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Jul 11, 2020 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
Come back to me when ACEs includes all forms of childhood trauma - until then, it’s just a shitty tool with shitty science and shitty evidence base that we keep lazily applying to humans from a deficit model of human development.

Where’s racism? Oppression? Poverty? Bullying?
Homophobia? Exploitation? Being evicted? Immigration status? War? Refugees? Online abuse?

It’s not a good tool, the authors have asked us to stop using it.

A shitty tool is NOT better than no tool.

Humans are diverse, we need trauma-informed, strengths based work.
ACEs is not trauma-informed or strengths based.
Or evidence-based. Or useful.

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Feb 17
I can’t believe I’m three weeks away from releasing my second non-fiction book.

What a wild experience.

I always wanted to write books. When I was 9 years old, I wrote little stories and poems, and sent them to the BBC… Image
…with a cover letter telling them that I wanted a job as a child presenter, and an author. It was in gold gel pen.
They replied with a lovely letter telling me that my poems and stories were wonderful and one day I might be on the TV or be an author.
I wish I knew who at the BBC wrote back to me in 1999.

My life from then wasn’t easy or straightforward at all. Many times, I felt lost and as if I wouldn’t even make it to my 20s.
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Feb 15
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From Sexy But Psycho:

We have been deliberately encouraged to stop using words like ‘disorder’ and ‘illness’ despite mental health issues still being classified as ‘abnormalities’ and ‘syndromes’ and ‘disorders of the mind’. The language changed, but the concept didn’t.
2. The evolution & history of language about psychiatric diagnosis of women is vital to understanding why it is so oppressive. People think it’s based on science, but it’s based purely on religion & ideology.
3. Most of what people quote is simply a theory. Yet, they believe it has been proven to be the one correct explanation for mental health. This is mainly due to aggressive marketing, as there is no singular accepted theory of mental health and never has been.
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Feb 14
On Valentines Day, I just want to say that if your partner does or says horrible things to you, and then suggests or implies you have a mental health issue, need help, need therapy or suggest you are crazy, they are gaslighting you and deliberately repositioning you as mad.
It’s common, and it’s often very successful. If you are reading this thinking that your partner or ex partner always told you these things, it was all deliberate. Using psychiatry and mental health against you makes you look non credible and unstable. They know it will work.
Even more so, if they are the type to then tell your family members or friends that they are ‘concerned’ about your mental health, when in fact they are treating you like shit.
Further still, they might accompany you to doctors appointments to tell them you need help, too.
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Jan 22
A woman was told by social worker & psychiatrist that in order to keep her kids she had to comply & take psych meds. She used to pick up the prescription & put them in the bin. But they wrote on her notes that since ‘taking’ them, she was nicer, calmer & easier to engage…
Now if that isn’t one hell of a placebo effect I don’t know what is 😂

The woman told me that she now looks back on that & laughs, they called HER delusional, and yet they apparently saw huge changes in her that they told her were down to ‘solving’ the ‘brain chemical imbalance’
Imagine that. What an interesting case that is.

The woman never took a single pill, but the professionals believed she did, so they saw changes in her that didn’t exist, and told her that it was because they were right all along and she had a ‘brain chemical imbalance’
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Jan 21
I am acutely aware that the arguments I will present in my new book will be challenging, controversial and new to many readers. I know that whenever I discuss pathologisation and misogyny in mental health publicly, they invoke mixed responses and feelings in thousands of people.
Narratives, theories and beliefs about mental health are central to the lives of many. National statistics suggest that one in four people in the UK will experience a ‘mental health disorder’ each year (Mind, 2021) and one in five people in the UK are diagnosed with depression.
I am also aware that people have come to expect a ‘balanced’ argument or for authors like me to be ‘even-handed’. ‘Objective’, even.
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Jan 20
The way psychiatry has successfully convinced hundreds of millions of people that mental disorders and illnesses exist, and are down to ‘brain chemical imbalances’ whilst psychiatry itself can’t even agree on, or prove, those theories… is quite something, isn’t it?
People in the public are so sure that the science backs up these dodgy theories whilst the psychiatric regulatory bodies and associations dropped those theories years ago, and now even deny ever saying them. Websites wiped of all proof, authors claiming no one said it.
So if no one ever said that so-called mental disorders came from brain chemical imbalances, how come millions of people think they ‘know’ that theory?

Where has all that group learning come from?
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