Dr Chris Forman @drcjforman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Just reminded me of this really… youtube.com/watch?v=pz-T...youtube.comNigel Farage Stand Up (Part 1) - NewzoidsYouTube video by Newzoids 000
Reposted by Dr Chris FormanLincoln City FC @lincolncityfc.bsky.social · 21/04/2026🤩 A season to remember! 🏆 Sky Bet League One champions! 34318
Reposted by Dr Chris FormanAdam Hunt @realadamhunt.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Spicy Take: the DSM is often merely a cluster of symptoms named with a thesaurus. Describing a cluster of behaviours in Greek doesn't explain it. Naming is not understanding. We've confused the two for fifty years and called it progress. 022
Dr Chris Forman @drcjforman.bsky.social · 26/03/2026As Johann Hari mentions in his book ‘Stolen Focus’, theres a reason facebook doesnt have a feature that lets you know if your friends are nearby and happy to meet up…less scrolling time and therefore advertising revenue! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukWhat next for big tech after landmark social media addiction verdict?The ruling could be the beginning of the end of social media as we know it, writes the BBC's technology editor Zoe Kleinman. 100
Reposted by Dr Chris FormanProf. James Davies @drjamesdaviesbskys.bsky.social · 04/12/2025I don't think "mental health conditions are being over-diagnosed" but that "real suffering is being over-medicalised". These are very different things. The former tries to justify cutting support, but the latter does not: it acknowledges real suffering but asks for different (psychosocial) provision 0126
Dr Chris Forman @drcjforman.bsky.social · 14/11/2025I can kind of see where this blog post is going, but with PHQ-9 and GAD-7 clinical thresholds so low (and arbitrarily so) it’s hard to really tell what’s going on. Some quali data for context would help. 010
Reposted by Dr Chris FormanDr Emu, Graham Pringle, PhD @emugraham.substack.com · 16/10/2025Youth mental health is an intractable problem The numbers do not come down with programs tried so far There are programs that work, they don't happen in traditional settings though Bricks and mortar will not help 011
Dr Chris Forman @drcjforman.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Used to wonder why sweeteners gave me headaches, you can taste that it’s not sugar. If you’re gonna go for fizzy drinks, have them full fat (sugar) but have them as a treat. Easier said than done, I appreciate 000
Reposted by Dr Chris FormanMad in America @mad-in-america.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Psychosis Severity Tied to Childhood Trauma, Not Inherited Mental Illness A cross-national study shows trauma’s lasting impact on psychosis is not explained by parental mental illness. By Richard Sears www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/psyc...madinamerica.comPsychosis Severity Tied to Childhood Trauma, Not Inherited Mental IllnessChildhood maltreatment has a powerful and independent impact on psychosis later in life, according to new research on schizophrenia spectrum disorders. 053
Reposted by Dr Chris FormanAaron Balick 🍉 @aaronbalick.com · 27/08/2025It’s ironic that we embrace broad identity labels to express how unique we are. Now we have a new one for people who don’t like groups, and share rare traits like authenticity and independent thinking. Call me anal but I don't think we need it. My GQ latest: www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/a-ne...gq-magazine.co.ukA new personality type - ‘Otrovert’ - is here to make life even more confusingForget ‘extroverts’ and ‘introverts’, there's a new way to categorise ourselves in town 243
Dr Chris Forman @drcjforman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025open.spotify.com/episode/0LWS...open.spotify.comDoes ADHD Exist? Rethinking Psychiatric Diagnoses with Dr. Sami Timimi, Leading UK Child PsychiatristSix Hats · Episode 000
Reposted by Dr Chris FormanTrish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 14/07/2025UK mental health people (incl users), please feed back on this draft of the Youth Access Quality Framework (on youth mental health hubs). #healthpolicy #mentalhealth Full disclosure: my PhD student had something to do with this. www.youthaccess.org.uk/quality-and-...youthaccess.org.ukThe Youth Access Quality Framework consultationComplete the quality framework consultation to help us ensure it's meaningful, practical, and supportive 01315
Dr Chris Forman @drcjforman.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Remember, if a health product is trending on social media, tell them to stick it up their **** rather than yours. 010
Dr Chris Forman @drcjforman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Psychology students, if you are looking for an example of conflicts of interest in research and theory development, look no further. 1134
Reposted by Dr Chris FormanAmazzoneFuriosa 🦋 @amazzonefuriosa.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Those living in England and willing to get off antidepressants, benzodiazepines and z-drugs safely can be referred to this clinic run by @markhoro.bsky.social and @joannamoncrieff.bsky.social Lucky them! #pharmasky #medsky www.nelft.nhs.uk/national-psy...nelft.nhs.ukNational Psychiatric Drug Deprescribing Clinic (PDC) 012
Dr Chris Forman @drcjforman.bsky.social · 21/06/2025How are you supposed to dress for roaring heat but strong chance of thunderstorms? 🫠 000
Reposted by Dr Chris FormanAaron Balick 🍉 @aaronbalick.com · 19/06/2025Yup. They call it psychoanalysis, circa 1900. 3314
Dr Chris Forman @drcjforman.bsky.social · 20/05/2025“There is evidence of other bad outcomes too, such as decreased prosocial behaviour or decreased relationship quality with parents.” 010
Dr Chris Forman @drcjforman.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Did anyone else experience a seismic shift today? Like something had turned a corner? 000
Reposted by Dr Chris FormanDr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 25/04/2025This is a *key* new paper in the world of school mental health interventions A very large trial (N=6388) testing a universal CBT-based app for adolescent depression (13-14y) No effects found (on depression, anxiety, distress or insomnia) (🧵) mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1... 1222795
Reposted by Dr Chris FormanEuropean Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry @escaponline.bsky.social · 16/04/2025The romanticisation of mental health problems in adolescents and its implications: a narrative review by Awa Ndour & Lucy Foulkes - now online and #openaccess in our #ECAP journal: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #youthmentalhealth #mentalhealth #ESCAPlink.springer.comThe romanticisation of mental health problems in adolescents and its implications: a narrative review - European Child & Adolescent PsychiatryRomanticisation is the perception and portrayal of a phenomenon as more attractive, interesting, cool, profound or desirable than it really is. There are concerns that mental health problems are incre... 043
Dr Chris Forman @drcjforman.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Black Mirror Season 7 is chilling and close to the bone as it always has been. @charliebrooker.bsky.social is still a genius. Looking forward to the Bandersnatch sequel #BlackMirror #Netflix 000
Dr Chris Forman @drcjforman.bsky.social · 13/04/2025All in all, Musk and Thiel’s ideology stems from an existential crisis within themselves. In other words, they cannot accept their own mortality. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.com‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneurSilicon Valley’s tech moguls have increasing political ambitions, as spectacularly illustrated by Peter Thiel’s and Elon Musk’s involvements in the US 2022 midterm elections and 2024 presidential e... 000
Reposted by Dr Chris FormanNHS Practitioner Health @nhsprachealth.bsky.social · 09/04/2025@bpsofficial.bsky.social 045
Reposted by Dr Chris FormanJoanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff.bsky.social · 08/04/2025There's a common misconception that ADHD has been shown to have a neurological basis. It hasn't. The evidence is not compelling e.g. this negative meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comBrain alterations in children/adolescents with ADHD revisited: A neuroimaging meta-analysis of 96 structural and functional studiesThe findings of neuroimaging studies in children/adolescents with ADHD, and even those of previous meta-analyses, are divergent. Here, Activation Like… 033
Dr Chris Forman @drcjforman.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Been shouting about this for a long time. Fix health services from the ground up, starting with communities and addressing the social difficulties within them. It does permeate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukThe neighbourhood that could hold the secret to fixing the NHSWith public satisfaction in the NHS just 21%, one area has a plan to shake up its services that could reduce GP waiting lists, as well as unblock hospital beds - but can it really work nationwide? 000
Reposted by Dr Chris FormanCharlie Brooker @charliebrooker.bsky.social · 31/03/2025BLACK MIRROR returns April 10 - here’s what’s in the box… 1220537
Dr Chris Forman @drcjforman.bsky.social · 21/03/2025🤣 Glad I’m not the only one that had this thought 020
Dr Chris Forman @drcjforman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025This, from my esteemed colleague, Dr Sami Timimi www.thetimes.com/life-style/h...thetimes.com‘Diagnosing a child with autism or ADHD? There’s a lot of money to be made’By medicalising normal behaviour we’re damaging the young’s wellbeing, Dr Sami Timimi tells Anna Maxted 011
Dr Chris Forman @drcjforman.bsky.social · 16/03/2025This is such a relatable story for clinicians in the NHS. When the system and buildings are so overwhelmed, we are still expected to hold the same capacity, risk, and perform miracles. www.the-londoner.co.uk/nhs-doctor-s...the-londoner.co.ukThe lonely death of Dr Jagdip SidhuHe was a rising star of the NHS. Could his work have contributed to his death? 010
Dr Chris Forman @drcjforman.bsky.social · 26/02/2025If anyone fancies helping a trainee out…Remember when you were crying out for participants for your study? 😉 000
Dr Chris Forman @drcjforman.bsky.social · 14/02/2025I can see why Freud’s diagrammatic formulations never really caught on. From the Freud Museum, London. 000
Reposted by Dr Chris FormanDr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Important new evidence published today: large-scale DofE trial (N=12,166) found that two universal MH awareness interventions, in secondary schools, led to an *increase* in emotional symptoms at long term (9-12 month) follow up tinyurl.com/4ffday8y Thread below /1 915586
Reposted by Dr Chris FormanDr Karen Bateson @karenjbateson.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Fabulous PhD opportunity. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU000/p...jobs.ac.ukPhD Studentship: Neurodiversity in Parent-child Relationships in the Early Years Researching the Diversity of the Parent-Infant System, and Developing Guidance at University of BirminghamFind a PhD Studentship: Neurodiversity in Parent-child Relationships in the Early Years Researching the Diversity of the Parent-Infant System, and Developing Guidance on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board ... 022
Reposted by Dr Chris FormanPeter Langdon @peterlangdon.bsky.social · 31/01/2025We have a fully funded PhD studentship here at the Intellectual Disabilities Research Institute (IDRIS) at the University of Birmingham with myself and @stat-pt.bsky.social @profkyliegray.bsky.social Link here: shorturl.at/yrx7Wshorturl.atLongitudinal determinants of mental well being amongst people with intellectual disabilities: risk, protective and compensatory factorsLongitudinal determinants of mental well being amongst people with intellectual disabilities: risk, protective and compensatory factors 087
Dr Chris Forman @drcjforman.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Not sure a cross-sectional study does this justice. Surely a longitudinal study tracking those outcomes over time would be better, no? What were those outcomes before the ban came in in those specific schools? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukPhone bans in schools don't help grades or health, study suggestsIt is the first study to look at school phone rules, alongside measures of pupil health and education. 000
Reposted by Dr Chris FormanMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/01/2025Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic. (posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit) 21133828010286
Dr Chris Forman @drcjforman.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Anyone here seeing/considering the positives of the TikTok ban? 000
Dr Chris Forman @drcjforman.bsky.social · 14/01/2025theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/genomic-pr...theinfinitesimal.substack.comGenomic prediction of IQ is modern snake oilPredicting IQ from genetics is inaccurate, confounded, and sows confusion about genetic research. 000
Reposted by Dr Chris FormanJoanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff.bsky.social · 13/01/2025You can read Dr Chris van Tulleken's moving and powerful forward to my new book, which he describes as 'profoundly therapeutic,' at Blackwell's blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...blackwells.co.ukChemically ImbalancedWe have been told for decades that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance, but is that the truth? 084
Reposted by Dr Chris FormanGraham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 08/01/2025"Our findings suggest that the optimal treatment package for ADHD may include organisational strategies, third-wave components and problem-solving techniques" mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/27/1...mentalhealth.bmj.comComponents of cognitive–behavioural therapy for mitigating core symptoms in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysQuestion Cognitive–behavioural therapy (CBT) is frequently implemented for individuals with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It is still unknown which specific components are effective... 033
Reposted by Dr Chris FormanFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Well this is a bit unexpected.. 48551112
Reposted by Dr Chris FormanProf. James Davies @drjamesdaviesbskys.bsky.social · 01/01/2025‘Capitalism doesn’t want your inner life to be completely fixed- it is happy for you to be a functional depressive or a functional alcoholic, because in both instances you are still a functional consumer’ #Sedated 👇 0185
Dr Chris Forman @drcjforman.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Some reading for the holidays! I imagine this will debate around environmental vs individual differences contributing to modern attentional difficulties 000
Reposted by Dr Chris FormanPsyPost @psypost.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Reducing leisure screen time for two weeks improved children’s mental health by decreasing emotional and peer-related difficulties while boosting positive social behaviors, highlighting the benefits of taking short… #ScreenTime #MentalHealth #ChildDevelopment #ProsocialBehavior #DigitalWellnesspsypost.orgReducing screen time boosts children’s mental health and prosocial behaviors, study findsReducing leisure screen time for two weeks improved children’s mental health by decreasing emotional and peer-related difficulties while boosting positive social behaviors, highlighting the benefits of taking short breaks from screen media use. 093
Dr Chris Forman @drcjforman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Does anybody have a visual tool to represent different types of psychodynamic defences? Both dystonic and syntonic. Would be really helpful for an upcoming workshop. 000