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Alex
@alexbaobab.bsky.social
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Counsellor & Creative Arts Therapist (not currently practising), occasional artist and vegan cook!
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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
October 10, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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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...
An Audience With An Ally - Johann Hari
Join AD4E ally, Johann Hari for an informal chat and Q&A about his life and work.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
September 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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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…
August 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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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...
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.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
July 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Reflecting on the blogs of 2024: July-September

Visit our website to catch up with any blogs you may have missed! madintheuk.com/blogs/

#MadInTheUK #VoicesForChange #MentalHealthMatters
May 8, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Reflecting on the blogs of 2024: April - June

Visit our website to catch up with any blogs you may have missed! madintheuk.com/blogs/

#MadInTheUK #VoicesForChange #MentalHealthMatters
May 8, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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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
May 8, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Reflecting on the blogs of 2024: October

Visit our website to catch up with any blogs you may have missed! madintheuk.com/blogs/

#MadInTheUK #VoicesForChange #MentalHealthMatters
May 10, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Reflecting 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
May 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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‪Reflecting on the blogs of 2024: December

Visit our website to catch up with any blogs you may have missed! madintheuk.com/blogs/

#MadInTheUK #VoicesForChange #MentalHealthMatters
May 12, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Home Is Where The Heart Is: A story about life in a council block in the age of austerity
By John Hoggett

www.madintheuk.com/2025/05/home...

#MentalHealth #SocialHousing #AusterityUK
#CommunityStories #MadInTheUK
#MentalHealthAwareness #HousingCrisis
#WelfareReform #SocialJustice
Home Is Where The Heart Is - Mad in the UK
Fictionalised account of John Hoggett's experience living alongside people let down by welfare services, social problems often medicalised
www.madintheuk.com
May 12, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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"Since then, damn near every attractive young female psychiatric patient who has committed the “crime” of saying FUCK YOU to an authority figure eventually gets a borderline label to go along with other diagnoses."
www.counterpunch.org/2025/03/28/u...
Unshrunk: A Memoir That Upsets the NYT and Which Freethinkers Will Love
Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance, the newly published book by Laura Delano, is scaring the hell out of establishment psychiatry and
www.counterpunch.org
March 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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An Audience with an Ally offers an informal, interactive space for you to ask Lucy about her decades of activism against western psychiatry's labels and
the iatrogenic harm it causes.
An Audience with an Ally - Dr Lucy Johnstone
Join AD4E’s co-founder Lucy Johnstone to hear about her life and work campaigning for alternatives to the diagnostic model of distress.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
April 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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March 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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novaramedia.com/2025/02/17/t... #PTMFramework
This Psychologist Is Challenging the Way We See Mental Illness | Novara Media
Do 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...
novaramedia.com
March 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Disability, Work and Starmer’s Cruel Cuts - Mad in the UK
Discussion re UK government’s justification for proposed cuts to disability benefits such as PIP (Personal Independence Payment)
www.madintheuk.com
March 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2025/03/21/l...
Let it go: Changing your mind as you do research is both ethical and practical - Transforming Society
Keren O'Reilly, author of 'Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone' shows how flexibility in qualitative research is essential for ethical, empathetic, and effective inquiry, as rigid, positivist ap...
www.transformingsociety.co.uk
March 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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It’s arrived!!! So excited @karenlumsden.bsky.social @maggieoneill.bsky.social @linenyhagen.bsky.social @michaelacbenson.bsky.social @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social @policypress.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-audienc... Join us on April 30th!
An Audience with an Ally - Dr Lucy Johnstone
Join AD4E’s co-founder Lucy Johnstone to hear about her life and work campaigning for alternatives to the diagnostic model of distress.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
March 19, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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‘… 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
March 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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A critical look at the concept of #neurodiversity. Where has it come from, what does it mean, and is it actually helpful?

www.madintheuk.com/2024/12/part...
Part 1: Neurodiversity—What Exactly Does It Mean? - Mad in the UK
Neurodiversity is inspiring both a developing social movement and an academic paradigm which is being interpreted in different ways.
www.madintheuk.com
March 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
alexbaobab.bsky.social
Looking forwards to reading this!

#chemicallyimbalanced #joannamoncrieff
March 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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From @madintheuk.bsky.social by Katarina Lundgren 'The problem is that there is no system for.. people who are “not sick”, but do not fit into the traditional work system'. There should be! www.madintheuk.com/2025/03/the-...
The Sickness-Society: either you are well and functional — or sick and dysfunctional - Mad in the UK
Katarina Lungden discusses the impact of diagnostic labelling to obtain welfare for emotional difficulties
www.madintheuk.com
March 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Article in Psychology Today about the successful project to introduce the Power Threat Meaning Framework approach into London AMH inpatient wards, and the encouraging results. #PTFramework #PTMF

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
From Symptoms to Stories: Reframing Mental Health Treatment
A new approach that reframes mental health struggles not as defects but as understandable responses to stress and trauma shows promise for patient outcomes, new research finds.
www.psychologytoday.com
March 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Time to read / reread this
very important @madintheuk blog by @drjamesdaviesbskys.bsky.social

www.madintheuk.com/2024/09/righ...
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.
www.madintheuk.com
March 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM