Tony Roberts retweeted
Sinéad O’Connor has died.
She was only 56 years old.
I’m speechless.
irishtimes.com/culture/music…
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🧵ON PERIODS:
At @cosmicshambles #NineCarols on Sat, I talked about how we are neglecting women's pain & bleeding.
The continuing stigma and silence around periods is pathetic, wrong, devastating for women and economically nonsensical.
Some facts. 1/23
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Home Office centres turn away asylum seekers summoned for interviews theguardian.com/uk-news/2022…
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I'm begging healthcare workers to stop sharing stories about what a patient said or did, even if no identifying information is given. It's not just a matter of privacy but a matter of respect. I expect my doctor or nurse to not tweet about *my* experience just for likes.
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🚨 BREAKING: Nurses across the UK have voted for strike action.
RT if you will stand with every single nurse that takes strike action to lift themselves out of poverty.
Claps won’t pay the bills.
amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/…
#EnoughIsEnough
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Manston, “invasion”, turning back boats, Rwanda. Complex issues like migration, involving vulnerable people, are rarely solved by getting tough, let alone talking tough.
Example from #mentalhealth. 10yrs ago prison policy was made more severe (remember the ban on books?). 1/6 – at Manchester, England
Tony Roberts retweeted
Betcha petrol bombs being thrown at detention centres won’t make as much news as folk throwing soup & paint did.
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Shell today announced £8,000,000,000 in quarterly profits, double its profits last year.
But it paid *zero* tax on North Sea oil production and nothing in windfall tax.
The Tories are choosing to squeeze your living standards, not their profits.
That's whose side they're on.
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Another undercover investigation into lack of safety on psychiatric wards in UK resulting in numerous patient absconsions & suicides
Again systemic failures, lack of humanity. I could have been one of those absconding and dying by suicide
@AsylumMagUK channel4.com/programmes/hosp…
Tony Roberts retweeted
The power of disinformation is mind-blowing & it’s dangerous.
Let me give you a very recent example that almost certainly cost lives…
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Plenty of justified outrage following #BBCPanorama’s film of staff abusing patients in a secure mental health unit.
It made headline news. Investigations are under way. Staff have been suspended.
But outrage alone will not prevent a repeat.
Short 🧵 & TW. – at Manchester, England
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Too many MH professionals hate and despise patients. Then they label patients as personality disordered and the label becomes a rationalisation and validation their own hatred for people in their care. Worse, it becomes a warning urging other professionals to hate the patient.
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Lots of mental health staff have voiced shock and outrage over the #Panorama expose of Edenfield, declaring that they've never seen such cruelty in their own workplaces. What they mean is that they have normalised abusive behaviour to the point that they don't recognise it. 🧵
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When healthcare staff say things like, "I've never seen any abuse in my 37-year career", what I hear is, "I'm so on board with abuse that I don't even recognise it when I see it - it all looks completely normal to me."
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The abuse uncovered in #BBCPanorama will never stop unless mental health professionals stop making excuses for their own profession. We know this happens. Patients have shouted about it for years- but we are not believed. Stop making excuses and don’t you DARE act shocked /6