Rosi Sexton
@rosisexton.bsky.social
A collection of random hyperfoci held together by anxiety & sticky tape. Osteopath, climber, maths PhD, pianist, former professional MMA fighter. Dabbled in politics (Green). Passionate about health, health inequality, mental health, neurodivergence.
"People making sense of life by using words to represent ideas is woke now"
December 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"People making sense of life by using words to represent ideas is woke now"
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Psychiatrist Penelope Campling implores us to acknowledge how our mental health is so utterly bound up with our social and material circumstances.
Wes Streeting and all in government need to acknowledge this.
midpsy.uk/2025/12/04/m...
Wes Streeting and all in government need to acknowledge this.
midpsy.uk/2025/12/04/m...
Mental health services on the brink
No longer able to continue her work as a consultant clinical psychologist in the NHS, Penny Priest retired in June 2024. Since then she has been struck by just how many other clinical psychologists…
midpsy.uk
December 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Psychiatrist Penelope Campling implores us to acknowledge how our mental health is so utterly bound up with our social and material circumstances.
Wes Streeting and all in government need to acknowledge this.
midpsy.uk/2025/12/04/m...
Wes Streeting and all in government need to acknowledge this.
midpsy.uk/2025/12/04/m...
Reposted by Rosi Sexton
So Labour can moan about Greens being unrealistic as much as they want, but who is the bigger fantasist: the people who know the house is on fire and something radical is needed? Or the people saying "this is fine" as the roof falls in?
December 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
So Labour can moan about Greens being unrealistic as much as they want, but who is the bigger fantasist: the people who know the house is on fire and something radical is needed? Or the people saying "this is fine" as the roof falls in?
This is very much Starmer saying the quiet bit out loud.
December 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This is very much Starmer saying the quiet bit out loud.
Cuts to public services? Brexit? COVID under Johnson? Truss? None of these worried him...?
December 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Cuts to public services? Brexit? COVID under Johnson? Truss? None of these worried him...?
A big part of the problem is FPTP. I can't see the quality of political discourse improving under our current electoral system.
December 6, 2025 at 12:01 AM
A big part of the problem is FPTP. I can't see the quality of political discourse improving under our current electoral system.
Yep - clearly he's saying this because he doesn't want the review to look like what it's obviously intended to be, which is policy-based evidence.
December 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Yep - clearly he's saying this because he doesn't want the review to look like what it's obviously intended to be, which is policy-based evidence.
I'd like to volunteer for this if @zackpolanski.bsky.social is looking for someone. 🙋♂️ In particular the "overdiagnosis" nonsense that's doing the rounds again, and why our health and education systems are becoming increasingly hostile for neurodivergent people, even as awareness increases.
December 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I'd like to volunteer for this if @zackpolanski.bsky.social is looking for someone. 🙋♂️ In particular the "overdiagnosis" nonsense that's doing the rounds again, and why our health and education systems are becoming increasingly hostile for neurodivergent people, even as awareness increases.
Reposted by Rosi Sexton
Clearly we have a crisis of overdiagnosis of eye problems requiring expensive and life long medical intervention (glasses). We need to crack down on Specsavers.
December 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Clearly we have a crisis of overdiagnosis of eye problems requiring expensive and life long medical intervention (glasses). We need to crack down on Specsavers.
The only reason for the mea culpa is that he doesn't want this to be seen to be what it so very obviously is.
December 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The only reason for the mea culpa is that he doesn't want this to be seen to be what it so very obviously is.
If he was genuinely interested in an unbiased exploration of the evidence, perhaps he could have found someone other than the guy who led the debunked ME/CFS study to lead it. This appears to be more of the same - policy based evidence.
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One of the people leading this likely farce is Simon Wessley whose previous work includes a reasonably well debunked study of ME which was used to make it harder for sufferers to get support or recognition. Streeting knows exactly what outcome he wants from this
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Government-funded ME/CFS trial 'one of greatest medical scandals of 21st century' | 20 February 2018 - The ME Association
A controversial medical trial part-funded by the Department of Work of Pensions will emerge as “one of the greatest medical scandals of the 21st century” an MP today claimed.
meassociation.org.uk
December 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
If he was genuinely interested in an unbiased exploration of the evidence, perhaps he could have found someone other than the guy who led the debunked ME/CFS study to lead it. This appears to be more of the same - policy based evidence.
bsky.app/profile/dani...
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