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🧵Tonight’s #C4Dispatches is heartbreaking and makes me angry. Having been in a psych hospital with a physical disability, there for my mental illness, it was awful enough. To lock away autistic women & girls indefinitely is cruel. 1/3
The friend I made when I was there she’s an autistic female. Been in and out for 10+ years. Yes she needed mh treatment but she doesn’t cope in the environment. These places are noisy & chaotic. Also, as this is showing, sexual abuse, assault and rape sadly isn’t uncommon. 2/3
Most women who’ve been inside have their own horror tales. I have mine, I don’t think it’ll leave me. For these autistic people, they will be traumatised daily with no knowing when they can be in a safe environment. There must be a better way 💔 3/3
Thread of quotes from Respiratory Consultant Dr Paul Whitaker #C4Dispatches episode on #LongCovid :
"The definition of long Covid is people having symptoms going on beyond 12 weeks. The number of people who have had Covid in the UK makes this an almost overwhelming problem."
"The definition of long Covid is people having symptoms going on beyond 12 weeks. The number of people who have had Covid in the UK makes this an almost overwhelming problem."
"We do chest x-rays, CT scans and full lung function tests. Some people have evidence of scarring, some people have evidence of an inability to absorb oxygen properly. But most people have normal tests."
"For these people it really comes down to fatigue, to muscle strength and also to what the physiotherapists call dysfunctional breathing, so after Covid people breathe a little bit differently."
