Dr Alys Cole-King
@alyscoleking.bsky.social
Aim to support others. Coproduced compassion-based training & self-help resources. Free SafetyPlanning website StayingSafe.net Director 4MentalHealth & Connecting with People training. Retired Liaison Psychiatrist.
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Safety Plans should be like fingerprints - bespoke and unique to each person:
•Not a one size fits all
•Coproduced with trust and compassion
•May look simple but include actions to safely navigate distress and suicidal thoughts
Don’t have one? StayingSafe.net can help you make your own #SafetyPlan
•Not a one size fits all
•Coproduced with trust and compassion
•May look simple but include actions to safely navigate distress and suicidal thoughts
Don’t have one? StayingSafe.net can help you make your own #SafetyPlan
Suicidal thoughts are more common than you’d imagine.
BUT we are not our thoughts.
Perhaps things have built up, you’re overwhelmed or can’t see how things can improve
Can you try to ‘stay safe’ for now?
StayingSafe.net has ideas for a way through how you’re feeling.
Also Safety Plan Cymraeg ❤️🏴
BUT we are not our thoughts.
Perhaps things have built up, you’re overwhelmed or can’t see how things can improve
Can you try to ‘stay safe’ for now?
StayingSafe.net has ideas for a way through how you’re feeling.
Also Safety Plan Cymraeg ❤️🏴
July 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Suicidal thoughts are more common than you’d imagine.
BUT we are not our thoughts.
Perhaps things have built up, you’re overwhelmed or can’t see how things can improve
Can you try to ‘stay safe’ for now?
StayingSafe.net has ideas for a way through how you’re feeling.
Also Safety Plan Cymraeg ❤️🏴
BUT we are not our thoughts.
Perhaps things have built up, you’re overwhelmed or can’t see how things can improve
Can you try to ‘stay safe’ for now?
StayingSafe.net has ideas for a way through how you’re feeling.
Also Safety Plan Cymraeg ❤️🏴
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Important paper by @alyscoleking.bsky.social and Professor Steve Platt: Suicide Prevention for Physicians www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Suicide prevention for physicians: identification, intervention and mitigation of risk
General hospital doctors and general practitioners are at the forefront of suicide prevention and frequently assess patients following an episode of s…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Important paper by @alyscoleking.bsky.social and Professor Steve Platt: Suicide Prevention for Physicians www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Asking for help can be really hard. Don’t just say ‘let me know if I can do anything’
January 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Asking for help can be really hard. Don’t just say ‘let me know if I can do anything’
Know someone who’s dreading 2025? Please don’t wait for them to reach out. Instead ‘reach in’ to them. It may be hard to do, but also the most important conversation for both of you. Asking if they’ve seen the StayingSafe.net website is a gentle way to introduce a #SafetyPlan to help them stay safer
January 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Know someone who’s dreading 2025? Please don’t wait for them to reach out. Instead ‘reach in’ to them. It may be hard to do, but also the most important conversation for both of you. Asking if they’ve seen the StayingSafe.net website is a gentle way to introduce a #SafetyPlan to help them stay safer
Do you support anyone who is dreading Christmas?
It’s a difficult time of year for many. Safety Plans can equip people to know how to deal with their distress more safely
•Self-help strategies
•Making their situation safer (reducing access to means)
•Support incl crisis 24/7
See StayingSafe.net
It’s a difficult time of year for many. Safety Plans can equip people to know how to deal with their distress more safely
•Self-help strategies
•Making their situation safer (reducing access to means)
•Support incl crisis 24/7
See StayingSafe.net
December 19, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Do you support anyone who is dreading Christmas?
It’s a difficult time of year for many. Safety Plans can equip people to know how to deal with their distress more safely
•Self-help strategies
•Making their situation safer (reducing access to means)
•Support incl crisis 24/7
See StayingSafe.net
It’s a difficult time of year for many. Safety Plans can equip people to know how to deal with their distress more safely
•Self-help strategies
•Making their situation safer (reducing access to means)
•Support incl crisis 24/7
See StayingSafe.net
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Talia don't apologise for being human 💖
There's a great free to access resource Stayingsafe.net from @alyscoleking.bsky.social & team, hope it helps xx
There's a great free to access resource Stayingsafe.net from @alyscoleking.bsky.social & team, hope it helps xx
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December 17, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Talia don't apologise for being human 💖
There's a great free to access resource Stayingsafe.net from @alyscoleking.bsky.social & team, hope it helps xx
There's a great free to access resource Stayingsafe.net from @alyscoleking.bsky.social & team, hope it helps xx
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we are LIVE 🌈
stayingsafe.net
aus.stayingsafe.net
As always, totally free for anyone to use and could be especially helpful around the holiday period
Thank you to everyone who has been part of this update, we are forever grateful for your support 🙏💜
stayingsafe.net
aus.stayingsafe.net
As always, totally free for anyone to use and could be especially helpful around the holiday period
Thank you to everyone who has been part of this update, we are forever grateful for your support 🙏💜
Home | Staying Safe
stayingsafe.net
December 12, 2024 at 11:33 AM
we are LIVE 🌈
stayingsafe.net
aus.stayingsafe.net
As always, totally free for anyone to use and could be especially helpful around the holiday period
Thank you to everyone who has been part of this update, we are forever grateful for your support 🙏💜
stayingsafe.net
aus.stayingsafe.net
As always, totally free for anyone to use and could be especially helpful around the holiday period
Thank you to everyone who has been part of this update, we are forever grateful for your support 🙏💜
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Suicide prevention is EVERYONE'S business. It only takes 3 GOLDEN minutes (Cole-King & Platt) to change a full stop into a semicolon. The people of 4Mental Health are a shining light of hope.. we can all carry the torch with them 🙏🏼☂️
📣 📣 NEW StayingSafe.net safety planning website
•Easy navigation
•Contemporary look
•New interactive Safety Plan
•Safety Plan headings in first person
•Enhanced ideas for 'Making my situation safer' and 'Things to distract me'
•Option to add timeframe for activities
•New logo
Please help to share 🙏🏼
•Easy navigation
•Contemporary look
•New interactive Safety Plan
•Safety Plan headings in first person
•Enhanced ideas for 'Making my situation safer' and 'Things to distract me'
•Option to add timeframe for activities
•New logo
Please help to share 🙏🏼
December 12, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Suicide prevention is EVERYONE'S business. It only takes 3 GOLDEN minutes (Cole-King & Platt) to change a full stop into a semicolon. The people of 4Mental Health are a shining light of hope.. we can all carry the torch with them 🙏🏼☂️
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Great to see your commitment to continuous improvement. A really useful tool. I love the brolly too - to shelter from the storm, which will eventually pass.
December 12, 2024 at 4:57 PM
Great to see your commitment to continuous improvement. A really useful tool. I love the brolly too - to shelter from the storm, which will eventually pass.
📣 📣 NEW StayingSafe.net safety planning website
•Easy navigation
•Contemporary look
•New interactive Safety Plan
•Safety Plan headings in first person
•Enhanced ideas for 'Making my situation safer' and 'Things to distract me'
•Option to add timeframe for activities
•New logo
Please help to share 🙏🏼
•Easy navigation
•Contemporary look
•New interactive Safety Plan
•Safety Plan headings in first person
•Enhanced ideas for 'Making my situation safer' and 'Things to distract me'
•Option to add timeframe for activities
•New logo
Please help to share 🙏🏼
December 12, 2024 at 9:08 AM
📣 📣 NEW StayingSafe.net safety planning website
•Easy navigation
•Contemporary look
•New interactive Safety Plan
•Safety Plan headings in first person
•Enhanced ideas for 'Making my situation safer' and 'Things to distract me'
•Option to add timeframe for activities
•New logo
Please help to share 🙏🏼
•Easy navigation
•Contemporary look
•New interactive Safety Plan
•Safety Plan headings in first person
•Enhanced ideas for 'Making my situation safer' and 'Things to distract me'
•Option to add timeframe for activities
•New logo
Please help to share 🙏🏼
Reposted by Dr Alys Cole-King
At 4MH our vision is that people in distress have adequate personal and social resources and support from those around them to build lives worth living.
November 27, 2024 at 2:28 PM
At 4MH our vision is that people in distress have adequate personal and social resources and support from those around them to build lives worth living.
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I feel like I shouldn't have to keep saying this, but it astonishes me that it keeps happening:
If your patient has a very obvious, painful, traumatic injury, give them analgesia. Give them proper doses & give it early.
Yes, even if they aren't screaming.
Don't let people suffer quietly.
#MedSky
If your patient has a very obvious, painful, traumatic injury, give them analgesia. Give them proper doses & give it early.
Yes, even if they aren't screaming.
Don't let people suffer quietly.
#MedSky
November 30, 2024 at 12:03 PM
I feel like I shouldn't have to keep saying this, but it astonishes me that it keeps happening:
If your patient has a very obvious, painful, traumatic injury, give them analgesia. Give them proper doses & give it early.
Yes, even if they aren't screaming.
Don't let people suffer quietly.
#MedSky
If your patient has a very obvious, painful, traumatic injury, give them analgesia. Give them proper doses & give it early.
Yes, even if they aren't screaming.
Don't let people suffer quietly.
#MedSky
Morning lovely people!
November 30, 2024 at 8:10 AM
Morning lovely people!
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Check out this new work from our lab led by Stanley Seah, showing that better skills in emotion differentiation protect against intergenerational transmission of social anxiety symptoms from parents to teens. Effects are driven by reduced behavioral avoidance in teens with better ED! #PsychSciSky
Negative emotion differentiation buffers against intergenerational risk for social anxiety in at-risk adolescent girls
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) tends to emerge during adolescence and is more prevalent among those assigned female at birth. Parental social anxiety c…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 22, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Check out this new work from our lab led by Stanley Seah, showing that better skills in emotion differentiation protect against intergenerational transmission of social anxiety symptoms from parents to teens. Effects are driven by reduced behavioral avoidance in teens with better ED! #PsychSciSky
Lovely to see so many familiar faces on here! Sorry not been posting much but snowed under working on some very exciting projects that will share soon!
November 28, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Lovely to see so many familiar faces on here! Sorry not been posting much but snowed under working on some very exciting projects that will share soon!
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Alas neither Labour UK nor Wes Streeting on here yet, but could we all agree that however MPs vote on AD next week, this is a huge opportunity for the government to announce - finally, after decades of successive governments failing dying people - proper NHS funding of palliative care?
November 23, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Alas neither Labour UK nor Wes Streeting on here yet, but could we all agree that however MPs vote on AD next week, this is a huge opportunity for the government to announce - finally, after decades of successive governments failing dying people - proper NHS funding of palliative care?
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Join us for a online open day webinar on Wednesday 20 Nov 10am-12pm. If you're a health professional or from a community organisation this is a great way to find out more about our life-saving work with men in suicidal crisis. Book a space at events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c37ff4...
November 14, 2024 at 10:11 AM
Join us for a online open day webinar on Wednesday 20 Nov 10am-12pm. If you're a health professional or from a community organisation this is a great way to find out more about our life-saving work with men in suicidal crisis. Book a space at events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c37ff4...
How you make a Safety Plan is almost as important as what you put in it.
Compassionate listening, validation and sitting with another person’s pain enables them to share their reasons for dying - so we then earn the right to share authentic hope and talk about reasons for living #SuicidePrevention
Compassionate listening, validation and sitting with another person’s pain enables them to share their reasons for dying - so we then earn the right to share authentic hope and talk about reasons for living #SuicidePrevention
November 19, 2024 at 10:39 PM
How you make a Safety Plan is almost as important as what you put in it.
Compassionate listening, validation and sitting with another person’s pain enables them to share their reasons for dying - so we then earn the right to share authentic hope and talk about reasons for living #SuicidePrevention
Compassionate listening, validation and sitting with another person’s pain enables them to share their reasons for dying - so we then earn the right to share authentic hope and talk about reasons for living #SuicidePrevention
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Bullying & harassment costs NHS £2 billion annually. Shocking but sadly unsurprising. The hesitation to call out racism, compared to sexism, shows the urgent need for antiracism & compassionate leadership as it saves costs & lives
#NHS
#AntiRacism
#CompassionateLeadership
#Bullying
#Harassment
#NHS
#AntiRacism
#CompassionateLeadership
#Bullying
#Harassment
November 16, 2024 at 6:16 PM
Bullying & harassment costs NHS £2 billion annually. Shocking but sadly unsurprising. The hesitation to call out racism, compared to sexism, shows the urgent need for antiracism & compassionate leadership as it saves costs & lives
#NHS
#AntiRacism
#CompassionateLeadership
#Bullying
#Harassment
#NHS
#AntiRacism
#CompassionateLeadership
#Bullying
#Harassment
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October 21, 2024 at 4:22 AM
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link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Our edited volume, Epistemic Injustice in Mental Healthcare, has now been published and is free to download. I made a very small contribution - excellently edited and led by @lisabortolotti.bsky.social and supported by Wellcome
Epistemic Justice in Mental Healthcare
This open access book features chapters from clinicians, psychologists, and philosophers to explore issues about epistemic justice in mental healthcare.
link.springer.com
November 18, 2024 at 1:49 PM
link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Our edited volume, Epistemic Injustice in Mental Healthcare, has now been published and is free to download. I made a very small contribution - excellently edited and led by @lisabortolotti.bsky.social and supported by Wellcome
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It’s #SelfPromotionMonday so may I present an article I wrote recently on how to use the SPACE framework (see next post) to support autistic patients and staff in the ICU
It’s free to read and has points relevant to all healthcare settings
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
It’s free to read and has points relevant to all healthcare settings
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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November 18, 2024 at 1:46 PM
It’s #SelfPromotionMonday so may I present an article I wrote recently on how to use the SPACE framework (see next post) to support autistic patients and staff in the ICU
It’s free to read and has points relevant to all healthcare settings
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
It’s free to read and has points relevant to all healthcare settings
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...