Critical psychologist | Author | Advocate for #trauma informed practice and #mentalhealth alternatives
New York, NY
Joined November 2016
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Noel Hunter PsyD retweeted
It rankles a bit when I hear people refer to therapy as a "helping profession" or "caring profession." It’s not that the descriptions are necessarily wrong—but the emphasis is on the wrong thing
Psychotherapy is a *changing profession*
It’s purpose is helping people to change
The word is getting out... medicalizing trauma and emotional suffering just isn't working...
#Trauma #therapy #psychology #Psychiatry
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Noel Hunter PsyD retweeted
HUGE NEWS!
United Nations & World Health Organisation new report stating that the medical model of mental health needs to be overhauled; and that psychiatric diagnosis, labelling & pathologising people who are traumatised, abused, in poverty, & oppressed impacts human rights.
Noel Hunter PsyD retweeted
Researchers find that SSRI #antidepressants increase suicide attempts up to age 24, and have no preventative effect at any age, even for those at high risk of suicide.
#paychiatry #mentalhealth #psychology #socialwork #TherapistTwitter #depression
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Noel Hunter PsyD retweeted
‘A new study in JAMA Network Open found that antidepressants don’t prevent suicide…. & that antidepressants, antipsychotics, and benzodiazepine drugs were all associated with increased suicide attempts in people with borderline personality disorder (BPD). madinamerica.com/2023/07/ant…
Noel Hunter PsyD retweeted
Abuse, poverty, trauma, loss, hardship, inequality, toxic relationships...etc., are all real. Chemical imbalances are not.
Noel Hunter PsyD retweeted
Framing depression as purposeful & meaningful leads to less stigma, study finds.
I'm afraid the answer as to why it is *not* framed this way is poltical, not least the power it has to undermine psychiaty/psychiatrists in thier role.
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Noel Hunter PsyD retweeted
Wonderful, groundbreaking research, led by my friend Hans Schroder, shows that framing depression as purposeful, not pathological, has better therapeutic outcomes. Continuing to promote the dysfunction/disease/chemical imbalance paradigm is becoming a serious moral problem.
More of the same will bring about...more of the same.
"It will mean coming up with new methods of care...approaches that may seem hazy in contrast to the chemistry of pharmaceuticals, but that can be the best hope for recovery"
nytimes.com/2023/06/02/opini…
Noel Hunter PsyD retweeted
My most used psych-diagnoses would be:
Social suffering
Situational distress
Sane reaction (to e.g. poverty, abuse, overwork, inequality)
Complex trauma
Meaninglessness
Existential dread [of varying kinds]
Loneliness
Unmet needs
Just surviving syndrome
Shame they don't exist.
A great exploration of how perspective is everything. One man's "#mentalillness" is another's "adaptive delusion". One might argue (by one I mean me) that all so-called mental illnesses are an attempt to cope with life for better or worse....
nytimes.com/2023/06/03/opini…
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I would add chronic invalidation/ toxic family dynamics but otherwise pretty spot on👇
The greatest threats to mental health:
poverty
inequality
social injustice
abuse
trauma
discrimination (of all kinds)
neoliberalism
poor relationships, diet, exercise
social exclusion
materialism
prejudice
loneliness
iatrogenesis
individualism
meaninglessness
What did I miss?
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It's taken too long for any major media source to finally consider hey maybe 'mental illness' isn't actually justification for murder😡
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This is a great example of how messed up things have gotten. I'm mortified @npr
Therapy is most definitely NOT a chat at a coffee shop. If your therapist is providing you with this kind of "therapy" then that's a great reason to quit therapy
npr.org/2023/04/20/117101052…
Very honored to have had the pleasure and sitting down w/the amazing Jaz Russell to discuss the religion of modern MH & dissenting from the status quo
Check it out!👇
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Noel Hunter PsyD retweeted
"We should study how people change and how lives change, not diagnostic categories from the DSM. We should study outcomes that matter to patients and the psychotherapists who treat them. Real psychotherapy is not about DSM diagnoses and never was."
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The number of folks I see who have self-diagnosed bc they are socially awkward, sensitive to noise, and/or don't get along well with others is beyond counting at this point...
nypost.com/2023/04/24/doctor… via @nypost
No words 😡
"Frances spearheaded the task force that, in his own words, “loosened the definition of autism” [and which] resulted in the massive over-diagnosis of autistic disorders in children and adults."
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Bravo @nytimes for finally covering an alternative to medical psychiatry in a sound and positive way 👏
Instead of being treated as incurably ill, maybe there's a chance that a humane approach focused on family, work, and love might help...
nytimes.com/2023/04/21/world…
As a former personal trainer for 10+ years, I can attest to how much more effective exercise can be than most standard MH treatments for much of what ails us...
neurosciencenews.com/exercis…
