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20 years ago today was my first day as a psychiatrist (Chase Farm Hospital. You could smoke in the mess).

Since then I’ve worked in general adult services caring for people with Severe Mental Illness (SMI).

What's changed? What's next? #20yearsinmentalhealth

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1.People with SMI can find themselves on the margins of society, subject to multiple inequalities, dying years younger.

Stigma remains rampant, if improving. Under the surface many people, including in health & care, feel uncomfortable with or even fear people with SMI /2
It’s imperative for people like me, like us, to work tirelessly on social inclusion, to use our voice to advocate for our patients in wider society, to educate others

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Tweeps: two weeks ago today, I nearly lost my life due to a very serious bilateral pulmonary embolism.

I had no symptoms at all, except for tiredness & a little breathlessness, which I attributed to other causes. When you're living with chronic mental ill health & ...1/
...on a very low income due to #UniversalCredit, you get used to feeling rubbish a lot of the time. Vague symptoms like fatigue are inevitably dismissed by GPs.

Over the course of about 8 hours on that Tues, tho, I started feeling faint & very weird. 2/
I got up to use the loo & collapsed, losing consciousness. When I came round, I couldn't breathe.

Luckily, I managed to reach my phone & paramedics from @Ldn_Ambulance came within 30 minutes.

Unluckily, I couldn't get to the door & ... 3/
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