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#MentalHealth #MentalIllness #TW #Suicide
A desire to pick myself up, 'carry on', focus on future goals; balanced/contrasted with the need to stop the denial; accept the reality of just how serious things have been. ARE. STILL.
My discharge letter uses the words 'fatal'.
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2 Mental Health Act Assessments in 7 days.
4 nights in an acute general hospital. For treatment.
*They* can't all be wrong. Exaggerating. Coercive. Risk averse.
*I* have to take responsibility for causing concern.
Responsibility but not blame.
*I* have had to revisit my
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Safety plan; again and again and again. And right now that means 'family supervision'. But in my own home. Where I want to be. Where I am safer. At the moment: change is constant and I must also acknowledge that.
And I am still p*ssed off at the way the #MHAA was undertaken
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1/ Spent the last 30 min on the phone with a UK junior doc and family friend, giving advice on whether to move to NZ or Aus. They suggested I write a 🧵 .... so here goes.
#JuniorDoctorsStrikes #JuniorDoctorsStrike #juniorDoctorStrike @BMA_JuniorDocs
2/ Firstly, agree that the term 'junior doctor' is not perfect and is misconstrued to mean young. A lot of junior docs in UK/NZ/Aus are well into their 30's and have families. All are qualified and trained doctors, who happen to not be consultants
3/ In trying to compare and contrast NZ and Aus, will try to present pure facts. Both places and pros and cons, and there will be nuances and exceptions. I have worked as a junior doc in both countries as an immigrant.
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