Dr Jessica Taylor #8 'Allo 'Allo - it's the tall poppy with the big boobies!

[SavannahS]

I have attended services like that but as an entrepreneur with no experience working with people no one would want her involved in such spaces
They don't make money. They help people avoid hospital admissions and are run by social workers and peer workers in a collaborative way. They don't just talk about your trauma and let things flow they work very hard from the setting to the rooms to set people up there to feel safe.

Experience matters, and the people who run them understand working with traumatised people. As someone with PTSD I can't even read her posts they are so grandiose and have an abusive energy and use offensive implications about what is taken to overcome adversity . She doesn't get us.

 

[umnothatsnotokay]

How are you planning to address misogyny, Jessica?

It’s very confusing. She constantly uses revolutionary language, yet loves the word ‘equality’ (seeking the same rights as our oppressors within the system, rather than challenging / dismantling the system). Not radical in any way, much more in line with a liberal. individualist approach. It’s clearly her position, as her ambitions are to be just as successful, wealthy, admired, and entitled as white men with status, influence and money. She has been very clear about that for very many years.

This is a key reason that radical feminists reject her ideas. And as someone who has taught feminism, I’d suggest she would benefit from a 101 class on the basics.

 

[Dike Themis]

Jeez it's so basic & reductive.

Pure, traditional misogyny undoubtedly exists and is a bigger problem in certain sectors & societies.
Braver women campaign against pure misogyny where women's rights are fundamentally non existent. Want to really campaign about misogyny go to Somalia!

But for most women fortunate enough to live in Western Society it's the types of behaviours that were typically labelled misogynistic that are the problem. It's those with power, resources etc bullying & taking from those who don't have power & resources.

It's a false flag exercise & reductive to call it misogyny.

There are certain women who typify the behaviour that resulted in the label of misogyny.

Weird that people who claim to dislike pathologising are so keen to carelessly fling around the misogyny label.

Some men are shits & bullies and so are some women.

 

[CuriousTherapyCat]

She never has any solutions.

 

[Blue bunny]

She never has any solutions.

Yeah, her whole post can be reduced to "misogynisy is bad, don't do it!"

Very effective Jess, the Taliban must be quaking in their boots.

 

[empowered1]

Jeez it's so basic & reductive.

Pure, traditional misogyny undoubtedly exists and is a bigger problem in certain sectors & societies.
Braver women campaign against pure misogyny where women's rights are fundamentally non existent. Want to really campaign about misogyny go to Somalia!

But for most women fortunate enough to live in Western Society it's the types of behaviours that were typically labelled misogynistic that are the problem. It's those with power, resources etc bullying & taking from those who don't have power & resources.

It's a false flag exercise & reductive to call it misogyny.

There are certain women who typify the behaviour that resulted in the label of misogyny.

Weird that people who claim to dislike pathologising are so keen to carelessly fling around the misogyny label.

Some men are shits & bullies and so are some women.

I think she just comes across as a man hater

 

[SavannahS]

I think it's intentional and I don't think she is a man hater, or a feminist at all.

Wherever there is supply she will go there.

 

[CuriousTherapyCat]

https://x.com/drjesstaylor/status/1702080051091808546?s=46&t=SgEm8RhUDiwhLhfTOeXWsQ

Where to even start with this?
If she’d ever actually do research or work with actual people that’s not her echo chamber she’d know that a lot of this already happens. But at least she’s trying to sell her own independent trauma informed workers in the mix, which she’s no evidence base for.

 

[ZiggyStardust68]

And who does she have in mind to provide that service I wonder??? But as you say, most of these things already happen, but straddle different disciplines. She's trying to create the situation where she is some kind of one stop trauma service, covering all legal matters associated with diagnoses and medical records. No doubt her legal mate will be involved in this....

 

[witchofwestbyfleet]

I think you can already have "erroneous and discriminatory" information removed from your records? I had a diagnosis (shock horror!) with BDD and bulimia. A few years ago I had issues with a GP who was not taking my mental health seriously and made me feel like a time-waster - I got the impression he thought the only "real" eating disorder is anorexia. I made a Subject Access Request (Jess's fave!) and saw that notes taken from a phone consultation with this doctor indicated I'd said something I hadn't, so I asked for that to be removed and they did

I don't suffer from bulimia any more but I did for years and it's probably done some damage. It could make things harder if I were to have a baby for example so its staying on my medical record is probably of more benefit to me than having it removed as a "harmful psychatric diagnosis!"

 

[Dike Themis]

And who does she have in mind to provide that service I wonder??? But as you say, most of these things already happen, but straddle different disciplines. She's trying to create the situation where she is some kind of one stop trauma service, covering all legal matters associated with diagnoses and medical records. No doubt her legal mate will be involved in this....

I think you have a good point. There is so much upheaval in the Health service & the Economy. Looking back at other initiatives eg care in community with individuals paid large sums to look after those who moved from state care this may be part of a movement power /resources grab.

Worryingly it may fall on fertile ground given the state of the economy /political climate.

What if MH services ring-fenced ever more tightly those whom they considered met the bar for state, regulated treatment & support and all others were referred to third sector/social enterprises who could compete for a reduced pot that had previously funded state services.

This is already happening but if ever more people are being badged as trauma what if all MH trauma & any conditions that they could spin as trauma (other than Forensic cases) were outsourced to private/third sector providers?

Limited regulation & a wild West out there.

 

[SavannahS]

I think you can already have "erroneous and discriminatory" information removed from your records? I had a diagnosis (shock horror!) with BDD and bulimia. A few years ago I had issues with a GP who was not taking my mental health seriously and made me feel like a time-waster - I got the impression he thought the only "real" eating disorder is anorexia. I made a Subject Access Request (Jess's fave!) and saw that notes taken from a phone consultation with this doctor indicated I'd said something I hadn't, so I asked for that to be removed and they did

I don't suffer from bulimia any more but I did for years and it's probably done some damage. It could make things harder if I were to have a baby for example so its staying on my medical record is probably of more benefit to me than having it removed as a "harmful psychatric diagnosis!"

Quite hard to remove in public health services I believe

 

[CuriousTherapyCat]

Quite hard to remove in public health services I believe

Can be removed though. Always entitled to see someone else. In public health/NHS realities of removal from years past is more a technical/clerical thing.But notes can be updated on a timeline basis and professionals see that.

 

[Blue bunny]

She's definitely trying to push the Independent Trauma Advocate training she does. She's basically wants a monopoly on support services to maximise her income.

I wonder how much training the people will get if they're going to be enabling people to come off medication, hopefully more than a 2 day course.

 

[Boogs]

She's definitely trying to push the Independent Trauma Advocate training she does. She's basically wants a monopoly on support services to maximise her income.

I wonder how much training the people will get if they're going to be enabling people to come off medication, hopefully more than a 2 day course.

It’s all about the money. She totally sees trauma as a money making opportunity as the velux windows aren’t going to pay for themselves!

 

[wendyg13]

It’s all about the money. She totally sees trauma as a money making opportunity as the velux windows aren’t going to pay for themselves!

The hypocrisy astounds me. They are always posting about white male psychiatry and profiting off trauma & pharma when they are exploiting women and using the money to travel / spread their message (at a cost). Jaimi retweeted a post about private providers to NHS and the profiting off it, but what her & Jess are doing is worse.
I don’t know how she justifies this with her politics and background. Jaimi if you’re sneakily looking at this, perhaps you can answer in a sm post!

I work in psychiatry and yes, there are problems, however our whole service is trauma focused and has been for years. White male psychiatrists are actually our minority and who she is dismissing with her complete dismissal of psychiatry is dedicated women and men who work purely for care of their patients. We have to part pay towards conferences we attend, not exploit our patients like she does!

 

[SavannahS]

I don't agree at all with her contention that psychiatry is the problem
Systems regularly hurt people who are most vulnerable
Psych nurses are some of the most damaging people I've met and there are compassionate psychiatrists. I do agree psychiatry is broken but it's not inherent ...it's not the fault of the psychiatrists per say but the system itself which really doesn't check them ...I see psychiatrists abuse patients financially and emotionally who are too unwell to keep track..the same goes for anyone with access to vulnerable people, including herself ....she uses the same abusive tactics employed by those psychs.

I see a psychiatrist for my complex trauma and he listens and believes me.
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I think it would be hard to be ethical within the current mental health system.

If she was ethical she would be completely upfront about her limitations is she is not a clinical psych she is not seeing patients she is not working with patients etc because no one bleeping knows, they are buying her books on false pretences with a vague idea of what she does.

Imagine sharing ur story with her thinking she was trained to treat mental illness and had been doing so for years.
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I think it would be hard to be ethical within the current mental health system.

If she was ethical she would be completely upfront about her limitations is she is not a clinical psych she is not seeing patients she is not working with patients etc because no one bleeping knows, they are buying her books on false pretences with a vague idea of what she does.

Imagine sharing ur story with her thinking she was trained to treat mental illness and had been doing so for years.

 

[Dr.CM]

I can't bear people who work in the mental health field and are so excitable to hear your 'story'. Usually therapists with no specialist training. That can cost a few quid if going private cos it takes a few sessions to say it all and then once that's done they're like oh right... tumbleweed... nothing there, no solution, but they want you to keep coming back to vent and spend your money at which point you can just tell they don't 'get' it and neither care. Meantime you can tell they just noted it all for their 'case studies'.

I've never had a bad experience with a psychiatrist as they're usually extremely sharp and switched on people who want to think of what to best suggest you. They're not looking to make a blog or write a book about your story, they're busy people and they're just trying to think what could keep you alive versus what would be harmful.

 

[SavannahS]

I have to admit I've had pretty bad experiences with psychiatrist, worse in the private system. Public psychs seem busy and overloaded with some attempts to do good, but private ones can really price gouge. Its also where they meet wealthyish people who they prescribe endless treatments for to keep them coming back.

I think once they become senior or have worked for a while in priv practise there isnt much regulation and their patients can't always advocate for themselves or ask sufficient questions.

 

[gisellejoly]

Is… Jaime comparing racist stereotypes to dog control. She’s comparing black people to pitbulls?!?