Lucy Hodgkiss

Artist and Art Psychotherapist. Trauma informed. Feminist. Seeking to challenge the medical model of mental health.

[Prof James Davies 💭 @JDaviesPhD]

"Mental Illness Is Not in Your Head - Decades of biological research haven’t improved diagnosis or treatment. We should look to society, not to the brain".

https://t.co/NrSE8lZwUt

[Lucy Hodgkiss @LucyEllenH]

It also requires a move away from the current medical model of understanding distress.

[Javeed Sukhera MD PhD @javeedsukhera]

Being #trauma informed cannot and should not be a buzzword reduced to workshops and KPIs. Trauma informed approaches require a fundamental shift away from superficial or top-down change and towards deep, liberatory, and Community centered transformation.

[Researching Black women’s experience of SV @SVABWstudy]

I am a Trainee Clinical Psychologist researching the impact of sexual violence on Black women’s mental wellbeing & identity.

Your voice is important & will help us understand what needs to be done to better support black women.

Please share!

[Prof James Davies 💭 @JDaviesPhD]

To be told you are suffering from an internal mental dysfunction/disorder, when in fact you are suffering from unmet psycho-social &/or relational needs, is to potentially open yourself up to being worryingly misled, maddeningly misunderstood & harmfully mismanaged.

[Prof James Davies 💭 @JDaviesPhD]

Since the 1980s we've been told that emotional suffering is rooted in untreated 'mental disorders' rather than in unmet social/psychological/relational needs. In no other period has this historically outlying belief so dominated, nor has mental health disability so increased.

[Prof James Davies 💭 @JDaviesPhD]

Can we stop medicalising student anxiety as a ‘mental health problem’. I'd be anxious if I were about to enter such an inhospitable world: with flat-lining wages, high inflation & job insecurity, unreachable house prices, careers for life gone, & massive students debt to repay.

[Dr. Jessica Taylor @DrJessTaylor]

I wish people realised how common and how well evidenced our position on anti-pathology and over-medicalising human distress is. People think I’m just saying this stuff on my own, like I dreamt it all up yesterday.

[Lucy Hodgkiss @LucyEllenH]

This is very reassuring to hear!

[Prof James Davies 💭 @JDaviesPhD]

I had lunch at the House of Lords today. There were around 20 guests, all desirous for MH reform. All seemed highly receptive to the idea that we’re over-medicalising/medicating emotional distress. I doubt there are many left today who aren’t critical of this. Now we need action.

[ad4e @dropthedisorder]

So excited that #TheOctopusMan is now out in paperback for more people to read it and understand..
A) how great a writer Jasper Gibson is
and…
B) how medical model responses to hearing voices are often very unhelpful!

Buy it! Read it! Pass it on! 🐙

#adisorder4everyone

[Lucy Hodgkiss @LucyEllenH]

After @VivGordonCo incredible play last week I wanted to remind myself of this amazing poem. https://t.co/Q3dmeNr3Vu

[Viv Gordon @VivGordonCo]

2 more days to #BeyondTherapyFest @wshed!
Time to introduce our next co-commission with @GreenHseBristol: Telling Truths, Telling Tales by @ShareClaw, a sequence of visual & spoken poems which examine how current systems respond to the trauma of sexual assault. #CSA #ItsNotOK

[Prof James Davies 💭 @JDaviesPhD]

I would love to see a university counselling service that tried, through caring relationships, to re-politicise students understanding of their social predicaments & suffering; advancing peer support & solidarity, while locating 'therapy' in raised political awareness & action.

[Magz Louise (she/her) @createhopeni]

Help Viv cut out 11 million paper dolls to represent the 11 million adult survivors of child sexual abuse in UK https://t.co/DXKnONNUet

[ad4e @dropthedisorder]

Incredible things happen when amazing people get together and speak their truth.
Thank you @VivGordonCo @AkimaThomas @flying_project, Sue Irwin @onlinevents @ClinpsychLucy
#cuttingout #11Million #adisorder4everyone
STOP PATHOLOGISING SURVIVORS.

[Viv Gordon @VivGordonCo]

Normal trauma responses such as dissociation are pathologised. Dissociation around #CSA is a wider collective experience. We live in a culture that would rather turn away than face the scale & impact of abuse. @dropthedisorder host #CuttingOut on 12/5 👇
https://t.co/Xo3i1W60O5

[ad4e @dropthedisorder]

Starting in just over 1 hr!

An incredible example of survivor activism.

300+ have signed up to watch this evening or afterwards if they can’t make tonight.

Either way - please don’t miss it.
It deserves to be seen by MANY.
#adisorder4everyone

https://t.co/fbzkIfVX83

[ad4e @dropthedisorder]

‘The injustice is unbearable’. #cuttingout #adisorder4everyone thank you, thank you, thank you @VivGordonCo you’re amazing 🧡

[Lucy Hodgkiss @LucyEllenH]

Feels amazing to be alongside survivors and allies this evening cutting out with @VivGordonCo @dropthedisorder

[Prof James Davies 💭 @JDaviesPhD]

“Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.”
― R.D. Laing

[Dr. Jessica Taylor @DrJessTaylor]

Wild that it’s seen as extremist and controversial to be completely opposed to the use of ECT.

Most people don’t even know it’s still being used, people think it was banned decades ago. Some people think it’s something from horror films, they have no idea NHS is using it today.