Community Mental Health wkr with @stmartinsnfk in Norwich. #urbanphotography & #livemusic
Norwich, England
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Greatness and authority should be demonstrated by service and simplicity —St Oscar Romero, 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Childhood is a time of wonder, curiosity and discovery.
Today, The Princess of Wales has commissioned @Earlychildhood to take forward new work examining how nature can support the healthy development of babies and young children, with a new programme set to launch next year.
Supported by founding partner The Duchy of Cornwall, the work will explore how nature, creativity and relationships can help nurture the social and emotional skills that underpin lifelong health and wellbeing. 🌳
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You cannot prescribe a pill for a broken relationship. Or for the loss of a job, a dream, a person you loved. Or for the knowledge that life will end before it became what you hoped. These are not symptoms. They are the weight of being human.
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Happiness😍!
Look at these kids in #Barcelona experiencing true freedom in a 'BiciBus' to school every Friday. A small intervention with lasting impacts!
Who can possibly oppose streets that foster this?
(🎞️ by @lljunca)
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On the 80th anniversary of @BBCWomansHour we are entitled to an explanation of how & why the programme cosied up to trans-identified men & cold-shoulderd women who know men can't change sex.
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What stops people from getting the healthcare they need? For many, it's not as simple as booking an appointment. Find out about a #Hackathon in #Norwich next month to address this with speaker @normanlamb stmartinshousing.org.uk/be-w…
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In 1967 Britain had more electric vehicles on its roads than every other country on earth put together, and they were all delivering milk.
There were tens of thousands of them. The milk float: open sided, battery under the floor, top speed of about 15 miles an hour, and a whine you could pick out in your sleep. It was charged overnight at the depot and was back there by lunchtime.
It carried glass bottles. Each one was collected from your step the next morning, washed and refilled. A bottle went round like that 20 or 30 times before it broke. The foil cap went for scrap. There was no other packaging.
The milk had come from farms within a few miles, through a local dairy, and was on the step before 7.
So here is what the country had. A zero-emission delivery fleet. Reusable containers with a return rate any modern scheme would kill for. No plastic. A supply chain you could cycle the length of. A man who noticed if an old lady's bottles were piling up, and knocked.
It was dismantled in about 15 years, because a supermarket could sell milk a few pence cheaper in a plastic jug as a way of getting you through the door.
Every piece of that system is now the subject of a government target for 2040.
It was running in 1967, silently, in the dark, and nobody thought it was worth a mention.
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A single clinical trial of 40 children might have wrongly swayed medical evidence in favour of using Prozac to treat depression in children and adolescents, a group of researchers say.
go.nature.com/3U4nY27
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C. S. Lewis introduced The Chronicles of Narnia with a message to his goddaughter:
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"Christmas is our starting point. Connection is our purpose. Opportunity for every child and young person is our ambition." — @SteveChalke
👉Read the full story: schoolsweek.co.uk/how-school…
@SchoolsWeek
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Go ahead and join in on the day📸
MINDFUL URBAN PHOTO WALK
Tuesday 13th OCTOBER, 10 - 11:30am
START: Outside the Playhouse, NR3 1AB
Bring a phone, bring a camera or simply your eyes! Discover the beauty around you 😀
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"Southern Water fined £2.4m over multiple incidents of sewage pollution in Kent."
That of course is on top of the £7.1 million they were fined back in July, the £90 million they were fined back in 2021, or the 107 environmental offences they've been found guilty of in the last 15 years.
Really, what is the point?
itv.com/news/meridian/2026-0…
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We don’t have to look to Amsterdam. Cycling is working for people right here in the UK.
Our new Route Forward report showcases 11 case studies of safe, connected routes changing how people move.
youtube.com/watch?v=IJMH_dBX…
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Read it and weep!!! The evidence is in. Stop giving puberty blockers to kids!!!
Hello UK- talking to you too!
A landmark Finnish study has found a sharp rise in psychiatric illness among adolescents following sex-alteration procedures.
The peer-reviewed study, published in Acta Paediatrica, tracked every young person under 23 who contacted Finland's gender clinics between 1996 and 2019.
A total 2,083 individuals were studied, with 16,643 matched controls. They were followed for up to 25 years.
Finland's health registers are mandatory, which means no one opts out — this is the complete national picture.
The numbers: psychiatric morbidity rose from 9.8% to 60.7% in adolescents who underwent feminising reassignment, and from 21.6% to 54.5% in masculinising reassignment.
Even after adjusting for prior psychiatric history, gender-referred adolescents faced five times the risk of male population controls, and three times the risk of female controls.
"Psychiatric needs do not subside after medical gender reassignment," the authors concluded.
Referrals after 2010 arrived sicker. 47.9% had already needed psychiatric treatment before their first clinic visit, against 15.3% among controls.
The authors' read: for some adolescents, gender distress may be secondary to other mental health challenges.
The evidence keeps mounting. The silencing continues anyway.
How many more adolescents will be told this is "care"?
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My most used psych-diagnoses would be:
Social suffering
Situational distress
Sane reaction (to e.g. poverty, abuse, overwork, inequality)
Complex trauma
Meaninglessness
Existential dread [of varying kinds]
Loneliness
Unmet needs
Just surviving syndrome
Shame they don't exist.
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"The picturesque Cornish beach where sewage is being dumped after just 7mm of rain."
Yet another water company that should have its licence revoked. Ofwat?
inews.co.uk/news/picturesque…
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Here’s the scam.. you work 12 hour days, addicted to your phone, living pay check to pay check, eating toxic food, disconnected from nature & being exposed to toxic ideology that is provoking stress
Then you feel like shit & they label you w/ a medical disorder & give you a pill
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Sweden now has "de-diagnosis" services for young adults diagnosed in childhood, who wish to remove past ADHD or autism labels. Many people re-evaluated as adults no longer meet diagnostic criteria or feel the old label limits their careers & identity...
bmj.com/content/390/bmj.r202…
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I know people who were unable to get an appointment with a psychiatrist and it saved their life. Some believe it was divine intervention. Don’t for a second buy the propaganda that access to mental health care is the greatest barrier to recovery. Entering the mental health industrial complex as currently constructed predicts life long disability more than recovery. Barriers to effective help are problematic…it’s just that effective care is rare.
The whole system needs to be burned down and rebuilt