This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/in...

Increase NHS patients access to innovative treatments for depression and bipolar disorder.

Depression and bipolar depression can impose heavy daily costs on the quality of life of those who experience these mental illnesses, as well as their carers and the communities in which they live.&nb...

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Thanks to @uclbrainscience.bsky.social for this post. The recordings of yesterday's webinar on emerging research into bipolar should be posted very soon. Sign up here for updates- www.bipolaruk.org/newsletter/

UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences@uclbrainscience.bsky.social · 6mo ago

On #WorldBipolarDay, here are 5 things to know about bipolar disorder from a researcher with lived experience. Prof @drtgergel.bsky.social is a @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social researcher & Director of Research at @bipolaruk.bsky.social Sign up to an event today: https://lnkd.in/eX6cvWJR

www.bipolaruk.org/get-involved... #WorldBipolarDay webinar 'The future of bipolar care: emerging research' 15:30-17:00 BST 30th Mar Find out more: neurostimulation headsets; how genetics/neuroscience might help; Lived experience involvement in research; Getting involved @bipolaruk.bsky.social

Excellent speaker lineup confirmed for our #WorldBipolarDay webinar: • Prof Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social • Prof Steven Marwaha • Prof Kim Wright • Prof Daniel Smith @dsmith2025.bsky.social • Plus lived experience voices 30 March, 11am-12:30pm, Free

Lived experience research: recognition of dual expertise - The Lancet Psychiatry www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Lived experience research: recognition of dual expertise

Co-production (equitable collaboration between people with lived experience and professionals) is a rapidly developing field, particularly in mental health, with growing recognition of expertise by ex...

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Really looking forward to joining fellow speakers for the #WorldBipolarDay webinar.

The Mental Elf@thementalelf.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Excellent speaker lineup confirmed for our #WorldBipolarDay webinar: • Prof Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social • Prof Steven Marwaha • Prof Kim Wright • Prof Daniel Smith @dsmith2025.bsky.social • Plus lived experience voices 30 March, 11am-12:30pm, Free

In our latest blog, @drtgergel.bsky.social - Director of Research at Bipolar UK - explains how Advance Choice Documents work and the difference having one can make when we become unwell - both to our mental health and our finances. 👇 🔗 www.moneyandmentalhealth.org/advance-choi...

Advance Choice Documents - what are they? Should I have one? - Money and Mental Health Policy Institute

Advance Choice Documents let people record treatment preferences & financial wishes in advance, guiding their care during crisis or illness.

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'Reducing the Delay in the Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder: A Qualitative Study' Better primary care tools/education/clinical pathways/links to 2dry care needed. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/HVAY27...

Pls can you help? Research @BipolarUK are designing new website content & would love to hear from you about what cd be helpful to include Pls click on the Research tab at bipolaruk.org, & contact research@bipolaruk.org to let us know what could be useful to include.

V. important editorial from @thelancet.bsky.social Psychiatry highlighting importance of lived experience involvement & real-world feasible implementation science in order to have real impact/translatability Setting the research agenda for mental health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Setting the research agenda for mental health

At a time when publicly funded research is under intense scrutiny, it is apposite to ask who should influence where and how the money is spent. At The Lancet Psychiatry, we believe patients and their ...

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Excellent & informative podcast on bipolar from expert team @umich.edu Prechter Foundation Episode 1: The Science of Bipolar Disorder | Michigan Medicine Episode 1: The Science of Bipolar Disorder | Michigan Medicine www.michiganmedicine.org/michigan-med...

Episode 1: The Science of Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar disorder is more than just mood swings. It’s a journey marked by intense highs of mania and debilitating lows of depression. But within this condition exist millions of people who live unique ...

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Fabulous feedback about #AGoodLifewithdementia course run by George Rook. Here in a #DementiaDiaries recording we hear what the course has meant to the participants dementiadiaries.org/entry/22896/...

The Good Life course has broadened and eased our minds - Dementia Diaries

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Writing in The Conversation, Professor @drtgergel.bsky.social (@uclpsychiatry.bsky.social) explores why suicide is so common in people with bipolar disorder.

Analysis: Why are suicide rates so high in bipolar disorder, and what can we do about it?

Writing in The Conversation, Professor Dr Tania Gergel (UCL Psychiatry) explores why suicide is so common in people with bipolar disorder.

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Why are suicide rates so high in bipolar disorder, and what can we do about it? theconversation.com/why-are-suic...

Why are suicide rates so high in bipolar disorder, and what can we do about it?

The celebrity chef’s story sheds light on the hidden dangers of bipolar disorder.

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Excited to be appointed Honorary Visiting Professor in Division of Psychological Medicine & Clinical Neurosciences/Cardiff. Huge privilege to join inspiring team, doing ground-breaking research. Many thanks @cardiffuni.bsky.social @gw4alliance.bsky.social @thencmh.bsky.social @bipolaruk.bsky.social

Dummies Guide to “The British Professor Leading the Controversial Backlash Against Antidepressants” British journalists and editors, this is for you www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/dummies-gu...

Dummies Guide to “The British Professor Leading the Controversial Backlash Against Antidepressants”

British journalists and editors, this is for you

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It's been fabulous, truly, to have this past couple of weeks free of suicidal feelings. I attribute that to med changes that lowered depression, constantly challenging negative thinking, and helpful therapy from both my psychiatrist and therapist. Support from family and a good cat are also key.

#GW4 researchers📢 Are you maximising the reach of your research by incorporating or enabling open research practices in your work? The #GW4OpenResearchPrize is open for submissions - apply by 14 February. Find out more: gw4.ac.uk/gw4openresea... @gw4alliance.bsky.social

New systematic review 'Adverse mental health inpatient experiences: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Broad in coverage and ideas, shows need to think beyond physically coercive interventions & consider wider environment when assessing adversity of inpatient experience

Adverse mental health inpatient experiences: Qualitative systematic review of international literature

Trauma has a well-established link with poor health outcomes. Adverse experiences in mental health inpatient settings contribute to such outcomes and …

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Yes completely. People conflate Van Gogh's "madness" with his genius and romanticise both.

Chen Chen@chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 2y ago

I don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had. * RIP David Lynch

Study identifying cross-ethnicity genetic risk factors for depression. Yet more hope to increase understanding & improve treatment, even while the media focuses on anti-psychiatrists who dismiss depression as an illness.

Femi Oyebode@femimind.bsky.social · 2y ago

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Great opportunity for people who have taken part in lived experience involvement work to share their views for @nsunnews.bsky.social

National Survivor User Network@nsunnews.bsky.social · 2y ago

What are the limitations of “lived experience”? We’re asking our members to answer in our latest content series. Pitch your blog to be considered for paid publication on the NSUN blog. www.nsun.org.uk/news/pitch-u...

v useful link if you want to move your tweets across from X to Bluesky - chromewebstore.google.com/detail/porto...

Porto - Import your Tweets to Bluesky - Chrome Web Store

A chrome extension to import all your tweets to bluesky at a click of a button

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We're excited to join BlueSky! Make sure to follow us for the latest news from the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology.

1/2 V. disappointed to see this article making headlines yet again, with no mention of its deep methodological flaws and the vilification of its opponents. www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a...

Do antidepressants work? This British professor says they don’t

Joanna Moncrieff is a professor and NHS psychiatrist who dared to argue that depression is not a physical illness. As a result she has been abused by peers — and championed by Tucker Carlson. Is her t...

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Managing Cluttered, Racing, and Disordered Thoughts @gabehoward29

Managing Cluttered, Racing, and Disordered Thoughts

Do cluttered, racing, or disordered thoughts disrupt your daily life? Do you understand the differences between them? In this episode, Gabe Howard, who lives with bipolar disorder, and Dr. Nicole Washington, a board certified psychiatrist, unravel what…

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Is everyone moving to #Bluesky ?

Yes - @Rebecca99LT is a psychiatrist who has been treated with #ECT and shared her experiences multiple times. See, for example, her new book - x.com/doctorid/statu… doi.org/10.1017/978100…

Very valuable new study about need to include people with lived experience in shared decision-making relating to risk and what might help or hinder this process x.com/DrNafisoAhmed/…

If you have lived experience of bipolar, pls join our @BipolarUK Research Community to hear about opportunities for research & lived experience advisory involvement. Pls share widely and RT & thanks if you've already joined! bipolaruk.org/research-partn…