Care leaver Trauma survivor. 20+ suicide attempt survivor. Member of the LEP. Social work student
Glasgow, Scotland
Joined October 2019
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4 years ago I was suicidal & getting ready to leave care & about to face the worst 6 months of my life. Today I start my new job as a beauty therapist as well as being at uni, working with care leavers & working in mental health. Change is 100% possible & suicide is preventable!
Crazy to think in just a few weeks ill have my own tiny human, even crazier to think that the house she will call her first home is also the first place I could call home! I'm just so grateful she doesn't have to wait until she's 21 like i did to have a safe place to call home 💗
Almost 32 weeks!! She definitely has my nose but those lips she didn't get from either of us😅
By far one of the toughest, most physically taxing experiences I've ever experienced but she's worth it all🥰
22 weeks already spent cooking our miracle baby 🥰
If anyone needs me for the next 4 months there's a good chance I'll have moved to the North Pole to cool down🥵🤰
12 years.
12 years since 12 year old me took some paracetamol, wishing & praying to never wake up. 12 years old!
I wish I could go back and give this scared little girl a hug. I wish I could stop her being failed. I can't but I will fight everyday to help other girls like me.
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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead
Just some of the amazing folks who took part in our Networking event yesterday.
#CreatingHopeTogether #SuicidePrevention
ALT A group photo of participants who attended the Creating Hope With Peer Support: The Power of Lived Experience Networking Day yesterday. Also features four giant blue jigsaw pieces.
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A powerful start to our event as panel members have a fireside chat about why they share their experiences & highlight examples of supportive & less supportive situations they have been in.
#CreatingHopeTogether #SuicidePreventionScotland
Wow! Best advert I've seen, such a powerful message!
𝗔𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀, 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲 𝗼𝗯𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗲, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝘁.
Check in on those around you.
#WorldMentalHealthDay | #YouAreNotAlone | @samaritans
Grateful for @PoliceScotland for continuing to listen to lived experience and using it to create change! Lived experience is the way forward, what better than to hear from those who have lived it & actually understand tough situations like suicide and trauma. Game changing!
Deligted to participate again in police negotiators training with @Stephrc16 sharing powerful insights on importance of understanding trauma and its impact on people in suicidal crisis. Brilliant discussion, great questions and top tips being shared. @SAMHtweets @TalkToSaveLives
10st lost in just over a year, I did that! Sometimes we all need to just invest in ourselves to give us the best leg up in life 💖
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An open letter to the social worker who wrote my case files: Trigger warning - contains extracts of case notes some may find upsetting, with reference to CSE & domestic abuse. Putting this out there is scary, but not nearly as scary as the thought that nothing will change.
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🆕 An evaluation for @SAMHtweets, who host our Lived Experience Panel, has been published.
Researchers @thelinesbetweet identified an increased profile for lived experience, big impact on SP strategy & delivery and individual, personal benefits.
▶️ samh.org.uk/about-mental-hea…
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ALT Graphic with text: The impact of being an LEP member
ALT Text says: 01 Raising the profile of the lived experience voice
ALT Text says: 02 Contribution to the delivery of the Suicide Prevention Action Plan
ALT Text says 03 Benefits for individual LEP members
I officially quit my job today! The amount of relief I feel shouldnt be the case. Over 2.5 years I've been with the same organisation in care & it broke me. Lack of training, lack of support, 1 supervision, being attacked & more. Time to find something new, that excites me again.
So impressed with @PoliceScotland getting lived experience input into their negotiator training. This is the way forward, lived experience needs to be essential in mental health, suicide and trauma training!
Huge thanks to Stephanie from our Lived Experience Panel for an amazing input to National police negotiators training. Great insight on how to support people in suicidal crisis. Compassion, perseverance and being trauma informed saves lives. @SAMHtweets @NSPLG_Scot
I went back to uni this week after 2 years after being SA by another student, it was tough returning & I questioned going in the rest of the week. My lecturer sent this after my first day & its the reason I went back, Im so grateful for the support from @GCU_SocialWork @GCUCares
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Going into care is not a choice. It's not an experience but a condition. At 18 you're abandoned by the state, left to defend for yourself. Imagine if your parents totally cut you off at 18 and said never make contact with them again. #changeiscoming #protected #characteristic
Why after being told by the fiscal he couldn't change his plea again, was he allowed to. I've already been told at the end of this he's getting an absolute discharge because going through court was enough for him! People wonder why victims don't come forward this is why!
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Scottish Mail on Sunday 4 Dec 2022
A generation in crisis as almost 18000 teenagers in Scotland take #antidepressants
By Cameron Charters
With @Antidepressed1
