Dr Jessica Taylor, London (2026)

04/02/2026

Pathologisation is the process of framing our natural and normal responses to trauma and distress as abnormal, disordered or irrational.

After 16 years doing my job, I have seen thousands of women and girls gaslit into believing they are mentally ill and have personality disorders when they are rightfully traumatised and distressed by what someone else did to them.

Women and girls are much more likely to be pathologised when they show distress than men and boys. They are 7 times more likely to be diagnosed with borderline personality disorder as a female, and this increase more than doubles when she discloses abuse.

I work to challenge systems, governments, police forces, legal teams and professionals to end pathologisation. Follow my work to learn more about pathologisation, how your trauma was framed as mental illness - and how you can work through those experiences of labelling and pathologisation.

04/02/2026

Article extract:

“Those who speak too early are punished and framed as delusional conspiracy theorists and liars. Those who speak after convictions, inquiries, and official apologies are praised for their bravery. The difference between madness and heroism is often nothing more than timing.

Everyone who spots a pattern too early can be reframed as mentally ill (especially as there is no science behind ‘diagnosis’) - and we have seen this in other organised abuse too. Look at the way victims and advocates were framed as conspiracy theorists when they tried to raise sexual abuse in the church, by priests. I still remember the days when the victims were framed as vulnerable, deranged, manipulative and confused - only for it all to come out to be totally true.

The same happened when victims and advocates were trying to speak up about the abuses and crimes being covered up by the Royal Family… and where did that lead us?

And what about other ‘conspiracies’ that turned out to be true? The one that just sprung to mind was the Movement - in which the fans of Britney were absolutely certain that she was being abused, controlled, drugged and financially exploited. I don’t need to remind you how that unfolded - after years of framing everyone as mentally ill Britney supporters.

Virginia Giuffre was not believed because belief would have required action. It would have required confronting the reality that abuse is not a fringe phenomenon carried out by monsters on the margins, but something embedded within elite networks, facilitated by wealth, and protected by institutions.

The people who believed her were not naïve or gullible. They were paying attention. And for that, they were pathologised alongside her.”

Read my full article in my stories and bio now.

04/02/2026

Something is gnawing at me. This release is strategic, but I’m just trying to figure out what the play is… I don’t trust any of this at all.

03/02/2026

An extract from a talk and Q&A session I gave recently - in this section I talk about why women blame each other for being abused; and why women’s victim blaming sits at the same rates as men’s.

The assumption is often that women victim blame less than men, but studies do not show this difference. Similarly, there is an assumption that women who have been through abuse don’t engage in victim blaming, but this is also untrue.

I also explain key theories as to why women engage in these narratives.

Huge apologies that this video has no captions, the software decided I don’t speak any detectable language today. Weird!

Watch my other videos (all captioned) to learn more.

03/02/2026

Today is such a big day for me - the translation of my books has officially begun! This is the polish translation of my bestseller ‘Sexy But Psycho’ which was released this week.

A couple of years ago, both of my books were purchased for translation rights into multiple different languages and this is the first one to be released to the world.

Thank you so much to everyone around the world who supports, reads and shares my work.

Seksowna, ale szalona
O systemowym etykietowaniu
psychiatrycznym kobiet i dziewczyn

Dr Jessica Taylor
Przełożyli Aleksandra Małecka
i Miłosz Biedrzycki

The reviews from Poland have started coming in and they are looking brilliant - I am blown away actually! So thank you so much ###

I’ll pop a link in my stories for anyone who has Polish friends and family who may like a copy of the new translated works.

The next to be released is Why Women Are Blamed for Everything in Mandarin.

02/02/2026

I have read so many emails, seen so many images, watched videos and listened to voice recordings from this release of the files - and I now have SO MANY QUESTIONS.

But the main one I keep coming back to is this:

The Deputy Attorney General gave a speech 2 days ago saying that there was no evidence at all that men abused women and girls in those releases - so what exactly is Ghislaine Maxwell in prison for?

My understanding is that she was put in prison for ‘sex trafficking girls’.

So… we have hundreds of brave victims of those abuses and trafficking who have come forward.
We supposedly have one woman in prison for trafficking them. We have one dead perpetrator who as about to name everyone (Epstein) - but if no one is guilty of abuse and trafficking as per the speech given by the Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche… how was Ghislaine Maxwell convicted?

I was shocked to see the speech and then Q&A - you can find it on the internet if you want to see the moment he shuts down a journalist about the men who abused women and children.

I feel like we are all still being played - right in front of our faces. Something isn’t adding up for me and I can’t put my finger on it. So many of the files link together and can clearly be seen as a large network of perpetrators - so why no arrests? No investigations?

And why release all the files??

Something smells off, because it is.

01/02/2026

Let me formally re-introduce myself.

I have lots of new followers again this week, and many of you are here because of my work fighting against the pathologisation and labelling of women’s trauma, abuse and distress.

I was 17 and 19 when I had my children, I struggled to provide for them, I had no support network, and I vowed I would pull us out of poverty and out of suffering. I am 35 now, and it feels like I’ve lived several lifetimes already. My kids are 17 and 15, I’m married to my wonderful wife, I achieved all my dreams. CEO. Sunday Times Bestsellers. Financial security. PhD. Chartered Psychologist Yada Yada Yada…

But I am not going to pretend that it was easy or that the trauma is not still there, that nothing affects me, that I just ‘got over it’ or that I have some magic formula to sell to you. I don’t have any magic to give to you at all.

But what I do have is a very consistent and strong message - that you will see across all of my books, research, articles, mentoring, and my media -

Trauma is NOT a mental illness. It’s not a disorder. You are not broken. You are not flawed. Abuse was never your fault. You are not defined by what someone else chose to do to you. Women and girls are being routinely told to come forward and discuss what happened to them, only to be funnelled into mental health services and medicated.

My work against this process of pathologisation is spreading all over the world, and I am leading projects across UK, USA and AUS.

We must ensure that mental health is not used against women and girls who have been subjected to abuse and trauma.

I come at this from an endless evidence base of literature and research - but also from a very personal place. I don’t hide who I am behind fancy titles. I don’t pretend I’ve got it all together. I am BOTH a success and a victim. I am BOTH healed and still healing. I am BOTH confident and also scared.

Come and follow my work if you resonate with the complexity of our lives - and with my messages against the pathologisation and weaponisation of our traumas and abuse histories.

All my love,

Jess x

01/02/2026

This is my entire thesis. This is my message and this is my purpose.

Women and girls are being encouraged to speak up and come forward about being abused or harmed, but when they do, they are funnelled into psychiatric services and mental disorder diagnoses.

It’s wrong. It’s harming millions of women and girls. It pathologises and medicalises trauma and distress, whilst our systems and governments do absolutely nothing to stop perpetrators. Conviction rates are at less than 2% - in some crimes they sit at 0.2%.

And yet, women and girls are told to disclose, only to find themselves being offered pills and CBT.

Women and girls don’t benefit from this system of pathologising them, but everyone else does. Everyone. Systems. Families. The abuser. Governments. Professionals. Employers. Partners.

If she’s ’mentally ill’ then her trauma can be ignored or downplayed whilst she is forced to ‘get better’ from an illness she doesn’t even have. It’s a sleight of hand.

31/01/2026

Real talk. Happens everywhere, every day.

And yet, when I speak about this, I am inundated with grumbling psychiatrists and psychologists telling me that this never happens 🙃🙃🙃

Tell that to my thousands and thousands of followers who have all been pathologised. There’s a reason women resonate with my work - it’s because this is SO COMMON.

I cannot believe how many professionals still deny this pattern.

Woman reports abuse.
No one believes her.
Woman becomes distressed.
Woman struggles to cope.
Woman is diagnosed with BPD.

Like clockwork.

We MUST FIGHT BACK. We must protect as many people from pathologisation and medicalisation as possible.

31/01/2026

First off, flashbacks are natural, normal forms of memory recall that are triggered by a stimulus - like all memories - they are not pathological, abnormal, irrational, dangerous or disordered in any way.

The truth is, when it comes to the brain, we know much less than we profess to know. Most people are led to believe that memories are ‘stored’ in one ‘part’ of the brain - sort of like a filing cabinet or a big computer system. But in reality - the brain is neither a computer or a filing cabinet - we just say those things as metaphors. There is not one singular part of the brain where our memories are ‘stored’ or ‘retrieved’ from - and we don’t have one section for ‘good memories’ and one for ‘trauma memories’.

What we do observe commonly in trauma, is that our brain has an amazing way of repressing our memories and experiences for many years - and suddenly, we may be able to re-experience and recall them. Similarly, we may think we have clear memories of our childhood or our relationship, and then remember important details or context or actions that completely reshape how we understand it - so our memory isn’t just like a solid video tape of things that happened, it is actively constructed and reconstructed as we grow, learn and understand ourselves.

This is why sometimes, we can suddenly realise we were abused. Or suddenly connect dots between memories or traumas.

You may also find that traumatic memories only resurface many years later when your body/mind/brain feels safe enough to let you remember - I notice this most commonly when people are in their late 20s-30s onwards (especially for childhood abuse and trauma).

This is completely normal, albeit distressing, but is not a mental health issue or disorder.

29/01/2026

How psychiatry frames women and girls experiences of abuse as mental disorders. Dr Jessica Taylor discusses the process of reframing natural and normal responses to abuse and trauma as mental disorders and personality disorders that are then used to oppress victims.

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