By hannah daisy thanks for sharing T.O. Walker
#mentalhealth awarenessweek
#mentalhealth

What a thought.
'Human rights whistleblower lawyers contend the Australian government should protect #whistleblowers who expose wrongdoing, not punish them'
blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/australia-ja… 🙏Maryanne Demasi, PhD

Make no mistake—corporations in the mental health 'space' (as it's now come to be called) are corporations. No matter the messaging, it's about business. Never forget it. /1

Can We Talk About Spirituality? The Medicalization of Transpersonal Experiences
(Originally published on Mad in Sweden)

Even social work rarely leaves space for lived experiences of spirituality, though it instills hope, strength, and meaning.
madinamerica.com/2024/05/medica…

I’ve been in two hospitals that didn’t let patients outside.

Big thanks to Carl Elliott, Centre for Free Expression and a great audience for last evening’s webinar about #whistleblowing , and the price of saying no.
 
Dark topic but with Carl Elliott, always a lot of 🤣🤣🤣

Link to watch here: cfe.torontomu.ca/events/why-doe…

1/ It’s more helpful to think of depression as an effect, not cause. We can think of depression as the psychic equivalent of fever. Fever is a “nonspecific” symptom of a wide range of underlying conditions, from the common cold to ebola. Likewise, depression is a nonspecific

Just a reminder: when choosing for themselves, psychiatrists generally prefer to ditch the antidepressants #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek

Most NYC Public Hospitals Deny Psych Patients Time Outside, Lawyers Say, via Gothamist
madinamerica.com/2024/05/most-n…

Seeded by pharma decades ago, the original objective of public mental health campaigns was to drive people to psychiatric drug treatment. By the sales figures, they’ve clearly succeeded. At for reducing “mental illness”, who knows?

MPs demand a rethink on mental illness spectator.co.uk/article/mps-de…
Anne Guy 💙 Beyond Pills APPG Dr James Davies (PhD) 💭 CEP Mark Horowitz Dr Joanna Moncrieff Prof. Peter C Gøtzsche Peter Kinderman Mad In America Mad In The UK

Psychotherapy alone beats antidepressants alone for depression. But it also beats combination therapy (drugs plus therapy), shows a new study in Psychological Medicine. This contradicts conventional wisdom.
madinamerica.com/2024/02/psycho…

What a great surprise

What Dr James Davies terms the 'systematic entanglement of psychiatry with the pharmaceutical industry.' cityam.com/antidepressant… '...our collective knowledge about mental health [has] become tainted according to the UN in a report that said industry has corrupted research.'

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'The ‘banality of evil’ is the idea that evil does not have the...villainous appearance we might typically associate it with. Rather, evil is perpetuated when immoral principles become normalized over time by unthinking people. Evil becomes commonplace; it becomes the everyday.'