Dr Evans (MSc, PhD) 🧠
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Metabolism & Brain Health Professional | Biomedical - Neuroscience Led | No "one-size fits all" | Sharing my cPTSD ❤️🩹 journey | Service user not prescriber
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When I talk about antipsychiatry I am talking about those people who are against any psychiatric intervention full stop.
I am not talking about the harmed community who are looking for reform, but still respect the right for other patients to receive medical
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This is a disturbing post, for many reasons, I will start with taking a photo and sharing (presumably) without permission.
We do not know the person’s struggles with health - absolutely no idea. They may have lost 4 stone here and feeling more positive.
I am pretty sure this
any person who looks like this has no business giving anyone health advice or medical care of any kind...
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@IA7755
100% night shifts! I don’t know how they do it. The caring profession, are so focused on others they can neglect themselves.
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Social media : just go for a walk in nature and your depression will go
Depressed person: but I can’t even bring myself to get out of bed or wash this week
Social media: just go out, it will make so much difference
Depressed person: ok, I will do that.
I mean what the
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@MeganMo2002
Exactly! It is none of anyone’s business. I hope they never see this, if they do I hope they see support around how wrong this was.
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@BecauseIMatter
I know a lady this happened to for years. Turns out it was POTS, she wasn’t anxious or neurotic.
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@waelgenga
@pschofie79
My first thought too. Shaming people for wanting to better their understanding and knowledge is bad taste. Also, the OP has no idea if this person had memory issues or learning impairments.
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Changing this account due to antipsychiatry trolls.
I came on here to raise awareness of my lived experience with cPTSD, emotional eating & gastric sleeve harms.
Sharing my journey - honest and raw - has meant I spend most of my time now defending my use of
#ssri
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@flaminhaystacks
‘Virginity repair’ OMFG!!! I honestly didn’t know it was a thing. Those poor, poor girls. Find out who performed them whilst law was being passed, question and then make the facts public.
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@ValerieAnne1970
My goodness & what a thought provoking post. “What ‘food’ would you give up to save all your toes” should be used more often to raise awareness of T2 diabetes 👏
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@MartinSLewis
@X
Yes, they are particularly fond of mental health posts too. You are right, it is offensive.
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@rwillowfish
Exactly this ⬆️ I remember calling the crisis team when I was 24/7 and they suggested I go out to the shop (across the road) for a change of scenery. I couldn’t step outside my front door at the time, had house alarms set etc.
I am a regular exerciser/ dog walker usually
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@waelgenga
@pschofie79
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it"
- Margaret Fuller
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When treated as less than human for having a mental illness, being female & being vocal - it can get a bit tough on here.
Then I get reminded of the wonderful community I am part of, sharing our experiences - highs & lows - and I feel safe and secure again.
Thank you to all
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As a SSRI user who benefits, imagine if I jumped on the posts of every PSSD sufferer to celebrate my health, with “yes but I am doing well, they work really well for me” 🤷🏻♀️
Why can they jump on my posts to tell me I am not informed enough & to tell me I am harmed ??
Where is
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I have seen people on here encouraging others to stop taking their psychiatric medications & using fear mongering language.
NEVER stop without professional guidance.
Also instead of believing what you see on here, speak to your Doctor for clarification. There is a HUGE amount
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Gentle reminder: There is no shame in being medicated.
Make sure you speak with your doctor if you have questions.
Know the risks & any concerns check with your GP not social media.
Do not let social media stop you from seeking help with your mental health
#depression
#ssri
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@jojimojo
Thank you so much for saying this and VERY well done, I really mean that. Shame can be induced internally and externally. Joanne you have got this, don’t let anyone say otherwise xx
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I cannot believe I have been defending my personal use of an SSRI for a non-depression symptom, for months now.
Thinking of how many have been silenced into submission, breaks my heart.
There is an interface for the anti-medication, anti-depressant, antipsychiatry, PSSD
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Not so gentle reminder, due to recent discussions on here about
#SSRis
To all of you whom were harmed through medications, I genuinely am sorry for your experience & I didn't cause that.
My experience is thankfully, very different. For that I am grateful and I should be allowed
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Removing the biological aspect of mental illness is actually impossible.
To suggest it is possible demonstrates a lack of understanding around the brain & therefore, is a huge red flag if you’re looking for advice.
Sunday morning musings.
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@befbadbelly
@DrAnnieHickox
It never fails to amaze me how people think there is a ‘one size fits all’ approach to anything related to the brain 🧠 and then abuse others for speaking about their experience if it doesn’t align with said universal approach.
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Really interesting when antipsychiatry tell me I am emotionally blunted because I use a SSRI.
In conjunction with psychotherapy, I am more present than I have ever been.
Trust me, my emotions are not blunted, sometimes I ‘wish’ they were, as I process my healing from complex
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Those of us who have benefited from psychiatry are treated as less than human at times.
The abuse and harassment I get from sharing my experience is beyond disgraceful.
What the trolls haven't realised is that trying to shut someone like me up, means I get louder.
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So as we kick off Mental Health Awareness month 2024 - we have people denying mental illness exists.
#MentalHealthAwarenessMonth
#mentalhealth
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@babybeginner
You simply cannot appropriate the experience of a period, no matter how hard you want to, unless you have a uterus.
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@SoVeryBritish
Children are to be seen and not heard.
Sitting on a cold surface will give you piles.
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Mental illness can often bring about self-shaming and depreciation. I struggled for many years thinking I was defective and irrepairable, this prevented me truly engaging with treatment.
Once I understood my behaviours arose from what happened to me, it all became clear.
In my
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@ShadowWolfVII
Thank you for your acknowledgement & what a great Mum. She cared for so many people, who I have no doubt benefited patients and also their family/loved ones - care reaches more than the patient 🥰
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Some will tell you depression is all in your head - well who would have bloomin’ thought it?
If you need to know:
-Depression isn’t laziness
-Depression isn’t a mindset
-Depression doesn’t vanish overnight
-Depression cannot be described, if not experienced
- Depression ruins
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@waelgenga
Absolutely! Don't get me wrong it can be helpful for many, science shows that - but it depends on the level of depression and many other factors. I dislike the shaming element that people may feel by not participating, further feeding depression.
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This is my new pinned post.
I came here to raise awareness of a cause very close to my heart, through being vulnerable I shared my use of SSRI (not for depression).
As a result I have received abuse and harassment from the antipsychiatry community.
Examples:
-I got lumped
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When someone comments that meds have harmed them, I say ‘I am sorry for your experience’ - because I am.
It is VERY rare that they say ‘I am glad they have helped you.’
Do we have to negate one experience to raise awareness of another?
Do they actually wish me unwell?
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There are a few accounts within antipsychiatry who have harassed me for talking of my personal experiences with cPTSD and psychiatry.
Instead of blocking me, they screenshot my posts and share within their community to mock & dehumanise me.
You are COWARDS.
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@FreudandBeyond
In psychotherapy and agree, I think saying “trivial problems” is really insulting for people in counselling.
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@David_Challen
@StampOutSpiking
I hope they have learned some lessons since then!!!!! It is why people don’t come forward, I can’t say for sure, but expect it’s high in men.
The worst kind of response is invalidation 😞
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For anyone who is unclear on my tweets.
I have run out of empathy for the ‘harmed’ community within antipsychiatry.
Why??
*Because they are often
misogynists.
*Because they have bullied me.
*Because they have personally abused me.
*Because they have professionally
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If people want to discuss their bad experience with psychiatry then no one can stop you or invalidate that.
What I will not accept though is that all experiences have been the same, there are those of us who benefit. This is an undeniable fact.
To say those who benefit are
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The “sick note culture,” is a fallout from the many people needing help & not getting it.
Instead of blaming the patients, fix the system!
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I have been thinking about this narrative that depression is not an illness.
Depression appears on a spectrum of course, in terms of severity, like many illnesses - but every experience is valid.
My musings: Human beings are wired for survival. This is considered the 'norm,' a
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In September my daughter had a gastric sleeve operation by a GMC registered doctor.
It was performed in Egypt - her BMI was 32.
By the end of September we realised she was seriously ill, it turns out what was left of her stomach is pretty useless. She’s been feeding via a NJ
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@RNGebhardt
@X
You are a bully, I have the receipts. We see you! The post you shared was not about bad behaviour, I now understand it was about your personal bias.
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Me: meds help me
Antipsychiatry: no they damage your brain
Me: no genuinely my quality of life is better
Antipsychiatry: no you are a drug addict now
Me: ok, I’ll stop taking them
Antipsychiatry: well done, welcome into our pact. We love and care for you.
Me: dead
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@MikeJMele
I wish this was more understood. It is not that we were being selfish, but rather we thought we were being a huge burden to others and life would be better for everyone. It’s distorted for sure, but that’s the reality of su1cidal ideations.
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So the anti-antidepressant mob are back out, telling people like me who benefit from a SSRI, they aren’t benefiting.
After months of this, I am even starting to question whether harms like PSSD genuinely exist.
Yes, I did say it. I have been understanding, engaging and asked
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I tried to engage with antipsychiatry.
I tried to understand PSSD.
I shared my own personal journey with mental illness and received huge hate from both sides.
My stance has changed.
I genuinely question the validity of PSSD / harms. I think many of the issues were already
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I have decided to start doing some media outreach work around antipsychiatry’s harassment of patients with mental illness.
Having been harassed relentlessly for about 6 months, after talking about my mental illness I have decided to stand up even taller.
I am looking at radio,
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Been discussing X and today went something like this (shortened version):
Psychotherapist: How are you getting on with X
Me: Still pushing forward, it is hard at times
Psychotherapist: Why is it important to you?
Me: Because they are trying to silence my voice and invalidate
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Great piece of writing by
@DrAnnieHickox
regarding X harrassment of patients speaking up about their mental illnesses.
Keep shouting from the "tweet tops" and if you need to take some time out, that's perfectly fine to do so too.
#trolls
#harassment
#bullies
#pscyhiatry
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This is incorrect information.
This is a post designed to tarnish the use of any psychiatric medication for any mental illness.
General sweeping statements like these are intentionally designed to denigrate psychiatry.
This further stigmatises a critical avenue of care for
You will not find healing in a psychiatric drug, just as you wouldn’t find healing in a bottle of alcohol or synthetic drugs.
They are all the same…industries conspiring to keep you from evolving and reaching your full potential as a human being.
Growth requires pain, and we
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If anti-depressants harm those who use them & yet others experience harm without them, can we agree stigmatisation is not the solution and work on improving the system for monitoring/review including appropriate resources & funding for all?
#ssri
#antidepressants
#psychiatry
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@Elmo5242
I have been disgusted by my own smell and not been motivated to do anything about it!
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Is it weird when someone drops into your DMs asking what medication you take?
Especially when they showed themself to be antipsychiatry ….
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It baffles me how a random stranger on social media, feels they can discredit someone’s diagnosis and use of medical interventions.
Instead of targeting those who benefit from said ‘labels’ and meds etc. with broad sweeping statements, start promoting additional intervention
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Men trying to silence women is not a new practice.
Strong female voices are a threat to the ego of weak men only.
Had 2 of these already this morning and I am only on my second coffee of the day.
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@David_Challen
Poor outcome and poor example to other abusers of men. Abuse is abuse, whether you are male of female.
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@DiabetesUK
it is very disappointing that you have partnered with
@SlimmingWorld
Please could you advise what support around the cognitive-behavioural approach to long term change is provided.
Restrictive dieting can work for some BUT not for most, hence why we have
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@17GiaSerafino37
Thank you for being so open and honest. I really appreciate the thought you have given to this, may you continue to transition well & live your best life 🥰
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@DoctorTro
I've been doing low carb this year (on the most part) and this is purely anecdotal, but for the first time in my life I am not needing my inhaler for asthma for at least 3 days (sometimes more). I am 51 years old and have been asthmatic since a child, I have been
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Having my coffee, taking my medication, minding my own business about what meds anyone else takes and getting on with my day 😊
Have a good day everyone.
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@fussytarts
Don't get me wrong science shows great effects, but this idea that it helps everyone is very unhelpful to those it doesn't help. It depends on many factors - for me its a great 'preventer' of an increase in severity when I experience episodes, but when it doesn't work - it simply
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@justin_garson
Wow! And how you all laughed, hey 👀 …….. now back in the real world Justin there are many of us who benefit from SSRIs
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Quite a few of the antipsychiatry community getting their knickers in a real twist.
They are shouting into the ether about me with no evidence, every time I ask for it - radio silence.
Today I will share some of the harassment I have received from them on here.
Remember I
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@shark44m
I completely disagree, body image does not = credibility.
I remember when I was in the fitness industry, we had an amazing instructor/personal trainer who was overweight.
Results & performance are better determinants.
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When talking about my SSRI medication, people on here called me a “drug addict.”
I have psychotherapy alongside my medication and also manage multiple lifestyle changes.
Yes my journey involves “pain” and “growth,” and with this I hope to come off my SSRI this year 🤞
Not
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I saw a post saying mental illness is not real, we have just lost the ability to connect socially.
There are so many responses to this, I don't even know where to start.
Drop the stigma around mental illness.
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For all of those antipsychiatry people who keep saying I am one of
@DrAnnieHickox
sock accounts - she must have morphed into a round faced, messy haired, shortie 😂😂😂😂😂
@JeanHardwick8
@benzosarebad
@atomicaceso
@Deedoherty2
@DuthieAlyne
@SacksDisa
@BoudicaThe
@DrAnnieHickox
@Altostrata
@recover2renew
@JDaviesPhD
@ReadReadj
Welcome to balanced and honest talk. Most of you have blocked me by now because you are only prepared to listen to your own voices.
Not one of you have called out the poor behaviour of the OP and that says a huge amount about how you care for women/girls/boys.
You harass
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Can anyone give me the @ for the prominent professionals who are antipsychiatry or represent PSSD, please? McFillin is one I believe?
I have written an article around the abuse I have received on here for sharing my personal journey - only ever as a patient. I have quite a
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I am being likened to an illegal drug user, I think.
I don’t ‘defend’ my use of a SSRI, I talk about my use and my experience alongside psychotherapy.
There’s no shame guys, drop the stigma.
@DrEvans_Health
Cocaïne and cannabis users sometimes defend their personal use. These products are dangerous althrought less dangerous than ssris.
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Every time sometime tries to harass or silence me around mental illness and psychiatry, I come back stronger.
My posts have been different recently and yet yesterday I found an account impersonating me and
@JoshuaMIreland
lied about me today.
So I will write some posts around
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Good morning! Well what an interesting weekend here on X: impersonation and false accusations from the antipsychiatry crowd.
Let me reintroduce myself:
Professional: I am a health professional and help people optimse their physical, mental and emotional health through all means
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For anyone who is struggling:
When the darkness of depression descends, it is truly impossible to believe there will be any light in the future.
Please remember, just because you can't see it doesn't mean it is not there.
Recovery is not linear and that light is probably
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Imagine judging someone’s health status or emotional state on the internet via a tweet.
Imagine telling someone what medications they shouldn’t be on, via a tweet.
Imagine promoting the harms of a whole class of drugs to strangers on the internet without being their doctor or
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Pleased to be home & my daughter is now in her next home phase of recovery ❤️🩹
Grateful for the NHS.
We need tighter regulations & awareness around surgery abroad.
#gastric
#gastricsleeve
#bariatric
#weightloss
#surgery
#nhs
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People on here suggest depression is a symptom of the highs and lows of life.
No - incorrect, depression takes you to darker places, it doesn’t mean you aren’t strong - it means your brain needs professional help; that’s ok.
Never feel shame when asking for help, it saves
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This needs to stop. Language such as “poisoned” is dangerous!
Screen shot rather than RT on purpose.
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It seems I have now attracted attention from misogynists for speaking up against antipsychiatry.
Peculiar and unexpected.
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