Scout puts into words so eloquently how I’ve felt about CMHT and wider MH services. The line “if they need you to not be sick, then you are not sick” is so powerful

I’m glad it helped. There are quite a variety of experiences so hearing a positive one is reassuring! Thanks

Ah interesting! thanks

Sounds like you’ve had a really tough time with them. Thanks for sharing your experience. Hope you’re doing okay 🩷

Ah I don’t know what kind of advocate they are but will message you once I’ve found out. Thanks 🩷

Has anyone used an advocate to try to make progress in the NHS mental health system? I’d be so grateful to hear about any positive or negative experiences 🩷
#madsky

Hope things go as okay as they can. Wards can be so overwhelming so hopefully you’ve got some home comforts. 💜

All I did this year was survive (at times against my will). This new year I won’t be celebrating another year starting/ending but I’ll certainly be thinking of anyone else that has just survived. I see you and I’m thinking of you 💜

Massive congratulations! 🥳

10 years of equal marriage🎉🏳️‍🌈

I reminded Parliament yesterday that this hasn't meant total equality, love & freedom for all in Scotland.

Where we should have solidarity, we have hate. Let's keep fighting for everyone's right to love & be loved as their authentic self.

Self-determination is a core principle of feminism - TERFs seem to have forgotten that So why have so-called ‘trans-exclusionary radical feminists’ moved to remove this concept from feminism altogether?

✊🏻 "Multiple UK surveys suggest that not only do most Brits support trans people, but that British women tend to support trans people more than British men by a significant margin" - Alice Bethell

www.wearequeeraf.com/self-determi...

Exactly! I don’t know of anyone that finds the TIPP skill as revolutionary as crisis teams claim it is

when I’m not busy I’m not coping
NHS: Have you tried distracting yourself more to get through this bit
Me: it’s been 5 years…
NHS: dare I say ✨cup of tea and TV✨

NHS: but distraction techniques aren’t to be used all the time as you’ve eventually got to deal with the stuff
Me: …

Me: can I get some help for my mental health please ☺️
NHS: oops no therapy, only TIPP skill to get through this bit
Me: ok thanks, I’ve tried it but I think I need talking therapy
NHS: DISTRACTION TECHNIQUES!!!!!! To get through this bit
Me: ok all I now do is distract myself from my thoughts and

Cis allies, don’t be hip, be helpful. Speak out, speak up, spread the word. Put yourself in an uncomfortable place: in the pub, at Pilates, round Cousin John’s. Risk ridicule and hate. Wherever you go, it will never be as uncomfortable as the place your trans friends and family are forced to occupy.

Always sucks when you hit the finale of a tv show you’ve been binge watching for comfort.

They kill you. Is that mild?

"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.

Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC

Non email ways CPNs can be reached:
Telekinesis
Paper planes
Semophore - waving little flags
Sock puppets outside the window during MDT
Howling on a wet windy Moor
Circuitous ring round CMHT, SPA, HTT, 111...

Fuck HBO

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I agree, they just seem to always have issues with it. I find that I always have to follow things up and prompt things when no appointment letter materialises.

They’ve said they will look into it and let me know which is slightly hopeful

I’m at the point of asking am I disillusioned as to what the NHS MH system should be doing? Am I asking for too much? Is care for my mental health something completely unreasonable?

Again I apologise for complaining a lot but I just need to shout about it somehow!

You’re absolutely not a failure but I totally understand it’s difficult to convince yourself! Hope today gets a bit better. 🩷

It feels like it always comes back to being our fault as patients. If you’re not fixed in a few sessions of CBT then (it feels like) you’re labelled as complex, problematic or difficult. It completely ignores societal factors that are causing bad mental health/illness.
Apologies, angry rant over!

Follow up whilst we are at it:

Everyone has #mentalhealth
Not everyone will have #mentalillness

Please people with mental illness are begging for you to know the difference here 😭
#madtwitter

Thanks!

Thank you!

Odd that they’d need the specific diagnosis! Thanks