Consultant Psychiatrist @StPatricks - Clinical Senior Lecturer @tcddublin | No Health Without Mental Health | Bicycles, Mountains, Islands, Gaeilge
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Resilience and Mental Health🧵
The word resilience is increasingly used in Mental Health settings to describe an ability to recover quickly from adversity. The concept is problematic for several reasons.
#Resilience #MentalHealth
We do not choose to be well or ill,
When we are well, we help others who are ill,
When we are ill, others who are well help us.
Séamus Ó Ceallaigh retweeted
I’m happy my tax money is used to provide financial support to those who are too unwell to work. I’m also more than happy to pay taxes on the premise that if I’m one of the unlucky ones who can’t work due to ill health I will be financially supported
It’s called civilisation
and stopped by here this morning, as I was walking to UKAAN, scene of the second best Tindersticks concert ever,
(after the Warwick in Galway, of course)
Séamus Ó Ceallaigh retweeted
Scéal dearfach inniu gur fhógair an Aire Oideachais Norma Foley go bhfuil an Roinn Oideachais ag cur dlús le plean a ullmhú chun Gaelcholáiste nó Gaelcholáistí nua a thógáil i ndeisceart Bhaile Átha Cliath. 1/2
An Roinn Oideachais le ‘dlús’ a chur le hullmhú plean do ghaelcholáiste nua i mBaile Átha Cliath Theas via @tuairiscnuacht tuairisc.ie/an-roinn-oideach…
Thought-provoking article on acknowledging harm done and finding a way forward that works.
Finding My Way Out of Anti-Psychiatry: A Patient Perspective
Guest Post by Lisa Wallace (@rwillowfish )
psychiatrymargins.com/p/find…
Séamus Ó Ceallaigh retweeted
I’ve just seen a mental health professional tweet that severe mental illness ‘doesn’t exist’ in a week when we have seen the absolute tragedy that mental illness can lead to for victims, families, and the patient themselves.
Health privilege truly is blind.
1. Provide these mental health services
2. Make them accessible and engaging
3. Maintain contact
Preventing homicide by people with schizophrenia means two things for services:
•maintain contact & treatment
•reduce alcohol/drugs
Our national case control study @NCISH_UK posted in response to today’s media coverage. First author @DrAliBaird.
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Challenges:
1. These services are very vulnerable to cuts and underfunding in times of austerity.
2. Are often not very flexible (restricted hours) and may be seen as cold and standoffish.
3. Prone to breaking off contact and discharging once an appointment or two are missed.
Críost Liom
❤️ Cór Cúil Aodha
#ShaneMacGowan
tuairisc.ie/an-ghaeilge-liom…
