Consultant psychiatrist - Chair 2019-23 @RCPsychEDFac, re-elected as vice chair 2023-2027, #EPSIG, Proud IMG. All views are my own. @agnesayton.bsky.social

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Integrated CBTE improves outcomes for anorexia nervosa - YouTube Thinking about this presentation we did with ⁦@sensinglorna⁩. It’s hard for people to share their experiences publicly, but it’s important to give hope to others who may feel hopeless youtube.com/watch?v=fHsmGNiB…
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“Really pleased”
Really pleased that my colleague Lauren Edwards is reintroducing the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. Terminally ill people deserve to have choice at the end of life, and I’m so pleased that Parliament will now have the ability to make a final decision on this Bill.
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Here’s what all the organisations have said about the Bill :
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Replying to @GordonFielden
All the more reason that the legislation, if passed, should be fit for purpose Leadbeater’s Bill was deeply flawed and those below did not form their negative view based on politics
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If you're rich and well looked after, this bill is probably safe. If however, you are in any way vulnerable, maybe by virtue of age, coercion, depression, eating disorder, a victim of domestic violence this bill is extremely dangerous. Amazing to see Labour MPs backing this.
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LABOUR'S WORST NIGHTMARE: If the assisted suicide Bill returns, it will dominate this whole parliamentary session as the last. If it somehow passes, it will become a General Election issue, as the implementation period = 4 yrs. In between, there would be wrangling over statutory instruments etc.
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I'm a resident of your constituency. As a practicing psychotherapist and counsellor your Bill will absolutely make a difference to me and my work, but for all the wrong reasons. This Bill must be stopped. Again.
🚨 BREAKING: The Assisted Dying Bill will be reintroduced to Parliament next week by Labour MP Lauren Edwards
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Still not addressed
“We just cannot support this Bill” President of The Royal College of Psychiatrists, Dr Lade Smith, told @BBCNewsnight that they do not support the Assisted Dying Bill due to concerns they say “have not been addressed”
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"Finish the job" seems and apt if brutal phrase to use in relation to pushing assisted dying.
A fresh attempt to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales has been launched, with the MP behind the plan telling the BBC she wanted to "finish the job". Lauren Edwards, the Labour MP for Rochester and Strood, said she would bring an identical bill to the one passed by the Commons last year. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gy…
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RT @minds_eminent: 3. That "safe" job is killing your soul slowly — comfort today is buying misery for your whole future. Decent money, g…
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It's back. Incredible how giving the state powers to assist people to die, is a now considered a higher priority for some politicians than fixing an NHS that struggles to keep people alive. Grrr.
NEW: The Assisted Dying Bill is returning to Parliament this week. Labour MP Lauren Edwards will reintroduce it on Wednesday after coming 2nd in the private members’ ballot. “The process has been frustrated by a small minority”, she argues.
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Jimmy Carr nailed something a lot of us feel but can’t explain. We’re living better than 99.9% of humans who ever walked the earth, hot showers, modern medicine, endless entertainment, kids that actually survive infancy, yet so many of us feel miserable. He calls it “life dysmorphia.” We get used to how good we have it (the hedonic treadmill), then compare ourselves to everyone else and tank our own happiness. As he puts it: happiness = quality of life minus envy. Marcus Aurelius put it perfectly: “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.” When was the last time you caught yourself feeling unhappy despite objectively having it pretty damn good?
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If suicide on the nhs comes in under Labour I for one will never vote Labour again for the rest of my life having voted for them for the last 40 years . Offensive to do this when palliative care so weak across the UK
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The full open letter signed by 58 orgs & 1200 individuals is here. Our aim is to engage with @rcpsych constructively to ensure that future policy on Long Covid is safe, effective and reflective of up-to-date framing & research - so all patients can benefit. #HearOurVoices 📩 👇️
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It was described as the “safest and most robust assisted dying legislation” by **supporters** of the Bill. Not a single Royal Medical College OR Professional Body in this country will say the Bill is safe. Let alone it being the “safest”.
🚨 BREAKING: The Assisted Dying Bill will be reintroduced to Parliament next week by Labour MP Lauren Edwards
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New article by @JamillaHussain1, Rini Jones and me on implications of assisted dying legislation for ethnic minority groups spcare.bmj.com/content/early…
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We have written for @politicshome on lessons learned from failure of the Terminally Ill Adults (assisted dying) Bill. We argue that good law will not be achieved by persisting with the TIA Bill model, or by reintroducing it as a Private Members’ Bill. politicshome.com/opinion/art…
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Lauren Edwards MP statement says “[The TIA bill] was rightly described as the safest and most robust assisted dying law anywhere in the world” No. It was only described this way by the people trying to push it through. Here is how others described the Bill: 1. The Royal College of Physicians said the Bill is unsafe 2. The Royal College of Psychiatrists said the Bill is unworkable, and unsafe 3. The British Geriatrics Society said the Bill’s safeguards are not adequate 4. Domestic abuse charities said the Bill is unsafe 5. Organisations representing disabled people said the Bill is unsafe 6. Royal College of GPs says the Bill lacks adequate safeguards 7. Lord Stevens, ex NHS CEO, said legislating for assisted dying in the current climate of hospice cuts is “utterly ridiculous” 8. MIND says the safeguards are not adequate 9. The CLADD group at KCL (DOI) have said the Bill is “not fit for purpose” 10. The British Association of Social Workers say the Bill’s is not safe enough Spot the pattern?
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If true, hugely disappointing. No one has listened wrt this carcrash of an Assisted Dying Bill: 1. The Royal College of Physicians have said this Bill is unsafe 2. The Royal College of Psychiatrists have said the Bill is unworkable and unsafe 3. The British Geriatrics Society have said the Bill’s safeguards are not adequate 4. Domestic abuse charities have said the Bill is unsafe 5. Organisations representing disabled people have said the Bill is unsafe 6. Royal College of GPs says the Bill lacks adequate safeguards 7. Lord Stevens, ex NHS CEO, said legislating for assisted dying in the current climate of hospice cuts is “utterly ridiculous” 8. MIND says the safeguards are not adequate 9. The CLADD group at KCL have said the Bill is “not fit for purpose” 10. The British Association of Social Workers say the Bill’s is not safe enough 11. The Assoc. for Palliative Medicine has said the Bill is unsafe
It’s a gorgeous summer’s evening here in Newcastle-under-Lyme. About to pack my bag for Parliament and have just been told that there will be *breaking news* at 9:30 tonight. The Assisted Dying Bill is going to brought back to the House. Bad, bad news.
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There is no cavalry. There's no magic pill. If you get long covid you won't be supported, you'll be blamed.
Well I just had my appointment at the Post Covid Clinic CBT and DBT Parasympathetic activation Breath work Stay out of crashes (gosh thanks like my whole life doesn't revolve around this) Fluovoxamine And... Wait for it... LDN (both of which I have reactions to btw) Fuck.
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