Rebecca Lawrence
@rebecca99.bsky.social
Writer, patient, psychiatrist, amateur violinist.
https://doctor-and-patient.com
Author of ‘An Improbable Psychiatrist’ published by Cambridge University Press https://theguardian.com/profile/rebecca-lawrence
https://doctor-and-patient.com
Author of ‘An Improbable Psychiatrist’ published by Cambridge University Press https://theguardian.com/profile/rebecca-lawrence
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Rebecca Lawrence
@rebecca99.bsky.social
· Nov 12
I need to post this as it won’t happen again!
I am on the (back) cover of the BJPsych.
I certainly wasn’t expecting this!!
I am on the (back) cover of the BJPsych.
I certainly wasn’t expecting this!!
‘The government must stop assuming technology is the answer and start listening to what patients are actually telling them.’
theconversation.com/what-people-...
theconversation.com/what-people-...
What people really want from their GP – it’s simpler than you might think
Patients are being clear about what they want but nobody’s listening.
theconversation.com
July 8, 2025 at 8:03 AM
‘The government must stop assuming technology is the answer and start listening to what patients are actually telling them.’
theconversation.com/what-people-...
theconversation.com/what-people-...
Thank you RCPsych Books for this award - I’m overcome!
Sadly I wasn’t able to be in Wales, but had a lovely weekend in the city of the most famous psychiatrist ever!
Sadly I wasn’t able to be in Wales, but had a lovely weekend in the city of the most famous psychiatrist ever!
June 24, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Thank you RCPsych Books for this award - I’m overcome!
Sadly I wasn’t able to be in Wales, but had a lovely weekend in the city of the most famous psychiatrist ever!
Sadly I wasn’t able to be in Wales, but had a lovely weekend in the city of the most famous psychiatrist ever!
Or even your Saturday morning lie down… It doesn’t need to be hard work!
While doing your Saturday morning clean or weekend run, take a listen to this conversation between @rebecca99.bsky.social @suzypuss.bsky.social and me about women’s mental health with @cambridgeup.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/7t5j...
Hot off the Press: All in her mind
Hot off the Press · Episode
open.spotify.com
May 31, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Or even your Saturday morning lie down… It doesn’t need to be hard work!
Reposted by Rebecca Lawrence
While doing your Saturday morning clean or weekend run, take a listen to this conversation between @rebecca99.bsky.social @suzypuss.bsky.social and me about women’s mental health with @cambridgeup.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/7t5j...
Hot off the Press: All in her mind
Hot off the Press · Episode
open.spotify.com
May 31, 2025 at 8:53 AM
While doing your Saturday morning clean or weekend run, take a listen to this conversation between @rebecca99.bsky.social @suzypuss.bsky.social and me about women’s mental health with @cambridgeup.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/7t5j...
Reposted by Rebecca Lawrence
🎧 New episode of Hot off the Press 🎧
@katewomersley.com hosts @suzypuss.bsky.social and @rebecca99.bsky.social in a powerful discussion on women’s mental health and the challenges in psychiatric treatment. 🧠
Listen to the full episode 🔗 cup.org/3Sp74qJ
#MentalHealthAwareness
@katewomersley.com hosts @suzypuss.bsky.social and @rebecca99.bsky.social in a powerful discussion on women’s mental health and the challenges in psychiatric treatment. 🧠
Listen to the full episode 🔗 cup.org/3Sp74qJ
#MentalHealthAwareness
May 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
🎧 New episode of Hot off the Press 🎧
@katewomersley.com hosts @suzypuss.bsky.social and @rebecca99.bsky.social in a powerful discussion on women’s mental health and the challenges in psychiatric treatment. 🧠
Listen to the full episode 🔗 cup.org/3Sp74qJ
#MentalHealthAwareness
@katewomersley.com hosts @suzypuss.bsky.social and @rebecca99.bsky.social in a powerful discussion on women’s mental health and the challenges in psychiatric treatment. 🧠
Listen to the full episode 🔗 cup.org/3Sp74qJ
#MentalHealthAwareness
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Book 20 of 2025 #AnImprobablePsychiatrst by @rebecca99.bsky.social - really great biography it is so interesting to read her perspectives both as patient and doctor. It is also very well paced. #Psychiatry #BipolarAffectiveDisorder
May 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Book 20 of 2025 #AnImprobablePsychiatrst by @rebecca99.bsky.social - really great biography it is so interesting to read her perspectives both as patient and doctor. It is also very well paced. #Psychiatry #BipolarAffectiveDisorder
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What can be done to improve women's mental health?
For @cambridgefestival.bsky.social & @cambridgeup.bsky.social, I spoke with @suzypuss.bsky.social & @rebecca99.bsky.social about their careers, being patients, & new books Out of Her Mind & An Improbable Psychiatrist www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzDE...
For @cambridgefestival.bsky.social & @cambridgeup.bsky.social, I spoke with @suzypuss.bsky.social & @rebecca99.bsky.social about their careers, being patients, & new books Out of Her Mind & An Improbable Psychiatrist www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzDE...
All In Her Mind - Cambridge Festival 2024
YouTube video by Cambridge University Press
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May 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
What can be done to improve women's mental health?
For @cambridgefestival.bsky.social & @cambridgeup.bsky.social, I spoke with @suzypuss.bsky.social & @rebecca99.bsky.social about their careers, being patients, & new books Out of Her Mind & An Improbable Psychiatrist www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzDE...
For @cambridgefestival.bsky.social & @cambridgeup.bsky.social, I spoke with @suzypuss.bsky.social & @rebecca99.bsky.social about their careers, being patients, & new books Out of Her Mind & An Improbable Psychiatrist www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzDE...
Heading home from RCPsych National Resident Doctors’ Conference - some really lovely comments about my talk & met some great people, thank you!
But best of all were the comments about my jeans…
#EmpoweringThighsTransformingLives
But best of all were the comments about my jeans…
#EmpoweringThighsTransformingLives
April 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Heading home from RCPsych National Resident Doctors’ Conference - some really lovely comments about my talk & met some great people, thank you!
But best of all were the comments about my jeans…
#EmpoweringThighsTransformingLives
But best of all were the comments about my jeans…
#EmpoweringThighsTransformingLives
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98% who signed up for our webinar attended, & there were excellent questions on gender bias in psych diagnosis, expectations on women to respond to 'talking cures', & personality disorder. Inspiring, as ever, to share an online stage w @rebecca99.bsky.social & @suzypuss.bsky.social (sly screenshot)
April 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
98% who signed up for our webinar attended, & there were excellent questions on gender bias in psych diagnosis, expectations on women to respond to 'talking cures', & personality disorder. Inspiring, as ever, to share an online stage w @rebecca99.bsky.social & @suzypuss.bsky.social (sly screenshot)
www.thenational.scot/news/2504815...
Grateful to be interviewed about mental illness & my experiences.
Poignant on Mother’s Day - sad memories, also great happiness.
#AnImprobablePsychiatrist
Grateful to be interviewed about mental illness & my experiences.
Poignant on Mother’s Day - sad memories, also great happiness.
#AnImprobablePsychiatrist
I was a psychiatric patient while working as an NHS psychiatrist
BEING called brave is a description that Rebecca Lawrence does not recognise.
www.thenational.scot
March 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
www.thenational.scot/news/2504815...
Grateful to be interviewed about mental illness & my experiences.
Poignant on Mother’s Day - sad memories, also great happiness.
#AnImprobablePsychiatrist
Grateful to be interviewed about mental illness & my experiences.
Poignant on Mother’s Day - sad memories, also great happiness.
#AnImprobablePsychiatrist
Reposted by Rebecca Lawrence
Can't make it into town for one of our talks? No problem! 🙌
@cambridgefestival.bsky.social are holding an online event with Professor Linda Gask @suzypuss.bsky.social and Dr Rebecca Lawrence @rebecca99.bsky.social to talk about their new books, both of which you can purchase on our website. 🔗👇
@cambridgefestival.bsky.social are holding an online event with Professor Linda Gask @suzypuss.bsky.social and Dr Rebecca Lawrence @rebecca99.bsky.social to talk about their new books, both of which you can purchase on our website. 🔗👇
March 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Can't make it into town for one of our talks? No problem! 🙌
@cambridgefestival.bsky.social are holding an online event with Professor Linda Gask @suzypuss.bsky.social and Dr Rebecca Lawrence @rebecca99.bsky.social to talk about their new books, both of which you can purchase on our website. 🔗👇
@cambridgefestival.bsky.social are holding an online event with Professor Linda Gask @suzypuss.bsky.social and Dr Rebecca Lawrence @rebecca99.bsky.social to talk about their new books, both of which you can purchase on our website. 🔗👇
Looking forward to playing in this - and especially to hearing our wonderful conductor Andrew Lees play solo violin!
Please join us! 🎻
Please join us! 🎻
March 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Looking forward to playing in this - and especially to hearing our wonderful conductor Andrew Lees play solo violin!
Please join us! 🎻
Please join us! 🎻
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March 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Reposted by Rebecca Lawrence
All in Her Mind www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/all-in-her...
All in Her Mind
What really is mental illness, and what does it look like day-to-day? Why are so many women still struggling with their mental health?
www.eventbrite.co.uk
March 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
All in Her Mind www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/all-in-her...
My daughter is staying with us, & went to prepare her lunch this morning.
‘When it says - “use by October” on this packet of wraps - which October do you suppose it means?’ she enquired.
I hung my head in shame.
‘When it says - “use by October” on this packet of wraps - which October do you suppose it means?’ she enquired.
I hung my head in shame.
March 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
My daughter is staying with us, & went to prepare her lunch this morning.
‘When it says - “use by October” on this packet of wraps - which October do you suppose it means?’ she enquired.
I hung my head in shame.
‘When it says - “use by October” on this packet of wraps - which October do you suppose it means?’ she enquired.
I hung my head in shame.
Reposted by Rebecca Lawrence
Wonderful library, wonderful women speaking: Breaking the Silence - exploring the stigma of women’s mental health with @rebecca99.bsky.social @suzypuss.bsky.social @katewomersley.com at the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.
March 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Wonderful library, wonderful women speaking: Breaking the Silence - exploring the stigma of women’s mental health with @rebecca99.bsky.social @suzypuss.bsky.social @katewomersley.com at the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.
A great evening, wonderfully hosted by @katewomersley.com MRCPsych! Xx
Buzzing after a wonderful evening at @rcpedin.bsky.social speaking with @suzypuss.bsky.social & @rebecca99.bsky.social about their books (Out of Her Mind, and An Improbable Psychiatrist) as well as the state of psychiatry for women, what is borderline personality disorder, and writing memoir #IWD
March 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
A great evening, wonderfully hosted by @katewomersley.com MRCPsych! Xx
My daughter will be a doctor in summer.
4 years honours psychology
1 year working in a care home
4 years grad medicine
She’s a star!
And she’s only just found out she’ll stay in Scotland for FY1.
Not where she’ll actually be.
She doesn’t complain. I do for her.
@elinor_tipper
4 years honours psychology
1 year working in a care home
4 years grad medicine
She’s a star!
And she’s only just found out she’ll stay in Scotland for FY1.
Not where she’ll actually be.
She doesn’t complain. I do for her.
@elinor_tipper
February 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
My daughter will be a doctor in summer.
4 years honours psychology
1 year working in a care home
4 years grad medicine
She’s a star!
And she’s only just found out she’ll stay in Scotland for FY1.
Not where she’ll actually be.
She doesn’t complain. I do for her.
@elinor_tipper
4 years honours psychology
1 year working in a care home
4 years grad medicine
She’s a star!
And she’s only just found out she’ll stay in Scotland for FY1.
Not where she’ll actually be.
She doesn’t complain. I do for her.
@elinor_tipper
Lots of discussion about causes & treatment of mental illness on social media.
Mine is a tale of what happened to me, not of the rights & wrongs. That’s why I ask you to read it - not to prove anything, just to hear my story.
And take from it what you will.
Mine is a tale of what happened to me, not of the rights & wrongs. That’s why I ask you to read it - not to prove anything, just to hear my story.
And take from it what you will.
February 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Lots of discussion about causes & treatment of mental illness on social media.
Mine is a tale of what happened to me, not of the rights & wrongs. That’s why I ask you to read it - not to prove anything, just to hear my story.
And take from it what you will.
Mine is a tale of what happened to me, not of the rights & wrongs. That’s why I ask you to read it - not to prove anything, just to hear my story.
And take from it what you will.