When we’ve been through childhood trauma, a common coping mechanism is over-explaining. Here’s what it looks like and how we can find healthier ways to express ourselves... A THREAD🧵:

Brilliant day teaching mental health skills today! Some brilliant thoughts and discussions from my groups regarding the Mental State Exam ☺️ bring on tomorrow and Self harm/injury assessment and management skills #nrs417 #PUNC22 Punc #MentalHealthAwareness

The reasons for self harm are multiple and often caused by contexts of powerlessness and distress. Curiosity can lead to compassion, which can lead to helping someone develop alternative ways of meeting needs. Or sometimes/often, it is the context that just needs to change...

The UPSU Community Larder is here to help you through the cost-of-living crisis. We hope to have tins, pasta, sauces, toiletries and more available to help those in need. Opening Times: 10am - 4pm, Monday-Friday. Location: In The Hive, to the right of the entrance.

So the newest addition to the PUNC pets academy is already snoring away this morning....meet Bonnie 🐶 Punc #puppy #sleepy

This looks like it might be helpful for Punc and all other nursing students 😊

Loved having my furry friend keeping my company in the home office today 🐶 Happy Friday PUNCS! Punc #PUNC Faculty of Health

For any of our students staying on campus or in the local area over the festive period, please do not feel like you need to be alone, there is this great opportunity to meet up with some people 🥰

Someone's very keen to help with reviewing EPADS 🐶 some great reads so far! #puncpets Punc

Attending a very informative conference on Mental Health Care for the Rare Disease Community. Very important area of mental health to understand. Unfortunately little specialist mental health support in the UK available #IFNA #mentalhealth #rarediseases #CPD

Something tells me my marking buddy needs a break... 🙉🫠 #teenagephase #puppy #noisy

When your puppy wakes up full of naughty beans and decides to noisily trash your office whilst you are trying to have an indepth discussion online. Of course she fell straight to sleep after the session 😒 #puppyshame #puncpets #noisy

Fabulous morning full of passionate debate! Pink=following the debate. A- care should be based on need and should remain free at the point of delivery. B- a new model of healthcare is needed that may require funding from individuals What are your thoughts? 🤔 #nrs416 Punc

Anxiety is one of the most common mental health problems in the UK. Understanding more about anxiety can help us to discover ways to manage those feelings. Find information at mentalhealth.org.uk/our-work/publi… or contact Student Services for support. University of Plymouth UPSU

She enjoys the weather and I battle the hayfever! 🐶☀️ #puncpet #morningwalk #happypuppy

JoJo is looking for a few more Punc students to take part - please get in touch if you can help 😘😘🙏☺️👋

Cannot stress this enough!

#Punc14 Focus group no 2 is THIS Thursday at 1pm. I am really looking forward to hearing from another group of students about their experiences of using e-workbooks! Zoom link in the email #research #dissertation #punc

Fabulous day teaching at the Truro campus today 💃💃 always enjoy talking about CAMHS for the day and its been lovely to meet the Truro lot in the flesh! #mentalhealth #PlymUni #CAMHS

Thoroughly enjoying todays conference so far, "Degrees of Intelligence: Using AI in Higher Education Assessments" 🤓 #PlymUni