PhD Candidate, UniSA. Civil Rights Campaigner. Optimist. Retweets are not endorsements. #IVotedYES π #KaurnaCountry
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Rightwing operatives have registered fake progressive parties to steal votes and funnel preferences to One Nation in Victoria. But thereβs a fix already on the table β and Victorians have a chance to get it passed before November. Add your name βοΈ getup.to/12yk8f3CMPEt9
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We need #HumanRights4All including people diagnosed with any type of #dementia at any age! kateswaffer.com/2026/05/20/iβ¦
Thanks @MaryBethWighton & @jjluhkim for your work and consent to share. FYI @flavin_theresa @Dem_Adv @DiverseAlz @MichelleFunk3 @DavidPocock @DementiaAllianc
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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....
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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.
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Rejecting The Health Care Trap - "An oligarch-funded think tank is trying to preemptively undermine Medicare For All even before Democrats win back power. Some candidates are rejecting the ploy." levernews.com/rejecting-the-β¦ concerning π
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For those of us who care about the safety of people with #dementia, this is more than worrying levernews.com/the-campaign-t⦠@flavin_theresa @Dem_Adv @joannamoncrieff @robwipond @MarkHorowitz @AndrewKaufmanMD @DrDaleBredesen @DementiaAllianc @jball49
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Meant to add you @DiverseAlz (ps I'm very rarely here these days!!!) xx
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Kate Swaffer she/her β€οΈππ€πππ 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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Now the emphasis could be on @DementiaAllianc (Dementia Alliance International) cofounded by @KateSwaffer. #diversealz
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Kate Swaffer she/her β€οΈππ€πππ 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
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#AusDisLit nonfiction from 2026 by Kate Swaffer @KateSwaffer
The continuing pathologisation ofΒ dementia
kateswaffer.com/2026/03/11/tβ¦
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End placement poverty in Australia. Please consider signing this VIP petition.
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Happy New Year... My first blog for 2026! #Dementia #DisabilityRights #UNCRPD #Audism #Stigma #Discrimination #BenevolentOthering #BanBPSD kateswaffer.com/2026/01/07/d⦠@flavin_theresa @DementiaAllianc @johnzeisel @dementia_aat @demrescommunity @DementiaUK @DiverseAlz @alzheimerssoc
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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.
15 Dec 2025
The review admits the longest taper was just two weeks, with many stopped abruptly. Symptoms emerging after such short tapers are far more likely to reflect withdrawal, not relapseβmaking conclusions about βno effect of withdrawal speedβ fundamentally weak.
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Kate Swaffer she/her β€οΈππ€πππ retweeted
15 Dec 2025
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.
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New Resource for people with #Dementia & their #CarePartners & families: "Staying Active with Dementia"
kateswaffer.com/2025/12/17/n⦠@flavin_theresa @DementiaAllianc @DementiaAus @dementia_aat @DiverseAlz @AlzheimersNZ @AlzDisInt @dr_shibley @Resthaven_SA @anglicare_aust @DemSupportAu
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Kate Swaffer she/her β€οΈππ€πππ retweeted
15 Dec 2025
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.
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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/2025β¦
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Kate Swaffer she/her β€οΈππ€πππ retweeted
15 Dec 2025
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.
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