Maisie
@maisers2.bsky.social
Intersectional feminist in progress
Mental illness also in progress
“Pure evil” according to one X user
Mental illness also in progress
“Pure evil” according to one X user
Scout puts into words so eloquently how I’ve felt about CMHT and wider MH services. The line “if they need you to not be sick, then you are not sick” is so powerful
![“After this diagnosis [of EUPD], any other symptoms of my bipolar illness were assumed to be malingering. I had two serious suicide attempts and four hospitalisations in those two years, and psychosis and mania that went untreated, because I had to be moulded into the EUPD diagnosis rather than a diagnosis fitting my experience. Adult social services, crisis resolution and home treatment team, police, local accident and emergency departments and my GP were all aware of my rapidly deteriorating mental state in the weeks and months before my arrest. All must refer back to the behemoth of the community mental health team, and if they need you to not be sick, then you are not sick, and no amount of concerned professionals, family and friends, or members of the public can convince them otherwise.”
Scout Tzofiya Bolton
The Mad Art of Doing Time (Broken Sleep](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sfbg5ngsydmy42ybrv4re43a/bafkreieu274a7l6lopscguxxyefb2uvsbtyf6zwrasjyattnobfzh7avtu@jpeg)
January 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Scout puts into words so eloquently how I’ve felt about CMHT and wider MH services. The line “if they need you to not be sick, then you are not sick” is so powerful
Has anyone used an advocate to try to make progress in the NHS mental health system? I’d be so grateful to hear about any positive or negative experiences 🩷
#madsky
#madsky
January 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Has anyone used an advocate to try to make progress in the NHS mental health system? I’d be so grateful to hear about any positive or negative experiences 🩷
#madsky
#madsky
All I did this year was survive (at times against my will). This new year I won’t be celebrating another year starting/ending but I’ll certainly be thinking of anyone else that has just survived. I see you and I’m thinking of you 💜
December 31, 2024 at 7:29 PM
All I did this year was survive (at times against my will). This new year I won’t be celebrating another year starting/ending but I’ll certainly be thinking of anyone else that has just survived. I see you and I’m thinking of you 💜
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10 years of equal marriage🎉🏳️🌈
I reminded Parliament yesterday that this hasn't meant total equality, love & freedom for all in Scotland.
Where we should have solidarity, we have hate. Let's keep fighting for everyone's right to love & be loved as their authentic self.
I reminded Parliament yesterday that this hasn't meant total equality, love & freedom for all in Scotland.
Where we should have solidarity, we have hate. Let's keep fighting for everyone's right to love & be loved as their authentic self.
December 18, 2024 at 5:20 PM
10 years of equal marriage🎉🏳️🌈
I reminded Parliament yesterday that this hasn't meant total equality, love & freedom for all in Scotland.
Where we should have solidarity, we have hate. Let's keep fighting for everyone's right to love & be loved as their authentic self.
I reminded Parliament yesterday that this hasn't meant total equality, love & freedom for all in Scotland.
Where we should have solidarity, we have hate. Let's keep fighting for everyone's right to love & be loved as their authentic self.
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✊🏻 "Multiple UK surveys suggest that not only do most Brits support trans people, but that British women tend to support trans people more than British men by a significant margin" - Alice Bethell
www.wearequeeraf.com/self-determi...
www.wearequeeraf.com/self-determi...
Self-determination is a core principle of feminism - TERFs seem to have forgotten that
So why have so-called ‘trans-exclusionary radical feminists’ moved to remove this concept from feminism altogether?
www.wearequeeraf.com
December 18, 2024 at 5:18 PM
✊🏻 "Multiple UK surveys suggest that not only do most Brits support trans people, but that British women tend to support trans people more than British men by a significant margin" - Alice Bethell
www.wearequeeraf.com/self-determi...
www.wearequeeraf.com/self-determi...
Me: can I get some help for my mental health please ☺️
NHS: oops no therapy, only TIPP skill to get through this bit
Me: ok thanks, I’ve tried it but I think I need talking therapy
NHS: DISTRACTION TECHNIQUES!!!!!! To get through this bit
Me: ok all I now do is distract myself from my thoughts and
NHS: oops no therapy, only TIPP skill to get through this bit
Me: ok thanks, I’ve tried it but I think I need talking therapy
NHS: DISTRACTION TECHNIQUES!!!!!! To get through this bit
Me: ok all I now do is distract myself from my thoughts and
December 5, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Me: can I get some help for my mental health please ☺️
NHS: oops no therapy, only TIPP skill to get through this bit
Me: ok thanks, I’ve tried it but I think I need talking therapy
NHS: DISTRACTION TECHNIQUES!!!!!! To get through this bit
Me: ok all I now do is distract myself from my thoughts and
NHS: oops no therapy, only TIPP skill to get through this bit
Me: ok thanks, I’ve tried it but I think I need talking therapy
NHS: DISTRACTION TECHNIQUES!!!!!! To get through this bit
Me: ok all I now do is distract myself from my thoughts and
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Cis allies, don’t be hip, be helpful. Speak out, speak up, spread the word. Put yourself in an uncomfortable place: in the pub, at Pilates, round Cousin John’s. Risk ridicule and hate. Wherever you go, it will never be as uncomfortable as the place your trans friends and family are forced to occupy.
December 5, 2024 at 1:12 PM
Cis allies, don’t be hip, be helpful. Speak out, speak up, spread the word. Put yourself in an uncomfortable place: in the pub, at Pilates, round Cousin John’s. Risk ridicule and hate. Wherever you go, it will never be as uncomfortable as the place your trans friends and family are forced to occupy.
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Always sucks when you hit the finale of a tv show you’ve been binge watching for comfort.
November 26, 2024 at 9:34 AM
Always sucks when you hit the finale of a tv show you’ve been binge watching for comfort.
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They kill you. Is that mild?
Suggesting anxiety and depression are ALWAYS mild mental health problems and ALWAYS curable is extremely problematic. Recovery rates are c.50% only, less so if structurally disadvantaged. Disability can make functioning near impossible. The presumption of mild is problematic @bbcnews.
November 26, 2024 at 8:28 PM
They kill you. Is that mild?
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"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
November 21, 2024 at 2:44 AM
"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
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Non email ways CPNs can be reached:
Telekinesis
Paper planes
Semophore - waving little flags
Sock puppets outside the window during MDT
Howling on a wet windy Moor
Circuitous ring round CMHT, SPA, HTT, 111...
Telekinesis
Paper planes
Semophore - waving little flags
Sock puppets outside the window during MDT
Howling on a wet windy Moor
Circuitous ring round CMHT, SPA, HTT, 111...
#MadSky friends who have, or have had CPN in the past - did they give you their email address?
November 21, 2024 at 9:22 AM
Non email ways CPNs can be reached:
Telekinesis
Paper planes
Semophore - waving little flags
Sock puppets outside the window during MDT
Howling on a wet windy Moor
Circuitous ring round CMHT, SPA, HTT, 111...
Telekinesis
Paper planes
Semophore - waving little flags
Sock puppets outside the window during MDT
Howling on a wet windy Moor
Circuitous ring round CMHT, SPA, HTT, 111...
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Fuck HBO
“J.K. Rowling has a right to express her personal views. We will remain focused on the development of the new series, which will only benefit from her involvement."
She does. But those views are harming trans people, and JK Rowling should face consequences for that.
variety.com/2024/tv/news...
She does. But those views are harming trans people, and JK Rowling should face consequences for that.
variety.com/2024/tv/news...
HBO Says ‘Harry Potter’ Series Will ‘Benefit’ From J.K. Rowling’s Involvement: She ‘Has the Right to Express Her Personal Views’
HBO supports J.K. Rowling's involvement with the new "Harry Potter" show as the core fanbase grapples with Rowling’s controversial views on trans identity.
variety.com
November 21, 2024 at 9:56 AM
Fuck HBO
I’m at the point of asking am I disillusioned as to what the NHS MH system should be doing? Am I asking for too much? Is care for my mental health something completely unreasonable?
Again I apologise for complaining a lot but I just need to shout about it somehow!
Again I apologise for complaining a lot but I just need to shout about it somehow!
November 20, 2024 at 2:06 PM
I’m at the point of asking am I disillusioned as to what the NHS MH system should be doing? Am I asking for too much? Is care for my mental health something completely unreasonable?
Again I apologise for complaining a lot but I just need to shout about it somehow!
Again I apologise for complaining a lot but I just need to shout about it somehow!
It feels like it always comes back to being our fault as patients. If you’re not fixed in a few sessions of CBT then (it feels like) you’re labelled as complex, problematic or difficult. It completely ignores societal factors that are causing bad mental health/illness.
Apologies, angry rant over!
2 million people are stuck on mental health waiting lists. GPs are overwhelmed. After years of underfunding and undervaluing, Labour’s response is creeping ever closer to blaming patients for not ‘looking after themselves.’ This is peak neoliberalism—dangerous for both mental and physical health.
November 19, 2024 at 2:24 PM
It feels like it always comes back to being our fault as patients. If you’re not fixed in a few sessions of CBT then (it feels like) you’re labelled as complex, problematic or difficult. It completely ignores societal factors that are causing bad mental health/illness.
Apologies, angry rant over!
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Follow up whilst we are at it:
Everyone has #mentalhealth
Not everyone will have #mentalillness
Please people with mental illness are begging for you to know the difference here 😭
#madtwitter
Everyone has #mentalhealth
Not everyone will have #mentalillness
Please people with mental illness are begging for you to know the difference here 😭
#madtwitter
Wondering if the most basic #mentalhealth takes will go viral here like they did/do on Twitter/X.
Y’know stuff like
‘we all have mental health’ 👀
Y’know stuff like
‘we all have mental health’ 👀
November 18, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Follow up whilst we are at it:
Everyone has #mentalhealth
Not everyone will have #mentalillness
Please people with mental illness are begging for you to know the difference here 😭
#madtwitter
Everyone has #mentalhealth
Not everyone will have #mentalillness
Please people with mental illness are begging for you to know the difference here 😭
#madtwitter
Anyone in Scotland had their Covid booster due to mental illness? I’ve had it before but hadn’t heard anything this year. Now got an appt but have been told they will decide on the day if I’m eligible. I won’t be upset if I’m not able to but interested if others have had theirs!
#Madsky #Madtwitter
#Madsky #Madtwitter
November 17, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Anyone in Scotland had their Covid booster due to mental illness? I’ve had it before but hadn’t heard anything this year. Now got an appt but have been told they will decide on the day if I’m eligible. I won’t be upset if I’m not able to but interested if others have had theirs!
#Madsky #Madtwitter
#Madsky #Madtwitter
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A common situation in mental health services, especially for people who are in crisis or have especially chronic & complex illnesses.
#mentalhealth #mentalillness #personalitydisorder #depression #anxiety #bipolar #ocd #psychosis #psychology #psychiatry #chronicillness #trauma #PTSD #cPTSD #CMHT
#mentalhealth #mentalillness #personalitydisorder #depression #anxiety #bipolar #ocd #psychosis #psychology #psychiatry #chronicillness #trauma #PTSD #cPTSD #CMHT
November 14, 2024 at 2:07 PM
A common situation in mental health services, especially for people who are in crisis or have especially chronic & complex illnesses.
#mentalhealth #mentalillness #personalitydisorder #depression #anxiety #bipolar #ocd #psychosis #psychology #psychiatry #chronicillness #trauma #PTSD #cPTSD #CMHT
#mentalhealth #mentalillness #personalitydisorder #depression #anxiety #bipolar #ocd #psychosis #psychology #psychiatry #chronicillness #trauma #PTSD #cPTSD #CMHT
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Mental health professionals should never underestimate the power their notes hold.
They have the ability to re-write our experiences without our consent, impose a narrative upon us, twist our words to fit an agenda.
But it doesn't have to be like this. Please, do better.
They have the ability to re-write our experiences without our consent, impose a narrative upon us, twist our words to fit an agenda.
But it doesn't have to be like this. Please, do better.
November 16, 2024 at 4:57 PM
Mental health professionals should never underestimate the power their notes hold.
They have the ability to re-write our experiences without our consent, impose a narrative upon us, twist our words to fit an agenda.
But it doesn't have to be like this. Please, do better.
They have the ability to re-write our experiences without our consent, impose a narrative upon us, twist our words to fit an agenda.
But it doesn't have to be like this. Please, do better.
And when you’re not cured in 10 sessions, they say “well we’ve tried everything”
Got depression? Try CBT
Got anorexia? Try CBT
Got schizophrenia? Try CBT
Got crippling anxiety? Try CBT
That seems to be the NHS' answer for basically anything mental health
Got anorexia? Try CBT
Got schizophrenia? Try CBT
Got crippling anxiety? Try CBT
That seems to be the NHS' answer for basically anything mental health
November 15, 2024 at 11:17 AM
And when you’re not cured in 10 sessions, they say “well we’ve tried everything”
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Got depression? Try CBT
Got anorexia? Try CBT
Got schizophrenia? Try CBT
Got crippling anxiety? Try CBT
That seems to be the NHS' answer for basically anything mental health
Got anorexia? Try CBT
Got schizophrenia? Try CBT
Got crippling anxiety? Try CBT
That seems to be the NHS' answer for basically anything mental health
November 15, 2024 at 10:03 AM
Got depression? Try CBT
Got anorexia? Try CBT
Got schizophrenia? Try CBT
Got crippling anxiety? Try CBT
That seems to be the NHS' answer for basically anything mental health
Got anorexia? Try CBT
Got schizophrenia? Try CBT
Got crippling anxiety? Try CBT
That seems to be the NHS' answer for basically anything mental health
Glucose tablets (thank you family hypoglycaemia)
No less than 14 tampons
Enough medication to stock a pharmacy
A pack of gum that is >2 yrs old (does gum go off?????)
AirPods (of course with a Snoopy case)
No less than 14 tampons
Enough medication to stock a pharmacy
A pack of gum that is >2 yrs old (does gum go off?????)
AirPods (of course with a Snoopy case)
Describe yourself using 5 things that are probably in your purse/backpack at any given moment:
• Loop earplugs
• A mask.
• a light stick in case of apocalyptic blackout.
• sketchbook + pencils.
• dispersible aspirin in case anyone has a heart attack.
• Loop earplugs
• A mask.
• a light stick in case of apocalyptic blackout.
• sketchbook + pencils.
• dispersible aspirin in case anyone has a heart attack.
No pens when all I need is a pen
Fidget toys
Mini plastic people
Car keys
Glitter (it gets EVERYWHERE)
Fidget toys
Mini plastic people
Car keys
Glitter (it gets EVERYWHERE)
November 14, 2024 at 10:44 AM
Glucose tablets (thank you family hypoglycaemia)
No less than 14 tampons
Enough medication to stock a pharmacy
A pack of gum that is >2 yrs old (does gum go off?????)
AirPods (of course with a Snoopy case)
No less than 14 tampons
Enough medication to stock a pharmacy
A pack of gum that is >2 yrs old (does gum go off?????)
AirPods (of course with a Snoopy case)
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£26 million allocated in the budget for Mental Health Crisis Centres.
£64 million in funding for the Department for Work and Pensions’ “Get People Working” programme.
Because, to this government, getting us working is worth more—literally—than keeping us alive.
#DWP #MentalHealth
£64 million in funding for the Department for Work and Pensions’ “Get People Working” programme.
Because, to this government, getting us working is worth more—literally—than keeping us alive.
#DWP #MentalHealth
November 13, 2024 at 9:25 PM
£26 million allocated in the budget for Mental Health Crisis Centres.
£64 million in funding for the Department for Work and Pensions’ “Get People Working” programme.
Because, to this government, getting us working is worth more—literally—than keeping us alive.
#DWP #MentalHealth
£64 million in funding for the Department for Work and Pensions’ “Get People Working” programme.
Because, to this government, getting us working is worth more—literally—than keeping us alive.
#DWP #MentalHealth
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Trans Awareness Week (Nov 13-19) begins today!
Now more than ever:
1. Listen to trans stories & perspectives
2. Educate yourself on trans issues & challenges
3. Support trans-led organizations & initiatives
4. Challenge transphobia & discrimination
5. Advocate for trans rights & inclusive policies
Now more than ever:
1. Listen to trans stories & perspectives
2. Educate yourself on trans issues & challenges
3. Support trans-led organizations & initiatives
4. Challenge transphobia & discrimination
5. Advocate for trans rights & inclusive policies
Transgender Awareness Week | GLAAD
Each year between November 13 – 19, people and organizations around the country participate in Transgender Awareness Week to help increase understanding about transgender people and the issues members...
glaad.org
November 13, 2024 at 11:42 AM
Trans Awareness Week (Nov 13-19) begins today!
Now more than ever:
1. Listen to trans stories & perspectives
2. Educate yourself on trans issues & challenges
3. Support trans-led organizations & initiatives
4. Challenge transphobia & discrimination
5. Advocate for trans rights & inclusive policies
Now more than ever:
1. Listen to trans stories & perspectives
2. Educate yourself on trans issues & challenges
3. Support trans-led organizations & initiatives
4. Challenge transphobia & discrimination
5. Advocate for trans rights & inclusive policies
Being mentally ill means having to become my own psychiatrist, psychologist, care coordinator and advocate. It’s exhausting enough being ill, but feeling like I’m doing a full time job to try to get the NHS to do anything feels so unjust. I’m aware what I’m going isn’t even the worst case scenario
November 13, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Being mentally ill means having to become my own psychiatrist, psychologist, care coordinator and advocate. It’s exhausting enough being ill, but feeling like I’m doing a full time job to try to get the NHS to do anything feels so unjust. I’m aware what I’m going isn’t even the worst case scenario
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It’s #TransgenderAwarenessWeek
With sustained attacks on trans healthcare & rights, even small actions like challenging misinformation, using correct pronouns & amplifying trans voices can make a big difference. Let’s support, listen & stand together #TransRightsAreHumanRights
With sustained attacks on trans healthcare & rights, even small actions like challenging misinformation, using correct pronouns & amplifying trans voices can make a big difference. Let’s support, listen & stand together #TransRightsAreHumanRights
November 13, 2024 at 8:00 AM
It’s #TransgenderAwarenessWeek
With sustained attacks on trans healthcare & rights, even small actions like challenging misinformation, using correct pronouns & amplifying trans voices can make a big difference. Let’s support, listen & stand together #TransRightsAreHumanRights
With sustained attacks on trans healthcare & rights, even small actions like challenging misinformation, using correct pronouns & amplifying trans voices can make a big difference. Let’s support, listen & stand together #TransRightsAreHumanRights