The Sunflower Project 🌻

Our mental health is far too important to ignore; follow to help raise awareness & de-stigmatise mental health and disability🎗 #MentalHealth #Disability

[The Sunflower Project 🌻 @sunflowerproje]

Why I think mental health should be taught in school (a thread)

- it can enable schoolchildren to become more compassionate to others. They’ll be more understanding of the impact and weight from their actions and words

[🌻 Leah Cowan @leavcowan]

It is incredibly harmful towards the community and as a society, we need to do better to be inclusive and stand against DANGEROUS systemical abuse. #banconversiontherapy #conversiontherapy #transcommunity #LGBTQ

[🌻 Leah Cowan @leavcowan]

A reminder that conversion therapy comes from a belief that being gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans is a mental illness and it promotes treatments and psycho therapies to ‘cure’ and change someone’s sexual orientation and suppress their gender identity.

[🌻 Leah Cowan @leavcowan]

So lesbian, gay and bisexual conversion therapy has been banned? I wish I could pride myself on being in a country that is progressive and is becoming more inclusive but I’m so shocked it took this long and Boris didn’t think to protect his own LGBTQ+ community quicker.

[SEND Parent @send_parent]

I sometimes wonder if all the people we deal with in education, health and SEND services actually take a minute to reflect on the fact that they are dealing with real people who have actual feelings. Do they realise the affect they have on peoples lives?

[The Sunflower Project 🌻 @sunflowerproje]

A series of messages I would like to say to people that believe ‘we’re all a little bit autistic’ or we’re all ‘on the spectrum somewhere’

WE ARE NOT

#autism #autistic #disability #neurodiversity #autismawareness #mentalhealth

[The Sunflower Project 🌻 @sunflowerproje]

#mentalhealth #MentalHealthMatters #MentalHealthAwareness @TRS_Wellbeing #OldhamHour @Oldham_Hour #disability #wellbeing #mentalillness #anxiety #depression

[The Sunflower Project 🌻 @sunflowerproje]

It's so easy to let go of your mental health & find the time for self care as a student but it's so important to look after yourself. For years I became unable to function in school & coincide with the environment of the classroom & fell incredibly ill with my mental stability.

[The Sunflower Project 🌻 @sunflowerproje]

#mentalhealth #MentalHealthMatters #MentalHealthAwareness @TRS_Wellbeing #OldhamHour @Oldham_Hour #disability #wellbeing #mentalillness #anxiety #depression

[The Sunflower Project 🌻 @sunflowerproje]

It's so easy to let go of your mental health & find the time for self care as a student but it's so important to look after yourself. For years I became unable to function in school & coincide with the environment of the classroom & fell incredibly ill with my mental stability.

[🌻 Leah Cowan @leavcowan]

Why someone might still be autistic even though they don’t act like your ‘friends 7 year old autistic son’ (or something along these lines)

And why this is just incredibly invalidating to say

#autism #autistic #neurodiversity #Neurodivergent

[🌻 Leah Cowan @leavcowan]

#MentalHealth #MentalHealthMatters

[🌻 Leah Cowan @leavcowan]

I would just like to reiterate that suicidal isn’t selfish & the first reason why someone shouldn’t kill themselves is because how it might affect others. Anyone that experiences suicidal ideation should receive support, understanding, compassion & empathy, not guilt trips.

[The Sunflower Project 🌻 @sunflowerproje]

Why I think mental health should be taught in school (a thread)

- it can enable schoolchildren to become more compassionate to others. They’ll be more understanding of the impact and weight from their actions and words

[🌻 Leah Cowan @leavcowan]

A great way to explain autism is simply feeling as though there’s a manual for how every little thing is done that everyone seems to have read but you

#autism #autistic #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #mentalhealth

[Callum Stephen (He/Him) @AutisticCallum_]

Autism and other neurodivergent diagnoses are the only diagnoses I’ve heard of where one simply gets a diagnosis and is then left in the wilderness. Where is the support for neurodivergent people? Why isn’t there a (developed) system?

[🌻 Leah Cowan @leavcowan]

I’m tired of researching about autism & reading about how it affects children, I see all the time ‘how to help your child’ or ‘children with autism experience this’. There’s so little research and helpful tools for adult autistics.

ADULT AUTISTICS EXIST

#Autism #Adultautistic