Dr Bridget

@timheffo When ED team members lack the skill (& motivation) to be with a person in distress, don’t understand this is our role

@PatMcGorry I see that wellcome concludes they need to bear in mind the big social items - poverty, disadvantage- and to co-design robustly with young people. This is your point too Pat?

Mindfulness in schools doesn’t improve mental health. Here’s why that’s a positive | News | Wellcome This should be read by all teachers and policy makers in this space Time to wind up all superficial but ineffective programs & get real in school based MH wellcome.org/news/mindfulne…

@drmbanfield Sage advice

@Keltic_Witch @ToddSchunk @HillaryClinton Women? Where are the dads in this situation?

@ToddSchunk @HillaryClinton 98.6% of abortions are selfish, self-absorbed women who have no compunction about having their own offspring ripped limb from limb. It's completely sickening.

"One woman could barely get words out through her tears. Another ran to the restroom as soon as she was done, wordless, wretched sobs wracking her tiny body. A third threw up on the witness stand." One year since the fall of Roe, women are suffering because of abortion bans.  texastribune.org/2023/07/19/tex…

@Keltic_Witch @HillaryClinton Are you truly willing to take to you home, love and care for the child til 18? If not be quiet, your judgement on the women and the men is irrelevant

FFS, stop the histrionics and drama. It is, and has always been incumbent on people who are engaging in consensual sex to protect themselves from unwanted pregnancies. If an unwanted pregnancy occurs, the states have timeframes where abortion or other emergency contraception is available. Don't go down the "but what about rape" rabbit hole. Rape is a special case and survivors have access to the medical interventions they need. That's 0.085% of cases. We are talking about the 98.6% of cases where it's a matter of convenience.

@LakotaMan1 I am not a bot, I appreciate you

So, a MAGA just told me that my non-Native allies are “all bots.” Let’s prove this guy wrong — you’re not a bot, are you?

@mhdksafa Hi Mohammad, sorry to hear you’re having a bad time. I appreciate you

I have experienced this. Many in the mental health space with lived experience may have. Check out the below.

@mhdksafa This was a feature at Balwyn primary- marvellous

Follows on well from the Alive @AliveNational virtual cafe session LELeadership with the stunning Ellie Hodges @EllieHodges13 LELAN and Mark Loughead: youtu.be/P-1SIk_51b8

@SimonKatterl @dowhatonemustdo I hear you

@dowhatonemustdo For VEOHRC to investigate my treatment. I don't think it's the right forum and I'm hoping for a resolution that heals relationships rather than further erodes them. But I accept in talking about it publicly this could foreseeably have happened.

In know there's a story about my experiences in the ABC today. It's become a political & public interest issue. I don't support that motion from the opposition but accept I don't have control. I just hope that you take the time to read our report: livedexperiencejustice.au

@timheffo Dylan - ish!

@theRRNetwork Exciting! Go well

The full programme the 'Building the right support through trauma informed approaches and relational working' conference is now live! #TraumaInformed23 View the full programme and book at bit.ly/Trauma-Informe…

@mhdksafa Wonderful

@drmbanfield Always. A wonderous thing

@IndigoDaya Listening I have no words

In two months I will be the same age my mother was when they found the terminal cancer. I tried to say the big things before she died, but she held up her hand, left the room, left the world. How dare she die like that, still silent. Me, stroking her brow, sobbing.

🧵Absence of love I got up early again, wandering about the dark spaces feeling lonely and shit. I hate that so much of the time I live in the olden times. 40 years ago. In these decades I could have been a parent, a grandparent even. Yet I fear that often I am still a child.

@SArunogiri @Holpsych @RANZCP @DrVinayLakra Well done team

Proud moment as a psychiatrist, leadership from the @ranzcp board as @DrVinayLakra announces at #RANZCP2023 going forward, we will no longer have pharmaceutical and industry sponsorship at future Congress events 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽

@DeanAstumian @mhdksafa I feel like that too. If we are so wary of losing money we might lose our humanity😊

@mhdksafa I used to be terrified of being scammed, but if I allow myself to be scammed while trying to help someone, I have only lost money. If I refuse to help someone in genuine need for fear of being scammed I will have lost my sense of charity. You did the right thing.

@douglasstocks2 @TheRocksGirl60 @DrP_Principal Nice! There are Vv good tutorials online. You could get back to it for sure:)

@TheRocksGirl60 @DrP_Principal My mum taught me how to k it wish I could remember how too. Unfortunately she's no longer here.

When I was a building principal, we had a group of boys who were consistently getting office referrals during lunch for aggressive and disruptive behaviors. In the past, these behaviors had led to increasingly severe consequences that did not reduce the negative behaviors (and caused some students to be sent home and to miss instruction). I sat down with the group and we worked together to come up with a plan on what to do during lunch. One of the boys asked if we could start a knitting club, since his Auntie had recently taught him how to knit. Since he was a leader of the group, the other boys agreed. I asked them to come back tomorrow with some ideas of what to knit. The next day one of the boys said that he wanted to knit little hats for the preemies at the hospital, since his little cousin was there and that a nurse mentioned that they had run out of the little hats. The boys knitted daily and we delivered the hats to the hospital. We received many heartfelt thank you notes from families, nurses and doctors (and even an in-person visit with a personal thank you and cookies from a newborn's mom). This group continued to grow as did our ability to create knitted hats for preemies. This became a huge success for the participating students. There was significant improvement in the students’ behavior, attitude, achievement, and attendance. It is so important to think outside of the box for “win-win” solutions. It really isn’t the WHAT you do that is important, it is the WHY you are doing it! Our knitting group become a team, family, and community. #maslowbeforebloom

@TraceyHiggins92 I’m in

My questions for MH professionals: Who is willing to enter into a therapeutic relationship with someone diagnosed with schizophrenia? Who is willing to stand up for their rights? Who is confronting bio-psychiatry about their made up diseases? When will the patient come first?