Thread by @tamar_whyte

1/ Oh dear @laurevans311. Methinks u have missed the point entirely of what staff working in the Lived Experience Professions do & range within the discipline. We actually use the insight from lived experience and work from an experiential lens. Did you know we have Professors >

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2/ Lived Experience Researchers, Academics, Lecturers, Organisational Change Agents, Service Design Consultants, Trainers, Facilitators, Service Leads, Peer Workers? @ImROC_comms train their Peer Workers with a BSc Module. I have an MSc in ‘Personality Disorder’ I use to work >

3/ with ppl who have complex MH/trauma/distress, to design services, undertake research, challenge discrimination & stigmatising attitudes amongst staff towards them. A bit like the bigotry displayed in your post and by the 124 uneducated ppl who liked it. Have you ANY idea of >

4/ the impact of shitty attitudes, discrimination, being pathologised and treated differently has on #LXP staff? Most have working histories beyond their current posts and can see the disdain, envy & ignorance of their colleagues in comparison to other workplace environments. >

5/ Go and educate yourself on LXPRevolution.co.uk or NSUN.org.uk or shapingourlives.co.uk or imroc.org or

6. You can even do a MSc in Mad Studies. If you don’t know what that is, go check Google. There is a whole field of activism, theory, understanding & skill to this work. Go check the work at @CNWLNHS - 80 LXP staff from bands 4-8 and counting. > qmu.ac.uk/study-here/pos…

7/ Finally, let me come back to the impact of bigotry & #saneism #LXP staff face. It takes its toll. It hurts. Especially when a Peer Worker is isolated in a team where they have no LXP colleagues to talk to about the gaslighting they are experiencing from ppl like you, >

8/ questioning their skills (they are often dual qualified in term of working from an experiential lens AND other education/quals/training) & pathologising their responses when they complain about the discrimination they are experiencing. Please do better.