Your Black, queer, child and adolescent psychiatrist sharing my tattoo related to the recent World Semicolon Day.

I live with a history of two suicide attempts - “Dream” is my nickname with chosen family who saved my life.

None of you is ever alone. I love you.🥰💖🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🦄🔥✊🏽🦸🏽‍♂️

Brilliant blog by Stacey Freedenthal questioning term 'suicide survivor' to describe people bereaved by suicide. 1 possible effect is marginalising even further those with lived experience of being suicidal

Wait, Who Is A Suicide Survivor? speakingofsuicide.com/2014/05/27/sui… via @sfreedenthal

This thread is a beautiful must-read for writers:

“publication and laurels are for the ego. writing? it’s for the soul, the integrated self. just as we love with no guarantees, we write with no guarantees…”

Had to launch a search party last night to find our cat.

#CatsOfTwitter

I’m often marvel at how different adolescence would’ve been for me — definitely much, much worse — if we’d had the Internet & social media back then.

Punch up, not down — if you must punch at all.

This is so sad. I had no idea Mark Goulston had died until I saw this tweet. I really enjoyed the times he interviewed me for his podcasts. He was funny, engaging, smart, & a great conversationalist & listener!

Our new systematic review Sahra Tekin Helen Killaspy🌈 Prof Jo Billings looks at the existing work on the experiences of mental health practitioners called to a coroner’s inquest after patient suicide or a patient-perpetrated homicide
mdpi.com/2717678
Findings below

Friendly reminder that what some people call “ghosting” or “a discard” can actually be good self-care & much needed boundaries … even when it hurts.

Write what you love, keep writing what you love, and then when you feel like it's all impossible: keep writing. Someone, somewhere will consume your words with the same fiery passion you wrote them with

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This is pretty amazing: To celebrate the one-year anniversary of the audio book for Loving Someone with Suicidal Thoughts: What Family, Friends, and Partners Can Say and Do, the publisher is offering 70% off for the month of April. So, it's only $6!
audiobooks.com/promotions/pro…

When you reappear in people’s lives after inexplicably disappearing for several months.

The only way to show up consistently is by consistently allowing yourself to show up
IMPERFECTLY.

Letting yourself show up as you are, however you are, and with whatever you have to give, is the secret sauce for discipline and getting hard things done.

'I am 28. And I’m Scheduled to Die in May.’

If a treatment fails, find another doctor and a treatment that helps.

Mental ‘illness’ is a shaky domain. No one knows what to do in some cases.

But how can anyone tell a 28 years old woman that there is nothing more that can be

PSA!!

Today is #TransDayOfVisibility . We proudly fly the progress flag in our front yard because trans rights are human rights. And, based on the ridiculousness I've seen online today, this message is as important as ever. #SocialWork ers4TransJustice . #SocialWork #TDOV2024

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“The diagnosis of a severe mental illness is NOT a verdict.”

It’s true, you can live & love well w/a severe mental illness. Many, many people do!

Wonderful words of wisdom here!