Mental Health

Languishing | #DustbinPatient | #PillShaming (yes it was me) | #HeadClutcher | #SkankyMental | #ptsd from psychiatric detention | 🏊‍♀️🦕

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[Mental Health @Sectioned_]

The safety net provided by NHS that's there for physical illness is not there for folks with #mentalhealth problems; it's like pre-NHS era.

[Mental Health @Sectioned_]

@sophiebip1982 🥊🥊

[Dr Annie Hickox, Clinical Psychologist @DrAnnieHickox]

@real_bogdweller @StigmaB47868 This is a wonderful essay by our late Twitter friend, Lisa Wallace, writing eloquently about the futility of “pretending mental illness isn’t “in the room with me”. https://t.co/mnM7aBa2Oe

[Mental Health @Sectioned_]

@DrGrumpy These men purport to be the female breast experts

[Mental Health @Sectioned_]

It was, indeed, called the London Breast Meeting

It looked like a panel of perverts

A breast appreciation convention

Didn't any of these guys, or whoever put together the panel, feel a smidgen of embarrassment when they looked around? Even for a moment?

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

An all male panel at an international conference for breast surgeons has sparked outrage among senior doctors.

The 14 member panel at the London Breast Meeting, staged last month, was described as “shameful” by commentators
https://t.co/sv93y4V2yP

[Wren @jaunty_aphorism]

Couple of days late to #WorldMentalHealthDay but want to say smth anyway. Enough platitudes, inspirational slogans & sad ppl under umbrellas. Let's talk about the messy, uncomfortable realities.

Here's mine - I'm jealous of people who killed themselves

https://t.co/sF9oZgWOKV

[Mental Health @Sectioned_]

@DrHuw Perpetuating an ambiguous title that sounds like a smutty pun - instead of adding in eg "Care" or "Oncology" - highlights a pervasive surgical boys' club culture

At best, it's institutional tone-deafness

At worst, it confirms some doctors choose this field for perverted reasons

[Mental Health @Sectioned_]

@SGV_UK 🏆

[Mental Health @Sectioned_]

How does biological sex affect health? https://t.co/3qO0NAIxtO

The panel discussion includes sodium valproate, a medication also used to treat bipolar (as well as epilepsy, migraine & pain) and emerging evidence that men who take it should consider its effect on pregnancies

[Mental Health @Sectioned_]

Perpetuating an ambiguous title that sounds like a smutty pun - instead of adding in eg "Care" or "Oncology" - highlights a pervasive surgical boys' club culture

At best, it's institutional tone-deafness

At worst, it confirms some doctors choose this field for perverted reasons

[Andrea James @HealthRegLawyer]

I heard this podcast on the weekend and feel it should be mandatory listening for all regulators and regulated professionals!
It's about a very senior civil servant who lived a blameless life until his late 30s, when he accidentally left top secret files on a train. Ultimately, he was demoted, lost his security clearance and got a conviction for breaching the Official Secrets Act.
There are many interesting nuggets in the podcast, but I was particularly struck by a few which could have come from almost any #FitnessToPractise case:
~ How he initially handled his mistake (with a lack of immediate candour) only made things worse and was a reminder that how you handle any mistake is often much more important than the error itself.
~ The feelings of absolute worthlessness and despair, and his serious contemplation of suicide (over an inadvertent error), is something which we see time and again. Regulators need to be reminded that the purpose of fitness to practise proceedings is not to punish (it's public protection). Often the regulated individual is the most vulnerable individual in the picture and needs to be treated accordingly - or, at least, treated humanely.
~ You can get through pretty much anything.
https://t.co/zZ7DoaxV6s

[Mental Health @Sectioned_]

@sophiebip1982 "Go forth and be an insufferable hag today" 😆

https://t.co/Up8uXOShyq

[#Hello my name is Rachel @Rachel_Luby]

Meds 💊 then bed 💤🛏

#MentalHealthAwareness #bipolar #PillShaming

Night all!

❤️ my little twitter 'X' family.

[Mental Health @Sectioned_]

@sophiebip1982 A role model for all women 😘

[Mental Health @Sectioned_]

@sophiebip1982 "Go forth and be an insufferable hag today" 😆

https://t.co/Up8uXOShyq

[Mental Health @Sectioned_]

@sophiebip1982 Well I don't know whether it's sage advice and wisdom or just running out of fucks to give as I've got older

[Mental Health @Sectioned_]

@sophiebip1982 Ofc women in general are conditioned to look out for others' needs & others' comfort

And that has its place

But not at the expense of your own well-being

You need your resources - including loved ones - to support you at the moment

Not wear yourself out making them feel okay

[Mental Health @Sectioned_]

@sophiebip1982 You have the perfect excuse now

Not that you need an excuse

But the crap that 'good' people come out with is exhausting

And minimising

And negating

Sometimes a relapse, when you can't keep up the show any more, is the time to just let rip and shine a light on the reality

[Mental Health @Sectioned_]

@sophiebip1982 I mean, you're not under any duty to educate anyone - you're doing your best to make it through each day atm

But I used to thoroughly hide the extent of my illness behind closed doors - literally pile the mess behind closed doors

And all that did was facilitate others' comfort

[Mental Health @Sectioned_]

@sophiebip1982 A quick dose of SMI education all in one go at full volume 👍

[Mental Health @Sectioned_]

@sophiebip1982 They don't get it

Kind, thoughtful people don't get it

Good friends who otherwise add value to your life don't get it

It's tricky balancing their ignorance with your needs - especially when ill

These days I tend to think letting them see reality is better than trying to mask

[Mental Health @Sectioned_]

@nippermaddog