I've been watching a YouTube series about an A&E department in a UK hospital, and I'm becoming disturbed by how judgemental the staff are, separating patients into those "there through no fault of their own" and those "who have brought it on themselves"...1/ #MedTwitter #MedEd
Revealing a mental illness diagnosis to any type of HCP may (and often does) result in them dismissing real illness symptoms as figments of your imagination. Another reason people with SMIs die 20 years younger than other people. #MentalHealth #DiagnosticOvershadowing #MedTwitter
"Never Trust a Clinician" tinyurl.com/y752nyp7 Part of my "Royal Cult of Surgeons" #DarkArt series. They aren't like us. You have been warned. #MedTwitter #MentalHealth #AColdDoctorIsASuccessfulDoctor #NoEmpathyAllowed #FirstTakeNoResponsibility #TrustNoOne #HypocriticalOath
From my "Royal Cult of Surgeons" dark art series tinyurl.com/5n8srfbu This shows what some surgeons would like to do with non-compliant patients. Send a Xmas card to a fellow non-compliant #Xmas #XmasCard #MentalHealth #Bipolar #BipolarClub #PrescribedHarm #MedTwitter #RCS
Lacking knowledge of mental illness and neurological conditions, clinicians make excuses, close the door and abandon us. They call this "professionalism" to avoid responsibility #StreamlineSurgical #ShawSomers #GuySlater #DeniseRatcliffe #MentalHealth #MedTwitter #MedEd #Medicine
Clinicians need to realize that their stigmatization of the mentally unwell can lead us to hide our illnesses from them, with possibly fatal results. #StreamlineSurgical #ShawSomers #GuySlater #DeniseRatcliffe #MentalHealth #MedTwitter #MedEd #Stigma #Discrimination
1/ All these workplace training sessions on mental illnesses/disabilities/autism that are run by "experts" who aren't experts because they aren't actually mentally ill/disabled/autistic #Ableism #SMI #MentalHealth #ActuallyAutistic #StreamlineSurgical #MedTwitter
1/ It seems that some clinicians would rather completely deny MH patients treatment than "risk" them not being able to "comply". #MentalHealth #StreamlineSurgical #ShawSomers #GuySlater #DeniseRatcliffe #MedTwitter #MedEd
1/ Clinicians need to realize that their stigmatization of the mentally unwell can lead us to hide our illnesses from them (with possibly terrible results) #StreamlineSurgical #ShawSomers #GuySlater #DeniseRatcliffe #MentalHealth #MedTwitter #MedEd #Stigma #Discrimination
I want to start a new hashtag: #MentalHealthUnawarenessAwareness because that's what I've been posting about just lately: the fact that so many HCPs THINK they are MH-aware when actually they aren't. #MentalHealth #MedTwitter #MedEd #MentalHealthAwareness #Advocacy #MHStigma
1/ Something really stands out to me today: how NICE people are to me online until my illness hits, and then how IMMEDIATELY they change and block and ignore me. #MentalHealth #StreamlineSurgical #DeniseRatcliffe #SimonMonkhouse #ShawSomers #GuySlater #MedTwitter
Clinicians consider any MH patient who doesn't automatically kowtow to their commands as "non-compliant". They have no respect for and will not listen to our opinions. We are expected to obey. #StreamlineSurgical #ShawSomers #GuySlater #DeniseRatcliffe #MentalHealth #MedTwitter
Clinicians justify ignoring the voices of the mentally unwell by dismissing our opinions as delusional symptoms of our illnesses. This is automatic, ingrained prejudice. Yet they claim to care. #StreamlineSurgical #ShawSomers #GuySlater #DeniseRatcliffe #MentalHealth #MedTwitter
Clinicians don't like it when the mentally unwell speak up for themselves. They expect us to keep our mouths shut and do what we're told. #StreamlineSurgical #ShawSomers #GuySlater #DeniseRatcliffe #MentalHealth #SystemicAbleism #MedTwitter #HCPHypocrisy #TheyThinkTheyKnowBest
Clinicians, it's no good thinking you are MH-patient friendly if you can only deal with us when we are not showing symptoms of our illnesses: if you run away and block us as soon as we show symptoms, you do us more harm than good. #StreamlineSurgical #MentalHealth #MedTwitter
Just when you think #StreamlineSurgical can't get any worse, they do. They've flagged two of my negative reviews and had them removed. They lied about them and said they contained advertising, which they did not. I'm currently appealing to Trustpilot. #MentalHealth #MedTwitter
Clinicians make token comments about #MentalHealthAwareness but it's empty talk; they have no interest in listening to the mentally unwell. All PowerPoint and No Action #MentalHealth #MentalHealthAdvocacy #MedTwitter #StreamlineSurgical #ListenToUs #Bipolarclub #DeniseRatcliffe
Clinicians start to listen to the mentally unwell, but when what we tell them doesn't match what's in their textbooks, they stop listening. This must stop. Nothing about us without us. #MentalHealth #MentalHealthAdvocacy #MedTwitter #StreamlineSurgical #ListenToUs #Bipolarclub
Clinicians are neither ready nor willing to listen to the voices of the mentally unwell. This must change. Nothing about us without us. #MentalHealth #MentalHealthAdvocacy #MedTwitter #StreamlineSurgical #EndTheStigma #EndTheDiscrimination #ListenToUs #Bipolar #Schizophrenia #SMI
Mental health advocates can get nowhere while clinicians refuse to listen to the voices of the mentally unwell. If they refuse to listen willingly, we must force them to listen to us. Nothing about us without us. #MentalHealth #MentalHealthAdvocacy #MedTwitter #StreamlineSurgical
Mental health advocates can get nowhere while clinicians refuse to listen to the voices of the mentally unwell. If they refuse to listen willingly, we must force them to listen to us. Nothing about us without us. #MentalHealth #MentalHealthAdvocacy #MedTwitter #StreamlineSurgical
Clinicians, if you believe that you have the right to unilaterally decide when your communication with the mentally unwell ends, that is an example of ABLEISM. Don't be like #StreamlineSurgical. Don't be ableist. #Ableism #MentalHealth #MentalHealthDiscrimination #MedTwitter
Do HCPs reject MH advocacy from the patient's POV because what we tell them is so far away from what they've learned at med school and considered to be the correct medical approach throughout their careers, or do they simply just get tired of listening? #Mentalhealth #MedTwitter
Lived experience #MentalHealth campaigners can't get anywhere while HCPs continue to consider our opinions invalid. The question is, what do we use to get them to listen? A carrot or a stick? #MentalHealthAdvocates #ActuallyBipolar #BipolarClub #MedTwitter #StreamlineSurgical
