For UK docs & med students with mental health concerns - peer support to improve our own mental health. No medical advice given. (RT does not = endorsement.)
The Independent Inquiry is still very relevant today. Key reading for anyone in the NHS. It powerfully states that hospitals routinely maintain their expensive and vital machines. However, the NHS doesn’t invest the same care in expensive and vital staff. simplypsychiatry.co.uk/siteb…
This is the case which preempted the establishment of @NHSPracHealth which NHSE now wishes to de-fund. We shouldn't forget how appalling it was & the level of stigma which many healthcare professionals STILL feel.
"Dr Daksha Emson, an Indian doctor who secretly battled against manic depression as she built a promising career, died nearly three weeks after she stabbed her child, Freya, then herself, then doused them both in an inflammable substance and set it alight" theguardian.com/society/2003…