RT @taperclinic: One of my biggest regrets from my last ten years as a psychiatrist is telling so many people that antidepressants were saf…

RT @MedicatingNorm1: AN OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE & OFFER FEEDBACK! Via @Mad_In_America "This first brainstorm will address this question…

RT @ScholarshipfPhd: Writing a Scientific article: A step-by-step guide for Beginners (1/7)

International Lived experience of anxiety, depression and/or psychosocial participant recruitment for the Wellcome Trust and Queen Margaret University around where funding will go, and what interventions are most helpful. We are seeking the Western Pacific Region representation beyond Australia: Asian countries e.g. Singapore, Philippines, Hong Kong; Pacific countries e.g. Samoa, Tonga, and Cook Islands We have full Australian representation at this point. The Australia Centre for Lived Experience has engaged with Wellcome Trust and Queen Margaret University on a lived expertise focus group project in the Western Pacific World Health Organization (WHO) region. Are you from this region and interested in contributing to a paid $100 AUD for a 2 hour focus group next Monday September 30th in the evening at 8pm AEST? Please contact us ASAP or email for more information, consent forms and registration: info@tacfle.com

Hi community, The Australia Centre for Lived Experience has engaged with Wellcome Trust and Queen Margaret University on a lived expertise focus group project in the Western Pacific World Health Organization (WHO) region. Are you from this region and interested in contributing to a paid $100 AUD 2 hour focus group next Monday September 30th in the evening at 8pm AEST? Please contact us asap or email: info@tacfle.com

Hi community, The Australia Centre for Lived Experience has engaged with Wellcome Trust and Queen Margaret University on a lived expertise focus group project in the Western Pacific World Health Organization (WHO) region. Are you from this region and interested in contributing to a paid $100 AUD 2 hour focus group next Monday September 30th in the evening at 8pm AEST? Please contact us asap or email: info@tacfle.com

RT @robwipond: Inquest recommends "holding an independent inquiry, led by a party separate from a health authority, when an unexpected deat…

Universal and inalienable human rights is the most important advancement of the new millennium in mental health. Let's aim towards universal affirmative healthcare #mentalhealth #HumanRights #SocialJustice

RT @P_Gooding: An interesting provocation from German psychiatrist, Tilman Steinert, in his commentary on a Forum for World Psychiatry (of…

RT @markhoro: Use of antidepressants to treat pain in older people must be reviewed, study says Six out of 10 aged care residents in Austra…

RT @joannamoncrieff: An advert for stimulants for adults and children (with ADHD) was in the conference programme - relevant to increasing…

RT @robwipond: This hard-hitting personal story and investigative narrative about guardianships via @Mad_In_America is, unfortunately, all…

Hi everyone, I'm on a panel 7pm AEST on Wednesday 18th September for the Australian Queer Medical Collective discussing: Medical ethics ❤️ Structural determinants 🌈 Queer and Mad affirmative care 🌎 Resisting the medicalization/ psychiatrisation of human suffering Please join us with an interest in these topics by registering below:

RT @Alliance4RR: This #RecoveryMonth, join us at our Annual Conference this September 25-27 to deepen your skills & connect with others doi…

Mental health is a social justice issue‼️ Systemic inequality, racism, poverty, ageism, sanism ableism, homophobia, transphobia and discrimination increases suicide risk for marginalised communities⚠️ This Suicide Prevention Month, lets advocate for universal affirmative healtcare for all🌈🫶🏻 The Australian Centre for Lived Experience 🔥 #mentalhealthawareness #suicidepreventionmonth #livedexperience

Mental health is a social justice issue‼️ Systemic inequality, racism, poverty, ageism, sanism ableism, homophobia, transphobia and discrimination increases suicide risk for marginalised communities⚠️ This Suicide Prevention Month, lets advocate for universal affirmative healtcare for all🌈🫶🏻 The Australian Centre for Lived Experience 🔥 #mentalhealthawareness #suicidepreventionmonth #livedexperience

RT @markhoro: It is sad that several psychiatrists have performed faux moral outrage over this cartoon but are unperturbed about genuine ha…

RT @markhoro: It’s a shame that some people seemed to have misunderstood this cartoon. Clearly the cartoon was not making fun of patients (…

Mad Scholars: Reclaiming and Reimagining the Neurodiverse Academy (Critical Perspectives on Disability)✍️ In twenty-three essays—from contributors working in nearly a dozen disciplines and across three continents—Mad Scholars explores how neurodivergent scholars’ work and lived experiences are richer because of their difference, not in spite of it. ⌚📝🎢 A long-awaited corrective by scholars accustomed to having their stories told for them, this collection draws on Mad perspectives at the intersection of various marginalized identities, boldly dreaming of a future where all students and educators can thrive. 💯🙏 By offering concrete steps and strategies that radically reimagine the current academic landscape, Mad Scholars opens our eyes to much-needed innovations in research, pedagogy, and community, ones which promise to transform higher education and create vital paths for scholarly innovation. 💜🩷✊

Mad, Crip, Queer Pride: a Panel This University of Sydney Disability Inclusion Week 2024, The Centre for Disability Research and Policy invites you to join our panellists, Gemma Lucy Smart @Robin Eames Shane Clifton and myself, dialogue the discourse and plurality of truths and perspectives on disability pride from a Mad, Queer and Crip Pride intersection. Our pathway forward, is disability justice, and cross solidarity movement building towards intersectional social justice. Nothing for us, without us. Recording (58 minutes) .. #disability #queer #mad #pride #intersectionality #activism #academia #livedexperience #justice #humanrights