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Tania Gergel

@drtgergel.bsky.social
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Director of Research@BipolarUK; Psychiatry@UCL&Cardiff. Mental health/ethics/law; lived experience. Challenging #MHStigma; Views own. Instagram: drtania_gergel linktr.ee/drtaniagergel

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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/in...
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Increase NHS patients access to innovative treatments for depression and bipolar disorder.
Depression and bipolar depression can impose heavy daily costs on the quality of life of those who experience these mental illnesses, as well as their carers and the communities in which they live.&nb...
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Thanks to @uclbrainscience.bsky.social for this post. The recordings of yesterday's webinar on emerging research into bipolar should be posted very soon. Sign up here for updates- www.bipolaruk.org/newsletter/
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
www.bipolaruk.org/get-involved... #WorldBipolarDay webinar 'The future of bipolar care: emerging research' 15:30-17:00 BST 30th Mar Find out more: neurostimulation headsets; how genetics/neuroscience might help; Lived experience involvement in research; Getting involved @bipolaruk.bsky.social
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World Bipolar Day 2026
World Bipolar Day takes place on 30 March every year. It raises awareness, tackles stigma, and shows people living with bipolar that they are not alone.
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The Mental Elf @thementalelf.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Excellent speaker lineup confirmed for our #WorldBipolarDay webinar: • Prof Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social • Prof Steven Marwaha • Prof Kim Wright • Prof Daniel Smith @dsmith2025.bsky.social • Plus lived experience voices 30 March, 11am-12:30pm, Free
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Lived experience research: recognition of dual expertise - The Lancet Psychiatry www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Lived experience research: recognition of dual expertise
Co-production (equitable collaboration between people with lived experience and professionals) is a rapidly developing field, particularly in mental health, with growing recognition of expertise by ex...
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Really looking forward to joining fellow speakers for the #WorldBipolarDay webinar.
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Money and Mental Health @moneyandmentalhealth.org · 17/09/2025
In our latest blog, @drtgergel.bsky.social - Director of Research at Bipolar UK - explains how Advance Choice Documents work and the difference having one can make when we become unwell - both to our mental health and our finances. 👇 🔗 www.moneyandmentalhealth.org/advance-choi...
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Advance Choice Documents - what are they? Should I have one? - Money and Mental Health Policy Institute
Advance Choice Documents let people record treatment preferences & financial wishes in advance, guiding their care during crisis or illness.
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
'Reducing the Delay in the Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder: A Qualitative Study' Better primary care tools/education/clinical pathways/links to 2dry care needed. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/HVAY27...
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Pls can you help? Research @BipolarUK are designing new website content & would love to hear from you about what cd be helpful to include Pls click on the Research tab at bipolaruk.org, & contact research@bipolaruk.org to let us know what could be useful to include.
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
V. important editorial from @thelancet.bsky.social Psychiatry highlighting importance of lived experience involvement & real-world feasible implementation science in order to have real impact/translatability Setting the research agenda for mental health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Setting the research agenda for mental health
At a time when publicly funded research is under intense scrutiny, it is apposite to ask who should influence where and how the money is spent. At The Lancet Psychiatry, we believe patients and their ...
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Excellent & informative podcast on bipolar from expert team @umich.edu Prechter Foundation Episode 1: The Science of Bipolar Disorder | Michigan Medicine Episode 1: The Science of Bipolar Disorder | Michigan Medicine www.michiganmedicine.org/michigan-med...
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Episode 1: The Science of Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder is more than just mood swings. It’s a journey marked by intense highs of mania and debilitating lows of depression. But within this condition exist millions of people who live unique ...
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Innovations in Dementia @innov-dementia.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Fabulous feedback about #AGoodLifewithdementia course run by George Rook. Here in a #DementiaDiaries recording we hear what the course has meant to the participants dementiadiaries.org/entry/22896/...
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The Good Life course has broadened and eased our minds - Dementia Diaries
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UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Writing in The Conversation, Professor @drtgergel.bsky.social (@uclpsychiatry.bsky.social) explores why suicide is so common in people with bipolar disorder.
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Analysis: Why are suicide rates so high in bipolar disorder, and what can we do about it?
Writing in The Conversation, Professor Dr Tania Gergel (UCL Psychiatry) explores why suicide is so common in people with bipolar disorder.
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Why are suicide rates so high in bipolar disorder, and what can we do about it? theconversation.com/why-are-suic...
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Why are suicide rates so high in bipolar disorder, and what can we do about it?
The celebrity chef’s story sheds light on the hidden dangers of bipolar disorder.
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Excited to be appointed Honorary Visiting Professor in Division of Psychological Medicine & Clinical Neurosciences/Cardiff. Huge privilege to join inspiring team, doing ground-breaking research. Many thanks @cardiffuni.bsky.social @gw4alliance.bsky.social @thencmh.bsky.social @bipolaruk.bsky.social
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Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Dummies Guide to “The British Professor Leading the Controversial Backlash Against Antidepressants” British journalists and editors, this is for you www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/dummies-gu...
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Dummies Guide to “The British Professor Leading the Controversial Backlash Against Antidepressants”
British journalists and editors, this is for you
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
It's been fabulous, truly, to have this past couple of weeks free of suicidal feelings. I attribute that to med changes that lowered depression, constantly challenging negative thinking, and helpful therapy from both my psychiatrist and therapist. Support from family and a good cat are also key.
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Open Research Exeter @openresearchexe.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
#GW4 researchers📢 Are you maximising the reach of your research by incorporating or enabling open research practices in your work? The #GW4OpenResearchPrize is open for submissions - apply by 14 February. Find out more: gw4.ac.uk/gw4openresea... @gw4alliance.bsky.social
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
New systematic review 'Adverse mental health inpatient experiences: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Broad in coverage and ideas, shows need to think beyond physically coercive interventions & consider wider environment when assessing adversity of inpatient experience
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Adverse mental health inpatient experiences: Qualitative systematic review of international literature
Trauma has a well-established link with poor health outcomes. Adverse experiences in mental health inpatient settings contribute to such outcomes and …
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Yes completely. People conflate Van Gogh's "madness" with his genius and romanticise both.
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Study identifying cross-ethnicity genetic risk factors for depression. Yet more hope to increase understanding & improve treatment, even while the media focuses on anti-psychiatrists who dismiss depression as an illness.
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Great opportunity for people who have taken part in lived experience involvement work to share their views for @nsunnews.bsky.social
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
v useful link if you want to move your tweets across from X to Bluesky - chromewebstore.google.com/detail/porto...
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Porto - Import your Tweets to Bluesky - Chrome Web Store
A chrome extension to import all your tweets to bluesky at a click of a button
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UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology @uclqsion.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
We're excited to join BlueSky! Make sure to follow us for the latest news from the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology.
graphic launching UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology on Blue Sky
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
1/2 V. disappointed to see this article making headlines yet again, with no mention of its deep methodological flaws and the vilification of its opponents. www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a...
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Do antidepressants work? This British professor says they don’t
Joanna Moncrieff is a professor and NHS psychiatrist who dared to argue that depression is not a physical illness. As a result she has been abused by peers — and championed by Tucker Carlson. Is her t...
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Bipolar Awareness ~ Stop the Stigma @stopthestigma.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Managing Cluttered, Racing, and Disordered Thoughts @gabehoward29
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Managing Cluttered, Racing, and Disordered Thoughts
Do cluttered, racing, or disordered thoughts disrupt your daily life? Do you understand the differences between them? In this episode, Gabe Howard, who lives with bipolar disorder, and Dr. Nicole Washington, a board certified psychiatrist, unravel what…
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Is everyone moving to #Bluesky ?
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Yes - @Rebecca99LT is a psychiatrist who has been treated with #ECT and shared her experiences multiple times. See, for example, her new book - x.com/doctorid/statu… doi.org/10.1017/978100…
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An Improbable Psychiatrist
Cambridge Core - Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology - An Improbable Psychiatrist
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Very valuable new study about need to include people with lived experience in shared decision-making relating to risk and what might help or hinder this process x.com/DrNafisoAhmed/…
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
If you have lived experience of bipolar, pls join our @BipolarUK Research Community to hear about opportunities for research & lived experience advisory involvement. Pls share widely and RT & thanks if you've already joined! bipolaruk.org/research-partn…
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
Also on advance choice documents/statement/directives in mental health please check out and share x.com/DrT_Gergel/sta… advancechoice.org
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
About to run a session on #Advancechoicedocments in #mentalhealth for @rcpsych in Belfast. Delighted to share new article in IJLP on ACDs/AHDs. Free to download here - authors.elsevier.com/c/1jxAXaR~~i3WT
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
While debate shows that majority of psychiatrist do not support #assisted dying on grounds of mental illness, shocking that 38% in this poll did, especially looking at what has happened in countries where it has been introduced. x.com/wendyburn/stat…
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
The level of care provided (or NOT provided) for people living with bipolar is unacceptable. More needs to be done. x.com/fatbetty73/sta…
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
are you a women working in #STEM (science, technology, engineering, medicine) & have lived experience of #mentalhelath conditions? Great study surveying experience -Lived Experiences of Women in STEM with Mental Health Issues - WISE wisecampaign.org.uk
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
Ghana's law decriminalising attempted suicide needs revision - The Lancet PsychiatrySo important to recognise role that mental illness has in many suicides but law which says suicide only due to mental illness needs revision thelancet.com/journals/lanps…
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
As the UK moves towards debating the #AssistedDying bill, we must heed the warnings from Canada of where legalised #euthanasia can end up if laws are made too open & permissive x.com/TrudoLemmens/s…
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
The stigma surrounding borderline personality disorder just gets worse and is accepted in a way which would never be acceptable for other conditions. x.com/Shrink_at_Larg…
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
A book for everyone to read - 'Out of her Mind: how we are failing women's mental health and what must change'. Congrats to @suzypuss & proud to have been associated with this valuable publication. x.com/CUPBookshop/st…
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
V. important new paper 'The association between microaggressions and mental health among UK trans people: a cross-sectional study' @DrAPitman @GemmaLewis13 x.com/TalenEJWright/… rdcu.be/dWyOi
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The association between microaggressions and mental health among UK trans people: a cross-sectional study
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
We must look at what's happening in Belgium, Netherlands and Canada and the huge rates of euthanasia after expansion to disabled people. We must take action not to let this happen in UK. x.com/thelizcarr/sta…
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
We need more resources and better support for suicidal people reaching out to healthcare services. A shocking story of neglect and tragic loss of young life - one that is heard all too often. theguardian.com/society/2024/s…
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Man who killed himself in Blackpool hospital was badly failed, says mother
Jamie Pearson, 27, had waited nearly 24 hours to see an NHS mental health worker after taking an overdose in August
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
Canada and #euthanasia : making access to physician-assisted suicide a right, while there is no constitutional right to accessing healthcare... x.com/TrudoLemmens/s…
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
On #SuicidePreventionday we must take action to reduce suicide amongst those living with #bipolar & #severementalillness x.com/DrT_Gergel/sta…
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
Essex failures are clear example of how we need to do so much more to support suicidal ppl within inpatient & outpatient care NHS failures in Essex ‘likely led to more than 2,000 mental health deaths’ thetimes.co.uk/article/nhs-fa…
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 25/07/2024
Do you have lived experience of a psychotic illness/psychosis in bipolar & some mental health research and/or clinical experience? An opportunity to join the Lived Experience Advisory Panel for the new UKRI Brain and Genomics Hub. Pls share + RT bipolaruk.org/lived-experien…
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 22/07/2024
Another shocking piece about the scale and ease of accessing #euthanasia in Canada. People being offered an ‘easy death’ rather than adequate care x.com/TrudoLemmens/s…
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 22/07/2024
V important study from @JAMAPsych highlighting prevalence of mental illness amongst people experiencing homelessness. There needs to be so much more support in place to tackle socio-economic marginalisation of people living with long-term #mentalhealth conditions x.com/JAMAPsych/stat…
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 18/07/2024
Excellent new review of studies on lived experience of detention. 1 clear theme is ppl often not involved in decisions around care - more reasons why it's so important that MH #advancechoicedocuments become an established & valued part of clinical pathway x.com/louise_blakley… advancechoice.org
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Advance Choice
This website will explain what Advance Choice Documents are, how to create, keep and update them, and what your rights are when it comes to using them.
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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · 17/07/2024
V. interesting article highlighting need for more stratified and less homogeneous approach to suicide research. x.com/JAMAPsych/stat…
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