The Schizophrenia Awareness Project

“Fighting stigma through truth, lived experience, and research.”

[Badassmutha 🔞🌏🕊💞♿️🐈‍⬛🐕🤼‍♂️🏉💐 @dodgson_sally]

My friend has been in A&E since her GP sent her there at 3pm yesterday for emergency MH care.

Another friend last week couldnt handle the wait so did a peaceful protest. Got his head smashed into the concrete, arrested, night in the cells, sectioned. Which was all he wanted.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

‘Valdo Calocane's family weren’t told he had schizophrenia’

Majorie Wallace, Chief Executive of the mental health charity SANE, says that when families are not given enough information about a relative’s mental health condition, it becomes much harder for them to deal with such a ‘serious problem’.

[No Nonsense Neurodivergent @NoNonsenseND]

"Autistic rigid thinking" is really just "things have to make sense before we change our minds"

[The Schizophrenia Awareness Project @am37387]

For context, with about 500–600 homicides a year and roughly 1% of the population having schizophrenia, the risk of a homicide being committed by a person with schizophrenia is very low in absolute terms, although it is understandably highly visible when cases such as the Valdo Calocane case reach the news.
#nottinghaminquiry #valdocalocane #mentalhealth

[POPSUK @POPSUKORG]

“We are supporting the family of Valdo Calocane because they went to a lot of people and no-one in the world would listen to them” Majorie Wallace, chief executive of @CharitySANE

https://t.co/aBcLZdVU3X

#nottinghamenquiry

[The Schizophrenia Awareness Project @am37387]

I believe that if the bereaved were to meet with families with loved ones with a schizophrenia/psychosis diagnosis, they will have a wealth of knowledge, as we know how broken the system is, we fight ot each day to get our loved ones the care they need
https://t.co/GyjmLmbM9e

[The Schizophrenia Awareness Project @am37387]

We must hear more from gGraces mum, she is speaking so much sense, concentrate on the system failures, and we may see change.. as a mum of a son with a schizophrenia diagnosis I can tell you that shes right 'some' psychiatrists' are not fit to practise
Check out ITV News's video! #TikTok #nottinhaminquiry # https://t.co/PBxTJi21VW

[POPSUK @POPSUKORG]

Sad that there’s no mention of the many patients who are - ironically - also harmed by “respect for their rights”. Also no mention of the key fact that respecting patients autonomy is much much cheaper for the NHS.

[Luba Macpherson @LubaMacpherson]

The framing of “patients’ rights versus public safety” is too narrow. In many cases, the real failure is that mental health services do not properly safeguard the patient or the public. Families are ignored, effective treatment is disrupted, medication risks are brushed aside, and concerns are treated as a nuisance rather than evidence.

I know this from my daughter’s case. A treatment that worked for her was interfered with, and drugs previously stopped because of serious adverse effects were later reintroduced. She has been kept for years in conditions that are unsafe and damaging, while professionals use her continuing distress and instability to justify the claim that she lacks capacity. That is not “respecting rights”. That is institutional failure.

The Nottingham Inquiry should not be reduced to a debate about being “tougher” on patients. It should expose the much bigger problem: services that fail to provide proper treatment, fail to listen to families, fail to assess risk honestly, and then hide behind procedure when things go wrong.

[Emily♡ @ItsEmilyKaty]

Notes from a mental health patient #6.

‘No decision about us without us’ is something services love to throw around when it suits them…until it doesn’t. Until your voice suddenly doesn’t matter. Until suddenly the power imbalance comes into play.

I have no words to describe the situation and pain I’ve been left sitting with this week - maybe I will one-day. For now, I just want to say this.

[Fiona French, freedom is bliss @benzosarebad]

I do not regret walking away from psychiatry and the mental health system. I should have done it decades ago. I see the same disparaging attitudes online towards patients in 2026 as I did in 1976. They are built into the whole system.

[The Schizophrenia Awareness Project @am37387]

@CapitalistFraud I will show him your you tube too

[The Schizophrenia Awareness Project @am37387]

This is exactly why clozapine is underused, because of people like this..people with treatment resistant schizophrenia deserve the right to the most effective medication, clozapine is the 'gold standard ' people come on educate yourselves before making damming comments like this!!

[Rosanna Tarsiero @TarsieroRosanna]

@PatMcGorry There is no point prescribing something that the patient experiences as a burden. If the goal is long-term successful compliance, a "less effective" medication they are willing to stay on in the long term IS a much better fix.

[The Schizophrenia Awareness Project @am37387]

@CapitalistFraud Trust me I don't take much notice of his psychiatrist, they try to add in other antipsychotics with the clozapine and I refuse, as does my son luckily..I'm not blinkered by any of it anymore..

[The Schizophrenia Awareness Project @am37387]

Some people are fast absorbers, others slow absorbers, factors like smoking lowers 'assay levels' the same as suddenly quitting may cause 'assay levels' to become.e very high, also different ethnic groups absorb the medication differently, white males need higher doses overall compared to a male or Asian ethnicity will generally need much lower doses to reach a therapeutic level..I will also add that the 'positive symptoms' may not 100% be eliminated but have massive improvements..psychiatrists need to learn from Dr laitmans guide to a meaningful recovery with clozapine

[The Schizophrenia Awareness Project @am37387]

@CapitalistFraud That's exactly why he takes them so that he can be well enough to then begin to work through the root causes that led us to the crisis

[The Schizophrenia Awareness Project @am37387]

@CapitalistFraud It's not 'schizophrenic men' it's men with a diagnosis of schizophrenia (which is a brain disorder) so did you have a diagnosis of schizophrenia?

[The Schizophrenia Awareness Project @am37387]

I have a question to ask...what is your understanding of the brain disorder 'schizophrenia'
For example
1. The symptoms it causes
2. The causes
3. And what the diagnosis means?
I'm a mum of a son with this diagnosis, and believe me before watching my son as he was slowly disappear before my eyes I thought I was open minded to serious mental illness..but guess what I didn't have a clue, so let's see how much understanding you all have 💪#nottinghaminquiry #mentalhealth #schizophrenia #

[The Schizophrenia Awareness Project @am37387]

30% of people with a schizophrenia diagnosis don't respond to the dopamine blocker anti psychotics, and of that 30% if prescribed safely 70% can have a meaningful life on clozapine it's the 'gold standard' for treatment resistant schizophrenia, I have witnessed my son unmedicated and its hell for him,

[The Schizophrenia Awareness Project @am37387]

@CapitalistFraud It causes sedation when titrating, but it also allows my son to sleep which is healing his brain, its a slow healer bit with patience it's a game changer, why don't you show me so.e evidence based research or evidence instead of relying on AI

[The Schizophrenia Awareness Project @am37387]

@CapitalistFraud And your 1st hand experience of living with serious mental illness is?