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[Cat @_Eva_Smith]

5 yrs ago, a psychologist at @Bham_Childrens ‘treating’ my daughter ordered & enforced that I was erased from my child’s life overnight . No safeguarding refs, SS or court involvement, or orders from anyone qualified to make such decisions. I haven’t seen my only child since.

[Minh Alexander minhalexander.bsky.social @alexander_minh]

Dreadful. Paracetamol overdose of underweight patient covered up. Only husband's persistence has now led to regulatory review of over 40 healthcare staff 9 years after death. 2 young kids. Mersey & West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals (Southport & Ormskirk)

https://t.co/Yad7XBa8Qb

[Amanda Against Abuse @AmandaAgainstDA]

More often than not, when abuse is present, the accusation is a projection. What you are accused of is often exactly what is being done to you.

I was accused of alienation. Yet now information about the children is not shared with me. I email professionals and copy him in, and only then does he reply with details that should have been shared hours, days or weeks ago.

Then comes the claim that I am emailing to make him look like the bad guy. No. I am emailing because withholding information is not acceptable and I refuse to play along with it.

I am not here to protect his image. I am here to protect my children. And I will get the information they need, with or without his cooperation.

[Lauren @HareintheHouse]

EXTENDED DEADLINE - 8th DECEMBER

Apologies for being quieter online than planned over the past few days - I’m a full-time carer, and things have been particularly intensive recently. I’ve been incredibly moved by the support for the study and by the surge of last-minute 1/2

[Amanda Against Abuse @AmandaAgainstDA]

When you’re a victim of abuse, anger becomes something you’re taught to hide.

You’re expected to stay calm. Be polite. Be the bigger person. Even when you’ve been failed, gaslit, ignored and blamed.

But anger is a normal response to trauma. It’s what happens when injustice keeps repeating and no one listens.

Still, the moment you show it, you’re labelled “difficult”, “unstable”, “aggressive”.
Your anger becomes the problem instead of what caused it.

You learn to silence it. To cry in private. To apologise for emotions that were never wrong in the first place.

But anger doesn’t make a victim dangerous.
It makes them human.

It’s the body’s truth screaming to be heard after years of being silenced.

And it deserves understanding, not shame.

[Wren @jaunty_aphorism]

*uploads entire content of my blog and twitter account into questionnaire*

[@medicalmodelwithabriochebun @medicalmodelbri]

Well… I got my answer

It wasn’t good

God help these poor patients

[Burnt Toast @Burnt2020]

I will ask this question again to @rcpsych Shouldn’t the care of a patient sectioned under the MHA because their mental illness is so severe you need to force them to have treatment, be led by a psychiatrist?

[TIVA Tim @TheSnoozeDoctor]

Sensible view here from an ex-ICU nurse FY1.

Like myself, a previous BSc (Hons) ODP with 13 yrs’ experience before late-entry medicine, I would never have considered myself safe giving an anaesthetic even if I had gone the AA route. Only a doctor can work at a doctor’s level!

[Amanda Against Abuse @AmandaAgainstDA]

Everyone talks about the smear campaign perpetrators launch during and after separation. Another tool in their coercive control toolbox.

But few talk about the impact. And how far reaching it is.

It destroys how organisations see you. It poisons friendships. It strains family. It creeps into work.

You start withholding, saying “I’m fine,” even lying to protect yourself. Sometimes you share small snippets, sometimes you finally speak, and people are shocked, supportive, sympathetic.

But the smear campaign doesn’t stop. Organisations label you “high conflict” and side with the smooth talker. Friends grow tired. Family struggles. Coworkers move on. Slowly you stop sharing. You withdraw.

In extreme cases, like mine, when children are removed on hearsay, the shame almost finishes you. Gaslighting eats you alive. You give up explaining. You learn who believes you and who never will.

The friends? Gone. Extended family? Get filtered updates. Coworkers? Long gone. My circle is tiny. The smear campaign worked.

I’ve healed a little, accepted the world may never see evidence for what it is. I save my breath for people who ask, who truly want to know.

But it’s lonely. Terribly lonely. No coffee meetups. No Saturday breakfasts. No casual shopping trips.

Yes, I have an amazing husband, my anchor, my truth, my safe place. But the loneliness of no wider circle? That’s a wound I never expected to carry after escaping abuse.

[Bloodaxe Books @BloodaxeBooks]

‘A vibrant anthology exploring love, pain, solidarity, the climate emergency, and much more.’

Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets (ed. Rachael Boast) is one of @PoetryDayUK's Book Group recommendations. #NationalPoetryDay.
https://t.co/po1OZJWGrk

[Amanda Against Abuse @AmandaAgainstDA]

Children are forced to live with abuse, often not realising what it is until years later.
Their safe parent is gagged, bound, left to watch the damage unfold, unable to intervene.

How will their minds learn what love, respect, and kindness truly are?
How will their hearts know the difference between real love and coercion?
How will their bodies cope with being forced to endure abuse and the toll of constant emotional harm?

This isn’t protection.
This isn’t safeguarding.
This isn’t helping children thrive.

This is sanctioned abuse.

[Bloodaxe Books @BloodaxeBooks]

'Concluding Gwyneth Lewis’s latest collection, First Rain in Paradise, 'An Explanation of Doily' opens a strange, humorous, mysterious window out of trauma.' - Carol Rumens, Poem of the Week, @GuardianBooks
https://t.co/zGNfQphmKS

[Karen @Lesley5856]

@KenZeroHarm @Victoria_Rixon @AoMRC @HealthFdn 2 @willcpowell is fighting for Robbie’s law in the hope that ignoring the legal duty of candour will have consequences for senior management who cover up. Example Dewi Evan’s.

[Sophia Edwards 💙 @sophia_edw28123]

🚨Not disclosing PA status? Deceptive and unethical
🚨PAs mocking patients? Absolutely unacceptable
🚨Falsifying records? That's illegal

Transparency, professionalism, and accountability are non-negotiable in healthcare.

This isn’t just a bad apple, it’s a system failure.

[ExplosiveEnema @ExplosiveEnema2]

You no longer need medical training to work as a Consultant Radiologist

We really need incredibly strong voices from the very top of @RCRadiologists condemning this

Heck, if a Trust can't differentiate between Radiologist & Radiographer they should have their trainees removed

[Arun Baksi @ArunBaksi]

I applaud what has been done.
Wastage in NHS continues:
Darzi: CQC is not fit for purpose. Regulatory organisations in the NHS are not doing what they should be doing.
No action at all
Same applies to Leng Report.
@Keir_Starmer @wesstreeting

[Arun Baksi @ArunBaksi]

How would one ever ensure duty of candour? This has been the policy in the NHS but it has not been adhered to, and no one has been penalised to date..
I do hope the restrictions on legal costs would also apply to NHS Trusts.
@Keir_Starmer

[Dr Siobhan O'Dwyer @Siobhan_ODwyer]

A new short film, inspired by our research on suicide risk in parent carers, was launched today by @unibirmingham.

Beautiful & unflinching, it calls on the government to improve support for disabled children & their families.

https://t.co/de2RkB5kgA

[Dr Vyom Sharma @drvyom]

He's going to blame the only tablet women can take for pain during all stages of pregnancy. The only one.