Excellent event, gave me a chance to pay tribute to Brice Pitt who wrote a classic account of PND in 1968 & Channi Kumar, my brilliant mentor in my early career as a perinatal psychiatrist.

Back on the healing power of green space, my local park today.

Smell of wild garlic. Buzzards & parakeets in suburbia. Grey wagtails & reed bunting (photo) by the Mersey.

#urbanwildlife

Just finished #Knife , Salman Rushdie’s extraordinary & humane account of surviving a near-fatal attack.

How do you recover after such profound trauma? Are you ever the same again?

Not sure I’ve seen a more distressing combination of stories than Parliament ping-ponging into the night over Rwanda while asylum seekers drown in the Channel.

Watched #PerfectDays , a fascinating hymn to the simple life - & to Tokyo. Stress-free, appreciating natural beauty.

But (spoiler alert) that final scene….

There are still waxwings around in the UK. Nine yesterday in a street near Wythenshawe Hosp in Manchester.

Not the best photo but the silhouette is unmistakable.

#urbanwildlife

On the first anniversary of #Caitlyn ’s death, perhaps it would be better to pause and consider how we might honour her memory by reducing #suicide among #autistic people. As for me, I will simply continue what I had already been doing speaking up for people who think differently.