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The Mental Elf @thementalelf.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

One participant described their first section: "I was taken to hospital in a black van by three people not wearing uniforms. I thought I had been kidnapped." This study centres lived experience to show what needs to change in mental health services. Read the blog: buff.ly/AhjXQr8

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Em @drem79.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Hospital appointment today for ongoing physical effects from OCD. From an injury that was almost ten years ago. I’ve had some physical healthcare but not help for OCD. I’ve had zero therapy for OCD. I’ve been waiting for NHS treatment for over 6 years. It’s no closer www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Reports of OCD among under 25s triple in 10 years

More 16-24 year olds in England say they have symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder - BBC analysis finds.

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 19/08/2025

“I fear that in unleashing A.I. companions, we may be making it easier for our loved ones to avoid talking to humans about the hardest things, including suicide. This is a problem that smarter minds than mine will have to solve. (If yours is one of those minds, please start.)”

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Em @drem79.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

@debcoles13.bsky.social could you follow me so I can message you?

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INQUEST @inquest-org.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

In a historic trial, a London NHS Trust and the former ward manager have today been found guilty of breaching the Health and Safety Act, following the death of 22 year old Alice Figueiredo in one of its hospitals in 2015.

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Alice Figueiredo: historic trial finds an NHS Trust and a former ward manager guilty of breaching the Health and Safety Act

9 June 2025

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David Thacher @dtha15.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

A tragic case that seems to illustrate the dangers of a simplistic understanding of the police role. Even when there's no crime or danger to others, police may have needed authority that other responders don't ("the mental health crisis team do not have the power to enter locked premises...").

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Today’s #ResearchTip is if you’re using an acronym to describe your study ensure it is clear, respectful, and does not imply cures or other promises your work cannot deliver. I’ve seen trials and other studies using acronyms like “hope” “calm” or “care” when they won't offer ANY of these things.

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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I’m in the Guardian today, arguing that we should stop them all-class mental health lessons in schools I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling. (cont 🧵) tinyurl.com/vun92cz7

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Mental-health lessons in schools sound like a great idea. The trouble is, they don’t work | Lucy Foulkes

All-class therapy sessions don’t help, and may even make matters worse. The evidence shows we need different solutions, says Dr Lucy Foulkes, an academic psychologist at Oxford University

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David Thacher @dtha15.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

There’ve been a lot of these cases lately. They raise complicated issues, but at the end of the day I do think it’s good to establish the principle that there are risks (and maybe liability) on both sides when dispatchers have to decide whether to send the cops.

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Lawsuit over 911 sending armed officers to mental health calls can go forward against Washington County

U.S. District Judge Adrienne Nelson adopted the recommendations of federal Magistrate Judge Stacie F. Beckerman in rejecting Washington County motions to dismiss the case.

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Em @drem79.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

This is awful. Reading it, I also felt for all the women who do have mental health problems who are disbelieved and seen as less credible. As well as the false labelling of mental health problems, the disbelief of people with mental health problems causes harm too. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Met Police: Woman who reported predatory officer gets apology

The woman accused the force of trying to discredit her over her complaints against a Met constable.

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INQUEST @inquest-org.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Scotland's Justice Secretary Angela Constance has confirmed that family members involved in deaths of custody are to have immediate, free access to legal aid support and advice from 7 April 2025. She said "This is about changing the system and the culture that underpins it."

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Automatic legal aid for death in custody inquiries

Justice Secretary Angela Constance is using existing ministerial powers to remove means-testing for legal aid in such cases.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 22/03/2025

NEW: Weekend News Agents A special ep on one of the most shocking scandal I’ve reported on: the generation of disabled children created by the British state. A responsibility it is still refusing to pay for. The shocking story of Sodium Valproate. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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Special report: A scandal 'bigger than Thalidomide'

Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 21/03/2025 · 45m

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Howard Liu, MD, MBA @drhowardliu.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

“Pilots and air traffic controllers must be deemed medically fit by the FAA through a certification process — one that is particularly arduous when it involves mental-health diagnose.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/m... via @NYTimes

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Why Airline Pilots Feel Pushed to Hide Their Mental Illness (Gift Article)

Is the F.A.A. really ensuring safety by disqualifying pilots who receive a diagnosis or treatment?

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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I research the issue of overdiagnosis in young people, and I think it’s essential to examine whether this is happening. But *in parallel*: some people who self-diagnose are correct; plenty of people seeking help really need it. We need to be really really careful that this message doesn’t get lost

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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

If this overdiagnosis argument is proposed without care, it becomes fodder for young people to be disbelieved. There's a general attitude that young people today are exaggerating or faking diagnoses, particularly those who self-diagnose. We highlight this in the below paper tinyurl.com/yc5aneyp

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There is concern that a growing number of individuals, especially adolescents, are diagnosing themselves with mental disorders. However, there has been limited empirical research into this phenomenon: why it might happen, what the costs and benefits might be, and what the implications are for anyone who is experiencing distress. To address this, this study used reflexive thematic analysis to explore attitudes toward self-diagnosis of mental disorders as expressed on the discussion website Reddit. From 1195 user comments, five themes were generated: (1) There is tension over who is the expert in diagnosis; (2) Self-diagnosis is a route to self-understanding in an inaccessible system; (3) Teenagers on social media are the problem; (4) Self-diagnosis can become self-fulfilling, and (5) Now no one is believed. Together, these themes highlight that there is considerable anger, derision, and criticism targeted toward people who self-diagnose with mental disorders, and that this is particularly targeted toward adolescents who self-diagnose on or as a result of social media. The findings have important implications for understanding how to support and validate people, particularly adolescents, who (sometimes accurately) use diagnostic language to express how they are feeling.

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Madison Marriage @madisonmarriage.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I wrote about my brother Charlie’s final 48 hours, and his increasingly desperate attempts to track down an emergency supply of medication from the NHS. It’s an upsetting read but one I’m proud of. He’d be delighted to have made the @financialtimes.com magazine front cover: on.ft.com/434zZqn

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Reuters @reuters.com · 24/02/2025

A former surgeon accused of raping or sexually assaulting hundreds of young patients, some while they were under anesthetic, went on trial in France's largest ever child sexual abuse case reut.rs/3DhiPLH

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Retired surgeon goes on trial in France's biggest child sex abuse case

A former surgeon accused of raping or sexually assaulting hundreds of young patients, some while they were under anaesthetic, went on trial on Monday in France's largest ever child sexual abuse case.

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Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Migraine has been an area where lots of progress has been made very quickly and this is a great piece in Nature that covers the state of the field www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Migraine is more than a headache — a radical rethink offers hope to one billion people

Drugs that can prevent or relieve migraine attacks are only effective for some people. Research is starting to untangle the reasons why.

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 17/02/2025

Psychiatrist Allan House was permitted, like me, to speak to the assisted dying committee - but only after it first tried to ban @rcpsych.bsky.social’s testimony. Pls read his letter. How is the committee remotely serious about protecting the vulnerable if it dismisses the doctors who treat them?

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INQUEST @inquest-org.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

“I can’t believe that human beings could watch another human being in such a desperate state – pleading for help – & not intervene. Jason was just left. There was no mental-health intervention, there was no medication." - Joyce McQuoid, aunt of Jason, who died a self-inflicted death in HMP Risley

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Four in ten who took their lives in prison were denied adequate healthcare

Exclusive: The scale of prison neglect uncovered as figures show almost half of prisoners who took their own lives didn’t get the care they are entitled to

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