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“ Mental health patients in the UK are routinely coming to harm because of high caseloads, understaffing and overwhelming administrative work…”
theguardian.com/society/2026/a…?
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Small wins that are important with #CPTSD: saying ‘no’ without a 5-paragraph apology.
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It would be excellent if CPTSD (complex post-traumatic stress disorder) services were accessible to people with CPTSD.
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Every trauma survivor carries the ghost of a child who once believed someone would come.
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Dear @leicesterliz,
Some people with mental health problems can’t work.
Implying they can is highly damaging.
If you want to help, make voluntary work possible without forcing people to live in fear that the DWP will deem them work-ready.
It’s a win for all.
Thanks,
Jay
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No one should be diagnosing mental health problems, neurodivergence, PMDD, or any physical health problem or injury that affects the mind without being able to diagnose all the above. Diagnosis is as much about ruling out as it is about ruling in.
Emily♡@ItsEmilyKaty
I think this more and more. I do think there should be specialist services when autism/ADHD are hard to untangle from trauma or other conditions, however it baffles me that when it is SO clear, medical professionals can’t diagnose simply because of working in the wrong pathway.
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TW I'd appreciate it if you could consider tweeting/retweeting this. With 'prevention of death' recommendations and social media pressure, there should be autism x mental health training X @ItsEmilyKaty @adamfare1996 @AutisticGirls_ @AutisticDoctor @johnpringdns #ActuallyAutistic
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Here is an alternative press release for mental health trusts and organisations:
- we cannot support any involvement with the DWP until sanctions and welfare conditionality is over
- we have job coaches already in IAPT away from the DWP
- job coaching isn’t for our wards ever
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If you are trauma-informed, you do not let DWP job coaches onto your mental health wards. Full stop.
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Horrific. To be in a mental health hospital, as I’ve been many times as both a professional and a patient, means you’re very, very ill. A job coach visiting implies the patient hasn’t been ‘doing life right,’ adding to trauma and stress. This is dangerous: tinyurl.com/4jyx98uz
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The sad reality is that people are constantly told to reach out for help but to where?
When they do they are put on a waiting list, told to contact a charity and then put on a waiting list there … and the cycle continues …
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As a consultant clinical psychologist, lets just be clear on the evidence, Starmer.
If you want people to do well, uplift them. That means treating people with dignity, decent benefits one can live on without worry, not casting moral aspersions on people.
Sanctions do not work.
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Trauma-informed care is an important lens in stopping retraumaticsation. But thrrr has to be trauma therapy available too. Stopping retraumatisation and processing trauma are not the same thing.
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This is a perfect photo of a stress bucket
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Proud to have been a Green voter
Jack D 🏳️🌈@JackDunc1
I can't get over the Greens winning 4 seats. The only party to win all of its targets! No one saw it coming, not a single poll said it would happen. Turnout in these seats was 17% higher than average. Why? Because people liked the policies and were energised to vote.
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My Gazan friend, made her application to @SOAS for a Masters along with an application for a scholarship while evacuating from Gaza to Egypt. With poor internet, plus being traumatised and confused, she sent her scholarship letter to Admissions instead of the scholarship team
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Dear @Conservatives,
14 years ago you inherited the #1 ranked healthcare system on the planet and look what you've done: We now have the longest GP, A&E, cancer, and outpatient waiting lists in NHS history. 7.6m people long. You don't deserve power. You deserve prison.
#SOSNHS
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'Doctors already earn more than the average UK wage.'
Repeat after me:
It is not an average job
It is not an average job
It is not an average job
Have people completely lost sight of what being a doctor actually involves?!
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The Conservative party’s CEO is a director at a private cancer care firm that has benefited from soaring NHS waiting times.
Please RT if you think everyone should be aware.
These people simply cannot be trusted with our health.
theguardian.com/politics/artic…
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"Leadership is language". Words are powerful tools that energise or deflate, inspire or dishearten. When we talk about "resources" rather than "people", or use "they" rather than "we" or say someone is lazy or use "must" or "have to" or abbreviations excessively, we set the culture. There are some great examples of leadership teams identifying words they want to use more & less often & holding each other to account for it: antmurphy.medium.com/leadership-is-… Via @ant_murphy @noelito
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