Mental health patients are being pinned face down by staff thousands of times a year, despite ministers and health experts repeatedly warning that it is dangerous.
In 2014 the then coalition government responded to widespread concern about its use when it acknowledged that it “can result in dangerous compression of the chest and airways and put the person being restrained at risk” and told mental health units in England to phase it out. Prone restraint, in which someone is held chest down to defuse an incident, has been a source of controversy for years and been involved in the death of a number of people with mental health problems.
But new NHS figures obtained by the Liberal Democrats show that face-down restraint was used 5,247 times during 2023 and 3,732 times in the first 10 months of this year alone.
Psychiatry is NOT HEALTH CARE.
Psychiatry is a form of imprisonment, punishment and torture.
This is why I am anti-pathology and proudly against systemic oppression and violence towards traumatised and distressed human beings.
This is why the UN and WHO released the document calling for the end of psychiatry.
2025 is the year we create SERIOUS change.
These systems need urgently dismantling.
What's your favourite 'antisemitism' fraud of 2024?
I think I go for the 'Amsterdam pogrom' which never happened.
Original report vs quiet little 'correction' some weeks later.
Classic BBC.
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#ItWasAScam
Zionism is an explicitly fascist ideology, and an explicitly colonial project, and it is sickening to watch legacy liberal media institutions falling over themselves to legitimise it and provide cover for its crimes.
Elon Musk’s charitable foundation ballooned to $9.5 billion in assets last year while handing out $237 million in gifts — most of which went to other entities,... controlled by him
https://t.co/evw3jNdygk via @wealth
More BS from bozo Trump
He plans to fight climate hysteria
He will block climate research and pretend that climate change does not exist even as the Earth warms to levels not seen in millions of years
He will accelerate warming even faster
Israeli settlers of the illegal Shilo settlement put this ad in Arabic at a main road in the occupied West Bank. It says: “No future in Palestine” with a photo of a mass forced displacement of Palestinians in #Gaza. The only thing that has no future is the colonial, genocidal occupation!
#Magdeburg: In GB hat man während Corona eine neue Gefährder-Kategorie geschaffen: „gemischt, instabil oder unklar". Dies betrifft Leute, die keine klare Ideologie haben und sich aus Versatzstücken im Internet ihre eigenen, oft idiosynkratischen Ideensysteme zusammenbasteln.1/
Why's Musk pushing internet conspiracies about the Christmas market mass murder?
Think: should you trust German police, prosecutors, intel & other security agencies involved in the investigation who're *all saying the same thing*, or random internet people unrelated to the probe?
„An diesen Tagen feiern alle die Geburt eines palästinensischen Juden, dessen Eltern mittellos umherziehen. Danach geht wieder das Rennen darum los, wer am gnadenlosesten abschiebt und Migranten öffentlich wirkungsvoll drangsaliert.“ schreibt @nminkmar in Der siebte Tag. 🙏
"Or the English who fly cheaper to the United States via Schiphol than directly from a UK airport... Dutch people (even those who don't fly themselves) subsidize cheaply flying transfer passengers. Transfer passengers pay no flight tax and cause twice as much noise pollution!"