always thinking, often doing. #actuallyautistic, chronically ill, mad and care-experienced. EbE for the NHS. Witchy woman. Views my own. (she/they)
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For Fern’s friends, and for those who have followed her story #JusticeForFern #JusticeForFernF
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We’re grateful to @scarletemilyy for her work on this, and good to read perspectives and contributions from @HerCircleNE @PauseOrg. Thank you all
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Should the TVs in the communal areas of an acute psychiatric ward be boxed in?
I think they should be, but I’m curious on the opinions of others.
IMO people already know they’re in hospital, and making a hospital pretty/homely doesn’t stop it from being abusive, and private hospitals have frequently been found to be both of those things. It feels to me like one of those ‘quick wins’ for the appearance of change.
Going through my files, found a draft care plan (specifically for crisis) I co-wrote with Fern ~a year before she died. Says a lot we were writing our own care plans. I was 18 when I wrote this.
Most handwriting is mine but you can see a bit of hers. #JusticeForFern
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The main findings include: 89% of Trusts reported no dissociative care pathway; 78% of Trusts reported no complex trauma pathway; 89% route dissociative patients into PD/CEN services; the absence of NICE guidelines was repeatedly cited as the reason for the lack of services. 2/3
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"I don't know who community #mentalhealth services does see these days"
My GP said to me earlier today
(I was talking about how severe mental illness used to be the core business of NHS community mental health, but that they are no longer commissioned to care SMI folks at all)
When will it be learnt that criminalising people in distress in public solves nothing?
Instead we could fund:
24/7 A&E alternatives
Day service/crisis houses
Emergency MH mobile response teams
Secure and safe housing
A functioning CMHRS with access to therapy
Assertive outreach
Using Community Protection Warning as a substitute for SIM
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Using Community Protection Warning as a substitute for SIM
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"In this community we listen to each other. We believe each other. We witness each other's pain. We honour each other's lives. We remember each other's words."
Along with plagiarising @jaunty_aphorism and @RITB_ this playwright also felt entitled to the testimony of TEWV (1/4)
[CW: rape, suicide]
Survivor writing isnt a quarry for academics, journalists, or artists to mine without consent.
I wrote this open letter after discovering a playwright had plagiarised my blogs & other survivor writing.
We are not your source material
psychiatryisdrivingmemad.co.…
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[CW: rape, suicide]
Survivor writing isnt a quarry for academics, journalists, or artists to mine without consent.
I wrote this open letter after discovering a playwright had plagiarised my blogs & other survivor writing.
We are not your source material
psychiatryisdrivingmemad.co.…
hello! I have been absent from most everywhere after a 13m IP admission - which considering I’ve been in IP LX spaces for quite a long time was not an experience I was planning on revisiting! some things that surprised me during my admission 🧵
and I was unpleasantly reminded - that all the well written policy in the world is completely pointless if nobody cares about following it. I had to wait six months for all complaint responses, which achieved basically nothing.
We need: a huge culture change. far fewer agency staff. no PD dx in hosp (or anywhere tbh). therapy in hospital. unbelievably, we need sanitary bins. I cannot believe I have to say that we need sanitary bins. #madtwitter #PDinthebin #mentalhealth #psychward