To think something is a bit off with Dr Jess Taylor

[YourJollyBird]

I've bought one of her books and was a big fan as I agree with some of her messaages.

But over the weekend she posted an atrocious situation where a woman had a man in her loft (let in by next door neighbour) the police didn't investigate properly and a doctor perscribed her antipsychotics.

Jess is blaming this all on psychiatry. But they can only deal with the information given to them by the police who presumably didn't investigate enough into the situatuon and made the wrong conclusion.

Seems dangerous to purely blame psychiatry when you wouldn't expect them to search the loft as the police have already given their conclusion. The whole situation is atrocious but why is she putting all the blame on psychiatry?

Are you familiar with the Rosenhan experiment?

Not entirely sure I follow, but a psychiatrist prescribed antipsychotics to a woman who believed there was someone in her attic (there was!) after the police said there wasn’t? Is that it?
If so the police are at fault here, not the psychiatrist who can only go on the information given.

Never heard of this woman, BTW!

I follow her on IG. She talks a lot about pathologising. I.e women having entirely appropriate responses to trauma being labelled BPD or whatever the flavour of the month is. She's bang on with alot of it. But like with anything social media, she is very "full on"!

Not heard of the case you refer to. Do you have a link?

She’s a bit of a nut job is Jess.

Just looked this up… people pretended to have a mental illness, were duly diagnosed, and somehow this is an indication that psychiatric medicine is flawed? Is that it?

She's a total and utter narcissist. She's VERY GOOD at grifting, as it's probably related to attention seeking and a lack of shame, but not so good at intellectual discussions.

Apart from that, she's great though

Never heard of this woman.

My reaction to hearing someone pontificates on Instagram is distrust of their views, credentials and motives. Which is why I don't have Instagram

She’s a grifter, she claims when she was studying psychology she was told she’d bring the entire field into disrepute because she was pregnant with her first child ag 17. Complete bullshit I was pregnant with my first at 15 and have never had anyone say that to me. She’s only in her 30s and was trying to make it sound like she attended university in the 1950s!

Also apparently mental illness dosent exist and every male doctor is just gaslighting his female patients?

I think her point is that this illustrates a lack of belief in women's own reports of their experiences. Why assume it's a delusion rather than being real and not properly investigated by others? And that this reflects institutionalised assumptions about women.

She does seem to default to everything being underpinned by trauma though, while some things are not (possibly unfair representation of her work - haven't read her books, but algorithms really pushing her online).

She's been caught lying repeatedly.

Her partner also allegedly started a few threads on MN about how great Jess is but pretended to be just a reader of her work

It is an interesting question. Obviously the police should have investigated properly but MH services can be a little quicker to assume things are untrue/delusional.
I was a student on a ward where trainee psychiatrists were sent to assess a particular patient ( when they were an inpatient). They would invariably come back having concluded they were clearly psychotic as they talked about being part of a particular music scene and hanging out with famous people. This was to teach students not to jump to conclusions as all of that stuff was true. Sometimes I think maybe all trainees should have a similar lesson as sometimes the improbable thing is true.

What might be off with a woman who found a gunman in her hedge, has had cancer in her twenties, was drugged on a TUI package holiday, strolled through fire, was assaulted in her hotel at LGBA conference, didn't know her own GCSE grades until she went to university, can write 15,000 publishable words a day, is routinely stalked by multiple people, and once found a rare Tahitian pearl on a school trip to Wales?