Noel Bell

Not just another blank screen analyst. Made in Ireland #UKCP accredited #Psychotherapist based in #London See my blog:

[Noel Bell @NoelBell]

I am quoted in the latest Ask Annalisa letter in the #Guardian: My friend only ever wants to talk about herself. Should I cut her off? #agony #relationships https://t.co/I0ljMmYcjL

[Mark Davies @markxdavies]

Many thanks to the @redlionbarnes who found a place for a long-standing football fan for their big screen showing at short notice

#BarryDavies

[Noel Bell @NoelBell]

#Fabswingers which has more page views than any other #swinging website, and claims to have 600,000 active monthly members, told the BBC that consent was the foundation of swinging.
https://t.co/F45rWgcPqw

[Noel Bell @NoelBell]

Feeling overwhelmed when using dating apps and struggling to maintain your personal boundaries while scrolling? Emotional exhaustion, #anxiety, and low self-esteem, my latest article on #datingapps.
https://t.co/vF2CFVukim

[Noel Bell @NoelBell]

#Conservative leader #KemiBadenoch has apologised after a video opposing reforms to the Legacy Act that featured footage of soldiers on #BloodySunday was posted to her social media account.
https://t.co/3YMYHyLHV6

[Noel Bell @NoelBell]

Quote by #CarlJung: “Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you”

[Noel Bell @NoelBell]

“If you can’t win an impossible war then just say “I have won” and post it on social media (the art of winning easily). Don Tzu.

[Noel Bell @NoelBell]

A panel of jurors found Meta and Google intentionally built addictive social media platforms that harmed the mental health of a 20-year old woman, known as Kaley.
The result will likely influence hundreds of similar cases now winding their way through the US courts.

[Noel Bell @NoelBell]

#Meta, #YouTube found liable in social media #addiction case
https://t.co/PiMTTjz6nQ

[Noel Bell @NoelBell]

A Los Angeles jury has handed down an unprecedented win for a young woman who sued Meta and Google over her childhood addiction to social media.

[Noel Bell @NoelBell]

#Trump Trump is "please (sp) to report .... detailed and constructive discussions witch will continue" ..... err which witch?

[Noel Bell @NoelBell]

Israeli military drops charges against soldiers accused of abusing Palestinian detainee
https://t.co/vV532tWQ1d

[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

I’d been thinking about Gaza, the unwillingness of so many to acknowledge its horrors, and the comparatively contained outrage over the bombing of the school in southern Iran.

But this letter-writer to The Irish Times says it better.

[Dr. Jessica Taylor @DrJessTaylor]

This week, The Guardian reported on a survey by the Royal College of Psychiatrists claiming that ‘three in four women do not know that menopause causes mental illness.’

Read that sentence again. Menopause causes mental illness, apparently. And the silly women don’t even know about it.

Give us all a goddamn break, please.

It is hard to overstate how pathologising, misleading, and politically loaded that statement is. And it is even harder to ignore the fact that this message was not stumbled upon accidentally by a journalist. It was issued as a press-friendly finding by one of the most powerful psychiatric institutions in the UK. The Royal College of Psychiatrists.

A disgusting and deliberate tactic to frame menopausal and perimenopausal women as mentally ill, and of course, unaware.

As a psychologist who has spent years researching the psychiatric labelling of women and girls, and as the author of Sexy But Psycho, I find this framing deeply concerning. Because this is exactly how it happens. First, women’s normal physiological processes are reframed as psychiatric risk factors. Then women are told they are unaware, uninformed, or ignorant about their own bodies. Then the screening increases. Everyone celebrates more screening of women. Then the diagnoses increase. Then the prescribing increases. And before long, an entire life stage has been recoded as a mental health disorder waiting to happen.

This is not a drill, ladies. This is not a drill.

[Ash Paul @pash22]

Examining @APApsychiatric ’s Proposed Redesign of the DSM: Can the future DSM overcome the epistemic arrogance of its predecessors?
https://t.co/G9JOR1YKwd via @awaisaftab

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“To be happy you must eliminate two things: The fear of a bad future and the memory of a bad past.”

— Seneca

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

This is why I genuinely cannot believe there are still Americans who believe -- or who pretend to believe -- that the US wages wars and bombs other countries to liberate them from tyranny and bring them freedom and democracy.

How can any sentient person believe thIs?

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

@brhodes You know what, Ben? Since the Obama admin bombed an Afghan hospital, burned dozens of patients alive in their beds, lied about it repeatedly, blocked an independent investigation, then gave the killers a slap on the wrist, maybe you're not really in a position to get moralistic.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨 Right in the middle of the strike map U.S. War Secretary Pete Hegseth proudly displayed at a Pentagon briefing today sits Minab — the site of a school in southern Iran where a U.S.–Israeli strike killed 165 children this weekend.

BBC’s Tom Bateman asked Hegseth whether the Pentagon knows whose munition hit the school. Hegseth said the department is still investigating.

Journalist Chris Osieck plotted the Minab school (green dot) onto the strike map released by the U.S. military today.

It sits directly within the cluster of U.S. strike zones shown on the Pentagon briefing map.

@tombateman | @ChrisOsieck

[Noel Bell @NoelBell]

@ProteasMenCSA The chasing sides have a good record on this ground. Need to set a big total.

[Noel Bell @NoelBell]

@mufaddal_vohra Chasing sides have a good record on this ground. SA need to set a big total.