Dr Jo Black

[Dr Jo Black @Black2Jo]

@mgtmccartney I’m old and experienced and I’ve decided to assist a brilliant charity (@ActionOnPP ) with their media requests- mostly because I’m tearing my hair out at the nonsense I hear from under qualified click baiters.

[Dr Jo Black @Black2Jo]

@DocEmUK You’ve come back from here before, so you be confident in the fact that it’s possible. Don’t let the dark noise drown out what you know to be true.

[Dr Jo Black @Black2Jo]

Women with significant life events who experience huge tides of human emotions are often labelled with poor mental health.
Mental illness often missed in some and normal emotions pathologised in others.
Crucial to take a comprehensive history before diagnosis.

[Dr Jo Black @Black2Jo]

@PositivePracti1 Happy to

[positivepracticeinmh @PositivePracti1]

We’ve published “Telling It Like It Is” (available on Amazon) to start a national debate on what can b expected from a mental health service. Pls can u share with any networks u may belong to. Our objective is to have a Westminster debate and increased funding for mental health.

[Dr Jo Black @Black2Jo]

So much of mental illness like physical illness was historically studied and taught with male presentation as default. So when women present, they often aren’t understood or believed.

[Dr Jo Black @Black2Jo]

@asdfriendly Women’s serious illnesses being misunderstood? That all psychosis looks like male psychosis? It’s a tale as old as time

[Dr Jo Black @Black2Jo]

Many simply can’t believe that serious mental illness can look like a mum with a baby in her arms and a change bag on her shoulder. That she can look completely calm while she is breaking inside.

[Dr Jo Black @Black2Jo]

@asdfriendly Going through it more than once and then having to rebuild life afterwards is huge. Recovery is often a lonely and hard path.

[Dr Jo Black @Black2Jo]

Psychosis in the perinatal period can present many ways- a hypomania, a severe depression with psychosis, a recurrence of a paranoid psychosis or a poorly & quietly suffering mum.
Perinatal psychiatry is a sub specialty for a reason. Risks are real, assessment are complex

[Dr Jo Black @Black2Jo]

@DrSdeG @LucyGoBag A system which has lost sight of the human being at the centre of this awful tale, and forgot the need for detailed compassionate conversations at the hardest moments in life.

[Dr Jo Black @Black2Jo]

The impact of the demonisation of a really ill mother is that other mothers will stay quiet. They will see no possible compassion or support. They won’t ask for help.
If you are absorbed and posting about the ongoing trial pause to think of your implications of your words.

[Dr Jo Black @Black2Jo]

Unless you’ve spent a lot of time with women experiencing postpartum psychosis, spoken with them, understand the condition, the risks, the side effects of medication. Unless you believe how desperately ill women can be in psychosis, how can you possibly judge?

[Dr Jo Black @Black2Jo]

I hear medical colleagues complain that their female patients don’t trust their advice.
We are the medical system which under researches women’s health,allows mixed sex wards, minimises women pain and disinvested in maternity care.

It’s on us to earn back trust.

[Dr Jo Black @Black2Jo]

https://t.co/dbNf4ZIUBw

[Dr Jo Black @Black2Jo]

You harm the faith you profess, you harm the victims you abuse, you harm the credibility of your office and still no humility.
And many stood by without for a second showing character and raising safeguarding #Donaldson

[Dr Jo Black @Black2Jo]

I grew up in the Presbyterian Church of Ireland amongst good people. But a system which controls and shames youth around sex and relationships. Which makes for a perfect hunting ground for predators #Donaldson

[Dr Jo Black @Black2Jo]

The women who came forward against Donaldson are heroes with integrity and bravery. The same can’t be said for all those who ignored the red flags they saw over many years. Powerful man surrounded by a ring of protection and silence- church, assembly and parliament.

[Dr Jo Black @Black2Jo]

In the stress/ pain/sleep deprivation of labour hearing, understanding and retaining information is really hard. Do any clinicians advise parents to record conversations so they can listen back to consolidate their understanding? And so they can the. formulate questions?

[Dr Jo Black @Black2Jo]

@thewheythetruth @valhumphreys51 @DrAnnieHickox I’m often planning care in pregnancy for those with high risk PP.

Antenatal appointments often really vulnerable and emotional for woman/ couple as we make plan for birth/ postpartum.
I know things rapidly change in labour- which is why faith in clinical team is so critical

[Dr Jo Black @Black2Jo]

For a pregnant/ labouring woman to make an informed decision she needs to hear risks and benefits of all options. That is her right.
Not risks of one option and benefits of the other.