In this article Lucy Foulkes misses the mark. It's not that we're "over-diagnosing mental illness", as she suggests, it's that we're over-medicalising & over-depoliticising widespread social suffering as requiring psych rather than structural solutions. https://t.co/CgXg40JOCy

There is no biological difference that can be used to differentiate people with an ADHD diagnosis from those without it. There are no characteristic genetic, brain or chemical differentiators between those with or without an ADHD diagnosis.

Have we turned child rearing into a project that seems loaded with fear as we embarked on a war on emotions? See full podcast at https://t.co/w0xP8JFccm

ADHD emerges and gets popularised because of cultural, not scientific, reasons. Shifts in public and political concerns will shift interest, conversations, funding, service provision, and so on. Is this not a prime example of a social construct?

ADHD did not exist until it was imagined into being. There was no ADHD until someone called it ADHD (or its precursor names). Is losing this memory reshaping our model of humanity?

Hmmmm 🤔 Recollections may vary??

Important argument to those who say ozempic will cure all our ills!

The public in UK & US believe we need more controls vs the threat of UPF junk food- 74% think food firms are not honest about their health impact - 61% worry about amnt of sugar & sat fat & 87% believe producers will never make their food more nutritious

If we want people to change what they do, nothing equals the power of peer-to-peer influence. We need to move away from "change management" practices that assume that people will change their minds, attitudes or mindsets via rational understanding, data or emotional engagement.

A routine is "a sequence of actions performed as part of a regular procedure rather than for a special reason". When something is "routine", it can be perceived as dull, mechanistic, crushing creativity & agency. Yet something we see often in high performing organisations is that

Manx Care’s Acute Mental Health Services are asking for donations to support activities and therapies within the Glen Suite. Find out more here: https://t.co/7rIxzCzgfS

As the work we do as leaders becomes more complex & system-focussed, we need to shift our leadership development approaches: FROM growing the skills of individual leaders TO developing system leaders for people-focused collective improvement. The Collaborative Leadership Canvas

New study suggests that hospitalisation did not reduce a person’s risk of fatal or nonfatal suicide attempts in the next year https://t.co/UkxHuMjmWl

Clinician biases in psychiatric assessments lead to different treatment recommendations for people with identical symptoms https://t.co/PcsNdu1GEx

The biggest scandal in healthcare: Prescription drugs are the leading cause of death. And psychiatric drugs are the third leading cause of death. Depression drugs are the major killer. See my article:

Stopping antipsychotic drugs is associated with better outcomes for people diagnosed with schizophrenia, new study shows. In the long run, those stoping antipsychotics had better social functioning & quality of life and were more likely to be employed.

A response to "not all are suicidal, some have personality disorders" from the @guardian last week. https://t.co/z3ZkTwtem7 @ccdavies reports that of those threatening suicide on the Thames "Not all are suicidal, some have personality disorders"...

Full article: “I found hundreds of other people…but I still wasn’t believed” – An exploratory study on lived experiences of antipsychotic withdrawal

🧵 Today we've launched our '360 review' of mental health care services in England. This deep dive explores nine key areas including prevalence, access, funding and services for children and young people. #MentalHealth360 https://t.co/kQFORoLyvq

Antipsychotics lead to worse outcomes in first-episode psychosis https://t.co/lq6DyOwKcL