This. I am diagnosed with various labels that mean I face stigma in services I access. My job is to use the insight from that to improve those services. The problem is, I face stigma in my job because of those diagnoses too. In order to mitigate the stigma, I got a >
https://twitter.com/keirangoddard1/status/1492131302220435461
> Masters Degree in the job I work in to so that there would be no excuse for non Lived Experience staff to continue to make decisions in how to co-produce services. Like @keirangoddard1’s question in his thread, this was treated as an obstruction to the status quo, a threat >
> something to be silenced and shown the door. Non LXP staff have ensured that future co-production will not be developed by specialist LXP staff trained in the areas of mental health they work in, as well as being trained >
> and supervised to be able to challenge tokenism and ensure that ‘grooming’ to rubber stamp decisions already made does not take place when doing this important work. I was horrified to learn that co-production decisions relating to services that work with complex, stigmatised >
> diagnoses like ‘personality disorder’ were now going to be taken from #LXP staff trained in that area & given to unpaid SUs. As my education & experience literally made me redundant, I wept and was told to seek clinical help at the very services I was supposed to be improving >
> but had never been allowed to. I wept knowing I’d have to experience the impact of these decisions on my future clinical care. I wept for so much. These stories of corrupted co-working: grooming, unaccountability & silenced ‘troublemakers’ are everywhere. Just start listening.
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