It’s not only trauma people are healing from, but the ways people treated them when they asked for help.

me, throughout school: *always received "Needs to speak up in class!" feedback with my grades* adult me, (wishful thinking): *writes "Needs to cultivate space where it is safe to speak up! Needs to honor & nurture different communication needs!" on Teacher/Professor Evaluations*

After seeing some ✨discourse✨ I just want to remind you that the smelly or hard to look at condition you all hate treating is attached to a real human being who’s seeking your help and you all wrote in your personal statements about how you want to help people 👍

A phlebotomist was sent to my house to do a blood draw unbeknownst to me. My nurse explained I was busy and her response was "He is crippled what could he possibly be doing that's so important I can't do my job?!" I was on a business call with Microsoft securing $100,000 for

#OverdoseAwarenessDay Naloxone is available for free from many community services & pharmacies. It's very easy to administer & can save a life. This is my pouch I carry on me & has been used multiple times. Learn the signs of an OD here: wearewithyou.org.uk/advice-and-inf…

Have you ever been in crisis and called an NHS mh crisis line/team or cmht and theyve hung up on you? Please expand on your stories in the comments

I am reaching out for some advice regarding emergency accommodation at universities for students who face homelessness. I am currently that student who will be homeless in 7 days if my university do not extend my tenancy by 14 days which will mean the end of my nursing

Medical students are asked their opinions on ME: a thread.

I think mental health notes are pointless and the massive amounts of unnecessary information collected makes patient care unsafe. If staff actually read them they get lost in years of other people's opinions, which are presented as fact, and facts which are often 1/

PCOS is highly comorbid with psychiatric conditions ( From the Psych Scene article on Female Specific Psychiatry & Academy 🎓course - Integrative Women’s Mental Health👇 56.9% of women with PCOS have at least one psychiatric disorder.🚨🚨 👉Depression 👉Anxiety 👉Bipolar

Unrealistic expectations for treatment is not the same thing as unreasonable. The former reflects on the dire reality of mental health services, not on patients. Never let them make you feel like you're asking for too much.

I wonder how many lives would be saved if mental health services learned to recognise the subtle signs of an impending suicide. Y'know, like, when someone goes to them for help & says "I feel suicidal" or "I want to die" or "I'm going to kill myself".. #WorldSuicidePreventionDay

Many folk who contact professional mh crisis lines are hung up on. On #SuicidePreventionday let's get a committment from NHS crisis team staff not to hang up on patients. Nursing leadership must recognise this problem and proactively address it on national scale John Baker

“EUPD traits” is not a diagnosis it’s a dog whistle

The lack of NHS resources has now hit catastrophic levels, as a shortage of available words forces otherwise lovely staff to call patients "attention seekers" & "manipulative", as they no longer have access to nicer, more expensive descriptions.

Nearly 200 patients responded that nhs mh professionals had hung up on them in crisis. #CrisisTeamFail #SuicideAwareness

There's a lot of discussion currently about the inquest of our dear friend Rachel Fluctuating levels of despair 🎠🌻🏳️‍🌈 so I thought I would just share what I know, to keep people up to date. Rachel's inquest was yesterday (Friday 13th) & took place as a documentary inquest, meaning it was entirely 1/

Reposting this today, thinking about how many of us who have been harmed by social care/mental health services, get pushed into the position of believing that an inquest is the only forum we have left for truth and justice. psychiatryisdrivingmemad.co.uk/post/justice-w…