Dear Folk with non-mental health disabilities, Vouchers would be an absolute disaster for mental health claimants. Don’t let anyone persuade you folk claiming PIP for anxiety are worried well. Happy to discuss anytime in depth but please don’t inadvertently harm us. Dr Jay

Hot weather reminder: some psychotropic medications including lithium, antipsychotics, stimulants, tricyclics +some SSRIs can increase risk of overheating, dehydration and sun sensitivity. This is NOT aided by the SHIT UNVENTILATED ACCOMMODATION so many people with SMI placed in.

Small wins that are important with #CPTSD: saying ‘no’ without a 5-paragraph apology.

It would be excellent if CPTSD (complex post-traumatic stress disorder) services were accessible to people with CPTSD.

Every trauma survivor carries the ghost of a child who once believed someone would come.

Dear @leicesterliz, Some people with mental health problems can’t work. Implying they can is highly damaging. If you want to help, make voluntary work possible without forcing people to live in fear that the DWP will deem them work-ready. It’s a win for all. Thanks, Jay

No one should be diagnosing mental health problems, neurodivergence, PMDD, or any physical health problem or injury that affects the mind without being able to diagnose all the above. Diagnosis is as much about ruling out as it is about ruling in.

TW I'd appreciate it if you could consider tweeting/retweeting this. With 'prevention of death' recommendations and social media pressure, there should be autism x mental health training X @ItsEmilyKaty @adamfare1996 @AutisticGirls_ @AutisticDoctor @johnpringdns #ActuallyAutistic

Here is an alternative press release for mental health trusts and organisations: - we cannot support any involvement with the DWP until sanctions and welfare conditionality is over - we have job coaches already in IAPT away from the DWP - job coaching isn’t for our wards ever

If you are trauma-informed, you do not let DWP job coaches onto your mental health wards. Full stop.

Horrific. To be in a mental health hospital, as I’ve been many times as both a professional and a patient, means you’re very, very ill. A job coach visiting implies the patient hasn’t been ‘doing life right,’ adding to trauma and stress. This is dangerous: tinyurl.com/4jyx98uz

As a consultant clinical psychologist, lets just be clear on the evidence, Starmer. If you want people to do well, uplift them. That means treating people with dignity, decent benefits one can live on without worry, not casting moral aspersions on people. Sanctions do not work.

Trauma-informed care is an important lens in stopping retraumaticsation. But thrrr has to be trauma therapy available too. Stopping retraumatisation and processing trauma are not the same thing.