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New research project ☺️

Have you had anorexia nervosa yourself and have you also held a role where you provide treatment to others with anorexia? Have you also experienced your own treatment for anorexia ending early?

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If you have an eating disorder or struggle with disordered eating, there’s a high chance your hunger cues will be all over the place. But not feeling hungry isn’t a reason not to eat, and there’s lots of ways your body might be telling you it’s hungry without a rumbly stomach: 🧵

3 substance use band 6 occupational therapist jobs covering North Wales health boards now finally available! Be part of developing this area of practice. Check the link for details:
www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jo...

A good 18 months in anorexia recovery but the past week suddenly hit with extreme discomfort in my body, reminding myself that the idealisation of ED I’m creating in my mind is just that and the reality is absolute hellfire. #ED #anorexia #recovery #nogoingback #futuregoals

Agreed! I felt so much better after, was out fir a few hours, cold and wet but lovely all at the same time 💚

52 cinema films in 52 weeks. Week 4, flight risk. Verdict = ok at best! Trailer showed all the best bits, other than that quite boring and long winded. Might be your cup of tea though ?
#cinema #fils #flightrisk #mentalhealth #recovery

Finally practising what I preach! 💚 #OT #occupationaltherapy #mentalhealth #wellbeing much needed after a hellish few months 💚

It’s the holiday season - a time of year when weight stigma runs particularly rampant - so we thought it’d be a great time to re-share this infographic debunking the myths of body mass index (BMI)!
We’ll continue to shout it from the rooftops:
‼️‼️BMI does NOT indicate health!‼️‼️

This is a quick guide to schizophrenia vs schizoaffective disorder along with an interesting study.

a poster that says " when we connect we thrive " on it ALT: a poster that says " when we connect we thrive " on it

#SocialConnection
#Importance
'through connectedness .. a collective becomes more than the sum of its parts. .. [I]nnate needs for human beings to 'belong' & 'survive', and an enabling .. environment are motivators for people to participate collectively'
Adams & Casteleijn, 2014.

Rejection sensitivity is central to ADHD, autism, and cPTSD.

Mental health services rarely understand rejection sensitivity, which is why people in all three diagnostic categories are so often told there is something wrong with their personality.

There isn’t.

#HumanNotPD

The Eating Disorder Recovery Journal (Creative Journals for Mental Health) Buy The Eating Disorder Recovery Journal (Creative Journals for Mental Health) by Lisette, Cara, Barron, Victoria, David, Dr Emily (ISBN: 9781839970856) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

Good little deal running on my eating disorder journal 🩷

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I often walk away from The OT Show with stupid ideas but....

If we put on a 2 day face to face mental health OT conference

Somewhere accessible but not London

Keynote speakers and breakout sessions

Some free lived experience places and lived experience speakers...

There hasn’t been much engagement here with the #AssisteddyingBill This the @rcpsych.bsky.social statement

Repost if BlueSky is now your primary social media site.

Absolutely gutted to have missed the #OTshow, but nice first day back at work after a month off. Good to be back in a #routine and reestablish that #role that gives lme #meaning and #connections. Like what I did there!? 😂 #OTlife 💚

First thing I thought when I looked , oh wow dinosaur stairs !

YouTube video by Occupational Phenomenology Occupational Phenomenology | On R.D. Laing: Simon Critchley and Ciarán Gaynor in conversation

A year ago I interviewed the philosopher Simon Critchley and we talked about RD Laing the psychiatrist (or anti-psychiatrist) and we talked about the value and importance of lived experience in all understanding of fellow human beings. Here it is: youtu.be/crQAmGOUm3k?...

The lasting effects of a BPD diagnosis for me (now that I've accessed competent treatment) are that I don't accept help well. Because when I have "normal" emotions within hard parts of changing, I hear an internalized voice saying I'm bad & manipulative. The negativity brings me down on myself.

EDAC Table Talk Podcast Podcast · Eating Disorders and Autism Collaborative · The Eating Disorders and Autism Collaborative (EDAC) Table Talk podcast centers on discussions around neurodivergence and eating behaviours. As ou...

Thanks to the super power that is our EDACs very own Kyle (and host of our podcast table talk!) have a Spotify account now for our new podcast exploring all things autism and eating disorders 😊 Please do give us a little follow!! open.spotify.com/show/6tEaThW...

NHS bosses who silence whistleblowers face sack under government plans Ministers to launch public consultation on regulating managers in effort to end ‘culture of cover-up’ in NHS

NHS bosses who silence whistleblowers face sack under government plans👏

www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

My experience:

Team had concerns organisation had harmed a patient
I raised them
After 3 days told I was being investigated for misconduct
Asked to change notes detailing teams concern about harm
Cleared after 6 months
Patient never told of concerns
Commissioners never told of harms

We need this👇

I’m concerned the shift to Bluesky may impact the response to the government’s #whitepaper ‘Get Britain Working,’ set to land in the next week or so. My engagements and followers are down even including there, as are those of much more influential/important activists. We must 🗣️across platforms 🙏.

Me please ! 💚

Thank you ! Just need to keep focused and not wobble ti much ! 💕

Measuring eating disorders in Autistic people: a proposal for future research While diagnostic pathways for identifying Autism in eating disorder (ED) populations have been developed, the field continues to lack validated psychometric tools to measure EDs for use in the Auti...

Our recent paper (led by Phaedra Longhurst) argues that eating disorder measures lack validity for Autistic folks: leads to pathologising Autistic people's eating & missing EDs that don't present neurotypically.

Validated, Autistic-led measures urgently needed!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We are super proud to have worked with this with Phaedra Longhurst, @dr-liz-evans.bsky.social @kerenmaclennan.bsky.social @karri-g-smith.bsky.social @fionaduffy.bsky.social and Emy Nimbley 👇

Yey!!!!! Welcome to bluesky @kingsedresearch.bsky.social .. you wanna be friends??? 🤣🤣🤣

Suicide prevention, digital health, and human-centered design!! If these are things you love, we're looking for T32 postdocs to join us at Northwestern's Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies!

cbits.northwestern.edu/training/pos...