CompassionateMH

Tweets by @bowenbrigid, founder of Compassionate Mental Health CIC. Curating a series of events & trainings to change the conversation around mental illness.

[Angie Peacock, MSW, CPC @angpeacock1111]

I hope to see some of you!

Join @_innercompass on 12/4 in CT, as we bring together patients, clinicians, researchers, journalists, academics, families, and advocates to take a hard look at today's mental health system. https://t.co/LlFWX1qh7e

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[Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🐕⭐️🌙 @emmyzen]

These are excellent guidelines for contemporary humans. #existential

[CompassionateMH @CompassionMH]

Exactly!! @CeliaRichards0n knows what she’d need to rest & heal .. if only we could all design our perfect sanctuary space ..

While waiting for miracles, go get your #NatureDose and take #TimeToBreathe at a @nationaltrust property near you 🌳

https://t.co/BR4bhyTVhE

[Celia Richardson @CeliaRichards0n]

I stand here once a year and think it’s where I’d want to be if I had a breakdown. It sits snugly between a second hand bookshop, a sweetshop, a good boozer and the sea. All it needs is a tired woman with a quilt, hot water bottle and a playlist that’s predominantly Kate Bush.

[Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🐕⭐️🌙 @emmyzen]

Find the beauty and do not let the misery of this world efface it.
#existential

[Prof Dr Emmy van Deurzen @EmmyvanDeurzen]

Join us for this one day pop up therapeutic community at Kingsley Hall on Monday 20 October.
@joannamoncrieff

[CompassionateMH @CompassionMH]

Still time to join us in London on Monday for nourishing #MentalHealth learning retreat with @EmmyvanDeurzen @kalungubanda @victischler and much more #TherapeuticCommunity #ArtAndHealing #Existential #SystemsChange https://t.co/Cx1ulOsv4c

[CompassionateMH @CompassionMH]

Join us next month #RadicalHospitality at iconic #KingsleyHall - nourishing day of learning, reflection, and pop up #TherapeuticCommunity. Together we’ll explore how to support ourselves & others move from crisis to coherence https://t.co/Cx1ulOsv4c #Transformative #MentalHealth

[CompassionateMH @CompassionMH]

12 days to go until we gather at iconic Kingsley Hall for #RadicalHospitality

Here’s philosopher, psychologist and existential therapist @EmmyvanDeurzen on why you should be there ..

https://t.co/VTz5J5a5jY

More info & to BOOK https://t.co/Cx1ulOt2TK

[CompassionateMH @CompassionMH]

Join us next month #RadicalHospitality at iconic #KingsleyHall - nourishing day of learning, reflection, and pop up #TherapeuticCommunity. Together we’ll explore how to support ourselves & others move from crisis to coherence https://t.co/Cx1ulOsv4c #Transformative #MentalHealth

[CompassionateMH @CompassionMH]

If you care about improving #MentalHealth & are curious about metabolic approaches, don’t miss this next Friday 19 in Bristol @markhoro and more … #ChySawel affordable tickets & online too https://t.co/eGHvBHMULo

[CompassionateMH @CompassionMH]

@ByYrSide This is devastating news. What a loss and so much love to Nicky’s son and all who loved her, and the T4H community .. so many lives changed and showing that simple being in community, belonging, deeply sharing & being heard matters so much and costs so little 💔😔

[CompassionateMH @CompassionMH]

Hopeful conversation @_innercompass

Treat the person not the condition says @joannamoncrieff - we need a more personalised, less harmful approach

Safe deprescribing needed both within & outside #mentalhealth services @LauraDelano

https://t.co/Jn4rL2R0EB

[Laura Delano @LauraDelano]

(1/2) It’s been a whirlwind leading up to and following the launch of my memoir about my experiences with the mental health industry—appearing in many places from CNN, to the BBC, to the Dark Horse Podcast. I’m especially excited to be doing this event with @joannamoncrieff , whose nuanced, original ideas about the way we think and talk about psychiatric drugs were very helpful for me as I “depsychiatrized” myself back in the early 2010s. I hope you’ll join us!

(Link to register in comments)

[CompassionateMH @CompassionMH]

@NikkiNonJones Legacy, love, legend ☀️❤️🌱

[Inner Compass Initiative @_innercompass]

ICYMI: If you’re a member of our online mutual aid platform, Inner Compass Exchange, you’ll find our community is truly global, with members from across the planet. We’re pleased then that our founder, @LauraDelano, recently spoke with BBC World Service, which reaches hundreds of millions worldwide each week—because we know only too well the impact of the mental health industry extends far beyond us here in the US.

On the program, Laura discussed her experiences of being a psychiatric patient caught in a system that was worsening the very problems it aimed to treat, recognizing that while this is not the case for everybody, she is not unique in such experiences. She was followed by @MarkHoro, the-co-author of the Maudsley Deprescribing Guide, with presenter Julian Worricker noting how little help is available for tapering of psychiatric drugs.

We hope this program helps convey to those of you around the world who’ve had similar experiences to Laura, that you are far from alone. And if you’re here on X and not in the US (or the UK), let us know in the comments what the local picture is like for you, including unique challenges and positive developments.

[Jess @Jessica_Pons_]

🗣️Please share 💫 join us for the ISPS UK conference ‘Psychosis: Beyond Them & Us, Finding Common Ground’, May 14th, Manchester #trialogue #community #mentalhealth #ISPS #socialjustice #relational #madness #carers #family #survivors #users #psychosis #psychiatry #gmmh #dialogue

[CompassionateMH @CompassionMH]

Great @CNN interview @LauraDelano about her book Unshrunk 📖 & how she lost her late teens & 20s to being in & out of psych wards & programmes & on a raft of meds. She says she wishes there had been other choices available, of places and ways to recover
https://t.co/QIhDFc05ps

[CompassionateMH @CompassionMH]

@MartinDowds1 What a very beautiful woman and mother, and lovely words from her son .. blessings to you and Lorna and all who loved Christa. She looks wonderful 🕯️💫

[CompassionateMH @CompassionMH]

Wonderful to have a review #ByTheWell - our 16th Compassionate Mental Health gathering - in @psychmag 🌟 thank you #VictoriaTischler for being part of our pop-up community, & sharing your brilliant research on the transformative power of Art 🦋 Save dates for no.17 June 2-5 🌸

[The Psychologist @psychmag]

Rethinking compassionate mental health, by the well.

@victischler, Chartered Psychologist and Professor of Behavioural Science at the University of Surrey, visits a pop-up therapeutic community in Coed Hills, Wales @CompassionMH

https://t.co/kvKnSgkPd3