As the youngest United Nations agency, UN Women was created to meet today's demands. We're delivering for half of humanity. #GenderEquality isn’t just our mission. It’s who we are. See our highlights from 2024 - 2025: unwo.men/sLrm50Waavw

Incredible work by Yoorrook Justice Commission & Commissioner Travis Lovett as part of the #WalkForTruth. The 500km walk highlights the shared commitment to truth-telling & justice for/led by First Peoples in Victoria. Speakers highlighted the important moment, but the future steps ahead 1/5

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Sameer is throwing mud again. He calls our review 'poor' but Ghaemi's re-analysis 'elegant,' which shows this has nothing to do with science. Unlike ours, Ghaemi's had no protocol, outdated analysis and inconsistent results. Martin Plöderl Details here journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02…

Every time I talk about the risks of antidepressants, I'm told I'm putting lives at risk and that I'm scaring people away from treatment. But the real data tells a different story 🧵

Worst still, most studies only look at the first 3 months, but half of all users stay on these drugs for 5 years or more. We have no solid data on the long-term risks. What happens when people develop a tolerance to these medications after years of use?

'Clonazepam worked perfectly in the short term. But long-term, it made me more anxious, more fragile, more dependent. I wasn’t healing. I was surviving' madinamerica.com/2025/06/the-pi… Mad In America

There’s a sad trend today: people clinging to mental health labels and psychiatric meds like they’re badges of empowerment. They’re told meds make them modern, responsible—even brave. But this illusion was carefully crafted by pharma PR firms pushing a “meds-first” mindset. They

Psychiatry doesn’t have to stay the way it is. It can evolve — into something more human, more hopeful, and more effective. Here’s a vision of what psychiatry should look like — starting with a radical idea about diagnosis. 🧵

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Since the 90s, drug company money has profoundly shaped psychiatric research, education, training, clinical guidelines, prescribing habits & public/media perception of psych-drugs. Recieving direct payments isn’t required to be influenced by that inflow - we've all been affected.

We are experiencing a pathologized generation. Told distraction & boredom is ADHD, Sadness is Depression, feeling good is mania, worry/fear is an anxiety disorder. Decease stigma means take these drugs. Completely lost site of what it means to be human.

Mark Horowitz and Melanie Davis and I are involved and the service helps people taper off antidepressants, benzo's, Z drugs and gabapentinoids predominantly. It was a local service but now we are taking national referrals. Mark Horowitz @markhoro.bsky.social Melanie Davis

It is extremely frustrating to see the block groupthink from the corporate dementia charities robustly defending the minimal improvement from monoclonal antibodies for one type of dementia, when there is a much wider debate to be had with hugely wider issues.

I don’t think people are aware of how many women who are sexual trauma victims become diagnosed bipolar disorder and/or borderline personality disorder. We are still in the dark ages.