Making Waves

Challenging ideas about madness. Peer-led training and research across the UK.

[Dr Joanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff]

Good article on the myth of the chemical imbalance and ineffectiveness of antidepressants https://t.co/YpibPRkdbM

[Dr Joanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff]

via @Mad_In_America Leading psychiatrists agree that antipsychotics are over-used, and should be a 'last resort' https://t.co/zyzMlFskTl

[Peter Beresford @BeresfordPeter]

have a drink and then check out the latest Blog - Keeping Mad Studies safe
https://t.co/gkh924AUSS and please Share, RT and comment - thanks

[Stephen Jones @Steve_Publisher]

Susie Orbach: ‘Not all women used to have eating issues. Now everybody does’ https://t.co/SGFnuofPvc

[Making Waves @makingwavesuk]

Finding the BBC In The Mind series of programmes/news items deeply problematic and narrow minded. Anyone else? @philipfthomas @JacquiDillon

[Making Waves @makingwavesuk]

you know the word 'spoons' in relationship to energy and ME, fibromyalgia etc, I'm wondering about a word for mental resilience, 'forks'?

[Only Us @OnlyUsCampaign]

Nurses,advocates,chaplains,service users,lived experience of being human, we all support the common sense of #OnlyUs

[Dr Joanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff]

"Suffering is not illness," blog by @ericmaisel https://t.co/eJp0uBUOS9

[Making Waves @makingwavesuk]

@OnlyUsCampaign Rethinking Mental Health https://t.co/hxAQMchz0S

[Only Us @OnlyUsCampaign]

At work and play, be fully human, open to our own vulnerabilities, allowing others to be the same. @OnlyUsCampaign

[Making Waves @makingwavesuk]

I am thinking about how anti-psychotics encourage behaviour that makes you more likely to feel disturbed. @JoannaMoncrieff @philipfthomas

[Only Us @OnlyUsCampaign]

Let's make 2016 the year we break the silence around mental distress & eradicate prejudice & discrimination #OnlyUs

[Only Us @OnlyUsCampaign]

Sadness, madness, all part of the rainbow of human experience & history.Where wd we be without them?@OnlyUsCampaign

[Only Us @OnlyUsCampaign]

Happy or sad,smiley or teary,however you're feeling we hope you're not alone this Christmas;remember there's #OnlyUs

[Dr Joanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff]

Interesting essay on differences betw illness (pathology) framework and psychological difficulties, & role of agency https://t.co/Yf1ws8nOzG

[Making Waves @makingwavesuk]

Why we need to abolish the disease model of mental health https://t.co/tNBuJLr3PO good article by @peterkinderman

[Making Waves @makingwavesuk]

@IntervalThinks intriguing, and probably fun?

[Making Waves @makingwavesuk]

@ClinpsychLucy I thought of you yesterday when a psychiatrist tried the 'diabetes-insulin' thing on me re anti-ps. I laughed and challenged!

[Making Waves @makingwavesuk]

@IntervalThinks 'bing and bong'?