Just saw this (need to become more active here!) - thanks for this, so lovely to have you there 🙏

I want to end stressing that I don't judge anyone for staying - this was my decision and it took a long time to take. I felt the need to express all of this as I begin to re-engage with SM.

That's it folks, have a good day and see ya around (end/8)

...and this was a hard thing. But it's done, and in a year it will be water under the bridge.

I value community and hope to find some of it here but if I don't, so be it. This situation has made me very skeptical of SM and I don't trust engagement anywhere is for long, but I'll give it a go. (7/X)

...play a part in this. Following the US election in November, though, and EMs part in this, I could no longer justify this, either. In clinical supervision, I said to my supervisor that I think my ability to do hard things has considerably increased in the last year... (6/X)

I know myself what it's like to be curious about your therapist's engagement on Social Media and I expect my clients to feel the same - I need to act accordingly. I stuck around for #TherapistsConnect because I genuinely believe in the work Caz and Pete do on this platform and wanted to... (5/X)

So why do it? Why bother? I stopped posting and engaging on X (apart from on TC) over a year ago in response to my work with clients - I could not sit in a therapy room hearing (and telling for that matter) to stories of oppression and be active on a platform promoting said oppression. (4/X)

I found my first placement there (where I am still practicing), and I volunteered for a long time on the #TherapistsConnect account.

I valued my connections, it took weeks to transfer them to Bluesky, LinkedIn, and Instagram. And, of course, following others doesn't mean they follow you. (3/X)

I am about to advertise myself as a physically disabled therapist and this feels incredibly scary to do, the backing of a fairly large Social Media account would have been supportive.

I have a lot to be grateful for for Twitter - I got tagged in the job advert for my current job there, (2/X)