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A Disorder for Everyone (AD4E)

@jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social
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Disgruntled psychotherapist trying to make a difference. Co-founder AD4E (with Lucy Johnstone) adisorder4everyone.com Founder FB group Drop the Disorder! bit.ly/4bskue6 Founding member madintheuk.com ~because labels don’t tell truthful stories~

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
“We cannot allow a system that is meant to help and support people to instead continue to ignore their rights.” Before Christmas, New Script organiser Lisa Morrison wrote a blog for @madintheuk.bsky.social detailing the stark findings of an international survey on ECT and women.
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Platfform @platfform.org · 16/10/2025
A Disorder for Everyone's festival offers a whole day of change-making talks, presentations and conversations - all challenging the culture of diagnosis and disorder. Have a look at the programme and book on the link below ⬇️ Please share! 🗓️Friday, 7 November 2025 📍9:00 - 17:00 ⌚Online
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A Disorder for Everyone! - The Online Festival 2025
AD4E festival 2025: A whole day of change-making talks, presentations, conversations - all challenging the culture of diagnosis & disorder!
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Madintheuk @madintheuk.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Trauma-Informed Care and the PTMF: How Does It Work in Practice? By Peter Simons madintheuk.com/2025/10/trau... #TraumaInformedCare #PTMF #TraumaAwareness #MentalHealthResearch #CompassionateCare #RecoveryOrientedPractice #HealingTogether #PsychologicalSafety #MadInAmerica
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Madintheuk @madintheuk.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Facing the truth about World Mental Health Day By Jo Watson madintheuk.com/2025/10/faci... #WorldMentalHealthDay #WMHD2025 #WMHD #FacingTheTruth #DistressNotDisorder #ReclaimTheNarrative #ChallengingTheNarrative #MentalHealthReclaimed #BeyondTheBiomedicalModel #SolidarityNotStigma
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The Power Threat Meaning Framework @ptm-framework.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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Facing the truth about World Mental Health Day - Mad in the UK
Jo Watson alongside Drop the Disorder FB group and the AD4E community share alternative messages challenging the the biomedical story of WMHD
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A Disorder for Everyone (AD4E) @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Really looking forward to our friend and ally Johann Hari popping in to our zoom room for a chat about his work. Hear how he challenges the culture of diagnosis and disorder and ask him your questions! Join us 🧡 Donation only places available. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1136180349...
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An Audience With An Ally - Johann Hari
Join AD4E ally, Johann Hari for an informal chat and Q&A about his life and work.
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A Disorder for Everyone (AD4E) @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Well, are they? 🤷‍♀️ 🫤 Sign up to reserve your place at the AD4E festival here (donation only) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1224759932... @drnaomifisher.bsky.social
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A Disorder for Everyone (AD4E) @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Join us online this Wed to hear Child &Adolescent Psychiatrist Sami Timimi talk about his book ‘Searching for Normal: A New Approach to Understanding Mental Health, Distress and Neurodiversity’ &his work that challenges the pathologising of emotional distress. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1222883701...
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Audience with an Ally - Prof Sami Timimi
AD4E ally Sami drops in to talk about his work and most recent book. Come and ask your questions directly.
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A Disorder for Everyone (AD4E) @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Another reason why you won’t want to miss this year’s #adisorder4everyone Festival! ~Donation only ~CPD cert - 8 hrs ~Recorded to watch afterwards ~Connecting with a community that wants to see change In association with V-Day Sign up now! eventbrite.co.uk/e/122475993292…
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Madintheuk @madintheuk.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Grossly Flawed Paper Denies that Antidepressant Withdrawal Effects are “Clinically Meaningful” By John Read madintheuk.com/2025/07/gros... #AntidepressantWithdrawal #WithdrawalEffects #PsychDrugWithdrawal #ComingOffMeds #TaperingMeds #PsychMedAwareness #PharmaAccountability #DoNoHarm
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A Disorder for Everyone (AD4E) @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
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A Disorder for Everyone (AD4E) @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
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Big pharma-funded psychiatrists 'cosplaying science' in misleading antidepressant withdrawal study
The paper claims, with confidence, that withdrawal symptoms from antidepressants are minimal and easily managed. Not true.
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A Disorder for Everyone (AD4E) @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Tomorrow! (Thur 10th Jul) Join clin psych Dr Zandra Bamford for this powerful exploration of #InternalFamilySystems (IFS) as a radical, non-pathologising approach to healing. This workshop offers a chance to deepen self-awareness & rethink old assumptions. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1225119558...
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Using Internal Family Systems - Opening the door to Self
This workshop explores how Internal Family Systems (IFS) can radically deepen self-awareness and enhance therapeutic practice.
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A Disorder for Everyone (AD4E) @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
@madintheuk.bsky.social www.madinamerica.com/2025/07/ect-...
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ECT Proponents Deny Harms as the Tide Begins to Shift
WHO and APA guidance now recognizes the risks of electroshock, but proponents continue to cherry-pick data and deny the harms.
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A Disorder for Everyone (AD4E) @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
For those who’ve not read the most recent Drop the Disorder book did you know you can download a sample off kindle for free!? It includes my intro, Sami Timimi’s chapter on why he wrote INSANE MEDICINE & my interview with Joanna Moncrieff about her crucial work Download it! amzn.eu/d/bS0wRxI
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Drop the Disorder + Do Something!: Activism to change the culture of mental health eBook : Jo Watson: Amazon.co.uk: Books
Drop the Disorder + Do Something!: Activism to change the culture of mental health eBook : Jo Watson: Amazon.co.uk: Books
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Madintheuk @madintheuk.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
What Would True Informed Consent for Antidepressants Actually Look Like? By MITUK admin madintheuk.com/2025/07/what... #InformedConsent #MedicalEthics #PatientAutonomy #EthicsInPractice #ConsentCulture
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A Disorder for Everyone (AD4E) @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
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Moving tribute to a son who died while taking 'antipsychotic' drugs. - Mad in the UK
A family left bereft after psychiatry failed to inform them of the risks to their son's life while under their care.
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A Disorder for Everyone (AD4E) @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
TOMORROW EVENING! Bring more ‘ZEN’ to your therapeutic & support work with this Buddhist inspired workshop. Limited places left now. Recorded for delegates who can’t make it live. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1144389292...
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Adaption Practice: Living Zen with Dr Clive Sherlock
Dr Sherlock resigned from psychiatry & now teaches Adaptation Practice, a secular approach derived from traditional Japanese Zen Buddhism.
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A Disorder for Everyone (AD4E) @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Jan Winhall has worked with many people in the trauma space from Steve Porges to Janina Fisher & this evening she’s sharing her wisdom with us! Don’t miss it! CPD - 2 hours Still places available at the moment. Recorded for delegates who can’t attend live. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1100154253...
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Exploring the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model for Trauma and Addiction
International trainer Jan Winhall introduces the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model to help people who've experienced trauma and addiction.
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A Disorder for Everyone (AD4E) @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Join 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...
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An Audience with an Ally - Professor Emmy van Deurzen
Join AD4E ally, existential therapist and philosopher Emmy van Deurzen to hear about her life and work.
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Girl Interrupted @girl-interrupted.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Join @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social & @peterkinderman.bsky.social for an audience with an ally Tuesday 3rd June www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-audienc...
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An Audience with an Ally - Prof Peter Kinderman
Activist, author, academic & former president of the British Psychological Society, Peter Kinderman joins us to talk about his life & work.
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A Disorder for Everyone (AD4E) @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Starting in an hour! Recorded for delegates who can’t attend live. CPD -2 hours www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1106166747...
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How to come off psychiatric drugs safely with Dr Mark Horowitz
An invaluable opportunity to learn from Mark Horowitz about how to safely come off psychiatric drugs.
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Ewan Hilton @ewanhilton.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
A little look into @platfform.org bookshelves - radical help, drop the disorder and time to think - helps you get a little under the skin of who we are
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A Disorder for Everyone (AD4E) @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Starting at 12.00 today. Recorded for delegates who can’t make it live. CPD -2 hours Sign up here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/5625142643...
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Challenging the diagnosis of 'Personality Disorder'
Platfform's Truth Project join us to share the story of their campaign that challenges the diagnosis of 'Personality Disorder'
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Madintheuk @madintheuk.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
April 2025 in Review Visit our website to catch up with any blogs you may have missed! madintheuk.com/blogs/ #MadInTheUK #VoicesForChange #MentalHealthdebate #mentalhealthdiscourse
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Madintheuk @madintheuk.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Reflecting on the blogs of 2024: January-March Visit our website to catch up with any blogs you may have missed! madintheuk.com/blogs/ #MadInTheUK #VoicesForChange #MentalHealthMatters
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Madintheuk @madintheuk.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Withdrawal syndromes: lost in translation www.madintheuk.com/2025/05/with... #WithdrawalSyndrome #AntidepressantWithdrawal #PsychiatricDrugWithdrawal #MadInTheUK​
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Withdrawal syndromes: lost in translation - Mad in the UK
Harriet Vogt, a qualitative researcher joined a Prescribed Medication Withdrawal peer group in N Wales to listen and learn.
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Platfform @platfform.org · 07/05/2025
This Friday, with @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social! We'll be exploring 'whole community' approaches to mental health, understanding the circumstances and experiences that lay at the root of distress - and what all this means to ways of working that make a lasting difference. Book here: buff.ly/Re6c4HM
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A Disorder for Everyone (AD4E) @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Today at 12.30 (UK) Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist Professor Sami Timimi and Professor of Critical and Social Psychiatry (UCL) and NHS psychiatrist Joanna Moncrieff will be talking about their books and answering your questions. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1100158847...
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Psychiatrists Joanna Moncrieff and Sami Timimi discuss their new books
Joanna &Sami join us to discuss their latest books that will contribute enormously to the critical discourse in the field of ‘mental health’
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A Disorder for Everyone (AD4E) @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
‘… so every one of us scored an #ADHD diagnosis!’ Professor Peter C Gøtzsche of The Institute for Scientific Freedom scientificfreedom.dk at a recent AD4E ‘An Audience with an Ally’ event. For more audiences with allies check here… bit.ly/41DUsQB
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Madintheuk @madintheuk.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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Book review: 'Drop the Disorder & Do Something' edited by Jo Watson - Mad in the UK
Cathy Wield reviews the second in the series of books edited by Jo Watson 'Drop the Disorder and Do Something'
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Platfform @platfform.org · 10/03/2025
Then, 21st May, we'll be back with @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social to talk about challenging the diagnosis of personality disorder, and the real stories we've been hearing and sharing. How can we better understand the distress this diagnosis can mask? Sign up here: buff.ly/srMi9x6
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Challenging the diagnosis of 'Personality Disorder'
Platfform's Truth Project join us to share the story of their campaign that challenges the diagnosis of 'Personality Disorder'
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Platfform @platfform.org · 10/03/2025
It’s our connections and communities around us that form the most significant basis for our mental health. On 9th May, we’ll be talking to @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social about our community-focused approach to mental health at an online event – you can sign up here:
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From Clinic to Community: A holistic, social justice approach.
AD4E allies Platfform: For Mental Health and Social change talk about their vision for a holistic, community approach to 'mental health.'
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A Disorder for Everyone (AD4E) @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Time to read / reread this very important @madintheuk blog by @drjamesdaviesbskys.bsky.social www.madintheuk.com/2024/09/righ...
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Right-Wing or Left-Wing: Who Really Owns the Critique of Over-Medicalisation? - Mad in the UK
Two distinct critiques of over-medicalisation highlight the growing divide between left-wing and right-wing perspectives.
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A Disorder for Everyone (AD4E) @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
The Power Threat Meaning Framework has arrived at Bluesky! Don’t forget to follow! @ptm-framework.bsky.social
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Lanie @laniep52.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
@jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social @mad-in-america.bsky.social #DroptheDisorder #adisorder4everyone #itswhathappenednotwhatswrong #stoppathologisinghumandistress
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The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
‘Every single person needs to have their story heard…’ @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social chats with V (formerly Eve Ensler) in a chapter from 'Drop the Disorder + Do Something!' (PCCS Books). RT for your chance to win a copy! www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
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Girl Interrupted @girl-interrupted.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Join @profjohnread.bsky.social 11th March for an interesting presentation on whether psychiatric diagnoses are scientifically valid & reliable, along with @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/is-psychia...
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Is psychiatric diagnosis scientific and/or helpful? With Prof John Read
Dr John Read, Prof of Psychology at the University of East London returns with another thoughtful presentation on psychiatric diagnosis.
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Jacqui Dillon @jacquidillon.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
What an extraordinary woman ♀️
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Joanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
My upcoming book uses original research to reveal how the chemical imbalance theory of depression was weaponised by Pharma, aided by the medical profession, to change the way we think about ourselves and what it means to be human
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Jacqui Dillon @jacquidillon.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Right-Wing or Left-Wing: Who Really Owns the Critique of Over-Medicalisation? Read more here: www.madintheuk.com/2024/09/righ...
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Right-Wing or Left-Wing: Who Really Owns the Critique of Over-Medicalisation? - Mad in the UK
Two distinct critiques of over-medicalisation highlight the growing divide between left-wing and right-wing perspectives.
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Joanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
A TEDxNHS talk by Joe Tudor. "I felt lost and confused when I was told I had a chemical imbalance. My journey since has brought me the things I now value the most in my life." A short but powerful video full of wisdom and humour. Please share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7GN...
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Understanding my depression | Joe Tudor | TEDxNHS
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I've finally got something to post about! New feature on changing attitudes to #BPD diagnosis, for Therapy Today: www.bacp.co.uk/bacp-journal... @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social
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Prof. James Davies @drjamesdaviesbskys.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
To demedicalise distress is not to delegitimise distress. One can honor, respect and care for profound suffering without labeling it as illness, pathology or disorder.
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