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'to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities' CRPD Art. 1

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@FarewellSSRI @benzosarebad @TuominenPiia way out of it is to learn what behaviour is judged as “well” & acknowledge you have an illness but that it’s triggered by psychosocial factors & on a harm/benefit appraisal you want to come off “maintenance” meds. It’s very hard to advocate for but I have got support to come off

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@rwillowfish That’s quite unusual for a psychiatrist, IME if I try to say that I don’t conceptualise my experience as an illness if I’m not very careful with how I say it or if I’m still in an episode it’s judged as lack of insight

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@barefoothopes @TraceyHiggins92 @this_multiverse But I wish they provided a trauma/relational informed therapy that can meet people even in deep psychosis and empathise with how people are feeling and what they are expressing
Open dialogue works that way, encouraging relational healing in whole of patients’ network

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@barefoothopes @TraceyHiggins92 @this_multiverse My understanding of the way acute MH services work is that they feel people in psychosis can’t participate in therapy so they only provide containment in a facility and medications/observations until the psychosis passes or stabilises/that’s their reasoning 1/

[Writer - Tracey Higgins @TraceyHiggins92]

All these years later, I still remember the psychiatrist who came into my space without my consent. His shoes were too shiny and his posture too stiff. I squirmed in my seat as he asked me several questions to conclude the diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. Then, he was gone.

My advice to psychiatrists would be to loosen up a bit, crack a smile or something. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, but it turned out the psychiatrist was subconsciously reminding me of one of my original abusers. That cold-stone stare and lack of emotion were dead giveaways.

It’s no wonder people prefer to see psychologists and therapists. Sometimes, just to get an emotional response to their suffering.

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@proud_penelope @leonscafe31 Or for being in/causing trouble or “tantrums”

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@antipsychgeist I was able to quit smoking by using nicotine lozenges, I’m hopelessly addicted to the lozenges now but over time have lost the urge to smoke or vape except if something rattles me and I feel fearful and disconnected
Hope you find a way to quit lovely 🙏🏽

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@ShnYfem @suzypuss I kind of get how when I was younger I would kind of lose myself in relationships and not feel like a whole person but some of the concepts they talk about are hard to make sense of

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@ShnYfem @suzypuss I tried reading a book on it that was saying BPD is a loss of self. I didn’t really understand what it was saying self was so I couldn’t tell if I had lost mine or not. There are some who say bpd is actually a form of CPTSD

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@antipsychgeist Do you ever find that you just don’t know what to do with yourself?

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@antipsychgeist Yes I think so, I tend to get a bit depressed and not know what to do with myself

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@GrantHBrennerMD I asked copilot to find me some articles and it made up references to fake articles!

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@antipsychgeist Your Hebrew is fantastic I don’t know any! Go you

[Dr John Read @ReadReadj]

American Psychiatric Association publishes accurate figures re antidepressant withdrawal effects!
Cites @markhoro @JDaviesPhD @joannamoncrieff et al
Given denial by big pharma and leading psychiatrists, I thought this may never happen. Well done all!
https://t.co/mXHOq7c9NG