Writer, public speaker, therapist, specialising in mental health, addictions and brain 'differences' in general. Expert in language's role in all the above.
Surrey
Joined November 2019
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It's been a while! Sorry to followers and thanks for hanging in there. Did you catch me on Radio 4's Anti Social on Friday? Interesting topic on mental health and economic inactivity - give it a whirl & let me know your thoughts. I'm in the papers at times & doing Substack 😀
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I have worked with 1000s of addicts and nearly all began with weed. And 1000s would never have gone to prison if it didn't exist. I have total contempt for the attitude that says it causes no harm and can't be addictive. @Cgmwells #mentalhealth #marijuana
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And if this were true there would be no wealthy criminals!
“Poverty is the cause of crime” is a great way to ensure people get stuck with both crime and increasing poverty, because, surprise, crime is also a cause of poverty.
Not enforcing law on the poor doesn’t alleviate poverty, it deepens and entrenches it.
The concept of discrete MH issues is being challenged anyway. Distress is a good term - allows for recog of uncertainty. My book 'Sweet Distress' looks into current obsession with having MH 'issues' and poss harms from over diag. @dranniehickox @WorkMHLeader #mentalhealth
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Waking just one hour earlier cuts depression risk by double digits, study finds sciencedaily.com/releases/20…
How does this fit with the attempt by some educators to set later school starts for teens? Yet another misguided policy designed to be a youth pleaser that ironically harms?
And so many positive comments from local people as we went round! A great incentive to the children to keep supporting the anti litter movement😊
1st Tattenhams Cub scouts ventured out #litterpicking in the rain this evening
Fantastic to educate young people about the #environmental impact of #littering
They soon saw how removing litter helps to #savetheplanet🌎
Well done to all involved @reigatebanstead @Rebecca_SPaul
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It's time those demanding such actions over 'problematic' art, historic houses, literature etc, were investigated for their own family histories, and only allowed to remain in role if they had not in any way profited from the wide tentacles of colonialism themselves @MarkHiggie1
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I write about this in Sweet Distress and The Significance Delusion. People without a strong personal identity usurp both other IDs and causes to self validate It's mental inadequacy at best @graceisforyou @seerutkchawla @CrownHousePub #mentalhealth
Agreed - and I've written 2 books on the subject - The Significance Delusion and Sweet Distress @NasihaMarie @CrownHousePub #MentalHealthMatters #Resilience
Feelings can be problematic all round. Read Sweet Distress - how our love affair with feelings has fuelled the current mental health crisis (and what we can do about it) @PsychToday @CrownHousePub #MentalHealthMatters
6 ways our emotions can mislead us—and how to avoid falling for the most common traps bit.ly/3t9KdR5
This was always 1st world self important tosh anyway🙄@seerutkchawla #psychology
The actual left is supposed to care about materialism, the bottom two.
Wokeness only seems concerned with identity, the top two.
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'Progressive' education failed before (1970s) and will fail again. For many with chaotic childhoods, like me, structure in school and education created an oasis of safety and certainty - also a path to work. Read my Sweet Distress to discover more @Miss_Snuffy @CrownHousePub
EXCELLENT by @drdavidajames on the myth of Finland - finally someone is exposing this!
On the fight that lies ahead for all of us in preserving traditionalism.
I have been predicting Finland’s demise for years. It will only get worse with time thecritic.co.uk/issues/may-2…
It was on my BA course - I learned so much from it! Not sure Sussex teaches it now? Too white, too male? If so, pity🙄 @OliverKamm @TomChivers
A postscript to Tom’s very apt comment: Father& Son by the literary critic Edmund Gosse (Philip’s son) is one of the great childhood memoirs & offers a fascinating insight into the religious fanaticism of a gifted naturalist.
Many authors have been deeply weird! Should we fail to read Dickens, JM Barrie or Emily Bronte because their personal behaviour doesn't bear too close inspection? And they are only the tip of a big iceberg @holland_tom
This is bizarre. A book will be pulped if its author is a shit? That will empty out the library shelves. Use every man after his desert, and who shall 'scape whipping?
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Brilliant riposte! @JohnLewisRetail @BorisJohnson
I'm one of 3.5 million people who have signed the change.org/FreeNazanin petition. @BorisJohnson & @DominicRaab: what will you do to urgently bring Nazanin home? #FreeNazanin