Janet Downey

[Janet Downey @JanetMDowney]

@MAnneAmbrose1 @LBFlyawayhome I still remember The Great Trek and the story about Tycho Brahe and Cassiopeia from Wide Range Readers.

[Janet Downey @JanetMDowney]

@EmmaJaffray @LBFlyawayhome And Jack & May also featured in Dick and Dora 😊

[Janet Downey @JanetMDowney]

The BBC should put its own house in order rather than participating in the bullying of #Róisín Murphy. Hit Parade is a wonderful album and the artist has simply said what sensible people think but are too afraid to say.

[Michael Spicer @MrMichaelSpicer]

trying to tell myself i'm cultured because i listen to radio 3 in the car but then this happens

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

THIS IS GOING VIRAL SO I WANTED TO SHARE IT HERE TOO:

A bit from my past:

My first job after getting my PhD was working as a therapist for people from low socioeconomic backgrounds.

Almost all of them were diagnosed with depression, GAD, bipolar, or BPD. Most were highly medicated— some to a point that still sticks with me years later.

As I got to know their background and lives 3 things were very clear:

1. A vast majority had been emotionally neglected, emotionally abused, or physically abused as children.

2. A vast majority had experienced domestic violence or were currently living in it.

3. Basic needs were never met. Life was an hour by hour struggle. Treatment was an attempt to allow them to get to work in most cases. To just continue to surviving.

It was the start of me questioning the field I had been trained in. One that diagnoses people with disorders without taking a look at the whole picture. It began my path of holistic understanding.

A person cannot be well when one unexpected bill will have them fall behind on rent. When they lay their head on a pillow and all they can think about is expenses piling up. When a bill at the grocery store is almost double what they paid last year when their income has stayed the same.

An entire family unit deeply struggles within survival mode. When a job is lost. When daycare needs to be paid, but so does the light bill— what do you choose? When parents can’t even think about the emotional needs of their children because they have to figure out where their next meal is going to come from.

In 1942, 10 years before the diagnostic manual of mental illness was released Maslow knew what was once just common sense: we have a hierarchy of needs.

At the bottom are basic needs food and shelter. Then safety (resources, security). Then belonging (connection, friendship, intimacy.) Without three things we *will* be sick, period.

I get pushback for questioning the status quo. And I’ll continue to do it. The status quo is keeping people sick. It denies their experience. And it says we should bandage people’s symptoms so they can return to the environment that made them sick.

May we wake up, heal ourselves, and build conscious communities to help each other.

Retweet if you feel this is true in your body 🙏

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Another day in the insanity that is the modern 🇬🇧 housing/rental market. News Agents’ colleague looking for a one bedroom flat in London- not only are the prices reliably around the £2k per month mark but such is the demand agents are demanding huge deposits without viewings.

[Aja ♀️🇬🇧 @AjaTheEmpress]

My 2pence for @vernonkay and @IanWright0

[Janet Downey @JanetMDowney]

@RachelRileyRR Today I went to look at cushions but came out with extra deep cotton sheets and a jar of Michaels of Brooklyn marinara sauce. Could have been worse - they had reindeer rugs but didn’t fancy carrying one-handed and on foot.

[Janet Downey @JanetMDowney]

@QcWynter Try Veo. I moved a month ago and they were fantastic. No documenting every bloody stick of furniture or counting boxes unlike the other quotes. Very reasonable cost too and sunny-natured, helpful men on the day.

[Janet Downey @JanetMDowney]

@Aja02537920 I was the literate, smart, good girl who liked great music, had a collection of great lyrics and bad boyfriends. Friends were always cooler than me. At least when we chopped our hair it grew back.

[Anna Hamilton Art @annahamiltonart]

Well I’m not sure what to say, I’m a bit dazed by the response to this, thank you all 😧 I’m at my ‘other job’ at the mo but will spend tonight responding to messages & emails. Will keep an eye on my website to make sure things are available to order too.

Thank you so much 💛

[Janet Downey @JanetMDowney]

@Alex_Harvey_60 @David__Osland TB was already in Kent more than five years ago. I know because it turned up in my screening for biological therapies for rheumatoid arthritis. I had to have combined antibiotics for three months.

[Janet Downey @JanetMDowney]

@IanDunt The buttons.

[Janet Downey @JanetMDowney]

@PrognosticChats @fascinatorfun I had knuckle replacement surgery today and am on immunosuppressants. Not all staff were masked. No other patient in the waiting area wore one. Back on the ward a woman coughing everywhere. I couldn’t get home fast enough!

[Trevor Jason @TJSode]

When an entire auditorium of people are booing you for telling the truth, you find out who are your friends & standup individuals. Kris Kristofferson standing alone on stage with you as insults rained down is still a moment of tender humanity.
Rest in peace, Sister Sinead.

[Janet Downey @JanetMDowney]

@supertanskiii I had a black Rosebud doll when I was a toddler and was inconsolable when I left her on a bus. My parents found something similar but I didn’t take to her and scalped her! Found the poor thing when we moved house years later and it all came flooding back 😂

[Janet Downey @JanetMDowney]

After 17 years here, waving goodbye to Margate with mixed emotions. The place was a dump when we came here originally but the children had a great school and a secure home and I will remember the town fondly. But time to go…#moving

[Janet Downey @JanetMDowney]

@SketchesbyBoze Years ago we took our then four-year-old into the garden to watch a meteor shower. The eighty-something neighbours were evidently having a wonderful time as our son asked why the woman was screeching through the open windows on a hot August night.

[Janet Downey @JanetMDowney]

@6thfret Delightful!