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@drem79.bsky.social
Mental health. Running. | Award winning speaker, writer and advisor on lived experience of mental illness. | Patient rep RCPsych | Published in BMJ, BJPsych, Bulletin, EMJ, Lancet | Day job is elsewhere.
One participant described their first section: "I was taken to hospital in a black van by three people not wearing uniforms. I thought I had been kidnapped." This study centres lived experience to show what needs to change in mental health services. Read the blog: buff.ly/AhjXQr8
New paper by @bethlgriffin.bsky.social, the 2nd from her PhD is available online today! This paper explores the impact of restrictive practices on psychological safety from the perspective of former patients. The open access paper can be viewed here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Exploring How the Psychological Safety of Patients Is Impacted by Restrictive Practices in Inpatient Mental Healthcare: A Qualitative Study
Restrictive practices are used to contain risk and maintain physical safety on inpatient mental health wards, but have been shown to negatively impact patient well-being and trust. Researchers and pr...
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Hospital appointment today for ongoing physical effects from OCD. From an injury that was almost ten years ago. I’ve had some physical healthcare but not help for OCD. I’ve had zero therapy for OCD. I’ve been waiting for NHS treatment for over 6 years. It’s no closer www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reports of OCD among under 25s triple in 10 years
More 16-24 year olds in England say they have symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder - BBC analysis finds.
bbc.co.uk
“I fear that in unleashing A.I. companions, we may be making it easier for our loved ones to avoid talking to humans about the hardest things, including suicide. This is a problem that smarter minds than mine will have to solve. (If yours is one of those minds, please start.)”
Kate Ross@kateross.bsky.social · last yr.What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life Link: web.archive.org/web/20250819...
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When does a Court of Protection order do more harm than good? Anorexia, the Court of Protection, and the ‘impossible burden’
Patricia’s Father & Ors v Patricia & Ors [2025] EWCOP 30 (T3) is a challenging case at a number of levels, over and above the human tragedy at the centre of it. Procedurally, it highl…
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In a historic trial, a London NHS Trust and the former ward manager have today been found guilty of breaching the Health and Safety Act, following the death of 22 year old Alice Figueiredo in one of its hospitals in 2015.
Alice Figueiredo: historic trial finds an NHS Trust and a former ward manager guilty of breaching the Health and Safety Act
9 June 2025
inquest.org.uk
A tragic case that seems to illustrate the dangers of a simplistic understanding of the police role. Even when there's no crime or danger to others, police may have needed authority that other responders don't ("the mental health crisis team do not have the power to enter locked premises...").
Today’s #ResearchTip is if you’re using an acronym to describe your study ensure it is clear, respectful, and does not imply cures or other promises your work cannot deliver. I’ve seen trials and other studies using acronyms like “hope” “calm” or “care” when they won't offer ANY of these things.
I’m in the Guardian today, arguing that we should stop them all-class mental health lessons in schools I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling. (cont 🧵) tinyurl.com/vun92cz7
Mental-health lessons in schools sound like a great idea. The trouble is, they don’t work | Lucy Foulkes
All-class therapy sessions don’t help, and may even make matters worse. The evidence shows we need different solutions, says Dr Lucy Foulkes, an academic psychologist at Oxford University
theguardian.com
Psychiatric abuse for the moral correction of young women - a deep shame which mental health care is yet to face up to - and has which sadly continued in other forms long beyond this time www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘He still features in my nightmares’: how a sinister psychiatrist put hundreds of women in deep, drug-induced comas
In the 1960s, William Sargant used a combination of narcosis and ECT to ‘reprogram’ troubled young women. Now his patients, including the actor Celia Imrie and the former model Linda Keith, are trying...
theguardian.com
There’ve been a lot of these cases lately. They raise complicated issues, but at the end of the day I do think it’s good to establish the principle that there are risks (and maybe liability) on both sides when dispatchers have to decide whether to send the cops.
Lawsuit over 911 sending armed officers to mental health calls can go forward against Washington County
U.S. District Judge Adrienne Nelson adopted the recommendations of federal Magistrate Judge Stacie F. Beckerman in rejecting Washington County motions to dismiss the case.
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