Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

[MrMagoo]

The venn diagram of the psychiatrists pathologising, stigmatising, and making life worse for gender queer and trans people has a very large intersection with those on the whole psychobehavioural/psychosomatic everything we can’t explain is functional brigade.

If only we were like them (psychiatrists) and not like ourselves!

 

[Sean]

Few places hide bigotry behind a veneer of respectability more than psychiatry and psychology.

 

[Suffolkres]

Yes if A4ME have not vetted whether Hunt still holds these views they are risking inviting a fox into the henhouse. Look at what BACME entryism has done to the MEA

Hunt is not to be trusted

 

[Kalliope]

George Monbiot has a great thread on this on Bluesky today

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Just as we are beginning to understand the biochemical basis of this horrendous condition, the government appoints the man perhaps most responsible for the mischaracterisation of ME/CFS – Simon Wesseley - to its *overdiagnosis* commission.

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ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long. There's a huge BUT coming ... www.theguardian.com

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