Shona Herron (she/her)
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Scottish Clinical Psychologist working in North London. Interested in incarceration, lived experience, trauma. Views my own. Research at @EmptinessPsych .
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Delighted to announce that my Doctoral Thesis has just been published in BJPsych Open! 🥲💫🧠🥂🧨📢
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More and more I am reminded that often the role of a psychologist is to hold nuance. To consider many perspectives. To sit with the discomfort of all of the mess. Especially in the face of complex systems and our natural desire to simplify or sanitise reality.
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Absolutely delighted that
@UCL_DClinPsy
have agreed to support and facilitate our first Transgender Healthcare Training session next week!
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@DanielaZigova
An interesting take. Lucy was invited by Trainees after the full cohort voted on the speakers we would like to hear from. The PTMF isn't inherently antipsychiatry, however it does challenge currently rhetoric around the medical model, as do many other approaches and speakers.
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@DanielaZigova
Ultimately the whole point of training is to experience a range of perspectives and ways of working in order to discern what kind of CP you want to be and identify which approaches fit with you. That's literally the primary aim of training.
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Over the last decade I have been physically unwell about 6 times. 4/6 of those have been in the last 18 months of training on the DClinPsy. Who knew that chronic stress, questionable work life balance and juggling 20 things at once could really fuck up your immune system?!
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Post qualifying I am determined to re-prioritise my wellbeing. I have taken a job with a small commute and great atmosphere of team support, and arranged to have 10 weeks off to travel and rest before I start. I will be reconnecting with exercise and making time for reading.
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If your feminism doesn't include Trans women because you don't believe they are women, then I'm sorry but you are fundamentally missing the point, you are in fact transphobic, and your feminism is shit. Transwomen are women. And there is space within feminism for all of us.
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Anyone submitting their
#DClinPsy
applications this year - take time to rest, self care, soothe and reflect after sending it. Regardless of the outcome you have achieved something massive, in the most challenging context, and I hope you can feel proud.
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And just like that... The UCL DclinPsy 2019 Cohort become Doctors. A wonderful bunch of change makers who have restored my faith in humanity more times than I can count over the last 3 years.
✨️🏛🌈🥲🥂
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Officially received my first paper rejection yesterday, and from The Lancet no less. Not disappointed, we knew it was a long shot. Instead so proud that we created something we believe is Lancet quality, and had the guts to give it a go! Now, on to the next journal. Watch out!
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Well, that's 6 months at
@GreatOrmondSt
over. Leaving with a huge sense of pride at what I have achieved in the most challenging role I've ever had, and hugely humbled and privileged to have worked in such wonderful teams, with such compassionate people. And now I'm a 3rd year...
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I cannot tell you the transformational power of an NHS team who actively and aggressively encourage me to take time off when I am not feeling great, physically AND emotionally. It feels radical and overwhelming to be forced to rest, take care of myself and slow down by my team.
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Every day I am grateful to be a Clinical Psychologist, but today especially. Clients share their darkest moments, and their purest joys. My colleagues work so freaking hard and support me endlessly towards a shared goal. Its bloody hard, but I am soooo grateful to do this work.
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@DanielaZigova
The comments do nothing of the sort, most try to encourage open mindedness curiosity and emphasise the need for open discussion, especially in a training context. Nasty personal comments are unacceptable. But so is close minded, refusal to engage with ideas that you don't hold.
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Yesterday, quite some time after qualifying I got to celebrate my Doctoral graduation surrounded by my loved ones. Dr Shona Joyce Herron, all gowned, capped and very proud ✨️🖤🤟🏻
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Having just published my first, first author paper, I wanted to do a Twitter summary for those who may not have the time, or be able to engage with the full paper. It is available here open access: but summary is to follow. Please feel free to share.
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Two weeks in a already loving my new role as Clinical Psychologist in acute inpatient services. Loving being surrounded by like-minded people, compassionate teams and seeing trauma informed working really working! 🙏❤️
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@abusy_mind
@5uzanneElliott
We also need Clinical Psychologists willing to engage with wider communities, politics, local government, policy and activism across all areas of society. We need to think far bigger that the NHS! 💪🏻
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Personally I am horrified by the ongoing discussion about CPs prescribing. This is NOT why I chose this career. This is NOT what my skillset is for, and where I am most useful. This is NOT what I am missing to be able to do my job better
@BPSOfficial
@UKDCP
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I cannot express the immense privilege of doing trauma therapy with clients. The levels of trust required to share the worst moments of your life with a perfect stranger are enormous, especially after life has hurt you so badly, and repeatedly. This work is an honour.
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One of my least favourite things about training is that there is always so much to do that I don't stop to celebrate the successes as they happen, because we are always moving on to the next thing. A comment from a friend today reminded me that celebrating the wins is important.
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Of all the wonderful things
@UCL_DClinPsy
has brought to my life, my classmates are the greatest gift. 16/50 of the most wonderful humans - this last week has refreshed my soul and filled my heart. I am so excited to do Year 3 with you magical bunch!
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I cannot tell you how much I value having supervisor who "gets it" and let's me bring all of my mess, confusion, sadness, joy, frustration and energy into supervision.
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@TessaRDavis
I always ask each panel member what initially attracted them to work there, and what has kept them there. Often reveals very interesting things about the work and the teams.
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I cannot yet fully articulate the experience of the first 8 weeks working as a Trainee CP in two forensic contexts. The horror, the suffering, the joy, the potential, the compassion, the frustration, the need to draw on everything I have ever learned. Wow, the privilege.
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It was a joy to have you
@ClinpsychLucy
! Thank you again for your time and grace, you share such "controversial" ideas with such humanity and humility. Thank you to
@UCL_DClinPsy
for allowing us to invite our own lecturers in our last month of training.
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Having spent the last 4 years researching emptiness, sharing this next step of our project makes me so excited I could scream. If you are over 18 years old and have ever felt empty, please spare 15 minutes to complete our anonymous survey.
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Well... we did it! First, first author publication released while in the middle of my DClinPsy. I absolutely adore this research and this project. Understanding the Typical Presentation of Emptiness: A Study of Lived Experience.
@tandfonline
@UCL_DClinPsy
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A man in prison asked me to have a whisky today for him. So this is for him and all those who are currently incarcerated and are unable to be with their loved ones at Christmas. For all the families with empty places at their tables this festive period. Thinking of you today ❤
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I'm sure Dr Alex is a great guy, and his loss is obviously tragic, but I am so fucked off that he has been made an Ambassador when there are so many INCREDIBLE Experts By Experience, who have dedicated their lives to MH campaigning and constantly get doors closed in their faces.
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The NHS is failing because the Tory government want it to. The NHS is failing because the Tory government want it to. The NHS is failing because the Tory government want it to.
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Any candidates interviewing today with
@UCL_DClinPsy
, current trainees will be available on Zoom chat from 9am to chat, answer questions and help put you at ease before or after your interviews! Come say hey!
#DClinPsy
#InterviewDay
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I can't believe that tomorrow I will be submitting a paper I have been working on for 3 years, to The Lancet. Whatever the outcome, I am so immensely proud of submitting something so fiercely inspired and informed by voices of lived experience. Here we go!
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Seeing people passing vivas, finishing training and getting job offers fills me with so much joy, and equal amounts of terror that I officially have less than a year left in training. Stomach doing back flips at the thought!
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When your supervisor tells you "by the end of this placement I fully expect you to have dramatically changed and grown as a clinician, but mostly as a person"... YES. This is why I moved to London. Bring it ON!
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My first publication INCOMING!! 🥳🥂
We are absolutely delighted to announce that our first paper on the experience of emptiness will be published by The Journal of Mental Health!! 🥳🌈👌🏻
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Beyond delighted that our end of term conference is able to be in person and live streamed. What a joy to be surrounded by wonderful friends and colleagues, especially to consider such a challenging and important topic
@UCL_DClinPsy
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First day of my CAMHs placement completed. My supervisors asked me today how likely I am to work in CAMHs in future. Today's rating 3/10 (pretty unlikely). They have set themselves the challenge to change my mind in the next 6 months. I'm excited!!
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Officially just finished my placement at Enfield CAMHS. I went in with zero experience or interesting in children. And here I am, gutted to be leaving, having learned an outrageous amount, and about to move onto ANOTER placement working with young people! Who'd have thunk it?!
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WOW! Less than a year after publication, our paper on emptiness has hit 4000 downloads/views. Completely blown away by the reception to this research! Certainly helping me work through the last 8 weeks of thesis... Watch this space. More coming soon! 🤗
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@psychmag
@juscallmekirsty
Wow, read this feeling very comfortable and disagreeing with every point. Then realised that I know the author, who is someone I would have previously have spoken highly of. Unaware that she held such arrogant, appaling views. Wow.
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Well, it's only taken 10 months. But my DClinPsy thesis is officially submit for publication. Here's to the next few months of the inevitable rejections, revisions, and resubmittions! Ah the joys of academic research...
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I certainly didn't expect this to receive the reception it has. This strongly suggests that the appetite is there: clinicians want to be more skilled in supporting Trans clients, students want to be better. So why are ALL healthcare training courses not making this mandatory?
Absolutely delighted that
@UCL_DClinPsy
have agreed to support and facilitate our first Transgender Healthcare Training session next week!
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A massive THANK YOU to everyone who has liked, shared and taken part in my Doctoral research project! We are over half-way to our target and are keen to hear from as many voices as possible. If you have ever felt empty, please consider taking part at: ✨
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Well it's official... I am going to be starting a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at
@ucl
in September! Could not be more excited and utterly delighted! Here's to the challenge of a lifetime!
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@DanielaZigova
The PTMF is an emerging, new development in our field, and not understanding it and considering/critiquing it would be a huge oversight if we want to be staying informed and up to date in our work with clients. Nobody is forcing trainees to use it, or agree with it.
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Having to get a bus, 2 tubes, a train and then walk 20 minutes on my first day of a new job is really not ideal. This journey should take me 20 minutes to drive, but we couldn't get petrol. I can afford (money/time/physically fit) to still get to work. Not everyone can.
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Nothing quite compares to the joy of arriving at the first service station over the Scottish border and being surrounded by beautiful Scottish accents once more. HOME HERE WE COME!
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Asked for a deadline extension to address peer-review comments on a article I am submitting for publication. The editor was delighted to agree to them and praised me for prioritising rest and taking care of my wellbeing. I'm not crying, you're crying.
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There have been a lot of weeks over the last year which have just been too much, emotionally. This week is one of them. Starting Monday with IWD overshadowed by racism, sexism and colourism. And now this. Women deserve better than this. There are no words.
#SarahEverard
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Huge congratulations to all those receiving their Clinical Doctorate offers. What a huge achievement, and a massive step towards your future careers. I hope you are able to feel proud and grateful and honour all your hard work that got you here.
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@JoannaLePut
This assumes you have an oven, electricity, a working fridge to store the left overs, receptacles to roast, boil and store the food. You also need to have the knowledge of how to cook. It also assumes you can access a supermarket and aren't physically or mentally struggling.
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Yesterday I was offered the chance to present my research at a massive European Conference in August. Heart almost stopped with excitement even though I would be joining remotely... Remote conference fee: €340 WHAT THE FUCK. €340 to present from my BEDROOM.
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@DanielaZigova
Also, I'm afraid that the PTMF is now a standard part of the training at most universities now, for the reason above. As many have said, multiple perspectives are essential, and avoiding ideas just because you might disagree is unfortunately not possible on training.
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Getting goosebumps watching
@KatClinPsy
's Keynote "Thrown Against a Sharp, White Background: Access, inclusion and anti-racism in clinical psychology". - Change is Coming.
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@peterkinderman
drawing a beautiful and painful parallel of the damaging synchrony between current political and mental health discourses. Calling for social justice and social change instead of medicalisation of human distress.
#socialjustice
@Mad_In_America
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💣 New Article Alert ⚠️
Delighted to share my newest article in
@ConversationUK
about our new paper in the Journal of Psychiatry Open. Delighted to see this go live today!
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Delighted to be at the
@dropthedisorder
event today. Always leave these events feeling refreshed, inspired and energised by the challenging ideas which always come out of these spaces!
#PTMFramework
@ClinpsychLucy
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I have also managed to publish a journal article, and an article for several major news outlets which has now been read by 20,000 people in a week 🥳 Me from 2 years ago would have been SCREAMING with joy and exploding champagne everywhere 🍾
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My partner and I accidentally bought about 10kg of carrots over the last few weeks due to not communicating shopping lists effectively. However it has been a very happy accident. We have now had a series of beautiful soups, and now carrot cake is in the oven. The smell is UNREAL.
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@Shannon_Psych
Very strongly. I spoke about equality, health disparities, over prescribing of medication and lack of access to long term therapy. Speak your mind. If they don't like it, then they don't deserve you!
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Hearing
@Mianthrope
talking about finding sparks of joy in difficult times and when we feel hopeless has got me crying in the gym. So excited for the
@DiscoverCommPsy
reflective space coming up! 🙌
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In true Scottish style I have managed to get incredibly sunburnt on my first day of annual leave, when the temperature was below 20. On the plus, the magnolias are utterly breathtaking at the moment!
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@aclientfirst
@dan_warrender
Normalisation of trauma responses as natural reactions to unnatural events!
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@RTimoclea
@psychmag
@juscallmekirsty
Kirsty isn't a practicing psychologist. She has a research PhD in social psychology.
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Finally sitting down to listen to
@carl1545
in
@DiscoverCommPsy
. Wow. YES. The honesty, the brutal NECCESARY truth speaking is exceptional. Social change is political. Our lives are political. Our psychology has to be political, radical, challenging and confrontational. YES!
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When I worked in Primary Care in Scotland staff were retiring early and moving into private work due to feeling overwhelmed, under supported, and like their jobs had expanded to be more social worker and housing officer than psychologist.
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We need more resources. But we also need a government that cares about its people, safe and secure housing, access to valued employment, well funded local services, a minimum basic income etc etc etc.
Mental health services don’t need more awareness. They need efficiently trained staff and resources...
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Had my last day with my placement one supervisor today - reflecting on how easy it felt to be vulnerable, tackle problems and ask for guidance when I knew the response would always be curiosity, openness and support. Feeling v fortunate for the opportunity to grow.
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Sometimes I feel so overwhelmed by the immense privilege and joy of my job that I just want to cry. The people I get to work with, and beside, and in partnership with are incredible.
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And it's the final day of interviews at
@UCL_DClinPsy
! If you have an interview today, pop onto the Zoom and come speak to us. Current trainees available all day to answer questions or just chat before and after your interviews!
#DClinPsy
#FinalPush
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Really missing home today. This was lovely to read.
Thread:
I've moved to Scotland 20 years ago and it was the best decision that I've ever made.
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If you are interested in hearing me get giddy with excitement while talking to
@LockedUpLiving
then our podcast episode is out today. Here me chat about emptiness, it's impact and relevance to restricted environments!
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@Ryanair
Still waiting on my refund for cancelled flights from 24/09. Absolutely atrocious service from RyanAir. No word when I can expect this, and can't get through to speak to anyone. Also no updates about my claim for compensation either...
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"We should be dealing with structural racism"... "But what should we do tomorrow?"... "We should deal with structural racism!" says
@MichaelMarmot
. LOUDER FOR THOSE AT THE BACK! 👏🏻👏🏿👏🏽👏🏾
#TransformationSeminar
@AFNCCF
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Just had a fabulous 9am reflective practice seminar over Skype with my wonderful colleagues on the
@ucl
DClinPsy course on the topic of Cultural Competence. I'm so lucky to be surrounded by such excellent humans during this difficult time.
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@eolasinntinn
I absolutely agree Steph. A huge part of psychology is about only ever working within the boundaries of your competence. It's not enough to just reflect on when you were outwith your competence and skills - you should never have been out with them in the first place.
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Witnessing and feeling the full force of people's unbearable distress, suffering and trauma in a society that doesn't care about the right things is really brutal some days. Eternally grateful for compassionate colleagues and a safe place to go home to eat takeaway.
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I was catcalled 5 times this afternoon on my way to meet friends for a picnic in the park. I won't tell you what I was wearing, because its not relevant. All of the people who catcalled me were white men, likely (based on my judgement) aged 25 - 60. This is not a few bad men.
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A great afternoon learning about
#OpenDialogue
approaches, their implementation in Kent and taking a curious, gentle, holistic and human approach to our clients in crisis. Seems common sense in so many ways yet unfortunately not common practice. Thanks Yasmin Ishaq!
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@juscallmekirsty
@ShakibaMoghadam
@psychmag
You mean Shona, a highly educated, highly successful woman who embraces tolerance, openness to lived experience, respect and equality. Unfortunately you know nothing of such things Kirsty. I hope you have got what you hoped for from this situation.
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Today one of my senior colleagues said that she thought I was the next
@ClinpsychLucy
and I think it's the biggest compliment I have ever received, beaming from ear to ear.
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We don't need another white cisgendered heterosexual man speaking about mental health. We need sustained investment in trained professionals, and services, social and political change and accountability for failures to provide adequate services.
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@DanBealeCocks
@DanielaZigova
Psychiatrists were highly skilled medical professionals with a wealth of skills and knowledge beyond just psychiatric diagnosis, which is only one tool they offer. Being anti-diagnosis does not mean anti-psychiatry. Challenging something does not mean you are anti-it.
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@AbstractFairy
@ClinPsySussex
I find that my therapist helps me to make links that I might not have reached yet, challenges things I take for granted and scaffolds another perspective. They also provide me with space and time to focus on my own needs, which I rarely get opportunities to do.
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Well I guess I'm up for a podcast award...! Wild times...
The Locked up Living Podcast: Entry for Wellbeing category of
@britpodawards
Including :,
@HerronShona
Joe Sabien of
@seasanctuaryMH
and Caroline Purvey of
@TREUK
on Podbean, check it out!
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So here's some things I want to celebrate. Today I passed my MPR 🥳 WOOHOOO! And last Friday I found out that I passed my last ever exams! YAAASSSSS 🥳
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There aren't the words to describe the rollercoaster of emotions that I am experiencing in my last 2 weeks of my final placement. Excitement for the future, pain and heartbreak at the loss of leaving, gratitude for everything that I have gained, hope for what I have left behind.
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The levels of hatred and rage I hold for our government feels overwhelming. The complete lack of humanity, the lack of willingness to do the right thing. Its disgusting. I'm appalled to be represented by politicians with such disregard of human life and suffering.
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Probably not going to stop going on about this until we publish the next one....... 🧠🙏✨🤓💖
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FOUR HUNDRED PEOPLE!? I am blown away. We launched this project less than 3 weeks ago! Thank you so much to everyone - and please keep Retweeting and sharing. We want to hear from the largest, most diverse group possible. THANK YOU! 🤗💖
An enormous THANK YOU to the 400 people who have already taken part in our research project! We appreciate you so much! 🥳✨
If you have't taken part, are over 18 and have ever felt empty, head to to get involved!
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It's terrifying how utterly exhausted, perpetually tired and physically drained I feel at the moment, having taken no longer than 2 days annual leave since Christmas. I am desperate for a week off in the comfort of home, with good food and good friends. Cannot come soon enough.
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First citation for my paper this weekend, and it was in a paper on thematic analysis, citing it as an example of good practice. Cryyyying
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Two years after this article, my work around emptiness continues. Tomorrow I will present to Psychologists in North London, encouraging conversation about how we support people who feel empty in our mental health services.
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Spent my day on placement watching talks and presentations by
@JacquiDillon
and
@ClinpsychLucy
- always my place to go whenever I need a bit of extra fire in my belly. Thank you both for all that you do. You inspire me constantly.
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So while, I don't have time to pop the champagne and I might not be able to give these these wins the celebration that they deserve. I'm putting them here, because the wins (big and small) are what make the hard days worth it, and this was the stuff I previously dreamed of 👌🏻☁️
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Spent the drive home to Scotland today thinking about the privilege of being able to return to a safe home, and to choose to be with loved ones at this time of year. Thinking of all those who this isn't a possibility for.
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Today is my last placement MPR of the DClinPsy. And I have 8 weeks left on placement ever. Wow. I'm not even sure what to do with this information.
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