CompassionateMH
@CompassionMH
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Tweets by @bowenbrigid, founder of Compassionate Mental Health CIC. Curating a series of events & trainings to change the conversation around mental illness.
Cardiff, Wales, UK
Joined September 2016
RT @Lacey_artist: Would you like to contribute to my next mental health services art project?. It will be similar to my previous piece belo….
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Hopeful conversation @_innercompass . Treat the person not the condition says @joannamoncrieff - we need a more personalised, less harmful approach . Safe deprescribing needed both within & outside #mentalhealth services @LauraDelano .
theinnercompass.org
Inner Compass Initiative is a non-profit organization working towards a future beyond the mental health system.
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RT @LauraDelano: (1/2) It’s been a whirlwind leading up to and following the launch of my memoir about my experiences with the mental healt….
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RT @_innercompass: ICYMI: If you’re a member of our online mutual aid platform, Inner Compass Exchange, you’ll find our community is truly….
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RT @Jessica_Pons_: 🗣️Please share 💫 join us for the ISPS UK conference ‘Psychosis: Beyond Them & Us, Finding Common Ground’, May 14th, Manc….
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Great @CNN interview @LauraDelano about her book Unshrunk 📖 & how she lost her late teens & 20s to being in & out of psych wards & programmes & on a raft of meds. She says she wishes there had been other choices available, of places and ways to recover .
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Laura Delano, author of “Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance” raises her personal concerns with psychiatric drugs and how her life has changed without them.
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Wonderful to have a review #ByTheWell - our 16th Compassionate Mental Health gathering - in @psychmag 🌟 thank you #VictoriaTischler for being part of our pop-up community, & sharing your brilliant research on the transformative power of Art 🦋 Save dates for no.17 June 2-5 🌸.
Rethinking compassionate mental health, by the well. @victischler, Chartered Psychologist and Professor of Behavioural Science at the University of Surrey, visits a pop-up therapeutic community in Coed Hills, Wales @CompassionMH .
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RT @MichelleFunk3: Just launched: Our new @WHO Guidance on #MentalHealth Policy & Strategic Action Plans. Access the Guidance here: https….
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WHO guidance on mental health policy and strategic action plans This Guidance provides a framework for strengthening governance, service delivery, workforce capacity and treatment, care and support....
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RT @LisaTMSA: Only in recent years I learnt my ‘mental illnesses’ were more than my broken brain. Education & awareness of causes, rights &….
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Limited spaces left on our upcoming #Compassionate #MentalHealth learning retreat. If you’re in need of some nourishment & inspiration, & are interested in more creative ways to meet distress in ourselves & others, then join us #ByTheWell
compassionatementalhealth.co.uk
A three-day experiential event to explore mental health systems transformation
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I don't know the full background, but can hear the cry of a mother's heart, calling out to her networks so her daughter can get the palliative care, support & comfort she desperately needs - care that can’t be currently provided at home, or on a hospital ward. Pls Share.
My Heart is in pieces . Please please repost . My health is on its arse. I’m not able to care for Freya for the foreseeable future, causing me emotional distress. @NHSForthValley has abandoned Freya in terms of her care provision at home, this is leaving Freya in a vulnerable
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Once on the path to becoming a Benedictine nun, andrea zwicknagl instead found her calling in the "mad workforce" - turning personal experience into advocacy & championing social justice & human rights #MentalHealth services. Join andrea in Wales👉🔗
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RT @NiallHarbison: This was me 4 years ago. I was in ICU in hospital as I’d just nearly drunk myself to death. I’d been an alcoholic and….
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RT @LauraDelano: I received the first hardcover copy of my book, and boy is it beautiful. Surreal to consider that we're only a month out f….
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Hooray Leo the Shepherd dog & Apollo the rook will be back on our well-being team #ByTheWell - our 16th #compassionate #MentalHealth gathering, along with the wonderful Aimee Wallis who rescued & rehabilitated them 🐕🦺 ❤️🩹 🪶#SanctuaryAnimalAssistedTherapy
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RT @John_Dabell: Start every day with a healthy dose of vitamin C – Conviction! Follow this with plenty of Vitamin D- Determination. Not fo….
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Still places to join us #ByTheWell
compassionatementalhealth.co.uk
A three-day experiential event to explore mental health systems transformation
Wonderful feedback from NHS Clinical Nurse Specialist Madelaine, who says the #Compassionate #MentalHealth Gathering gave her a sense of hope & community, & made her feel less isolated. If you are overdue some nourishing CPD, join us in March #ByTheWell
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One of the best things about our in person learning retreats is the positive ripples that flow from them 💫🌊✨ @emmyzen & @MalcolmStern met at the last gathering, & went on to record this wonderful conversation for Malcolm’s podcast
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RT @JustinBowen71: A short story about #grief, healing & blending families. My late-wife was Belgian. She would always speak to the chil….
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