Why 'psychiatric challenges' (or 'nervous breakdowns') are just like chucking your mobile down the hall...

A series of Tweets and links to other #UCFF postings on Blogger on Madness

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1 November

A series of Tweets and links to other #UCFF postings on Blogger on Madness

Prologue :

What do you tell yourself when you come across people like this? We want to know! Source: @livefortmw #mentalhealth pic.twitter.com/NTrx41EXdJ

— SANE (@CharitySANE) November 2, 2017

Needless to say - as *not* every conversation, least of all about (one's own) #mh, is good : such a person is pretended to (as with most) ? https://t.co/STqNFDSrQX

— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 2, 2017

But *who cares* if it's better language than 'nervous breakdown' - because it imports 'psychiatry' :

Ignoring the content / seeing symptoms https://t.co/4oysvG5PFB

— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 1, 2017

Which, maybe neatly, brings us to 'Psychosis' :

Does 'psychosis' really mean much more than I, as your 'nearest relative' (or other family member, etc.) or employer or doctor, etc., don't think that you should think what you think ?

Really sad for patients with psychosis to see the BPS apparently engaged in a clumsy sectarian ideological misfire. https://t.co/6NLEyuAlEM

— ben goldacre (@bengoldacre) October 30, 2017

I was told that I had had #psychosis, and this crap about a chemical balance that needed meds ! :

Truth is that my mood goes higher to cope

— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 31, 2017

"Clumsy sectarian ideological misfire". Oh FFS @bengoldacre.
That comment reveals you haven't got a clue about #understandingpsychosis. https://t.co/CFi9FpegjP

— Jacqui Dillon (@JacquiDillon) November 1, 2017

Generally, one upholds @bengoldacre's critique of bad science.

Yet, as supposedly part of medical science, psychiatry's dogmas are dubious. https://t.co/Yth1gdbH9J

— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 1, 2017

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