#gratitude thread 1/12
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” Voltaire #grateful for classics @CIIS_SF
#gratitude thread 2/12
“When eating fruit, remember the one who planted the tree.” Vietnamese Proverb @BreneBrown @grateful for cultures
#gratitude thread 3/12
“Got no checkbooks, got no banks, still I’d like to express my thanks. I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.” Irving Berlin @PolarisInsight #grateful for music
#gratitude thread 4/12
"For my part, I am almost contented just now, and very thankful. Gratitude is a divine emotion: it fills the heart, but not to bursting; it warms it, but not to fever.” Charlotte Bronte #grateful for literature @Drug_Researcher
#gratitude thread 5/12
“No duty is more urgent than giving thanks.” James Allen #grateful for "As a Man Thinketh" (legendary book) @Chacruna_net
#gratitude thread 6/12
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” Robert Brault #grateful for #littlethings@MAPS
#gratitude thread 9/12
"It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.” Germany Kent #grateful for funny first names like "Germany" @headdock
#gratitude thread 10/12
"Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude." AA Milne #grateful for children's stories that teach invaluable life lessons @StefanKertesz
#gratitude thread 11/12
"Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.” #Rumi ... what can we say about Rumi, OMG, so #grateful@RCarhartHarris
#gratitude thread 12/12
"We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.” JFK @awakn_ls
Please tag people, things, place, organizations, etc.. you are grateful for and retweet.
“Of potential harms of getting distracted by a more progressive model of mental healthcare by polarized ideas is that it could prevent people from seeking care that they may want, or invalidate experiences of people who have been helped by psychiatry” vice.com/en_us/article/… 1/4
@jonathanstea@JonathanShedler@AllenFrancesMD@VICENews “By claiming that mental illness doesn't exist at all, anti-psychiatry could also lead us astray from much-needed reform within psychiatry, precisely because it seeks not to improve psychiatry, but to tear it down.” 2/4
“There are useful discussions and summaries on Mad in America. Importantly, there are also real experiences and trauma behind many of the posts that discuss the harms patients suffer from psychiatry.” @Mad_In_America@sandysteingard 3/4
"For decades state legislators have witnessed turf battles among various health care professions. Nurse practitioners and physicians’ assistants, for example, seek to practice independently of physicians and to expand their scope of practice to meet their level of training" 2/5
"This is usually met with resistance from medical doctors who argue NPs and PAs lack the necessary training to safely provide care beyond a narrowly‐defined scope. In most states doctorate‐level clinical psychologists are not allowed to prescribe psychiatric medications.." 3/5