📚 Kathalatte 🐶 #Carer #Dementia 💙 she/her 🏳️‍⚧

Fabulous tea-aholic mum of 1, sparkly purple fan, fab writer wife @callykerr, writerly, leftie, animal lover, INFP.

[📚 Kathalatte 🐶 #Carer #Dementia 💙 she/her 🏳️‍⚧ @milosmum]

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[📚 Kathalatte 🐶 #Carer #Dementia 💙 she/her 🏳️‍⚧ @milosmum]

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[📚 Kathalatte 🐶 #Carer #Dementia 💙 she/her 🏳️‍⚧ @milosmum]

@mikejwhelan Oh Michael I'm so very, very sorry for the loss of your amazing Rebecca. Sending much love and thinking of you both xx

[Dr Cally Kerr - Writer 💜🏳️‍⚧️💜 @callykerr]

Last night I performed some poems of trans rage and joy

[UHS Patient and Family Support Hub @UHS_SupportHub]

A huge thank you to those who have previously made purple hearts, they have made such a difference to bereaved loved ones at @UHSFT 💜
The Bereavement Team are once again looking for people to help support with making more purple hearts. Details are below 👇

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

IN THE NAME OF EVERY WOMAN‼️
THANK YOU‼️🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

Suicide.

I'm choosing to be deliberately blunt and provocative in this post because it's necessary. Government, charities, football clubs are all pushing water up a hill in highlighting what is undoubtedly a major health crisis.

You take a rope.
You put it up in a garage or a tree nearby or far away.
You're thinking about every loved one you'll leave behind as you put that rope around your neck.
Then you drop.

Some are decapitated.
Some aren't.
All are found by someone who has a lifetime of trauma that will never leave them.
A son.
A daughter.
A brother.
A sister.
A mother.
A father.

I know 2 men who hung themselves.

One was found by his Mom.
One was found by his brother.
Neither have recovered fully. 20 and 30 years on.

A life sentence for people who were already worrying, terrified their loved one may do something.

So just visualise the above and ask, "is there another way"?

A segway for a moment.

I do a few Q&A's every year. Tales of yesterday with a 99% male audience of my age group.

After the stories and fun, my last question back to the audience is..

"Hands up if you struggle with a mental health issue".

Nobody ever puts a hand up. Despite 1 in every 3 of 500 attendees statistically struggling.

"Ah, nobody, that's fucking brilliant! Well I do! ". I then graphically tell people, stunned into silence about how a rope around my neck in the middle of nowhere jolted me to go home and cry like a baby to my Mom.

After the Q&A has finished, something always happens. I'll be chatting to a few guys, saying bye and one by one, men will come over and whisper " I struggle".

Or my mailbox the next day will have 30 emails from guys, their partners or kids saying " Dad/Uncle /Brother was there last night and what you said hit them hard".

And that's how some people realise that it's time to speak to a pal or family member or even rant to me in an email. It works, I often get a follow up email a year or 6 later saying that they took responsibility for their suicidal feelings and are now flying.

Humans are programmed to want to live, to have families and to keep the species growing and thriving. So for a human to want to short circuit that desire isn't normal, and it should never be spoken of as normal. It's the ultimate red flag.

If you suspect your mate, Dad, Brother, Uncle is struggling mentally, they deserve your intervention.

They deserve a " are you OK, please tell me what's up".

They deserve an opportunity to get past wanting to hang a rope over a tree or in a garage and slowly struggle until they die and you find them.

If you've been there and trust me I have plenty, then you'll know that text out of the blue, or a footie mate or one of your kids asking jow you are can open the curtains to some sunshine.

Because when suicide is your only answer, the room is already dark, and you can't see a way out.

So please, fucking pretty please, ask that husband, Dad, Uncle, Cousin, footie pal TODAY how they are.

You may be shocked what comes back but extremely glad that you asked.

For those who struggle, you're not alone.

[📚 Kathalatte 🐶 #Carer #Dementia 💙 she/her 🏳️‍⚧ @milosmum]

My wonderful, so loved Daddy died this morning. The last few years haven't been kind but he remained cheerful until the very end. My heart is broken and things will never be quite the same again. I love you Daddy and will miss you forever xxx

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Like most people who get trans rights wrong, he hadn’t even considered that trans men exist.

And when he does, it all falls apart!

[📚 Kathalatte 🐶 #Carer #Dementia 💙 she/her 🏳️‍⚧ @milosmum]

@EM_RESUS Sinusitis. Definitely worse than childbirth.

[📚 Kathalatte 🐶 #Carer #Dementia 💙 she/her 🏳️‍⚧ @milosmum]

@hashimi_bashir I've just seen your earlier tweet. Wonderful news, many congratulations Sir Bashir. Definitely very well deserved. Happy New Year and I hope you and the family are all keeping well from Kath x

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Manstrual cycle, I am in. 🤣🤣🤣

[📚 Kathalatte 🐶 #Carer #Dementia 💙 she/her 🏳️‍⚧ @milosmum]

@CharleyBaker1 @naomialderman Happy Birthday Charley 🎂

[📚 Kathalatte 🐶 #Carer #Dementia 💙 she/her 🏳️‍⚧ @milosmum]

@wweisawesome123

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Tommy Robinson sent a letter to himself, he meant to log out and send it from a different account.

But he didn't.

Don't RT 🤣

[📚 Kathalatte 🐶 #Carer #Dementia 💙 she/her 🏳️‍⚧ @milosmum]

I wish I didn't need to say this but we have been having some absolutely phenomenal service from the NHS this last little while. So grateful it's there.

[📚 Kathalatte 🐶 #Carer #Dementia 💙 she/her 🏳️‍⚧ @milosmum]

Feeling pretty worried right now #VascularDementia

[Today Years Old @todayyearsold]

Jack Karlson, the man who had the funniest arrest ever, has died. He deserves a statue.

Long live this legend.