Bethan Edwards
@researchpixie.bsky.social
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"40% of deaths of learning disabled people were deemed to be avoidable."
This has been known for decades, while services are slashed.
Yet the priority for UK politicians is handing over £ millions to private tech firms.
#PeopleNeedPeople
This has been known for decades, while services are slashed.
Yet the priority for UK politicians is handing over £ millions to private tech firms.
#PeopleNeedPeople
This is eugenics.
This is what disabled people are trying to warn you about.
People with learning disabilities had DNRs placed in their files, without consent, during the early days of COVID.
Now this man was left to die:
www.itv.com/news/2025-10...
This is what disabled people are trying to warn you about.
People with learning disabilities had DNRs placed in their files, without consent, during the early days of COVID.
Now this man was left to die:
www.itv.com/news/2025-10...
www.itv.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
"40% of deaths of learning disabled people were deemed to be avoidable."
This has been known for decades, while services are slashed.
Yet the priority for UK politicians is handing over £ millions to private tech firms.
#PeopleNeedPeople
This has been known for decades, while services are slashed.
Yet the priority for UK politicians is handing over £ millions to private tech firms.
#PeopleNeedPeople
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Such an important article from @researchpixie.bsky.social et al
More time and research needed into this neglected area
More time and research needed into this neglected area
Institutional Abuse, Neglect and Harm in UK Community Mental Health Services: A Scoping Review of the Peer‐Reviewed Evidence - Edwards - 2025 - Health Expectations - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Institutional Abuse, Neglect and Harm in UK Community Mental Health Services: A Scoping Review of the Peer‐Reviewed Evidence
Background Statutory guidance relating to the prevention of institutional abuse, neglect and harm does not reflect the contemporary organisation of UK community mental health services. Historical as...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Such an important article from @researchpixie.bsky.social et al
More time and research needed into this neglected area
More time and research needed into this neglected area
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You don't fund life by funding death. Welfare not warfare.
Survival, not slaughter.
#GenocideAbroadDemocideAtHome #DisabilityRebellion #WelfareNotWarfare #DPAC #CareNotCuts
Survival, not slaughter.
#GenocideAbroadDemocideAtHome #DisabilityRebellion #WelfareNotWarfare #DPAC #CareNotCuts
September 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
You don't fund life by funding death. Welfare not warfare.
Survival, not slaughter.
#GenocideAbroadDemocideAtHome #DisabilityRebellion #WelfareNotWarfare #DPAC #CareNotCuts
Survival, not slaughter.
#GenocideAbroadDemocideAtHome #DisabilityRebellion #WelfareNotWarfare #DPAC #CareNotCuts
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July 3, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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“Amnesty International UK called the revisions to the welfare bill “nothing more than a superficial attempt to get MPs to vote through this cruel and harmful legislation”
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
Disability benefit cuts violate human rights even with concessions, MPs warned
MPs are being urged to reject the government's disability benefit cuts ahead of a vote on Tuesday (1 July).
www.bigissue.com
June 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
“Amnesty International UK called the revisions to the welfare bill “nothing more than a superficial attempt to get MPs to vote through this cruel and harmful legislation”
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
Shared on X, posting here too:-
One of the hardest and proudest things I’ve done to date and it’s only a preprint*. The product of working with incredible people with lived experience of harm in community mental health services.
*not been peer reviewed.
osf.io/preprints/os...
One of the hardest and proudest things I’ve done to date and it’s only a preprint*. The product of working with incredible people with lived experience of harm in community mental health services.
*not been peer reviewed.
osf.io/preprints/os...
OSF
osf.io
June 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Shared on X, posting here too:-
One of the hardest and proudest things I’ve done to date and it’s only a preprint*. The product of working with incredible people with lived experience of harm in community mental health services.
*not been peer reviewed.
osf.io/preprints/os...
One of the hardest and proudest things I’ve done to date and it’s only a preprint*. The product of working with incredible people with lived experience of harm in community mental health services.
*not been peer reviewed.
osf.io/preprints/os...
😂 I asked ChatGPT for a hair cut and this is what I it gave me😂
May 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
😂 I asked ChatGPT for a hair cut and this is what I it gave me😂
If anyone knows of any qual research assoc / fellow, systematic reviewer, intervention development posts out in the field of mental health please do let me know x doesn’t need to be full time - could be 1 - 2 days a week. Need something else alongside my PPIE role or I will wither and die. Thanks X
May 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
If anyone knows of any qual research assoc / fellow, systematic reviewer, intervention development posts out in the field of mental health please do let me know x doesn’t need to be full time - could be 1 - 2 days a week. Need something else alongside my PPIE role or I will wither and die. Thanks X
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Reposted by Bethan Edwards
Read @hatporter.bsky.social and @researchpixie.bsky.social preprint (BMC Psychiatry):
“Surveillance is not safety: A response to Dewa and colleagues’ paper about passive remote monitoring technology (Oxevision)”
An important piece:
osf.io/preprints/os...
“Surveillance is not safety: A response to Dewa and colleagues’ paper about passive remote monitoring technology (Oxevision)”
An important piece:
osf.io/preprints/os...
OSF
osf.io
May 2, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Read @hatporter.bsky.social and @researchpixie.bsky.social preprint (BMC Psychiatry):
“Surveillance is not safety: A response to Dewa and colleagues’ paper about passive remote monitoring technology (Oxevision)”
An important piece:
osf.io/preprints/os...
“Surveillance is not safety: A response to Dewa and colleagues’ paper about passive remote monitoring technology (Oxevision)”
An important piece:
osf.io/preprints/os...
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Green Paper Consultation, online, email, postal;
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Consultation.pathwaystowork@dwp.gov.uk
Disability and Health Support Directorate
Department for Work and Pensions
Level 2
Caxton House
Tothill Street
London
SW1H 9NA
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Consultation.pathwaystowork@dwp.gov.uk
Disability and Health Support Directorate
Department for Work and Pensions
Level 2
Caxton House
Tothill Street
London
SW1H 9NA
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Green Paper Consultation, online, email, postal;
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Consultation.pathwaystowork@dwp.gov.uk
Disability and Health Support Directorate
Department for Work and Pensions
Level 2
Caxton House
Tothill Street
London
SW1H 9NA
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Consultation.pathwaystowork@dwp.gov.uk
Disability and Health Support Directorate
Department for Work and Pensions
Level 2
Caxton House
Tothill Street
London
SW1H 9NA
If the welfare changes do come in, I fear people will be 1. Forced to cause themselves serious harm / injury to be able to survive & score 4 PIP points (because it will be weighted towards physical disability) or 2. Taking their own lives. It will be catastrophic for people with a mental illness.
March 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
If the welfare changes do come in, I fear people will be 1. Forced to cause themselves serious harm / injury to be able to survive & score 4 PIP points (because it will be weighted towards physical disability) or 2. Taking their own lives. It will be catastrophic for people with a mental illness.
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“The significant rise in the number of people being diagnosed with a mental illness in recent years has been driven by real issues that affect us all, such as increases in poverty, housing and food insecurity, as well as loneliness and isolation. ”
www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-fea...
www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-fea...
“Rise in people with mental illness being driven by real societal challenges and lack of available treatment” says RCPsych President
RCPsych President Dr Lade Smith CBE responds to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care's comments about the overdiagnosis of mental health conditions.
www.rcpsych.ac.uk
March 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
“The significant rise in the number of people being diagnosed with a mental illness in recent years has been driven by real issues that affect us all, such as increases in poverty, housing and food insecurity, as well as loneliness and isolation. ”
www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-fea...
www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-fea...
Five years ago I could not take a wheel off a bike, change a tyre, take the cassette & break disks off & put it all back together again. I’m growing as a human being everyday 😂
March 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Five years ago I could not take a wheel off a bike, change a tyre, take the cassette & break disks off & put it all back together again. I’m growing as a human being everyday 😂
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When’s the next marches on Westminster protesting against this shower of sh*t government?
March 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
When’s the next marches on Westminster protesting against this shower of sh*t government?
Emailed my labour MP to tell him that the Labour Party with their Assisted Suicide Bill & Welfare cuts are orchestrating a programme of state sanctioned eugenics.
March 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Emailed my labour MP to tell him that the Labour Party with their Assisted Suicide Bill & Welfare cuts are orchestrating a programme of state sanctioned eugenics.
I feel I need to up my blue sky game. Twitter is feeling quite lonely.
March 16, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I feel I need to up my blue sky game. Twitter is feeling quite lonely.
In London Tues eve and instead of having an evening meal alone, anyone fancy joining me? 😂. I’ll be in UCL main library & staying in Camberwell. Say 7pm ish?
March 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
In London Tues eve and instead of having an evening meal alone, anyone fancy joining me? 😂. I’ll be in UCL main library & staying in Camberwell. Say 7pm ish?
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A reminder for these times.
March 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
A reminder for these times.
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good morning
Please share. Trying to connect w current & former #CrisisTextLine volunteers for a direct action. If you are one, or know one, please comment or msg me. For now just trying to get numbers.
It's harder than you think!
I'll keep sharing this until I have 10. Ready go.
#CrisisLineWorkers #Organize
It's harder than you think!
I'll keep sharing this until I have 10. Ready go.
#CrisisLineWorkers #Organize
March 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
good morning
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That press conference was the most disgraceful act of betrayal I’ve ever seen.
February 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
That press conference was the most disgraceful act of betrayal I’ve ever seen.
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New paper published today but a long time in the making. A critique of the pseudo-diagnosis of complex emotional needs. We outline a number of concerns and risks of the term which has quickly become widely adopted in the NHS.
#MadSky #AcademicSky
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#MadSky #AcademicSky
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A brief critique of the pseudo-diagnosis ‘complex emotional needs’ | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core
A brief critique of the pseudo-diagnosis ‘complex emotional needs’
www.cambridge.org
February 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM
New paper published today but a long time in the making. A critique of the pseudo-diagnosis of complex emotional needs. We outline a number of concerns and risks of the term which has quickly become widely adopted in the NHS.
#MadSky #AcademicSky
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#MadSky #AcademicSky
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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"the crisis team will never not recommend a warm bath and a hot beverage, and unruly behaviour will be punished with a personality disorder diagnosis."
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Nobody could help me with my psychosis. Then I was sent to jail for holding up a shop with a toy gun
I didn’t remember committing my crime but I knew I had fallen through the cracks of the system. Could prison really be my salvation?
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
"the crisis team will never not recommend a warm bath and a hot beverage, and unruly behaviour will be punished with a personality disorder diagnosis."
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...