Having a really crap couple of weeks with my MH, came on twitter because I can't sleep, and discovered it's currently sodding #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek again. My heart sank in my chest. Who exactly isn't already aware of "mental health"? We're all bloody aware. What many 1/

people aren't aware of though is the fact that services do not actually exist to support people who need help with their mental health. The constant recycled platitudes and useless suggestions are not helpful. "Ask for help" "it's ok to not be ok" "don't suffer in silence" 2/

"help is out there". No more, please. It's so insulting. You want to raise awareness of something, raise awareness of the fact that for many people, crisis care consists of someone telling them down the phone that they have the capacity to kill themselves #YouHaveCapacity 3/

Raise awareness of the fact that MH services are quietly working with police forces, using the Anti-Social Behaviour Crime and Policing Act to criminalise and even imprison people for attempting suicide or calling 999. #StopSIM 4/

Raise awareness of the fact that people are being so badly traumatised by MH services that they are actually ending their lives to escape their "care". #AbusedByServices

Raise awareness of CCGs diverting CAMHS funding away into physical health services. #CAMHSinCrisis 5/

Raise awareness of how positive risk taking has been repurposed by MH services to covertly refuse care to people in crisis. #CrisisTeamFail 6/

Raise awareness of how constant violence towards women and girls, LGBT+ people, BAME people, disabled people, and other marginalised groups is hidden behind stigmatising psychiatric labels such as BPD, so that it doesn't need to be addressed. #TraumaNotPD #BPDintheBin
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Raise awareness of the fact that people are having their suicide attempts rewritten as attention-seeking so their subsequent deaths can be swept under the rug as "accidental" by coroners. #HarmedByPDlabel 8/

Raise awareness of the #HighIntensityNetwork and their SIM model of care which has embedded police into 23 of 57 NHS MH Trusts, and uses threats of legal action to force people to stop asking for help #StopSIM. 9/

Raise awareness of the fact that numerous campaign groups around the the UK are calling for statutory public inquiries into their local NHS MH Trusts, and being ignored by the government. #TEWVdeaths #EssexMHdeaths #JusticeForLB #JusticeForZoe 10/

Raise awareness of the fact that mental health care for the most vulnerable in society is so utterly non-existant, it would be called a joke if it wasn't so incredibly unfunny..

At what point do we stop raising awareness and start making actual changes?

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