brona

Mental health nurse with lived experience based in NI. An eclectic mix of all things meme, political, healthcare, and mundane

[brona @bronasays]

I did it, I’m now a qualified mental health nurse 😭😭 going back to do my final placement at the same hospital I was a patient in was one of the hardest things I’ve done but I feel like I’ve come full circle 😭😭

[Bovril-Gesellschaft @BovrilG]

Americans commenting on recent events in Belfast:

[mary ⁷ SWIM @thvmcb]

tbh I actually cannot believe I did that looking back

[brona @bronasays]

Things I excel at: waking up and going to the toilet during the night and then remaining awake, unable to go back to sleep, for the next hour and a half 🫠

[brona @bronasays]

Anyway, my neighbour is drilling in their garden and like…it’s ten to nine on a Friday night and that feels a bit antisocial to me??

[brona @bronasays]

Work today was a team day- team building games (shudder), a couple of work related talks (including a talk from a pharma company on a sleep med- the talk itself was enough to put us to sleep), free lunch, a yin yoga class, then a few of us went for pizza 😀 happy Friday!

[Joe @andjustliketwat]

The fine line between staying well informed about the ever declining social and political climate and keeping just enough distance so you don’t lose your mind or kill yourself

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

In the UK, sitting peacefully opposing genocide is deemed terrorism whilst burning houses, rioting and targeting minority groups is considered ‘protest’

[Jim Cognito @JimCognito2016]

Two things can be true at the same time.

Thing 1: the attack in Belfast was unspeakably horrific and absolutely horrendous.

Thing 2. Masked men burning down houses with children still inside is really awful and should be condemned.

It's not complicated.

[Stop The Bollocks with Mirabel @MirabelTweets1]

They never, ever EVER riot like this & burn their own neighbourhoods when the offender is white.

Cold, hard fact.

Case closed.

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

“Save our kids” they chant as they destroy their homes

[brona @bronasays]

This is the most I’ve done in my three day weekend and I feel ‘relieved’ that I can now sit and read for the rest of the evening before back to work tomorrow. I hate it???

[brona @bronasays]

Embarrassing, but genuinely curious if I am just lazy or is it ~mental health that makes doing a few ‘simple’ things (gym, coffee, picking up a few groceries, changing bed sheets, tidying my room, shower) feel like a fairly ‘busy’ day 🫠

[brona @bronasays]

Embarrassing, but genuinely curious if I am just lazy or is it ~mental health that makes doing a few ‘simple’ things (gym, coffee, picking up a few groceries, changing bed sheets, tidying my room, shower) feel like a fairly ‘busy’ day 🫠

[brona @bronasays]

Weirdly enjoy finishing the work week off with the gym/a walk/run?? I also actually COOKED afterwards, so I’m feeling extra productive. Have opened a bottle of cider and I am looking forward to an evening under my electric blanket with a book 😌

[brona @bronasays]

After such a chill week at work last week, I deserved a shitty day, but it has left me in foul form nonetheless 😅

[brona @bronasays]

Actually FUCK having to take medication for your brain that makes you throw up 🙃🙃🙃

[brona @bronasays]

I know sleep scores are not an accurate representation of how you’ve slept, but this week they’ve been a bare faced lie…Monday night, when I slept *terrible* my score was 81 and ‘restorative’. Last night, when I thought I slept not too bad, it was 57 and ‘poor quality’??? 🤷🏼‍♀️

[brona @bronasays]

@Smurf_Health Not a blanket statement obv! Just the perspective of some psychs I’ve worked with/hoe they view it

[brona @bronasays]

@Smurf_Health No I guess it’s bc with private the individual themselves is paying thousands, so doctors are more likely to be swayed to give the dx the person is wanting assessment for. NHS they get paid a wage regardless, not from an individual, so they’re more likely to be objective

[brona @bronasays]

@Smurf_Health I’m a nurse and some of my doctor colleagues over the years have said private dx (for mental health anyways) isn’t always an objective assessment bc people are paying sometimes thousands for a diagnosis, so it’s generally then just ‘given’ to them

[brona @bronasays]

Girl at work called me Audrey Hepburn when I came into the office this morning wearing my sunglasses and vintage style skirt 💃🏼 (she did also, at a later stage, say I looked like Sportacus from Lazy Town)