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thementalelves.bsky.social
I live with mental distress. Interested in alternative approaches outside the system and creating lived experience and peer support spaces. Harmed by critical psychiatry, mad survivor, forced to avoid services to prevent further harm.
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#Trauma isn't the bad thing that happens. Trauma is our inability to get back to psychological safety afterwards. It's a lack of care, a lack of support, a lack of action. When we're hurting and hopeless, we need to know and feel that we are surrounded by people who want to support and protect us.

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“People are eight times more likely to wait over 18 months for mental health treatment than physical health treatment.” www.rethink.org/news-and-sto...

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The sun is shining. And I'm feeling guilty/sad/other that my lack of functioning effects so many people around me and those who give a shit. Anyone else feel this? I appreciate it may be way too sunny a day ☀️

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I came into contact with a dark personality in the workplace and have never recovered. I often dream that I made a different choice (I had one). I long to have never met him. Living with the shit show of the aftermath is rough

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Not really a late Friday night read but it's good however depressing

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This is my life

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Today, whilst feeling broken, I stood in a woodland with my back against an oak tree trunk. As the wind howled, I felt this giant tree sway. It was like being rocked back and forth by a kind human being. I was also amazed at how much it could move.

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Tale of 2 cities Part 1: in the quagmire of my depressed brain Part 2: gazing up at the planetary alignment of the big six over the inky harbour

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#eastenders Suggesting that a mental health professional will turn up after a person is suicidal once makes life for people like me very difficult. It teaches society that there is a functioning MH system in place where you will be taken to and kept safe. This is a lie.

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Simplicity

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Dear World I really needed you to reflect back my worthiness, goodness and okayness today. I'm struggling keeping showing up to not that. Love

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I went to a new social thing today for the first time and I was nervous. When I entered the space noone spoke with me or welcomed me and I needed that really badly.

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Today I felt the warmth of a Bantam's neck on my palm as I hand fed them. The pecking order is a real thing

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Idealistic indeed. The social passport of validation is vital to survive life. Yet here, idealists are taking the one thing away that might serve as a protective factor without providing an alternative in wider society. I was never the problem, others were, yet I remain the experiment yet again.

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Coming to us all soon

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1. Winter sun on my face 2. A 🔥 on a cold day 3. Good people reflecting back my okayness

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important

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