Kenneth Thompson
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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cory booker go man go! don’t stop. these are not normal times! tarrnt!!!!
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A thoughtful tribute to Gregor Henderson who helped establish a proper understanding of the importance of public mental health in the UK and internationally. Sorely missed by so many.
Gregor Henderson obituary: mental health pioneer https://t.co/9jGSTpR4qZ
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“Andy, we have never spoken, and you have no idea what you mean to me. But I hope you know what you mean to us” Wonderful tribute to @AndyMurray_news from @PeterAlanRoss
Thanks for everything, @andy_murray
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Peer support offers a valuable way for people with chronic health conditions to learn to live with and manage the complexities of their condition day to day. This article offers an overview of peer support and tips for discussing it with patients https://t.co/4eFnuA2aHh
bmj.com
### What you need to know Most people living with a long term condition spend only a small fraction of their time with healthcare professionals. Someone with diabetes, for example, will spend three...
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This is an important read. The future of mental health research needs ambition, collaboration, coherence, focus and change for lasting impact. Hand in hand with lived experience and services. Great work from @wellcometrust & @niallpboyce
wellcome.org
From neuroscience and psychiatry to history, economics and lived experience – innovation in mental health science is driven by researchers working together.
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Join @NASEM_Health for a public meeting, 1/25, that will explore the background to and state of #behavioralhealth #prevention in the United States. Register now:
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now it’s time to end child poverty. let that national movement begin here in Mr Rogers neighborhood-with the aspiration to be the best region in the country for children and youth!
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Getting my new left hip-the suffering and the solution- is just one tiny step out of trillions we will all need to take together before we gather again next year to give thanks for what we have shared and done together. https://t.co/0NnIhNylYL
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We must share our sufferings and, most critically, our solutions. That is the necessary path forward. There lies hope.
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Today, in that frame, the nation assembles to share gratitude, reflecting the cycle of ICT. The holidays’ and new year’s promise of a new beginning is before us. And so is the necessary shared work for peace and a just democracy.
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Then, anticpating the promised benefit of sharing our experiences, we begin the necessary work of considering our sufferings and our solutions together. At the end we express our thankfulness for our capacity to work together.
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In integrative community therapy- what we are calling a therapeutic community dialogue-we always start with a recounting of things people are celebrating and what they are appreciative of.
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Today with my family and friends-and anyone of you who reads this-I look forward to the communal expression of appreciation for what we have now. Among many other things I am glad my old left hip got me this far. It has given me so much to build on.
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This pre-gratitude, if I can call it that, is a salve not only for the physical pain but for the extraordinary uncertainty and unsettledness of this time. I anticipate peace and I anticipate the continuation and deepening of a just American democracy.
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It’s 5am Thanksgiving morning. I have been up awhile contemplating with anticipatory gratitude what it will be like to be pain free after my upcoming hip replacement heals.
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Join @NASEM_Health 11/6 for the first public virtual meeting of the Standing Committee on Primary Care. This new committee will discuss #PrimaryCare policy, data, and innovation in the U.S. Register now: https://t.co/1VwpN2esPP
nationalacademies.org
The committee is tasked with informing the Initiative for Strengthening Primary Health Care, a coordinated activity across agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department...
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