Dr Jessica Taylor

06/03/2026

Dudes in my inbox offering to pay for my shopping like I didn’t just go shopping four times this week… and I’m a raging le***an. 🫶🏼

GROSS.

Give it a rest Dave, you couldn’t afford it, anyway 😂🫣

Happy Friday. Clown the men in your DMs.

06/03/2026

Gaslighting on a grand scale.

One of the wildest things I ever saw was the reaction by the RCP, the APA and individual psychiatrists when Moncrieff et al. formally debunked the serotonin and brain chemical imbalance myths of depression a couple of years ago.

Rather than anyone engaging with her and her researchers, a narrative was spun that people were NEVER told that depression was caused by serotonin imbalances and that they have NEVER said that SSRIs helps the serotonin imbalance in the brain.

Websites rushed to delete all mention of it. Psychiatrists publicly argued that patients must have simply misunderstood - and that no doctors had ever said that depression was caused by a serotonin imbalance.

I watched as thousands of people became utterly confused - because their doctor HAD said that to them. And as far as they knew, their ‘depression’ was caused by a ‘serotonin imbalance’ and that’s why they were on medication.

In my opinion, this was Grade A Gaslighting from psychiatry - I wrote some articles about it and even had doctors in my DMs and emails trying to convince me that no one has ever said that depression was caused by a brain chemical imbalance.

What a ridiculous lie. Millions of people take those medications because doctors and professionals had peddled the myth of the brain chemical imbalance for DECADES. Suddenly doing a 180 and then pretending they never said it, and deleting all evidence of it from websites and guides was the wildest s**t I ever saw.

And it just proved to me that psychiatry is not a science and has never been a science.

To this day, people are STILL being told that their suffering is due to a brain chemical imbalance that cannot be proven or tested for. The whole industry relies on belief.

05/03/2026

What beautiful news to read, tonight!

The Polish translation of my book, ‘Sexy But Psycho’ was awarded Kraków UNESCO City of Literature Award 2025.

Aleksandra Malecka, the woman who translated my book was honoured with an award in Krakow for ‘Sexy But Psycho.’

How wonderful! 🥰🥰

Aleksandra Małecka, congratulations on your award!!

05/03/2026

What beautiful news to read, tonight!

The Polish translation of my book, ‘Sexy But Psycho’ was awarded Kraków UNESCO City of Literature Award 2025.

The woman who translated my book was honoured with an award in Krakow for Sexy But Psycho.

How wonderful! 🥰🥰

📚 Z biblioteczki KMLU 📚
„Sexy But Psycho“ 👉 bestsellerowy tytuł Dr Jessica Taylor w tłumaczeniu Miłosza Biedrzyckiego i Aleksandry Małeckiej, wyróżnionej nagrodą Krakowa Miasta Literatury UNESCO 2025.

„Seksowna, ale szalona. O systemowym etykietowaniu psychiatrycznym kobiet i dziewczyn“ (Wydawnictwo Ha!art) to książka, która stawia kontrowersyjne pytania i krytykuje opisywany przez autorkę patriarchalny system przypisywania kobietom chorób psychicznych.

Dr Jessica Taylor, brytyjska psycholożka i aktywistka feministyczna, analizuje w niej mechanizmy społeczne i medyczne oraz przytacza wstrząsające historie terapii.

📘 To pozycja dla czytelników ceniących literaturę faktu, która prowokuje do dyskusji.

fot. Katarzyna Kukiełka Fotografia

05/03/2026

Every week I meet women with 3 psychiatric diagnoses. Or 5. Or 12. And you know the common thread across all those women?
Trauma and abuse.
This isn’t some abstract concept - it’s the process of pathologisation. Women and girls disclose traumas and abuse - only to be diagnosed as mentally ill. Endlessly. For years. Until they have multiple diagnoses.

Very often it moves like this:

Depression and anxiety >
Borderline personality disorder >
Bipolar disorder >
Autism and/or ADHD.

Lots of the time, their original diagnoses are simply left on their medical history too - meaning this will affect them in court or employment or social care etc.

This MUST STOP. It is life changing for thousands of women and girls to be framed as mentally ill instead of validated.

05/03/2026

I cannot and will not be a part of the systemic pathologisation of women and girls. Ever.

My research, books, training, lectures and my 1:1 mentoring are all anti-pathology, trauma informed (APTI). And always will be.

04/03/2026

This is precisely why I wrote ‘Sexy But Psycho’ in 2022 - and this is why I have committed my life to this cause. Women and girls are being deliberately pathologised and convinced they are mentally ill - and we need liberation from the psychiatric industry. No woman or girl can reach her full potential whilst being told she is fundamentally disordered.

03/03/2026

This week, The Guardian reported on a survey by the Royal College of Psychiatrists claiming that ‘three in four women do not know that menopause causes mental illness.’

Read that sentence again. Menopause causes mental illness, apparently. And the silly women don’t even know about it.

Give us all a goddamn break, please.

It is hard to overstate how pathologising, misleading, and politically loaded that statement is. And it is even harder to ignore the fact that this message was not stumbled upon accidentally by a journalist. It was issued as a press-friendly finding by one of the most powerful psychiatric institutions in the UK. The Royal College of Psychiatrists.

A disgusting and deliberate tactic to frame menopausal and perimenopausal women as mentally ill, and of course, unaware.

As a psychologist who has spent years researching the psychiatric labelling of women and girls, and as the author of Sexy But Psycho, I find this framing deeply concerning. Because this is exactly how it happens. First, women’s normal physiological processes are reframed as psychiatric risk factors. Then women are told they are unaware, uninformed, or ignorant about their own bodies. Then the screening increases. Everyone celebrates more screening of women. Then the diagnoses increase. Then the prescribing increases. And before long, an entire life stage has been recoded as a mental health disorder waiting to happen.

This is not a drill, ladies. This is not a drill.

My new article has landed in your inboxes, is in my stories and my bio - do NOT fall for this s**te.

03/03/2026

Pathologisation is the process of framing our natural and normal trauma responses and coping mechanisms as mental disorders and mental illnesses. This process is not accidental or neutral at all - women and girls have always been the main target - for over 150 years of psychiatry and psychology.

I am an anti-pathology psychologist and I teach about this over on my accounts on every platform.

03/03/2026

List of books written by me:

Woman in Progress

Why Women are Blamed for Everything: Exploring victim blaming of women and girls

Sexy But Psycho: Exposing psychiatric labelling of women and girls

The Indicative Trauma Impact Manual (ITIM) - A-Z of trauma responses and coping mechanisms

Underclass: A Memoir

Watcher of Your Own Flame

The Amethyst Programme

The Reflective Journal for Practitioners working in Abuse and Trauma

The Reflective Journal for researchers, students and academics working in Abuse and Trauma

The Reflective Journal for Parents and Carers of Children who have been sexually abused

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01/03/2026

Honour your younger self. Always.

The reason you are still here today is because of your younger self. We talk badly of our earlier selves so often. ‘I was so stupid’ and ‘I should have seen the red flags’ and ‘I was so naive!’

But when was the last time you looked back at your younger self with love and respect??

01/03/2026

Reading back my comments to myself whilst I was doing final editing of my new book last week, I can kinda see why people think my PhD is off the back of a cornflake box tbh. 🫣😂

Makes sense to me anyway 🤷🏼‍♀️

Oh btw… 😉