA @anglicare_aust @DemSupportAu
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1) confounding stress and distress with mental disorder; 2) ignoring context 3) the rise of internet self-diagnosis; 4) loose and fuzzily defined diagnostic criteria; 5) careless diagnosis 6) marketing; and 7) tying benefits to diagnosis rather than level of functioning.
My letter today to The Guardian describes the 7 causes of massive mental disorder overdiagnosis & the consequent harms to our patients & to society. https://t.co/TF9EINnHFL
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It's hard to overstate what an invaluable resource this has been for so many people.
After close to 15 years, in which we changed the conversation, the peer support site https://t.co/CIzTnPz4Lr will close January 31 to become a read-only resource for tapering psychiatric drugs & recovering from withdrawal syndrome. Best wishes for your healing journeys, always.
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@RpsAgainstTrump He is deeply mentally ill, as well as evil and utterly unfit for office. The 25th Amendment MUST be invoked. Vance and the Congress have no excuse not to rid the country of this disgusting criminal.
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Letters from psychiatrists supporting concerns about psychiatric diagnosis: It is 'often unnecessary to fit somebody into a diagnostic category to offer them appropriate help'
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Letters: Dr Richard Hassall, Allen Frances and Natasha Fairbairn respond to a column by John Harris which argued that the health secretary should not jump on a rightwing bandwagon about mental health
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Most people either overhype AI (“it will write your paper for you”) or dismiss it (“AI can’t help with my research”) The reality lies in "Integration" ⤵️ Here's the process I use: — @scispace_ turns research questions into instant paper summaries with context-aware Q&A. —
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What we call pathology is often protest against conditions that act against the flourishing & well-being of the individual. Conversely, to be 'well-adpated' often means to have sacrificed vital aspects of the self to become one of the demoralised/servile cogs inequality relies on
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A brilliant, interactive tutorial by the University of Sheffield on how to do a literature review: Covers: What is a literature review? Finding information sources Organising your sources Synthesising your sources Writing your review Link: https://t.co/ksI4CC0Dms
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Asking questions about why we give our gas away for free...
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From @NBCNews “We need large, nonindustry funded trials to examine what happens when people stop antidepressants, using various tapering strategies and long enough follow-up,” Cohen said. “We need dozens of such trials now.”
"Dr. Mark Horowitz, a clinical research fellow at University College London who led the withdrawal study, said other research has found that roughly a quarter of patients experience severe symptoms when they abruptly stop taking their medications, from burning pain in the skin or
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I enjoyed talking to Jenn and Teralyn @TheGaslitTruth. We discussed how reductive it is to think of emotional problems as brain disorders, the dangers of using drugs to suppress emotions, and how little we really know about serotonin, among other things
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Study 329 is one of the worst cases of pharmaceutical misconduct ever published. GSK used it to promote Paxil for depressed kids—even though the trial failed and showed increased suicidal behavior.
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The Advertiser @theTiser in Australia fits this subscripton trap category! Very difficult to unsubscribe!!!
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Many subscription services offer easy sign ups, with a few clicks and your credit card. Proposed new laws could soon make sure it’s just as easy to cancel.
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The current government, so much spin, so many sneaky tactics, ongoing lies and bullshit https://t.co/hxk8oBC0dp btw, I detest the other parties too! The lack of trust, integrity and honesty are crippling
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The government’s laws cancelling social security payments for some accused of crimes turn a safety net into a weapon for punishing people.
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It's almost Christmas. We still boycotting Harvey Norman? Just checking.
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@Victoria00025 Nope. That’s not why more and more people can’t stand Trump. He is the most prolific liar this country has EVER seen. You can’t trust him.
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