Dr Elizabeth Hawkins
@elizabethpsychs.bsky.social
Professional (clinical psychologist) and lived experience of long term health conditions and neurodiversity.
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Hello bluesky! Please connect if you share my interests in:
💙 Clinical psychology
💙 Long term health conditions
💙 Neurodiversity
💙 Third wave CBT
💙 Weight management
💙 Science
💙 Politics
💙 Dogs
💙 Fantasy books
💙 Fanfics
💙 Cooking
💙 Random hyperfocused interests
💙 Clinical psychology
💙 Long term health conditions
💙 Neurodiversity
💙 Third wave CBT
💙 Weight management
💙 Science
💙 Politics
💙 Dogs
💙 Fantasy books
💙 Fanfics
💙 Cooking
💙 Random hyperfocused interests
I think it's finally time to accept that cottage cheese recipes just don't taste that nice.
September 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I think it's finally time to accept that cottage cheese recipes just don't taste that nice.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
There must have been real issues with this for them to have acted so quickly... Oh wait "There are no trans women footballers registered in the women’s game in Scotland".
There must have been real issues with this for them to have acted so quickly... Oh wait "There are no trans women footballers registered in the women’s game in Scotland".
SFA to ban transgender women from playing in women’s football
The Scottish Football Association is to ban transgender women from participating in women’s football after updating its guidelines on the issue
www.theguardian.com
April 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
There must have been real issues with this for them to have acted so quickly... Oh wait "There are no trans women footballers registered in the women’s game in Scotland".
There must have been real issues with this for them to have acted so quickly... Oh wait "There are no trans women footballers registered in the women’s game in Scotland".
Stand up for trans rights 🏳️⚧️
Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8
Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8
April 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Stand up for trans rights 🏳️⚧️
Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8
Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8
Trying to change my shopping habits to be more EU/British focussed. Turns out everything is US-owned, made in China.
April 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Trying to change my shopping habits to be more EU/British focussed. Turns out everything is US-owned, made in China.
As a non-binary gendered (both in terms of how I feel and how I look) but female/woman person, I'm really worried about being publicly harassed/excluded for not performing a feminine enough appearance.
April 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
As a non-binary gendered (both in terms of how I feel and how I look) but female/woman person, I'm really worried about being publicly harassed/excluded for not performing a feminine enough appearance.
Reposted by Dr Elizabeth Hawkins
Trans people have long warned that most of the victims of anti-trans laws and policies would be cis women and girls who don't have the "right look."
Walmart called the police on a cis-woman using the women's bathroom.
Even after proving she's a woman, "one deputy continued to question her appearance, insisting she 'looked like a man.'"
😡 😡 😡
Even after proving she's a woman, "one deputy continued to question her appearance, insisting she 'looked like a man.'"
😡 😡 😡
Cis woman confronted by police officers in Arizona Walmart restroom for looking too masculine speaks out (exclusive)
“The only men in the women’s restroom were the cops,” Kalaya Morton said.
www.advocate.com
March 8, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Trans people have long warned that most of the victims of anti-trans laws and policies would be cis women and girls who don't have the "right look."
Let's take from the poor and sick, so the rich will lend us back the money they drain from the middle.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Chancellor set to cut welfare spending by billions
Cuts to areas including welfare will be put to the official forecaster ahead of the Spring Statement.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Let's take from the poor and sick, so the rich will lend us back the money they drain from the middle.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hey BBC, there are media guidelines for images on articles about obesity and this does not meet them. It's very dehumanising to be reduced to a pair of legs on a scale - PEOPLE live with obesity, not legs.
March 4, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Hey BBC, there are media guidelines for images on articles about obesity and this does not meet them. It's very dehumanising to be reduced to a pair of legs on a scale - PEOPLE live with obesity, not legs.
Reposted by Dr Elizabeth Hawkins
It's weird as a biologist to say "ignore the science part" but here we are
Science: Vaccines don't cause autism.
BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER. If vaccines caused autism I would still recommend them. Dying of preventable disease is bad. Autism isn't a disease and most of the "bad" of autism is society.
Science: Vaccines don't cause autism.
BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER. If vaccines caused autism I would still recommend them. Dying of preventable disease is bad. Autism isn't a disease and most of the "bad" of autism is society.
February 15, 2025 at 6:16 PM
It's weird as a biologist to say "ignore the science part" but here we are
Science: Vaccines don't cause autism.
BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER. If vaccines caused autism I would still recommend them. Dying of preventable disease is bad. Autism isn't a disease and most of the "bad" of autism is society.
Science: Vaccines don't cause autism.
BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER. If vaccines caused autism I would still recommend them. Dying of preventable disease is bad. Autism isn't a disease and most of the "bad" of autism is society.
I just joined my local library. Found several books about wealth inequality in their New section. Little moments of optimism.
February 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I just joined my local library. Found several books about wealth inequality in their New section. Little moments of optimism.
Signs you may be neurodivergent: getting to 9pm and realising you just forgot to drink any water today.
December 13, 2024 at 9:18 PM
Signs you may be neurodivergent: getting to 9pm and realising you just forgot to drink any water today.
Couples therapy for depression is available in many Talking Therapies services - it's not all about CBT!
When couples face of health challenges, finding ways of coping together can truly ease the load, according to new research: www.bps.org.uk/research-dig...
Coping together, staying together | BPS
When couples face of health challenges, dyadic coping can ease the load, according to new research.
www.bps.org.uk
December 6, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Couples therapy for depression is available in many Talking Therapies services - it's not all about CBT!
Really enjoyed this podcast episode. It's great that health professionals are becoming more aware of the intersection of physical health and neurodiversity.
shows.acast.com/what-a-pain/...
shows.acast.com/what-a-pain/...
Chronic pain and autism | What a Pain
Special guest: Jeremy Gauntlett-Gilbert
shows.acast.com
November 29, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Really enjoyed this podcast episode. It's great that health professionals are becoming more aware of the intersection of physical health and neurodiversity.
shows.acast.com/what-a-pain/...
shows.acast.com/what-a-pain/...
"Let’s acknowledge the labor involved in simply looking Blah. I’m talking about beauty work so integrated into the performance of femininity that it seems invisible or is incorrectly labeled “hygiene” – the baseline for those who want to avoid covert judgment and overt mocking." #askugly
I want to ignore beauty culture. But I’ll never get anywhere if I don’t look a certain way
Beauty improves only some qualities of life and demands high investment of time, money and energy, writes advice columnist Jessica DeFino
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2024 at 8:25 AM
"Let’s acknowledge the labor involved in simply looking Blah. I’m talking about beauty work so integrated into the performance of femininity that it seems invisible or is incorrectly labeled “hygiene” – the baseline for those who want to avoid covert judgment and overt mocking." #askugly
Reposted by Dr Elizabeth Hawkins
New FND guidance from the British Psychological Society on the role of neuropsychology/psychology in FND management in children and adults - a one stop shop for scientific, clinical, and policy references in FND, with a focus on the UK but global relevance explore.bps.org.uk/content/repo...
Functional Neurological Disorder: Neuropsychological and psychological management in children and adults | BPS - British Psychological Society
BPS Explore is our easy-to-access central location for you to read and download a wide range of psychological content from practitioners, researchers and working groups.
explore.bps.org.uk
November 27, 2024 at 3:33 PM
New FND guidance from the British Psychological Society on the role of neuropsychology/psychology in FND management in children and adults - a one stop shop for scientific, clinical, and policy references in FND, with a focus on the UK but global relevance explore.bps.org.uk/content/repo...
"given the increasing evidence about the impact of climate change on health, psychological professionals might ask if their patients feel too much anxiety, or whether they themselves feel too little"
Thoughtful piece in on climate anxiety and the role of mental health professionals: "if ecoanxiety is treated as pathology, ‘the forces of denial will have won. . .what we are witnessing isn’t a tsunami of mental illness, but a long overdue outbreak of sanity’."
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The psychology of climate anxiety | BJPsych Bulletin | Cambridge Core
The psychology of climate anxiety - Volume 45 Issue 4
www.cambridge.org
November 26, 2024 at 3:49 PM
"given the increasing evidence about the impact of climate change on health, psychological professionals might ask if their patients feel too much anxiety, or whether they themselves feel too little"
Reposted by Dr Elizabeth Hawkins
Reposted by Dr Elizabeth Hawkins
Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed.
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
November 24, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed.
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
Hate to say it, but I think #strictlycomedancing has some real issues with ableism to work through. Splitting between disability inspiration porn and unconscious critical bias, depending on the disability.
November 24, 2024 at 8:55 AM
Hate to say it, but I think #strictlycomedancing has some real issues with ableism to work through. Splitting between disability inspiration porn and unconscious critical bias, depending on the disability.
The ICB I work for has just given out a £billion contract for community services to a private provider. I'm shocked to find out the details of the procurement processes for public sector contracts are confidential and therefore inaccessible to both patients and staff.
November 20, 2024 at 5:56 PM
The ICB I work for has just given out a £billion contract for community services to a private provider. I'm shocked to find out the details of the procurement processes for public sector contracts are confidential and therefore inaccessible to both patients and staff.
The importance of co-production... When you have so many policies and so much guidance, generally written by people not directly doing the process... that they become unworkable.
"There were more than 150 items relating to how we should care for the patient in these circumstances."
"There were more than 150 items relating to how we should care for the patient in these circumstances."
🗨️It became clear very quickly that the policies contradict each other. In trying to follow two policies, you couldn't actually adhere to either one properly. It was impossible for staff🗨️
A blog looking at 'work as imagined' vs 'work as done' www.pslhub.org/learn/improv... #patientsafety
A blog looking at 'work as imagined' vs 'work as done' www.pslhub.org/learn/improv... #patientsafety
Putting the writing on the wall: Explaining work as imagined vs work as done (by Claire Cox)
Claire Cox, Patient Safety Lead at Kings College London, shares a recent technique she used to explain to a large group of people the difference between 'work as imagined' and 'work as done'. Claire's...
www.pslhub.org
November 20, 2024 at 5:29 PM
The importance of co-production... When you have so many policies and so much guidance, generally written by people not directly doing the process... that they become unworkable.
"There were more than 150 items relating to how we should care for the patient in these circumstances."
"There were more than 150 items relating to how we should care for the patient in these circumstances."
Taking part in a reciprocal mentoring scheme at work, where I (someone with a protected characteristic) am paired with a member of the senior team in an equal mentoring relationship. It's great to have spaces where difference is celebrated for its strengths while challenges are heard and respected.
November 20, 2024 at 3:55 PM
Taking part in a reciprocal mentoring scheme at work, where I (someone with a protected characteristic) am paired with a member of the senior team in an equal mentoring relationship. It's great to have spaces where difference is celebrated for its strengths while challenges are heard and respected.