Lucy Colbourne

Junior Doctor, Clinical DPhil student @OxPsychiatry

[BJPsych Journals @TheBJPsych]

It's here 🎉 #BJPBulletin themed issue on #Inequality and #MentalHealth is now live on @CambridgeCore. Check out the themed issue here: https://t.co/9WAJFRvY2x

@CambUP_Psych @rcpsych

[Lucy Colbourne @lucy19]

Cheap common drugs may help mental illness https://t.co/JBEjCQJip6

[Lucy Colbourne @lucy19]

Mental health checks for new fathers https://t.co/W2A3bPKczB

[Lucy Colbourne @lucy19]

BBC News - Mental health issues 'require flexible sick pay' https://t.co/NiDzd0SGq2

[Lucy Colbourne @lucy19]

BBC News - More students seek mental health support, analysis shows https://t.co/EcFPVGWVpj

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

The number of cancelled children’s ops has risen by 58% since 2011.

Can only imagine the distress & fear behind this appalling statistic.

From the govt that’s cut 15k beds since 2010, & left our NHS short of 42k nurses & 10k doctors 😔

https://t.co/AMXBthSnyR

[Adrian James @DrAdrianJames]

Vikram Patel @HarvardHealth Good mental health is a right, mental health to illness is a spectrum and we are all on it, nature and nurture are important,#WorldMentaHealthDay #GlobalMHSummit @rcpsych @wendyburn @dineshbhugra

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

World renowned American physicist Leon Lederman died this week aged 96 - after being forced to sell his Nobel Prize for $765k to help pay his medical bills.

To those who say we can’t afford the NHS, how - in the name of decency - can we afford not to? https://t.co/KDYnCXzGYv

[Psychiatry Pitstop @PsychPitStop]

What’s it like to treat a bipolar patient who’s experiencing a relapse? How does the illness affect their daily lives? How does it compare to media portrayals? #bipolar #bpad #bipolaraffectivedisorder #WorldMentalHealthDay

[Alex Thomson @AlexBThomson]

Oh. My. Word.

For everyone saying "Oh but I'm one of the good psychiatrists" or #NotAllPsychiatrists there are still too many consultant psychiatrists like this.

This causes lasting harm, not least because junior docs & students acquire these attitudes. Call it out & challenge

[Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management @FMLM_UK]

Our (free) eBook on resilience is something you can dip into - each chapter is written by a different expert - so why not dip into it this Sunday? Take a look: https://t.co/I6UWe29kxW

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

Vaccines do not cause autism.

Dr Andrew Wakefield was struck off for medical fraud.

Measles kills, maims and causes permanent brain damage.

Please, please chat to a nurse or doctor before deciding not to vaccinate your kids.

https://t.co/TkiOlVODGx

[MQ Mental Health Research @MQmentalhealth]

Mental and physical health must be treated equally. We can only achieve this through innovation and working together to demand change #theworldneeds #GlobalMHSummit

[JS Bamrah CBE @jsbamrah]

#suicide @TheLancetPH @ProfLAppleby @ICMRDELHI
India
17·8% of global pop
36·6% of global suicide deaths among women
24·3% among men
Suicides ⬆️from 1990 for both sexes, women ⬆️ men
Young adult suicides =public health crisis
Suicide 1st cause of death in 15–29 yr & 15–39 yr

[AJ+ @ajplus]

800,000 people die from suicide around every year, says @WHO:

▪️ That’s 1 person every 40 seconds.
▪️ For every suicide, 20+ others have attempted suicide.
▪️ 79% live in low- or middle-income countries.

#WorldSuicidePreventionDay

[Professor Azeem Majeed @Azeem_Majeed]

For the past 20 years, secretaries of state for health have been telling us they are going to bring the best technology in the world to the NHS. I hope one of them can finally deliver on this promise.

[Laurie Hanna @lauriehanna2010]

BBC News - Scholarship to counter 'unconscious bias' in physics https://t.co/WJIQhd0yRO

[Lucy Colbourne @lucy19]

BBC News - Sturgeon announces boost for mental health services https://t.co/DkJLAWlI6U

[Robert Howard @ProfRobHoward]

Shocking and completely wrong that doctors with mental health problems, working outside London, can’t access the Practioners Health Programme confidentially. Would be so simple to change this.