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So true …

A thoughtful article by fellow psychiatrist in medical psychotherapy Penny Campling.

Comprehensive rejection of #AssistedDying Bill in 9 succinct points from the Royal College of Psychiatrists Royal College of Psychiatrists.

GLP1 receptor agonists eg Ozempic are now being evaluated for the treatment of major depressive and bipolar disorder, substance use, and schizophrenia…. Part of a pivot in treatment development in psychiatry focusing on targeting metabolic therapies psychiatrictimes.com/view/insulin-i…

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Check out our Topic Collection on Chronopsychiatry now available on BMJ Mental Health. #circadian #sleep #MentalHealth mentalhealth.bmj.com/pages/chronops…

Just because someone has a mental health condition, doesn't mean we should forget about their physical health. We do this too often in medicine, particularly with severe mental disorders, such as schizophrenia. We can do better.

Lifestyle management crucial

"Lithium use, and timely access to psychiatrists are both directly linked to a reduction in suicidal thoughts in people with bipolar disorder" Heston Blumenthal: Mood swings fuelled the chef's genius. But the highs got higher and the lows got darker bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Awais Aftab: a multidimensional approach to psychiatry - The Lancet Psychiatry thelancet.com/journals/lanps…

Rich Girl Rehab The “Borderline” Years A memorable guest post by Sorbie Richner on the experience and aftermath of residential psychiatric treatment when she was 20, and what she learnt about diagnoses, treatments, and recovery in the process. psychiatrymargins.com/p/rich-girl-re…

Michael Marmot: “There’s enough in the world to make one despair. But we know what must be done—we just have to do it” bmj.com/content/390/bm…

Farewell, associates. Welcome back assistants | The BMJ Balanced appraisal by ⁦⁦Trisha Greenhalgh⁩ and M bmj.com/content/390/bm…

"The wounds of resentment and distrust are deep and will be slow to heal." Kamran Abbasi on how it took a grassroots movement of doctors to raise the alarm on physician associates, and what the Leng review will achieve bmj.com/content/390/bm…

In our upcoming BMJ Medicine and Science podcast, Gillian Leng discusses the review of physician associate and anaesthesia associate roles. ⏯️ bmj.com/podcasts

Grateful for this positive review of “Conversations in Critical Psychiatry” in the British Journal of Psychiatry by Tom Harrison.   Aftab “condenses an understanding of psychiatry that everyone working in the field would benefit from”   cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Mary Had Schizophrenia—Then Suddenly She Didn’t. ⁦The New Yorker⁩ ⁦This is an excellent article by ⁦Rachel Aviv⁩ We need a different nomenclature which includes both idiopathic conditions and those for which we have established etiologies. 1/ newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

Compared with those who walked 2,000 steps a day, they found that 7,000 steps was linked to reduced risk of: cardiovascular disease - down 25% cancer - down 6% dementia - down 38% and depression - down 22% bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

United States healthcare …… costs into the 100’s of thousands New mom's lesson about giving birth in US stuns: "too European for this" newsweek.com/new-mom-lesson…

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