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Annie Hickox

@dranniehickox.bsky.social
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Clinical Psychologist, Neuropsychologist, PhD (Neurosciences). Therapist in private practice. I blog on Medium about mental illness, families, mental health shaming and stigma. My blogs: medium.com/@anniehickox

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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Happy dog days of summer😓. I last checked in here during Advent🎄. What have I missed?
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A succinct verdict on the persecution of the poor young academic who just died by suicide. Plagiarism is common. Persecution of the kind he endured is uncommon, aka selectively applied. The reason why he was targeted seems as clear as it is ugly.
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
How it started, how it’s going. Happy Saturday!
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I haven’t read Robert Graves’ book on the Greek myths since I was at prep school, but re-reading it now, I am reminded of how incredibly clear & vivid his stories are. Don’t be daunted by the 800 pages-it reads like a novel.
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Terrific. Now they can have Kid Rock every night. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/a...
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Washington National Opera Is Leaving the Kennedy Center
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Today’s office.
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Oh my god, poor things. Venezuelan Raid Left Celebs Stranded on St. Barts www.thecut.com/article/trum...
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Trump’s Venezuela Raid Left Celebs Stranded on St. Barts
Leonardo DiCaprio and other stars were forced to spend a few extra days lying in the sun and eating caviar.
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Goals. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Avoid stress, be useful: 90-year-olds on how to have a long, happy life
Importance of being active, tolerant and not worrying about internet dating, by ninetysomething women and men
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Goals for 2026 - more bedrotting.
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It's Chaos, Be Kind @atomicovermind.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
RIP Tatania Schlossburg.
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Fiona "Fi" Webster 🌎🌍🌏 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
1/ Rebecca Solnit is America's top essayist. Here she writes of principles: inclusion vs. exclusion, truth vs. lies, kindness vs. cruelty, and protection vs. destruction of systems protecting climate & public health. We enter 2026 w/ the clarity that *people have the power* to determine our future.
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As we prepare for 2026, remember we have the power to make our future | Rebecca Solnit
We enter 2026 with radical uncertainty about the fate of the US – but also with the clarity that people have the power to determine what it will be
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
In Which I Try Valiantly to Cheer You Up www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/o...
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Opinion | In Which I Try Valiantly to Cheer You Up
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Treats for the delivery people.🎁🎄
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Tree arrives tomorrow.🎄
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asdsz @firemonkey57.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
What looks like ‘overdiagnosis’ is really a system struggling to provide continuous care
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What looks like ‘overdiagnosis’ is really a system struggling to provide continuous care
Diagnosis rates are rising because the NHS pathway is overwhelmed and fragmented, not because distress is being exaggerated.
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
“I urge you to please notice when you are happy.” - Kurt Vonnegut
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I’ve just finished reading Jeff Hardwell’s account of his experience of depression & bipolar disorder. A rollercoaster of misdiagnosis & suicide attempts, disrupting the joys of family life & fatherhood 1/https://amzn.eu/d/ekxoKGH
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Luvvies embracing conspiracy theories about vaccines.. ttps://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/11/liam-neeson-covid-documentary?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Liam Neeson denies anti-vax views after narrating Covid documentary
Taken star lends his voice to a film that questions the legitimacy of vaccines and includes interview with RFK Jr
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Can someone explain to me like I’m five why psychologists who bang on about mental illness only being caused by social factors are so completely silent when it comes to talk about the impact of wealth inequality on mental health? Anyone? Just a few words? www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
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‘The 0.001%’: a quick visual breakdown of the world’s wealthiest people
About 56,000 people control three times as much wealth as half of humanity. Here’s one way to illustrate that
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Interesting childhood experiences of gender identity for Rilke, one of the very finest poets.
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
“‘The patriarchy runs deep’: women still getting a raw deal in the workplace as equality remains a dream” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘The patriarchy runs deep’: women still getting a raw deal in the workplace as equality remains a dream
Women work longer and per hour earn a third of what men are paid, in figures that have changed little in 35 years, UN report shows
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
If you don’t believe in equality, you are unlike to call out discrimination because you will not recognise it. And if you don’t recognise inequality, you are very unlikely to stand up for those who are victims of discrimination. You may even believe they are scrounges/whiners.
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Many Republican women don’t believe in equality. “Much has been made about the rebirth of gutter antisemitism and racism within the conservative movement. There’s been less public alarm about the resurgence of unapologetic misogyny.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
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Opinion | Republican Women Suddenly Realize They’re Surrounded by Misogynists
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Everything is getting stupider
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Interesting childhood experiences of gender identity for Rilke, one of the very finest poets.
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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Disabled people driving luxury cars on your dime? Just the latest rightwing lie peddled by Labour | Frances Ryan
Starmer’s ailing government is happy to pursue ideas like cutting Motability, but all ministers will do is damage lives and themselves, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
In case you’re curious to know what X is getting outraged about now…. Non-binary biscuits.
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Good morning, Bluesky.
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Providing work opportunities for at-risk kids is one of the most progressive things we can do. www.cnn.com/2025/12/06/w...
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Quilen Blackwell, whose nonprofit ‘farm-to-vase’ flower shop employs at-risk youth, is CNN’s Hero of the Year | CNN
Quilen Blackwell, whose nonprofit transforms vacant lots on Chicago’s South Side into flower farms that employ at-risk young people to grow, arrange and sell the flowers, is the 2025 CNN Hero of the Y...
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
“Masking” is part of life, especially for those with autism or A.D.H.D. But hiding your true self comes with a cost.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/w...
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Everyone Uses This Coping Strategy. When Does It Become a Problem?
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Pertinent writing by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social “This terrorizing and demonizing pretends to be in service of recreating a white America that never existed. The US when white supremacists like Trump were young was whiter, but this was never a white country.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump wants to recreate a white America that never existed | Rebecca Solnit
The persecution of brown people and mass deportations will not create the white country of far-right fantasy
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
I'm really pleased that the accusations against Farage are quite rightly not going away. He appears very, very rattled and deservedly so. This is very long overdue.
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🐝💛Ebony Edwards-Ellis💛🐝 @eedwardsellis.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The Montgomery Bus Boycott kicked off #70yearsagotoday. The boycott was launched after the arrest of Rosa Parks. The boycott ended on December 20, 1956 when the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama ruled segregation unconstitutional. #xyearsagotoday
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Rest in peace, dear sweet old Romy girl. Glad to know you are now sleeping beneath the pear tree in our orchard.💔
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.
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🎃Alice Anne Fayth🎃 @aliceannefayth.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Yesterday the doctor who saw me was black. She was attentive, empathetic, took my pain seriously, explained the next steps as clearly and in as much detail as practical. She examined me for half an hour for a comprehensive examination. She will also be subject to racist abuse. It’s revolting.
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
This Is the Kind of Bigotry We Rejected Decades Ago www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
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Opinion | This Is the Kind of Bigotry We Rejected Decades Ago
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Who can blame nurses for looking elsewhere for work, where they can get better pay and be treated with respect? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Rising racism blamed for collapse in number of foreign nurses coming to UK
Number of overseas nurses and midwives registered between April and September was half that of a year ago
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?” - John Steinbeck
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Imagine being so reluctant to apologise for racist and antisemitic songs and comments that you have to be publicly pushed to do so, and yet you still don’t do it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Holocaust survivors call on Nigel Farage to apologise over alleged antisemitic comments
Exclusive: Group’s open letter says Reform UK leader must take responsibility for behaviour as a schoolboy
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asdsz @firemonkey57.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41332847/ @dranniehickox.bsky.social
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Sibling Psychiatric Disorders and Risk of Postpartum Psychosis - PubMed
Postpartum psychosis shows strong familial aggregation, with risks extending across multiple sibling diagnoses. The pattern of familial associations, with highest associations linked to sibling bipolar, cyclothymia, and schizoaffective disorder, supports conceptualizing postpartum psychosis within t …
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
This time last year, I was on the South Lawn of the White House helping to lay out the AIDS Memorial Quilt. This year the White House did nothing and the State Department instructed empoyees and grant recipients to “refrain from publicly promoting World Aids Day through any communication channels”
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Homeschooling allows legal loopholes that protect abusive parents rather than the child. Heartbreaking story. www.thecut.com/article/home...
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‘That Baby Is Going to Die’
Raylee Browning’s teachers reported her family for abuse. A legal loophole allowed her father to pull her into homeschool anyway.
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DannyVE @dannyve.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Good morning! Woke to find that it’s apparently now December, winter solstice within touching distance! Somehow I know I’ll dreaming of the light all day! Happy new month to you!
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
“The crisp path through the field in this December snow, in the deep dark, where we trod the buried grass like ghosts on dry toast.” ― Dylan Thomas, Quite Early One Morning
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Millions of workers are toiling away from their families this holiday weekend. So thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Pay all workers a living wage.
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Sunny Sunday afternoon. The eve of Advent.🎄
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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
The very best kind of autumn day.
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