#Psychiatric

Julian's Rum 🥃

JuliansRum

1) The father of the El Paso shooter is Bryan Crusius. And big surprise, he’s a therapist. Most people seem to be focusing on his more recent work as a

Talk & Support J

TalkandsupportJ

TWBeing discharged | A threadA huge turning point in my mental health recovery was when I escaped by jumping over three fences & when the police finally found me I

Kim ☾

ygkcevans

A thread about Maladaptive Daydreaming since I see the word being thrown around a lot Maladaptive Daydreaming is a psychiatric condition that causes intense daydreaming that distracts a person from

Akathisia Alliance for Education and Research

akathisiaalli

Thanks for reporting on this. But psychosis and akathisia are two different things. Mantel describes it well here:https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1388469833851936771 "No physical pain has ever matched that morning's uprush of

Indigo Daya

IndigoDaya

“When is it OK to punish patients?”I’ll never forget when a social worker, from a psychiatric unit, asked me this. I was providing training.Of course, the short answer is NEVER.

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angryskelleton

When we talk about "trans people" as a monolithic cohort, we are lumping together groups of people who really don't have much in common and shouldn't be grouped together. Because

CWBChicago

CWBChicago

Dispatch: A doctor is calling for EMS and police. A patient in the COVID-19 quarantine hotel needs to be admitted to a psychiatric facility. #ChicagoScanner #Chicago ...The hotel is not

Awais Aftab

awaisaftab

There are methodological issues to consider, but assuming that this figure is correct, how do we make sense of this? At a descriptive level, it shows that the psychological

Naomi O'Leary

NaomiOhReally

Ireland typically runs a hospital bed occupancy level of 95%, and over 100% in the winter, with people lying in corridors. Our health system would be the quickest to be

Meghan Ciana Doidge

mcdoidge

[thread] Wow! The list of topics/experts available for #officehours via @sfwa's virtual #Nebulas2020 is incredible! Want to talk about writing blind/deaf characters? @snarkbat is available! Or chat with @ArkadyMartine about

Michele Dauber

mldauber

I was treated with Dexamethasone following brain surgery. It is (as my team told me) a drug that seriously messes with your mind. It is a bad drug. I could

Winston Blick

winstoncb

Some highlights from the recent Nancy Klimas webinar hosted by @itsbodypolitic on #LongCOVID #MECFS (moderated by the wonderful @AlisonSbrana) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXnUW4HpJNs&t=2256s For some intervention ideas from Dr. Klim

Sam Dylan Finch

samdylanfinch

Hey. It's okay if you have to increase your psychiatric meds right now, or if you decide to start or restart one.You're not "weak" or "unable to deal." You're doing

Mardi

startoftime1

I was busy today so I couldn't comment until now, plus I wanted to gather all the facts and let the dust settle before I said anything, but here are

Mental Health

Sectioned_

This was done to me last year.Told I’d be sectioned if I did not agree to admission so, under this threat, I agreed to admission; then told I would not

CCVI BONES

CCVIBones

IE: that "patients faking" video. Here's a story about the time I went to the ER because my HR had been around 150 for hours. Upon admission, I was shaking.