Annie Hickox
@dranniehickox.bsky.social
Clinical Psychologist, Neuropsychologist, PhD (Neurosciences).
Therapist in private practice.
I blog on Medium about mental illness, families, mental health shaming and stigma.
My blogs: https://medium.com/@anniehickox
Therapist in private practice.
I blog on Medium about mental illness, families, mental health shaming and stigma.
My blogs: https://medium.com/@anniehickox
“The crisp path through the field in this December snow, in the deep dark, where we trod the buried grass like ghosts on dry toast.”
― Dylan Thomas, Quite Early One Morning
― Dylan Thomas, Quite Early One Morning
December 1, 2025 at 9:41 AM
“The crisp path through the field in this December snow, in the deep dark, where we trod the buried grass like ghosts on dry toast.”
― Dylan Thomas, Quite Early One Morning
― Dylan Thomas, Quite Early One Morning
Sunny Sunday afternoon.
The eve of Advent.🎄
The eve of Advent.🎄
November 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Sunny Sunday afternoon.
The eve of Advent.🎄
The eve of Advent.🎄
The very best kind of autumn day.
November 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The very best kind of autumn day.
Happy Advent.🎄
“And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things..”
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
“And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things..”
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
November 30, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Happy Advent.🎄
“And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things..”
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
“And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things..”
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
"I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope and always thrilling".
- Unknown author cited on Old House Gardens
- Unknown author cited on Old House Gardens
November 28, 2025 at 9:20 AM
"I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope and always thrilling".
- Unknown author cited on Old House Gardens
- Unknown author cited on Old House Gardens
Getting into the groove.🎄
November 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Getting into the groove.🎄
“Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower.”
- Camus
- Camus
November 23, 2025 at 9:39 AM
“Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower.”
- Camus
- Camus
There’s no cure for stupid.
November 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
There’s no cure for stupid.
I’m getting pretty tired of seeing these professors gaslight people who are actually experiencing mental illness.
November 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I’m getting pretty tired of seeing these professors gaslight people who are actually experiencing mental illness.
Who’s gonna tell them?
November 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Who’s gonna tell them?
Getting health advice from strangers on social media is a minefield.
If you are ill enough to require psychiatric treatment, you need information about risks and benefits from serious discussions with your doctors, not from biased and subjective scare stories online.
If you are ill enough to require psychiatric treatment, you need information about risks and benefits from serious discussions with your doctors, not from biased and subjective scare stories online.
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Getting health advice from strangers on social media is a minefield.
If you are ill enough to require psychiatric treatment, you need information about risks and benefits from serious discussions with your doctors, not from biased and subjective scare stories online.
If you are ill enough to require psychiatric treatment, you need information about risks and benefits from serious discussions with your doctors, not from biased and subjective scare stories online.
We are expected to flatter bigots in order to prove we are non-partisan?
Great writing by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social in her book of essays, No Straight Road Takes You There.
Great writing by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social in her book of essays, No Straight Road Takes You There.
November 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
We are expected to flatter bigots in order to prove we are non-partisan?
Great writing by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social in her book of essays, No Straight Road Takes You There.
Great writing by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social in her book of essays, No Straight Road Takes You There.
I think this is what is meant by the term ‘blind privilege’.
November 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I think this is what is meant by the term ‘blind privilege’.
Alternative treatments are unregulated, unpredictable, and unscientific.
They can often pose huge risks to people with mental illness.
They can often pose huge risks to people with mental illness.
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Alternative treatments are unregulated, unpredictable, and unscientific.
They can often pose huge risks to people with mental illness.
They can often pose huge risks to people with mental illness.
When a movement that claims they are in favour of informed consent and against coercive treatment find themselves in a carnal relationship with MAHA/MAGA, things can get awkward.
Be careful what you wish for.
Be careful what you wish for.
November 11, 2025 at 11:58 AM
When a movement that claims they are in favour of informed consent and against coercive treatment find themselves in a carnal relationship with MAHA/MAGA, things can get awkward.
Be careful what you wish for.
Be careful what you wish for.
Recently learned that my great-great grandfather, Patrick Calhoun, took part in the last duel in Georgia, in 1889, after duelling had been outlawed.
He lived to tell the tale.
Now I see where my stubborn streak comes from. 🔫
He lived to tell the tale.
Now I see where my stubborn streak comes from. 🔫
November 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Recently learned that my great-great grandfather, Patrick Calhoun, took part in the last duel in Georgia, in 1889, after duelling had been outlawed.
He lived to tell the tale.
Now I see where my stubborn streak comes from. 🔫
He lived to tell the tale.
Now I see where my stubborn streak comes from. 🔫
Electric tulip land.
November 10, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Electric tulip land.
If Scientology is promoting your work, maybe it’s time to consciously uncouple from these bedfellows.
November 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
If Scientology is promoting your work, maybe it’s time to consciously uncouple from these bedfellows.
Anti-psychiatry professors when confronted with the reality of mental illness:
November 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Anti-psychiatry professors when confronted with the reality of mental illness:
Quod erat demonstrandum.
November 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Quod erat demonstrandum.
Loving this content linking Zohran with improved mental wellbeing.
November 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Loving this content linking Zohran with improved mental wellbeing.
Mrs Ramsay, Virgina Woolf’s protagonist in To the Lighthouse, was actually referring to her young children who had been sniping about a family friend.
However, here on social media - as in the political world - we see such sniping so often that it has become assumed and normalised.
However, here on social media - as in the political world - we see such sniping so often that it has become assumed and normalised.
November 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Mrs Ramsay, Virgina Woolf’s protagonist in To the Lighthouse, was actually referring to her young children who had been sniping about a family friend.
However, here on social media - as in the political world - we see such sniping so often that it has become assumed and normalised.
However, here on social media - as in the political world - we see such sniping so often that it has become assumed and normalised.
“My advice, as in everything, is to read widely and think for yourself We need more dissent and less dogma.”
― Camille Paglia
― Camille Paglia
November 4, 2025 at 9:15 AM
“My advice, as in everything, is to read widely and think for yourself We need more dissent and less dogma.”
― Camille Paglia
― Camille Paglia