Rachel Cullinan

mum of 2 boys, old age psych, interested in spirituality and mental health @rcpsychSSIG, living in the NE, trying to drive less and cycle more, likes cake

[Rachel Cullinan @CullinanRachel]

@rcpsychSSIG asking the big questions about God and psychiatry. @WEDossett starting with God and Higher Power in the twelve step recovery @rcpsych

[Rachel Cullinan @CullinanRachel]

@KurtBraddock @rcpsychSSIG @WEDossett @rcpsych I have your email it’s just been a busy month! Not sure it’s something I am going to be able to help with personally (not to give too much away on here but I am scared of horror movies 😂) but I can forward on to a few (braver) colleagues.

[Rachel Cullinan @CullinanRachel]

@rcpsychSSIG asking the big questions about God and psychiatry. @WEDossett starting with God and Higher Power in the twelve step recovery @rcpsych

[Rachel Cullinan @CullinanRachel]

And also consider chaplaincy- (I took the photo before that point was made!)

[Rachel Cullinan @CullinanRachel]

What NOT to do when someone talks to you about spiritual struggles

[Rachael A Lawson @rachaellawson85]

It’s World Delirium Awareness day!PhD student @FGerakios is presenting her work showing #delirium increases the risk of mortality and dementia in #Parkinsons at the @NIHRNewcBRC celebration day - more screening needed!

@DrSRichardson1 @AlisonYarnall @BAM_Research @NewcastleAGE

[Rachel Cullinan @CullinanRachel]

Just me that makes jokes to myself like this? many more draft versions to go until it starts to become ‘I think this is the final edit’….followed inevitably by ‘nope, I was wrong but this might be the final edit’

[Rachel Cullinan @CullinanRachel]

@Morrisons why are your checkouts saying that my gift card has expired yet staff say there is no expiry date!?

[Rachel Cullinan @CullinanRachel]

From this thread I have realised I know more about medicine than I do about Shakespeare, however some colleagues are clearly better versed than I!

[Dr. Farbod MBBCh FRCEM @EmergencyBod]

I once made a few medical Shakespearean puns, eg:

Now is the printer of our BIS content.

I'm going to sleep now post night shift, but when I wake up this had better be a thread of good to awful medical Shakespearean puns.

Go!

[Rachel Cullinan @CullinanRachel]

https://t.co/B1APj8Otv9
Take a look at the programme- lots to talk about!

[Spirituality Special Interest Group @rcpsychSSIG]

It will be a thought provoking day, come and join us... @rcpsych #whatsGodgottodowithit #spirituality #mentalhealth #mentalhealthmatters
‘What’s God got to do with it? Is there a place for God in Psychiatry?’- 15th March 2024 Friday- at RCPsych

[Spirituality Special Interest Group @rcpsychSSIG]

It will be a thought provoking day, come and join us... @rcpsych #whatsGodgottodowithit #spirituality #mentalhealth #mentalhealthmatters
‘What’s God got to do with it? Is there a place for God in Psychiatry?’- 15th March 2024 Friday- at RCPsych

[Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova @Chitailova]

It was twenty years ago that I entered my first psychiatric hospital, in a town called Purmerend, not far from Amsterdam. I was driven there by my boss and a colleague/dear friend, who were concerned about my health.
I was in a ‘psychosis’, in which I experienced the most amazing things. The whole world appeared as magical. I felt happy and awakened, and when sitting in front of several doctors, upon my admission, I didn’t suspect that it was an ‘illness’ and that I was about to experience total psychiatric hell for years to come. I was having religious revelations, and my constant stomach pain (probably due to unprocessed childhood trauma) was gone and for good.
Following my insomnia for eleven days, prior to ending up in what is called ‘psychosis’, I slept for three days in the hospital, to finally awake to a camera staring at me from the ceiling. You won’t believe it but they had cameras in every patient’s room, and at first I assumed that I had ended up in some reality TV episode.
There was a drawing wall in my room with a pencil, and so I got up, took the pen and wrote in large clear letters ‘I am Buddha’. It felt like that then. I was so happy. It was an incredible feeling, like as if the enlightenment had reached me finally.
Five minutes later a doctor entered my room. He looked at me and then at the wall, and then proceeded to explain that I was psychotic and needed to start my treatment, consisting of a medication called Zyprexa (olanzapine). I wasn’t sure what it meant, and I couldn’t understand why my euphoric state of mind was called a ‘psychosis’, but here it went: I was shamed into the fact that I was in a psychiatric hospital, I had to consider myself as ill, and start ‘medication’.
I am not trying to romanticize the concept of ‘mental illness’, nevertheless, I often wonder:
What would happen if they didn’t shame me then, let me ‘recover’ by myself, and reassure me that feeling like Buddha wasn’t an illness? And instead tried to encourage me to embrace my new state of being?
I don’t know. I was never given that chance, and at the age of twenty-seven I made my entrance into the psychiatric journey, where I have been shamed, stigmatized, told that I would suffer for the rest of my life, over-medicated, and lost.
That hospital in Purmerend was weird. They were watching our single move. But they had a swimming pool and food was good.
#psychosis #Psychiatry #bipolar #mentalillness

[Rachel Cullinan @CullinanRachel]

@ivymycin Look at your options- not sure what you do and where flexibility is but I know some people do ltft with full time oncall commitment. Doesn’t work for everyone but it’s one option.

[Royal College of Psychiatrists @rcpsych]

The Royal College of Psychiatrists welcomes the Supreme Court’s ruling against the Rwanda policy.

Our President @DrLadeSmith says "people seeking asylum need specialist support" while they process trauma and rebuild their lives.

https://t.co/Z3tYLIlvRO

[Rachel Cullinan @CullinanRachel]

Come and join us! @rcpsych #whatsGodgottodowithit

[Spirituality Special Interest Group @rcpsychSSIG]

‘What’s God got to do with it? Is there a place for God in Psychiatry?’
15th March 2024 Friday-We look forward to seeing you at our conference.
https://t.co/eBuE164zR9
@rcpsych

[Rachel Cullinan @CullinanRachel]

A fantastic start to #antibullyingweek https://t.co/IQmzFdekml

[Rachel Cullinan @CullinanRachel]

Because ‘we will remember them’ also while eating pizza 🤦‍♀️

[Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust @Gateshead_NHS]

The next winner is Lynne Tweedy for winning the Compassionate People Manager award. Congratulations and well done to all nominated👏 @liaison_group

Thank you. Your dedication, empathy, and commitment have made a real difference in the lives of your team members #GatesheadStars

[All That Dazzles @ATDazzles]

How Matthew Perry wanted to be remembered. I think we can honour his wishes today.