Dr. Terry Lynch

Medical doctor; therapist; author; course creator. 2025 course for therapists: Working with people with psychiatric diagnoses:

[Dr. Terry Lynch @DrTerryLynch]

Psychiatric diagnoses/The DSM lack validity
The experiences & behaviours that come to be described as psychiatric diagnosis are very real and valid.
Extrapolating that these experiences & behaviours constitute real verified medical illnesses is not valid.
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[Dr. Terry Lynch @DrTerryLynch]

My comprehensive course on "#depression" for #psychotherapists #counsellors #psychologists is progressing well, over 25 hrs of a-v material now uploaded. Click this link for full details - https://t.co/KEP9rP3Tax

[Paul Minot, MD @PaulMinotMD]

The previously posted date of for my book (10/15) is being postponed for a week or two because of problems in formatting--which are currently under repair. In the meantime, here's the cover art for your review:

[Dr. Terry Lynch @DrTerryLynch]

My depression course for MH professionals - Update: https://t.co/qhSWhdaFxi

[Dr. Terry Lynch @DrTerryLynch]

@UpsideofBipolar @joannamoncrieff @JuliaRucklidge @DrDannyPenman Well, as you probably already know, recovery-oriented approaches are "dangerous"- to those who uphold the current deluded paradigm and benefit from it. The possibility & reality of recovery threatens to blow their accepted though misguided supremacy in global MH out of the water.

[Stuart (SSRI taperer) @FarewellSSRI]

Another psychiatrist I have never heard of or interacted with who has blocked me.

The professional equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears, and these people are prescribing life-altering drugs.

[Dr. Terry Lynch @DrTerryLynch]

@UpsideofBipolar Yes. And what you describe - claiming explanation or cause when it is merely descriptive - is a common deceitful practice that has been flagged as wrong, as a logical fallacy, a fallacy of circular reasoning, makes doctors look more expert and important than they actually are.

[Dr. Terry Lynch @DrTerryLynch]

Yes - but - some things went in the "right" direction - drug company profits; doctors' - psychiatrists and GPs - salaries and status, being two of many such examples.

[sami timimi @stimimi]

Almost every measure of our collective mental health – rates of suicide, anxiety, depression, addiction deaths, psychiatric prescription use – went in the wrong direction, even as access to services expanded greatly.

[Brian Thomas-Peter @BTP52]

Remarkable that this study is still being touted as evidence in support of medication for depression. Even the author, was moved to describe the added value of antidepressants over placebo as ‘trivial’.

[Dr. Terry Lynch @DrTerryLynch]

@blioyu @PaulMinotMD It's a myth.

[Writer - Tracey Higgins @TraceyHiggins92]

People diagnosed with schizophrenia are not schizophrenics. Why are many MH professionals using the word schizophrenic? It is dehumanizing, as though these people who experience great suffering are not even human beings. Stigma from within the MH system.

[Rob Purssey @RPurssey]

Very, very important thread. All involved in mental health care ought be aware. Well summarised by @JDaviesPhD

[Dr. Terry Lynch @DrTerryLynch]

totally correct

[Dr. Roger McFillin @DrMcFillin]

1 in 4 Americans now takes psychiatric medication. This didn't happen by accident. It was a deliberate 4-stage psychological operation. My next article exposes exactly how they convinced a quarter of our population to surrender their minds. Dropping Tuesday.

[Dr. Terry Lynch @DrTerryLynch]

@Calin055 @postpssd No problem at all, and I totally understand why you might block Howard.

[Dr. Terry Lynch @DrTerryLynch]

Of course emotional numbing from SSRIs do not typically compliment psychotherapy, as you know. Another dreadful case of a defender of the psychiatric faith believing his much-preferred narrative and pushing it upon a trusting public as "fact". Shocking - yet again.

[Dr Evgeny Legedin 🇷🇺 @DrEvgenyLegedin]

Does emotional numbing from SSRIs complement psychotherapy?

[Dr. Terry Lynch @DrTerryLynch]

@postpssd @Calin055 I was speaking to Eugene about Howard, whose original post Eugene reposted

[Mark Horowitz @markhoro.bsky.social @markhoro]

I hope someone is keeping records of these posts - they will be very illustrative of a certain sort of thinking at a certain moment in history. Fascinating stuff. I think you are supposed to take snapshots rather than re-posting but I am not a pro like Dr Rege.

[Dr. Terry Lynch @DrTerryLynch]

This is nonsense, utter wishful thinking. Psychiatrists have been saying this x 70 years, and no change. Such delusional thinking keeps the believers-most psychiatrists-enthused, when there is little within current reality for them to be enthused about. They can read the future.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Psychiatry will be a completely different field in 10 years.

[Prof James Davies 💭 @JDaviesPhD]

Most therapists are scared to admit it, but SSRIs can undermine the therapeutic process (& often do). By blunting emotions, they can dial down the very signals & experiences therapy depends upon to work; creating a form of dissociation that less enables than disrupts healing.