The Mental Elf

@Mental_Elf

It takes 17 years for research to reach practice. Let’s close the gap! Live tweeting .

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    11 hours ago

    Welcome to our Eating Disorders Mental Health Question Time Public Discussion, brought to you by & little old me. As always, the hashtag is Tonight we’ll be discussing the future of eating disorder services & research

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    6 hours ago

    What an amazing but in light of need for good research & reduced funded shown by figures for eating disorders how do we incentivise ECR & researches like llllme to stay & do this research

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  3. 6 hours ago

    "Since hasn’t been approved yet for use in the UK, practitioners have time to weigh the pros and cons. Watch what’s happening in the United States with the explosion of ketamine clinics and how US practitioners end up using ."

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    7 hours ago

    I greatly fear all the premature hype re ketamine. Harms will mostly be in those who buy as street drug to self-medicate . I've often seen self-mutilation/psychosis/bad trips in ketamine users. Studies very controlled/exclude vulnerable people

    "Esketamine is exciting in its mechanism of action. It deserves the respect due a street drug that has put in the work to change its image. But it also deserves a healthy dose of caution."
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    14 hours ago

    ICD-11 is even more wildly over- inclusive than DSM-5. Soon every life problem will be labeled mental illness & no one will ever be well.

    “It's the internal experience that's getting missed again, this is all rated on what's being seen outside”. New: Perspectives on ICD-11 to understand and improve mental health diagnosis using expertise by experience (INCLUDE Study). FREE w/email reg.
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  6. 8 hours ago

    Thanks Nisha

    Replying to @Mental_Elf @AgnesAyton and 3 others
    But just to make clear that funding for other child disorders not increased - child psychiatry funding overall still dismal. Need think about how we communicate this as should not be playing of adults v c and a and different disorders against each other
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    9 hours ago

    Thank you for this evening. There is a need to improve services and research. A holistic approach in care is necessary and there is a need to stop using BMI and weight to access treatment and as an outcome measure

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  8. 9 hours ago

    "Esketamine is exciting in its mechanism of action. It deserves the respect due a street drug that has put in the work to change its image. But it also deserves a healthy dose of caution."

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  9. 9 hours ago

    Now is mentioning 's campaign at

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  10. 9 hours ago

    I'm blogging about psychoanalysis on Friday if you want to read more, although this will be a general blog not specifically about eating disorders

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  11. 9 hours ago

    Question from the floor: Can psychodynamic psychotherapy help people with eating disorders? answers saying it's definitely not all about CBT these days. Lots of talking therapies can help, but psychodynamic psychotherapy may take a lot longer to work

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  12. 9 hours ago

    We have such a brilliant panel tonight talking about . BIG thanks to everyone for such thoughtful, honest & constructive contributions

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    10 hours ago

    If you are interested in eating disorders, check out this thread & the hashtag ...

    Welcome to our Eating Disorders Mental Health Question Time Public Discussion, brought to you by & little old me. As always, the hashtag is Tonight we’ll be discussing the future of eating disorder services & research
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  14. 10 hours ago

    Thanks Paul I always welcome quotes of Doug Altman! I wonder what and our other panelists think of this.

    Replying to @Mental_Elf @UCLPsychiatry and 22 others
    Do we need "less research, better research, and research done for the right reasons" (Doug Altman) in the EDs? If so, how?
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  15. 10 hours ago

    No-one talks about SEX says Why don't we discuss sexual health in services with people who have eating disorders? Is it just that health professionals are being coy?

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    10 hours ago

    Great point from the audience.. How do we harvest the experiences of people who recovered outside of mainstream ED services?

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    10 hours ago

    We're now listening to questions from the room. Don't forget you can watch the debate on line live:

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  18. 10 hours ago

    Now speaks about his experience of being prescribed antipsychotics for his eating disorder Is this common?

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  19. 10 hours ago

    Question from the floor from a father of a daughter with an eating disorder who is taking antipsychotics. says antipsychotics should not be used to treat eating disorders because there's no evidence for it

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  20. 10 hours ago

    We need to reach people outside of the clinic, says We're trying to use social media (Twitter and Instagram) to do this. Give me a shout if you need some help doing this 👍

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  21. 10 hours ago

    I love that the first two voices from the floor at our eating disorders are people with lived experience of the condition

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