Gvan Mal
@gvanmalakoff.bsky.social
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Since I'm just starting out at bluesky, here's the very first episode of Cracklewood Forest! #animation #art #video
November 18, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Since I'm just starting out at bluesky, here's the very first episode of Cracklewood Forest! #animation #art #video
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The dominance of the medical model in mental health provision has driven & exacerbated mental health disability, which is why I'm bemused by disability activists who ardently support it....
February 9, 2025 at 8:14 AM
The dominance of the medical model in mental health provision has driven & exacerbated mental health disability, which is why I'm bemused by disability activists who ardently support it....
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I tip my hat to the troll who signed me up for Scientology Today.
Very funny…🫡
Very funny…🫡
January 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I tip my hat to the troll who signed me up for Scientology Today.
Very funny…🫡
Very funny…🫡
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Thanks to the Sunday Times and @julsmith.bsky.social for covering my upcoming book, highlighting how antidepressants may well do more harm than good and why the medical establishment has been so reluctant to consider this possibility www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a...
Do antidepressants work? This British professor says they don’t
Joanna Moncrieff is a professor and NHS psychiatrist who dared to argue that depression is not a physical illness. As a result she has been abused by peers — and championed by Tucker Carlson. Is her t...
www.thetimes.com
January 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Thanks to the Sunday Times and @julsmith.bsky.social for covering my upcoming book, highlighting how antidepressants may well do more harm than good and why the medical establishment has been so reluctant to consider this possibility www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a...
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I think it’s important for us as survivors/seekers/whatever to realize that just because a MH professional says they use a bio-psycho-social model doesn’t mean they’ve actually obtained any truth about the bio, the psycho or the social.
The wrong people/interventions can derail us catastrophically.
The wrong people/interventions can derail us catastrophically.
January 13, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I think it’s important for us as survivors/seekers/whatever to realize that just because a MH professional says they use a bio-psycho-social model doesn’t mean they’ve actually obtained any truth about the bio, the psycho or the social.
The wrong people/interventions can derail us catastrophically.
The wrong people/interventions can derail us catastrophically.
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None of these points are accurate, you're fundamentally misunderstanding what they're saying.
They are not denying the abuses that happened in these programs. What they are saying is that calling these facilities "alternative" therapies paints them as lacking an institutional support that they/
They are not denying the abuses that happened in these programs. What they are saying is that calling these facilities "alternative" therapies paints them as lacking an institutional support that they/
January 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
None of these points are accurate, you're fundamentally misunderstanding what they're saying.
They are not denying the abuses that happened in these programs. What they are saying is that calling these facilities "alternative" therapies paints them as lacking an institutional support that they/
They are not denying the abuses that happened in these programs. What they are saying is that calling these facilities "alternative" therapies paints them as lacking an institutional support that they/
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absolutely had.
Many of the parents who found these programs were referred to them by mainstream institutions, such as judges and school guidance counselors, and the mainstream American psychological industry considered some of them as legitimate psychiatric institutions.
Many of the parents who found these programs were referred to them by mainstream institutions, such as judges and school guidance counselors, and the mainstream American psychological industry considered some of them as legitimate psychiatric institutions.
January 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
absolutely had.
Many of the parents who found these programs were referred to them by mainstream institutions, such as judges and school guidance counselors, and the mainstream American psychological industry considered some of them as legitimate psychiatric institutions.
Many of the parents who found these programs were referred to them by mainstream institutions, such as judges and school guidance counselors, and the mainstream American psychological industry considered some of them as legitimate psychiatric institutions.
As a Troubled Teen Industry survivor, I stand against the revisionism that's spreading in pro-psychiatry circles. Their narrative is that mainstream therapy is good and anything harmful is "alternative". The TTI programs are almost always mainstream especially the programs I went to.
January 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
As a Troubled Teen Industry survivor, I stand against the revisionism that's spreading in pro-psychiatry circles. Their narrative is that mainstream therapy is good and anything harmful is "alternative". The TTI programs are almost always mainstream especially the programs I went to.
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Instead of that psych drug, perhaps what you really needed was time off work, a person to care & listen, a quiet place to retreat, reflect, reassess & repair. Perhaps you needed us to treat you as worthy of a kinder world; of a social & human rather than a chemical response.
December 31, 2024 at 7:54 AM
Instead of that psych drug, perhaps what you really needed was time off work, a person to care & listen, a quiet place to retreat, reflect, reassess & repair. Perhaps you needed us to treat you as worthy of a kinder world; of a social & human rather than a chemical response.
The officer who walked by the burning woman and did nothing (as well as the man just filming it all) are haunting me.
December 23, 2024 at 9:59 PM
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This is true. And it’s also true the trans community has failed to police its sex pests.
We should be a lot more vocal about denouncing shitty, sexually inappropriate public behavior.l
We should be a lot more vocal about denouncing shitty, sexually inappropriate public behavior.l
I don't know. There is a contingent of agp where the dress is a fetish, but I would say there's no way to tell, so you should accept them all.
December 23, 2024 at 1:45 AM
This is true. And it’s also true the trans community has failed to police its sex pests.
We should be a lot more vocal about denouncing shitty, sexually inappropriate public behavior.l
We should be a lot more vocal about denouncing shitty, sexually inappropriate public behavior.l
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Thoughtful piece on anti-psychiatry by Sam Woolfe.
Well worth reading. @samwoolfe.bsky.social
www.samwoolfe.com/2021/01/is-t...
Well worth reading. @samwoolfe.bsky.social
www.samwoolfe.com/2021/01/is-t...
The Different Faces of the Anti-Psychiatry Movement
Anti-psychiatry is a loose social movement that first emerged in the 1960s in Europe and the US, and it began as an ideological response to the treatment of mental illness in asylums at the time. Thos...
www.samwoolfe.com
November 29, 2024 at 10:38 AM
Thoughtful piece on anti-psychiatry by Sam Woolfe.
Well worth reading. @samwoolfe.bsky.social
www.samwoolfe.com/2021/01/is-t...
Well worth reading. @samwoolfe.bsky.social
www.samwoolfe.com/2021/01/is-t...
Can someone please view my post and screenshot the reply to it? I can't see because OP blocked me.
It's not ethical to cleanse a field of any contrary beliefs. Ironically that would create less trust in psychiatry because it is telling harmed patients that they will have no support in mainstream psychiatry, so they will switch to alternatives. Critical Psychiatry is the way to go.
December 21, 2024 at 7:53 PM
Can someone please view my post and screenshot the reply to it? I can't see because OP blocked me.
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"Money, like winning the lottery, would have been my medication, as poverty was my issue".
"I feel trapped in this cycle. I can't get off them...I wish I had never started".
Readers tell the Guardian their experiences of taking antidepressants.
theguardian.com/australia-ne....
"I feel trapped in this cycle. I can't get off them...I wish I had never started".
Readers tell the Guardian their experiences of taking antidepressants.
theguardian.com/australia-ne....
Nineteen readers on their experience taking and withdrawing from antidepressants
Many people were given little information about potential side-effects from coming off medications and suffered withdrawal they describe as worse than the initial symptoms
https://theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2024/dec/20/nineteen-readers-on-their-experience-taking-and-withdrawing-from-antidepressants#:~:text=I%20can't%20get%20off,time%20I%20tried%20to%20withdraw…
December 20, 2024 at 8:33 AM
"Money, like winning the lottery, would have been my medication, as poverty was my issue".
"I feel trapped in this cycle. I can't get off them...I wish I had never started".
Readers tell the Guardian their experiences of taking antidepressants.
theguardian.com/australia-ne....
"I feel trapped in this cycle. I can't get off them...I wish I had never started".
Readers tell the Guardian their experiences of taking antidepressants.
theguardian.com/australia-ne....
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The main therapist I was forced to see as a teenager heavily indoctrinated me to believe that I shouldn’t attempt to engage in introspection without a “highly trained” therapist. It’s hard to imagine a more abhorrent notion to force onto someone. 1/
December 15, 2024 at 12:14 AM
The main therapist I was forced to see as a teenager heavily indoctrinated me to believe that I shouldn’t attempt to engage in introspection without a “highly trained” therapist. It’s hard to imagine a more abhorrent notion to force onto someone. 1/
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My bestie @richardhanania.blogsky.venki.dev guesses which trans women have penises.
December 13, 2024 at 7:09 PM
My bestie @richardhanania.blogsky.venki.dev guesses which trans women have penises.
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People can refer to critical psychiatry as “anti-psychiatry” all they want. But the reality is a lot of victims of psychological abuse have been pathologized and marginalized by psychiatrists. An inconvenient fact, but a fact nonetheless. #mentalhealth
December 10, 2024 at 3:04 AM
People can refer to critical psychiatry as “anti-psychiatry” all they want. But the reality is a lot of victims of psychological abuse have been pathologized and marginalized by psychiatrists. An inconvenient fact, but a fact nonetheless. #mentalhealth
I joined BlueSky because many important people in the psychiatry debate are here from all sides. I appreciate @drjamesdaviesbskys.bsky.social @joannamoncrieff.bsky.social @christophlane.bsky.social @markhoro.bsky.social the most! Keep on writing for survivors.
December 8, 2024 at 1:58 AM
I joined BlueSky because many important people in the psychiatry debate are here from all sides. I appreciate @drjamesdaviesbskys.bsky.social @joannamoncrieff.bsky.social @christophlane.bsky.social @markhoro.bsky.social the most! Keep on writing for survivors.
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Capitalism is using neurodivergence "to dismantle subcultural rebellion by labelling 'deviant' behaviour to make it acceptable enough to be integrated into the mainstream". Is neurodivergent activism truly radical or surreptitiously enabling the status quo?
www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
How neurodivergence became a subculture
In recent years, social media has allowed neurodivergent people to find community online – but is there a darker side to the ‘subculturalification’ of mental health conditions?
www.dazeddigital.com
December 6, 2024 at 8:02 AM
Capitalism is using neurodivergence "to dismantle subcultural rebellion by labelling 'deviant' behaviour to make it acceptable enough to be integrated into the mainstream". Is neurodivergent activism truly radical or surreptitiously enabling the status quo?
www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
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If authoritarianism is harmful in governance, why would it not also be harmful in mental health treatment, education, and child-rearing? Maybe it’d be even more harmful.
December 3, 2024 at 1:56 AM
If authoritarianism is harmful in governance, why would it not also be harmful in mental health treatment, education, and child-rearing? Maybe it’d be even more harmful.
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Rigorous new studies detail the costs and pitfalls of mistaking antidepressant withdrawal for relapse.
My latest @PsychToday
#SSRIs #MedSky #Psychiatry
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/side...
My latest @PsychToday
#SSRIs #MedSky #Psychiatry
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/side...
The Costs of Mistaking Antidepressant Withdrawal for Relapse
Recently published “gold-standard” studies of antidepressant withdrawal flag misdiagnosis, confounding, and rushed tapering as ongoing concerns.
www.psychologytoday.com
December 2, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Rigorous new studies detail the costs and pitfalls of mistaking antidepressant withdrawal for relapse.
My latest @PsychToday
#SSRIs #MedSky #Psychiatry
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/side...
My latest @PsychToday
#SSRIs #MedSky #Psychiatry
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/side...
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I've been harmed by psychiatric medication. I've also been helped by it.
I've been harmed by psychiatric diagnosis. I've also been helped by it.
All these things can be true at the same time.
There is space for people to share nuanced experiences of psychiatry.
I've been harmed by psychiatric diagnosis. I've also been helped by it.
All these things can be true at the same time.
There is space for people to share nuanced experiences of psychiatry.
November 30, 2024 at 10:39 PM
I've been harmed by psychiatric medication. I've also been helped by it.
I've been harmed by psychiatric diagnosis. I've also been helped by it.
All these things can be true at the same time.
There is space for people to share nuanced experiences of psychiatry.
I've been harmed by psychiatric diagnosis. I've also been helped by it.
All these things can be true at the same time.
There is space for people to share nuanced experiences of psychiatry.
Is there a gaming community on BlueSky?
November 30, 2024 at 7:53 PM
Is there a gaming community on BlueSky?
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We just published a short editorial Hidden Costs: The Clinical and Research Pitfalls of Mistaking Antidepressant Withdrawal for Relapse
bit.ly/3Zq8cym with @drjamesdaviesbskys.bsky.social
bit.ly/3Zq8cym with @drjamesdaviesbskys.bsky.social
November 28, 2024 at 9:16 AM
We just published a short editorial Hidden Costs: The Clinical and Research Pitfalls of Mistaking Antidepressant Withdrawal for Relapse
bit.ly/3Zq8cym with @drjamesdaviesbskys.bsky.social
bit.ly/3Zq8cym with @drjamesdaviesbskys.bsky.social
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Wonderful to have Prof Joanna Moncrieff join us on Bluesky! And very excited about the publication of her new book 👏🤓
Good to be up on bsky. Following the storm of interest provoked by our 2022 review, I am pleased to announce the publication of my book telling the story of the serotonin theory of depression from the beginning to recent challenges. Due out Jan 2025. To pre-order lnk.to/chemicallyim...
November 26, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Wonderful to have Prof Joanna Moncrieff join us on Bluesky! And very excited about the publication of her new book 👏🤓