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Psychiatrist in London 🇪🇺 Middle class woman of a certain age ☕️

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea@jonathanstea.bsky.social · last yr.

When clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. - Carl Sagan, 1995

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The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.

Samaritans to close at least 100 branches across UK and Ireland

Samaritans to close at least 100 branches across UK and Ireland

Mental health charity says it plans to move volunteers into larger regional hubs and pilot remote call handling Samaritans has announced plans to close at least half of its 200 branches across the UK and Ireland, move volunteers into larger regional hubs and pilot remote call handling, in a major shakeup that has left some volunteers dismayed. The mental health charity told volunteers in a video last week it hoped “within the next seven to 10 years, our branch network will have reduced by at least half” and that it would move to “fewer but bigger regions”. Continue reading...

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Kim TallBear@kimtallbear.bsky.social · last yr.

The director of the Gender Violence Clinic, University of Maryland Carey School of Law, suggests that there is reluctance to fund research “that will bring attention to an uncomfortable dilemma..’those policing the crime and those committing it are often the same person.’”

What if Your Abusive Husband Is a Cop?

Police departments have become more attentive to officers’ use of excessive force on the job, but that concern rarely extends to the home.

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The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.

Romanian run-off the most crucial on Europe’s ‘Super Sunday’ of elections

Romanian run-off the most crucial on Europe’s ‘Super Sunday’ of elections

A far-right win is real possibility in eastern European state on same day as votes in Poland, Portugal and Montenegro Romanians have started voting in a pivotal presidential run-off that could radically alter their country’s strategic alignment and economic prospects, as voters in Poland and Portugal also prepare to cast their ballots in a European electoral “super Sunday”. The Romanian contest, the most consequential of the three, pits a brash, EU-critical, Trump-admiring populist against a centrist independent in a knife-edge vote that analysts have called most important in the country’s post-communist history. Continue reading...

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Dr K WILDSCHUT@drkwildschut1984.bsky.social · last yr.

1/2🧵Month by month we encounter resistance ( tr:anxiety) from carers and relatives when it is time to deprescribe antipsychotics in people with #dementia Severe aggressive and non aggressive agitation in dementia warrants time limited treatment with Risperidone. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39432286/

High-Risk Medications in Persons Living With Dementia: A Randomized Clinical Trial - PubMed

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05147428.

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea@jonathanstea.bsky.social · last yr.

I wrote this book to empower people to take their mental health into their own hands. I wanted to teach the language of pseudoscientific grift so that you know when it’s spoken. This is a kind of mental health support I’m unable to provide in the role of clinician.

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