PhD Candidate, UniSA. Civil Rights Campaigner. Optimist. Retweets are not endorsements. #IVotedYES ๐ #KaurnaCountry
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Kate Swaffer she/her โค๏ธ๐๐ค๐๐๐ retweeted
This recent Guardian article discussing the damaging stereotypes a dementia diagnosis brings, includes interviews with Julie Hayden, George Rook and Kate Swaffer, who are all living with young onset #dementia. They are all valued members of the Young Dementia Network.
Read more here: theguardian.com/society/2026โฆ
@george_rook
@KateSwaffer
@julieha15141038
Kate Swaffer she/her โค๏ธ๐๐ค๐๐๐ retweeted
The future of psychiatry will be in de-prescribing.
Trust me
We are moving in that direction
Kate Swaffer she/her โค๏ธ๐๐ค๐๐๐ retweeted
This cartoon captures the denial & downplaying of antidepressant withdrawal by leading figures in British psychiatry (in their own words....). This is what patients have been up against....
Kate Swaffer she/her โค๏ธ๐๐ค๐๐๐ retweeted
Really important study showing that reducing psychiatric drug use in people with dementia reduced psychiatric symptoms such as hallucinations, apathy, depression and reduced falls. I hope the people on this platform advocating for increased use of psychotropics in this population despite evidence read it carefully. Link below.
Kate Swaffer she/her โค๏ธ๐๐ค๐๐๐ retweeted
Agree, and this is why rising rates of antidepressant use among young women is so worrying. Many will have been on antidepressants for 10 years or more when they get pregnant and getting off them after this amount of time is frequently difficult
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Kate Swaffer she/her โค๏ธ๐๐ค๐๐๐ retweeted
Now the emphasis could be on @DementiaAllianc (Dementia Alliance International) cofounded by @KateSwaffer. #diversealz
Kate Swaffer she/her โค๏ธ๐๐ค๐๐๐ retweeted
Bet you didn't know that one of the @dementiaalliance initiatives started from a conversation via #diversealz many years ago so now remembering
Romina Oliviero and of course @KateSwaffer
Kate Swaffer she/her โค๏ธ๐๐ค๐๐๐ retweeted
#AusDisLit nonfiction from 2026 by Kate Swaffer @KateSwaffer
The continuing pathologisation ofย dementia
kateswaffer.com/2026/03/11/tโฆ
kateswaffer.com/2026/03/11/tโฆ
Kate Swaffer she/her โค๏ธ๐๐ค๐๐๐ retweeted
Sigh. Another day, another meta-analysis which claims that continuing drugs is better than stopping them when they are stopped in 2 weeks or less. The absolute state of this field.
Kate Swaffer she/her โค๏ธ๐๐ค๐๐๐ retweeted
I've spent years exposing what SSRIs actually do.
Now I'm exposing the larger system.
Psychiatry is one tentacle.
Mind control is the body.
New series begins now.
Kate Swaffer she/her โค๏ธ๐๐ค๐๐๐ retweeted
1) confounding stress and distress with mental disorder; 2) ignoring context 3) the rise of internet self-diagnosis; 4) loose and fuzzily defined diagnostic criteria; 5) careless diagnosis 6) marketing; and 7) tying benefits to diagnosis rather than level of functioning.
My letter today to The Guardian describes the 7 causes of massive mental disorder overdiagnosis & the consequent harms to our patients & to society.
theguardian.com/society/2025โฆ
Kate Swaffer she/her โค๏ธ๐๐ค๐๐๐ retweeted
It's hard to overstate what an invaluable resource this has been for so many people.
After close to 15 years, in which we changed the conversation, the peer support site SurvivingAntidepressants.org will close January 31 to become a read-only resource for tapering psychiatric drugs & recovering from withdrawal syndrome. Best wishes for your healing journeys, always.
Kate Swaffer she/her โค๏ธ๐๐ค๐๐๐ retweeted
He is deeply mentally ill, as well as evil and utterly unfit for office. The 25th Amendment MUST be invoked. Vance and the Congress have no excuse not to rid the country of this disgusting criminal.
Kate Swaffer she/her โค๏ธ๐๐ค๐๐๐ retweeted
Letters from psychiatrists supporting concerns about psychiatric diagnosis: It is 'often unnecessary to fit somebody into a diagnostic category to offer them appropriate help' theguardian.com/society/2025โฆ
Kate Swaffer she/her โค๏ธ๐๐ค๐๐๐ retweeted
Most people either overhype AI (โit will write your paper for youโ) or dismiss it (โAI canโt help with my researchโ)
The reality lies in "Integration" โคต๏ธ
Here's the process I use:
โ @scispace turns research questions into instant paper summaries with context-aware Q&A.
โ @consensusapp searches 200M+ papers and exports your collection to Zotero automatically.
โ @ChatPDF answers specific questions about your papers with direct quotes & pg #
โ JANE suggests target journals with impact factors based on your keywords โ> @ChatGPTapp for outlines โ @jenni for drafts โ @Scite for smart citations โ @teampaperpal for editing โ @anara for final polish.
๐ฌ ๐ช๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฑ๐ผ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฒ ๐๐ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ด๐ด๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ถ๐บ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐ผ๐๐ป ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ๐ณ๐น๐ผ๐?
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Kate Swaffer she/her โค๏ธ๐๐ค๐๐๐ retweeted
What we call pathology is often protest against conditions that act against the flourishing & well-being of the individual. Conversely, to be 'well-adpated' often means to have sacrificed vital aspects of the self to become one of the demoralised/servile cogs inequality relies on
Kate Swaffer she/her โค๏ธ๐๐ค๐๐๐ retweeted
A brilliant, interactive tutorial by the University of Sheffield on how to do a literature review:
Covers:
What is a literature review?
Finding information sources
Organising your sources
Synthesising your sources
Writing your review
Link: tinyurl.com/h5nrx5ev