Mollie Twitchell
@m_twitchell23
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BSc Psychology at Buckingham. Expert by Experience, Advocate for change within the system for EDs, sharing my lived experience to help others -@mollietwitchellx
Joined March 2023
The quality and accessibility of inpatient treatment needs much more attention. It is an important step in the care pathway for the most severely ill.
More people with mental health struggles are being sent far from home for in-patient treatment. The solution is investment in the inpatient services. The number of NHS inpatient beds were reduced not do long ago.
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@scousepie @jamesldowns We need to change the language. 🙏🏻 We are dealing with a potentially life threatening condition, that predominantly affects young people or people of working age. Many stories confirmed yesterday that the wish to die is temporary and people are grateful for support to recover.
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Indebted to the wonderful @AgnesAyton as an example of a clinician who is able to hold compassion with courage, expertise with humility, ambition for excellence with pragmatism… and so much more. Thank you for everything you do as a true advocate for patients. #DumpTheScales
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People can benefit from intensive CBTE regardless of length of illness. This is consistent with our findings.
psychologytoday.com
Adolescents with anorexia nervosa, irrespective of the duration of their illness, can derive similar benefits from intensive enhanced cognitive-behavioral therapy.
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I am marching for #dumpthescales because ...💙⬆️ please watch video as it’s important. There is always hope that whatever the situation, length of time the person has been unwell for you can get better. @AgnesAyton @HopeVirgo
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“Eating disorders should not be a life sentence but because of the decades of underfunding, decades of stigma and decades of no training we are now in a space where eating disorders are being neglected.”
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Last night I was so pleased to host the launch of the exhibition in Parliament of the campaign to secure government funding & policy programme to tackle eating disorders, which are the cause of such suffering. @HopeVirgo & several speakers set the agenda for what’s needed
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Earlier this even in our Westminster exhibition about the Unheard Stories of Eating Disorders @AgnesAyton on how good versus bad treatment can result in a postcode lottery -and how even the most complex patients can recover.
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When we say patients have an "enduring" illness, have we thought about what that word really means? Do eating disorders really have "stages"? And is there a middle way between change-focussed therapy & resigning to so-called "untreatable" illness? Read👇 https://t.co/rrfOk6Bba0
cambridge.org
Care pathways for longstanding eating disorders must offer paths to recovery, not managed decline - Volume 48 Issue 3
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So inspired by the #DumpTheScales exhibition in Parliament. Now is the time for more investment in #EatingDisorder care, services and research if we are to help save lives now and in the future. #WithoutResearchItsJustGuessWork
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Delighted to have contributed to this important awareness raising event. We can make a difference by working together @HopeVirgo @psychgenomics @DavidViljoenED @m_twitchell23 @sensinglorna
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Amazing to see the work being done by @HopeVirgo for the continued fight for more funding with for people going through an eating disorder. Just a reminder that eating disorders can happen to anyone weather your a Man, Women, Boy, Girl. Immediate action needs to happen and
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This is so important! No one with an eating disorder is untreatable we just need to find the treatment that works for them!
Thinking about the national whole team training tomorrow for new staff working in adult eating disorder services. The topic is “patients we struggle to help”. Is there a more constructive way to approach this. E.g.: “how to help if first line treatment is not effective”?
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A date for your diary!! Please share far and wide! And come and support us in Parliament! #dumpthescales
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“We should not be giving up prematurely on people who could be helped. That’s the wrong direction of travel.”
theguardian.com
My own recovery from the ‘hopeless’ stage of this condition shows we must never give up on patients, says the writer Dorothy Dunn
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This #timetoalkday2019 I’m sharing part of a video I made (released yesterday on @bbcsesh) about how talking saved my life from attempted suicide. No problem is too small to share and I hope this story can help others. Please share, and if you need help, call @samaritans.
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