‘Shifting the balance towards social interventions: Why the UN and WHO are calling for Mental Health Reform’
Webinar recording now available youtu.be/IjTU196u28k
Dainius Pūras Michelle Funk Norman Lamb Lord Nigel Crisp Danny Kruger Dr James Davies (PhD) 💭

'Inpatient psychiatry is not a place of psychological healing; it is devoid of compassion and full of human rights abuses'

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“A single mum on a council estate during Covid was 3 times as likely to get depressed as a middle class mum with a garden. This has got nothing to do with biology. This has got everything to do with the social predicament you are subject to.” cityam.com/antidepressant…

'Forty years of biomedical dominance in mental health has not improved clinical outcomes - we need to entirely overhaul our approach'
- The The BMJ covers our Beyond Pills APPG report on mental health reform.👇
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'While psychiatric drugs have a limited role for some more serious MH problems, they cannot resolve relational or social adversities and when widely prescribed may do more harm than good.
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Dr Michelle Funk (W.H.O.) offers 28 examples of psycho-social alternative types of services to the failed label and drug approach of bio-psychiatry’s ‘medical model’ ideology.

Parliamentary Group brings together United Nations, World Health Organisation and British experts to launch report calling for shift away from bio-medical paradigm and coercion to a rights-based, psych-social approach. An historic meeting.

Shifting the balance towards social interventions: A call for an overhaul of the mental health system
Key obstacles to change, 6 principles for reform and nine specific calls for action
Dr James Davies (PhD) 💭 Anne Guy 💙 The Power Threat Meaning Framework
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Important report from APPG in the UK calling for radical shift away from biomedical approach to mental health

🚨 This is the kind of critical reporting we need in Ireland - 'More than 30 of the most common antidepressants used are to be reviewed by UK’s medicines regulator, as figures point to hundreds of deaths linked to suicide and self-harm among people prescribed these drugs.'

The The Power Threat Meaning Framework contains four core concepts, which can be translated into four core questions: 1 power – what has happened to you? 2 threat – how did it affect you? 3 meaning – what sense did you make of it? and 4 threat response – what did you have to do to survive?”

Beautiful set of podcasts created by Liam MacGabhann for Mad In Ireland - take a listen if you want to delve into learning about finding solace through nature, music, spirituality, language - all of the things that make us human #fieldsofhealing madinireland.com/category/podca…

If you really want to go from #DarknessIntoLight read Mad In Ireland & Mad In America content that lays out through personal testimony and forensic scientific detail why a paradigm shift is urgently required to truly assist people in distress.

In case anyone thinks Pharma is not still influential in psychiatry, psychiatry and neurology came second place in the league table of industry handouts to medical specialities from 2013 to 2022 jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Psychiatric diagnosis 'shapes the people it describes. It models social identities. It offers scripts for how to behave and explanations for one’s interior life.' Excellent essay/book review from The New Yorker newyorker.com/magazine/2024/….

Voice hearers often value their voices and find meaning in them - and don't we all have an internal monologue anyway? Great piece giving an insight into a different mind. How boring life would be if we all thought the same.