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Dr Jay Watts

@Shrink_at_Large

Consultant clinical psychologist/ activist/ neuroqueer bluestocking. Former Lived Experience Worker. Future failed poet. Will question ideology for cake.

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Rest in power to the beautiful, fearless, creative . Never to be forgotten.

My solidarity to the trans community this week and always.

Rest in power to the beautiful, fearless, creative #BriannaGhey. Never to be forgotten. My solidarity to the trans community this week and always.
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As a consultant psychologist, can I warn the DWP: Most mental health claimants face similar distress, with DWP-induced suicidal thoughts common - a lawsuit wave for DWP. 🏆 A disabled woman's landmark victory against DWP's impact. Bravo Jeanine Blamires [tinyurl.com/48363rj9]

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Labour's mental health policy had better include:

- levelling structural inequalities
- eradicating childhood poverty
- producing a fair benefits system
- historic reparations
- funding youth centres
- safer housing/streets
- etc

Or it won't be a mental health policy.

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Just a reminder, the evidence-base for everything that is evidence-based is that:

It works for some people, some of the time, in some circumstances.

There are always other options.

No one should be written off as a 'hopeless case' cos one approach hasn't worked.

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One of the problems with now is that there's such quick staff turnover in teams and such high levels of off-rolling that clinicians aren't necessarily seeing what long-term illness and disability looks like over years and decades as they once did. This enables disability denial.

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You know what is seriously underfunded in this country? Literally everything that would help level out inequality.

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Would it be disrespectful to cross out the whole of NHS englands new autism pathway and put:

Equine therapy
Disability rights
Kindness

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