Girl Interrupted @girl-interrupted.bsky.social · 11/08/2025The future of psychiatry is experimentally dangerous! 010
Reposted by Girl InterruptedJeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 28/07/2025We don't have to push children into poverty. We don't have to make life harder for the sick and disabled. We don't have to aid and abet genocide. For too long, people have been denied a real political choice. Not anymore. Join us at yourparty.uk 421138352
Reposted by Girl InterruptedAsylum Magazine @asylummagazine.bsky.social · 30/07/2025A great cartoon 😀 074
Reposted by Girl InterruptedThe Power Threat Meaning Framework @ptm-framework.bsky.social · 27/03/2025 087
Reposted by Girl InterruptedThe Power Threat Meaning Framework @ptm-framework.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Don’t miss this online #PTMFramework webinar on Oct 21st www.bps.org.uk/event/develo...bps.org.ukDeveloping Individual and Social Narratives with the Power Threat Meaning Framework | BPSJoin us for an engaging online conference led by the lead authors of the Power Threat Meaning Framework. 054
Girl Interrupted @girl-interrupted.bsky.social · 29/07/2025#PTMFramework webinar 21st October 2025 www.bps.org.uk/event/develo...bps.org.ukDeveloping Individual and Social Narratives with the Power Threat Meaning Framework | BPSJoin us for an engaging online conference led by the lead authors of the Power Threat Meaning Framework. 054
Girl Interrupted @girl-interrupted.bsky.social · 25/07/2025www.yourparty.uk?fbclid=IwQ0x...yourparty.ukYour PartyWe're building a new kind of political party - one that belongs to you. Sign up here... 010
Reposted by Girl InterruptedZarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 24/07/2025It's time for a new kind of political party - one that belongs to you. Sign up at yourparty.uk. 1451063373
Reposted by Girl InterruptedJeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Wow. In under 24 hours, 200,000 people have signed up to build a real alternative to poverty, inequality and war. Something special is happening - be part of it at yourparty.uk. 40999254
Reposted by Girl InterruptedMadintheuk @madintheuk.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Fun House – A Section 136 Pantomime in Five Acts By TheDedicatedAMHP madintheuk.com/2025/07/fun-... #Section136 #MentalHealthAct #PoliceAndMentalHealth #DetainedUnder136 #136Experience #MentalHealthLaw 022
Reposted by Girl InterruptedMadintheuk @madintheuk.bsky.social · 11/07/2025What Would True Informed Consent for Antidepressants Actually Look Like? By MITUK admin madintheuk.com/2025/07/what... #InformedConsent #MedicalEthics #PatientAutonomy #EthicsInPractice #ConsentCulture 023
Girl Interrupted @girl-interrupted.bsky.social · 12/07/2025actionnetwork.org/forms/water-...actionnetwork.orgWater Belongs to All of Us - Back the People's Plan for Water!Privatisation has broken our water system. Evidence shows public ownership can bring fairer, cleaner and cheaper water. That’s why I'm backing the People’s Plan for Water. Join me: 010
Girl Interrupted @girl-interrupted.bsky.social · 02/07/2025I’d vote for a party led by @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social & it’s needed to challenge Farage! 010
Girl Interrupted @girl-interrupted.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Stop handing out medicalised labels like good patient stickers, start listening to people’s stories & hearing what’s happened to them. The psychiatrists pity party might not be necessary if they learned how to understand & make sense of human suffering & distress. 000
Reposted by Girl InterruptedMadintheuk @madintheuk.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Meet Lara, My Anorexic Part By Katarina Lundgren madintheuk.com/2025/06/meet... #AnorexiaRecovery #Recovery #DissociationAwareness #TraumaSurvivor #SexualAbuseSurvivor #Trauma #FromPainToPower #ReclaimingMyVoice #HealingIsMessy #UnlearningSilence #RecoveryIsPossible 012
Reposted by Girl InterruptedRichard Burgon MP @richardburgon.bsky.social · 28/05/2025We shouldn’t cut support for disabled people - we should tax the ultra-wealthy instead. Over 65,000 people have signed my petition for wealth taxes, not cuts - as part of our campaigning to get as many MPs as possible to vote down these cuts. Add your name here 👇 www.change.org/p/tax-wealth... 810542
Girl Interrupted @girl-interrupted.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Raising low social housing rents to meet the most expensive ones will leave millions of low income households unable to pay the rent! They can barely afford to pay basic living costs as it is! 000
Reposted by Girl InterruptedMadintheuk @madintheuk.bsky.social · 06/06/2025May 2025 in Review Visit our website to catch up with any blogs you may have missed! madintheuk.com #MadInTheUK #VoicesForChange #MentalHealthdebate #mentalhealthdiscourse #MentalHealthReform #PsychiatricSurvivor #MadInTheUK #EndPsychAbuse #MentalHealthJustice 023
Reposted by Girl InterruptedA Disorder for Everyone (AD4E) @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Join us for a powerful hour online tomorrow evening (5 June) with AD4E ally, Prof Emmy van Deurzen – existential therapist, philosopher and unapologetic challenger of the medicalisation of emotional distress. FREE tickets available Sign up! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1136159496...eventbrite.co.ukAn Audience with an Ally - Professor Emmy van DeurzenJoin AD4E ally, existential therapist and philosopher Emmy van Deurzen to hear about her life and work. 022
Reposted by Girl InterruptedProf Emmy van Deurzen @emmyvandeurzen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025I am very curious about how this event will go tonight and hope to meet some of you there. #existential 013
Girl Interrupted @girl-interrupted.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Join Laura Delano & @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social ok Wednesday 30th July for a celebration of Unshrunk www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/join-autho...eventbrite.co.ukJoin author/activist Laura Delano to celebrate the publication of Unshrunk.Please join us to celebrate and honour the publication of Unshrunk - a crucial contribution to the challenge of diagnosis & disorder! 000
Reposted by Girl InterruptedGirl Interrupted @girl-interrupted.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Join @emmyvandeurzen.bsky.social & @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social tomorrow for another amazing #AudienceWithAnAlly #AD4E #DropTheDisorder www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-audienc...eventbrite.co.ukAn Audience with an Ally - Professor Emmy van DeurzenJoin AD4E ally, existential therapist and philosopher Emmy van Deurzen to hear about her life and work. 012
Girl Interrupted @girl-interrupted.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Join @emmyvandeurzen.bsky.social & @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social tomorrow for another amazing #AudienceWithAnAlly #AD4E #DropTheDisorder www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-audienc...eventbrite.co.ukAn Audience with an Ally - Professor Emmy van DeurzenJoin AD4E ally, existential therapist and philosopher Emmy van Deurzen to hear about her life and work. 012
Girl Interrupted @girl-interrupted.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Starting in just under an hour, so if you want to join @peterkinderman.bsky.social & @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social there’s still time to sign up.. #AD4E #DropTheDisorder 032
Reposted by Girl InterruptedMadintheuk @madintheuk.bsky.social · 02/06/2025From Pathology to Humanity: Reclaiming Mental Wellbeing in Psychiatry By Luuk Westerhof madintheuk.com/2025/06/from... #ReclaimHumanity #FromPathologyToHealing #Salutogenesis #HealingNotLabeling #HumanCenteredCare #LivedExperienceMatters #PsychiatryReform #MentalHealthMattersmadintheuk.comMad in the UKFundamentally re-thinking UK mental health practice and promoting positive change. Blogs. News. Artwork. Podcasts. Part of the Mad in America family. 024
Reposted by Girl InterruptedMad in America @mad-in-america.bsky.social · 30/05/2025You’re Not Crazy by Sylvie Leber I want others who have PTSD to know that, yes, recovery is tough going, but you can rebuild trust in the world and your future. www.madinamerica.com/2025/05/your...madinamerica.comYou're Not CrazyI want others who have PTSD to know that, yes, recovery is tough going, but you can rebuild trust in the world and your future. 021
Girl Interrupted @girl-interrupted.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Join @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social & @peterkinderman.bsky.social for an audience with an ally Tuesday 3rd June www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-audienc...eventbrite.co.ukAn Audience with an Ally - Prof Peter KindermanActivist, author, academic & former president of the British Psychological Society, Peter Kinderman joins us to talk about his life & work. 022
Reposted by Girl InterruptedMadintheuk @madintheuk.bsky.social · 25/05/2025What does consent mean in practice? A ‘lived experience’ perspective By Cathy Wield www.madintheuk.com/2025/05/issu... #ConsentAwareness #PsychiatricConsent #InformedConsent #MentalHealthReform #PatientRights #EndForcedTreatment #HumanRightsInHealthcare #SystemicChangemadintheuk.comWhat does consent mean in practice? - Mad in the UKCathy Wield author of Unshackled Mind discusses issues of consent and the widespread use of coercion in psychiatry 021
Girl Interrupted @girl-interrupted.bsky.social · 25/05/2025This will further medicalise human distress. It’s time the UK gov’t invested in community crisis houses staffed by survivors where holistic humane alternatives to iatrogenic harms of pathologisation of suffering would be more effective. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...theguardian.comNHS to open network of mental health emergency units across EnglandPatients feeling suicidal or experiencing psychosis or mania will be able to walk in or be referred to units designed to ease pressure on A&Es 211
Reposted by Girl InterruptedMadintheuk @madintheuk.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Withdrawal syndromes: lost in translation www.madintheuk.com/2025/05/with... #WithdrawalSyndrome #AntidepressantWithdrawal #PsychiatricDrugWithdrawal #MadInTheUKmadintheuk.comWithdrawal syndromes: lost in translation - Mad in the UKHarriet Vogt, a qualitative researcher joined a Prescribed Medication Withdrawal peer group in N Wales to listen and learn. 013
Reposted by Girl InterruptedMadintheuk @madintheuk.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Withdrawal syndromes: lost in translation Official figures ‘bear no relation to the depth and duration of suffering. www.madintheuk.com/2025/05/with... #WithdrawalSyndrome #AntidepressantWithdrawal #PsychiatricDrugWithdrawal #MadInTheUKmadintheuk.comMad in the UKFundamentally re-thinking UK mental health practice and promoting positive change. Blogs. News. Artwork. Podcasts. Part of the Mad in America family. 012
Reposted by Girl InterruptedDavid Challen @davidchallen.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Lucy was 13. Groomed, isolated, coercively controlled. But the law says it’s not domestic abuse, because she was under 16. While boys are radicalised by violent misogyny online, girls are left unprotected. This is state failure. ➡️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 17033
Girl Interrupted @girl-interrupted.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Women should not have to challenge CPS decisions, but thankfully this woman courageously did ✊🏻 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.uk'I was drugged and raped by my husband for years'A husband said he wanted a chat, then confessed to his wife he had been spiking her drinks and raping her. 010
Girl Interrupted @girl-interrupted.bsky.social · 12/05/2025‘The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.’ - Karl Marx 000
Reposted by Girl InterruptedMadintheuk @madintheuk.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Reflecting on the blogs of 2024: November Visit our website to catch up with any blogs you may have missed! madintheuk.com/blogs/ #MadInTheUK #VoicesForChange #MentalHealthMatters 024
Reposted by Girl InterruptedMadintheuk @madintheuk.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Power, Privilege & Controlling the Narrative: Vested Interests in ‘Mental Health’ By David Hansen www.madintheuk.com/2025/05/powe... #MentalHealthPolitics #PowerAndPrivilege #TherapyIsPolitical #VestedInterests #NarrativeControl #MentalHealthNarratives #MentalHealthDebatemadintheuk.comPower, Privilege & Controlling the Narrative: Vested Interests in 'Mental Health' - Mad in the UKA discussion of how vested interests are involved in psychiatry and the treatment or therapies offered in the name of 'mental health' 013
Reposted by Girl InterruptedThe Power Threat Meaning Framework @ptm-framework.bsky.social · 12/04/2025www.madintheuk.com/2025/04/the-... A view from the Netherlands - the UK mental health system is broken.madintheuk.comThe Mental Health System in the UK Failed Us - Mad in the UKA highly qualified lecturer and former NHS patient, flees the UK to get away from the failed psychiatric system 022
Reposted by Girl Interruptedwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 06/05/2025UK's first female press photographer Christina Broom, Pageant of Women’s Trades and Professions, Women's Suffrage protest, 1909 #womensart 040175
Girl Interrupted @girl-interrupted.bsky.social · 29/04/2025youtube.com/watch?v=BR_S...youtube.com'Antidepressants are like alcohol or cannabis' | Joanna MoncrieffYouTube video by Channel 4 News 000
Girl Interrupted @girl-interrupted.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Damning first person account of accessing UK MH system. Its leaders should sit up & take notice… Left to rot in the UK NHS mental health system likened to being in a prison www.madinamerica.com/2025/04/the-...madinamerica.comThe Mental Health System in the UK Failed UsThe whole system is broken and I pray for my friends in Great Britain. They need a reform, not cuts or euthanasia. 010
Reposted by Girl InterruptedMad in America @mad-in-america.bsky.social · 12/04/2025New WHO Guidance Calls for Paradigm Shift in Mental Health Policy by Leah Harris The guidance emphasizes shifting away from institutional mindsets and practices, the biomedical approach, and the use of psychotropic drugs. buff.ly/HziXmQGmadinamerica.comNew WHO Guidance Calls for Paradigm Shift in Mental Health PolicyThe guidance emphasizes shifting away from institutional mindsets and practices, the biomedical approach, and the use of psychotropic drugs. 083
Reposted by Girl Interruptedresearchcat-ed.bsky.social @researchcat-ed.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Looking to recruitment participants who are eligible & interested into a really important, yet under researched area, please share & get in touch ✨ @jrefox.bsky.social 056
Reposted by Girl InterruptedThe Power Threat Meaning Framework @ptm-framework.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Lucy Johnstone and Jacqui Dillon will be offering a series of training days to the Older Adults service in Cardiff and Vale, focusing on Trauma-Informed Care and the #PTMFramework. The first two days were delivered this week. 051
Girl Interrupted @girl-interrupted.bsky.social · 07/04/2025How the hell does any increase in a child’s blood pressure & heart rate equate to a benefit? This type of narrative is dangerous because the longer term health implications of these drugs are unknown 😠 Stop harming children with drugs 010
Reposted by Girl InterruptedThe Power Threat Meaning Framework @ptm-framework.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Article in the BMJ recommending ‘conceptual alternatives to diagnosis’ such as the #PTMFramework. Via @profrobhoward.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/389/...bmj.comHow do we talk about overdiagnosis of mental health conditions without dismissing people’s suffering?On 16 March the health and social care secretary, Wes Streeting, made headlines by declaring in an interview that there was an “overdiagnosis” of mental health conditions. The comment was made in the ... 0116
Reposted by Girl InterruptedThe Power Threat Meaning Framework @ptm-framework.bsky.social · 04/04/2025How boarding school sometimes breaks the spirits of girls. A powerful account by a survivor www.madintheuk.com/2025/04/the-...madintheuk.comThe 'Female Perspective' on Boarding School - Mad in the UKCathy Wield discusses the gender differences of the experience of boarding school shedding light on the female perspective. 032
Girl Interrupted @girl-interrupted.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Omg amidst all the grim news this made me laugh. Thanks @mrjamesob.bsky.social 010
Girl Interrupted @girl-interrupted.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Thinking of all the UK mothers who have had their children removed or taken from them & cannot share this day.media.tenor.coma picture of a broken heart with the words a mother 's broken heart !!!Alt: a picture of a broken heart with the words a mother 's broken heart !!! 030
Reposted by Girl InterruptedThe Power Threat Meaning Framework @ptm-framework.bsky.social · 25/03/2025novaramedia.com/2025/02/17/t... #PTMFrameworknovaramedia.comThis Psychologist Is Challenging the Way We See Mental Illness | Novara MediaDo psychiatric diagnoses obscure the impossible circumstances many of us find ourselves in? Harriet Williamson spoke to Dr Lucy Johnstone about why we can’t separate psychological suffering from its c... 044