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Survivors against PD #StopSIM @survivorsnotpd.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

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@jendaffin.bsky.social such an important talk today expanding on research conducted by Platform. Trauma is STILL not asked about When it is, it’s often denied or belittled. The diagnosis is used as a way to gatekeep care and deny services. It creates chronic dismissal and structural denial.

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Platfform @platfform.org · 19/11/2025

Huge thanks to @restraintreductionnetwork.org for inviting @jendaffin.bsky.social to speak at their conference last week, and to Jess Matthews for joining us there to share her story. The diagnosis of personality disorder can function as a restraint, limiting people’s power over their own lives.

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Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Community is a mental health intervention. Which is why we’re exploring trauma informed community development work here at @platfform.org The solutions to our mental health crisis are not within the NHS mental health systems gift to resolve. 💙

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Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

If we are going to reduce rates of mental ill health across our society we must take the billions back that's been handed over to the wealthy. Everything else is a sticking plaster. 🩹

Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Looking forward to being part of this @edpsy.bsky.social conference later this year. 👏

Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Please consider signing and sharing this open letter with over 600 signatures calling on the BPS and ACP to speak up about Palestine. “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” - Desmond Tutu www.psychchange.org/palestine1.htm

Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

We know the original austerity cuts cost people their lives. We know it led to overwhelm and then suicide. We need to learn from that. A robust social safety net is a mental health intervention.

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Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Addiction is a response to feeling overwhelmed, without agency and disconnected from self and others. It is NOT a disease or failure in self discipline or character. It is most often better thought of as a trauma response.

Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Depression is a natural human emotion. Emotions are reactions to the events in our lives.

Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

We know now that stimulant medication used for the diagnosis of ADHD has more negative effects than positive including worsening behaviour and stunting children's growth. We need clinicians to understand this and change treatment trends.

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Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

We know the original austerity cuts cost people their lives. We know it lead to overwhelm and then suicide. We need to learn from that. A robust safety net is a mental health intervention.

Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

As I understand it the mental health bill will not do enough to end the torture and harm many experience whilst in inpatient services. Our treatment approach needs an urgent review too. We need an Act that puts human rights and dignity front and center. Nothing less.

Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Great to hear Sir James Mackey, CEO NHS England talking about sharing power and unlocking decision making! Alongside Lord Victor Adebowale CBE saying Austerity is an expensive way to run services. 👏👏👏

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Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The evidence base is clear that depression is largely caused by our circumstances. Not chemical imbalances or genetics. It's our body in overwhelm, looking for safety, rest and a way out.

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Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

School violence is up - why? Anger is a threat reaponse. It comes from not feeling safe. What we’re witnessing is the result of the disruptions to our sense of safety from austerity, COVID and wealth inequality. It will only get worse unless we put the safety net back and address loneliness.

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Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Health diagnosis is a clinical art based on observation and the patient's story as much as tests. Mental health diagnosis is like a Picasso. 🖼️ 🎨

Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Poverty is as much a cause as a consequence of mental ill health. It has been linked to experiences of what gets called psychosis too.

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Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

There is no evidence to support mental health first aid as an effective or useful training. When MHFA training was compared with no intervention, it may have little to no effect on improvements to mental health. #mentalhealthfirstaid #MHFA www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

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Mental Health First Aid as a tool for improving mental health and well‐being - Richardson, R - 2023 | Cochrane Library

Select your preferred language for Cochrane reviews and other content. Sections without translation will be in English.

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Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

We know poverty and mental ill heath are a vicious cycle - an increase in child poverty also leads to an increase in demand for NHS services. It makes no sense not to act preventatively. It’s a waste of opportunity for a good life and a waste of tax payers money. www.itv.com/news/2025-05...

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Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Don’t go to therapy to resolve workplace stress from low pay and poor working conditions. Go to a union! 👏

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Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

“Lots of grownups are reaching out to people like us to try and understand what’s going on and get help. There are now so many people reaching out for support that waiting lists for things like child neurodevelopmental assessments are years.” @madintheuk.bsky.social madinireland.com/2025/05/why-...

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Why we need to rethink the medical approach to children’s mental health - Mad in Ireland

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Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Thank you A Disorder for Everyone for having us to speak about our campaign work challenging the use of the diagnosis of personality disorder. We met so many brilliant people today all with the same shocking experience. Enough is enough. Join our movement for change platfform.org/system-chang...

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The Truth Project - Platfform

Platfform’s Truth Project is our approach to hearing and bearing witness to people’s experiences. We will be looking at different aspects of the mental health system, and more widely, to understand wh...

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Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

The idea depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in your brain is a myth. Depression is largely caused by our circumstances. The fact depression is one of the fastest growing issues of our time is a damning reflection on how we are organising society and treating each other.

Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

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Farage’s immigration hysteria is now setting Labour’s agenda. I’m seriously doubtful - to put it mildly - of the political wisdom of accepting and amplifying Reform’s migration myths 👇🏻

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These two charts expose Nigel Farage’s immigration myths

The migration debate is based on blatant, provable falsehoods.

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Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Mental ill health is not a personal failure. It is not about a lack of grit. It is caused by overwhelm from not having our basic physical and emotional needs met. That's a policy issue not an individual one. It’s the grown ups in charge who need to step up.

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Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

There are no specific genes for any of the mental disorders and it’s not about a chemical imbalance either. It’s far more complex than that.

Platfform @platfform.org · 14/05/2025

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Why do we organise community events? Research proves that connecting with people is good for our mental health. It gives us a sense of belonging, identity and purpose – all vital to help us thrive. What does community mean to you? Let us know here buff.ly/QEUtDeF and we'll share the results online.

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Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

There are more food banks than McDonald’s in the UK. Food insecurity is linked to mental ill health and must be urgently resolved.

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Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

In England in 2023/24 black people were 3.5x more likely than white people to be detained under the Mental Health Act and 7x more likely to be placed on a Community Treatment Order. There is little point improving access to mental health services if we are harming people when they get there.

Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

It’s not a cost of living crisis it’s a inequality crisis and it’s costing us our mental health.

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Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Growing inequality is rising hand in hand with mental ill health and additional learning needs. As rates of toxic stress increase our health decreases. We need a British wealth tax. Norway and Spain have done it. Plus the country with the highest wealth taxes in the developed world is Switzerland.

Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

The continued use of the term personality disorder causes diagnostic overshadowing of adversity, trauma, exposure to toxic stress and the disruption these things can cause to our development also know as ‘cortico-limbic’ stress adaptations.

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Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I’m so excited and pleased to see Wales on a journey towards a holistic and rights based approach to mental health. This is the solution for all the MH diagnosis including the scary sounding schizophrenia box.

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Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

The continued use of the term personality disorder leads to diagnostic overshadowing.

Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

The diagnoses systems for mental ill health are rooted in injustice. The ideology is based on who is acceptable to society and therefore should be included and who should not. It all unfolds from there.

Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

If the DSM lacks scientific validity and is nothing more than a category system decided by vote based judgment why would we apply validity to research outcomes based on the DSM criteria? It makes no sense.

Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

There is little point reducing waiting times for mental health services if we are harming people when they get there.

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Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Safe, secure affordable housing is a mental health intervention.

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Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

“The message couldn’t be clearer: You’re not unemployed because of political decisions or economic betrayal. You’re just unwell. Instead of jobs, we get wellbeing seminars. It reframes structural devastation as an individual problem.” www.compactmag.com/article/the-...

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The Working Class Needs Jobs, Not Therapy

When I saw Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens speaking in her soft voice about “mental health support” for the steelworkers in Port Talbot, I felt physically sick.

Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

When society is less health we are less healthy. Physically and mentally. It’s not about being born with better genes. Our health is fundamentally determined by the conditions in with we are born, grow and live.

Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Social, economic and educational factors, the effects of social and physicals environments alongside access to healthcare, justice and equity all determine our mental health outcomes. It’s not about specific genetics or chemical imbalances. We’re far more complex than that!

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Platfform @platfform.org · 16/04/2025

From @elliebroughton.bsky.social: the stigmatising diagnosis of 'personality disorder,' and how's it being applied to under-18s. Our trauma-informed practice lead, @jendaffin.bsky.social, speaks out in the piece about how this diagnosis silences people's voices and hides root causes of distress.

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Why are children still being diagnosed with personality disorders?

Young people are stigmatised and written-off from an early age when labelled with a personality disorder – campaigners want to end these childhood diagnoses.

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Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Being lower in the social hierarchy worsens mental health, cardiovascular risks and death rates. Inequality and mental ill health in the UK continue to grow.