Thread by @tamar_whyte

@kateneuropsych @threadreaderapp @kawaiilovesarah @viscidula @SaferAcademia @DisabledAcadem @DisInHigherEd @APApsychiatric @APA 1) Thanks, I understand and agree with most of what you have said, in particular about WS & love the idea of it being diagnosed as a psychopathy in itself. The lens I work from within the LXP discipline is as an end user of services and using the insight of this, alongside the >

@kateneuropsych @threadreaderapp @kawaiilovesarah @viscidula @SaferAcademia @DisabledAcadem @DisInHigherEd @APApsychiatric @APA 2) range of community stances, academic knowledge, grey and published literature that exists. I run a #MadStudies group & Dr Colin King, @BacaBaca2012. He is a ‘Mad Academic and partnered with the Mad Studies group to write this article in the Lancet: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33894174/ >

@kateneuropsych @threadreaderapp @kawaiilovesarah @viscidula @SaferAcademia @DisabledAcadem @DisInHigherEd @APApsychiatric @APA @BacaBaca2012 3) Colin also talks about Whiteness and we learnt a lot during his visits to the group. We also have @MadBlackPixie, an E&D consultant who is a Co-facilitator, and David Gibbs, not on Twitter, who does the same work. I think where we differ is on the need to name the >

@kateneuropsych @threadreaderapp @kawaiilovesarah @viscidula @SaferAcademia @DisabledAcadem @DisInHigherEd @APApsychiatric @APA @BacaBaca2012 @MadBlackPixie 4) specific discrimination that exists around Madness. This discrimination pre-dates WS, it is as old as some humans have been… different? Some cultures have embraced this difference, even revered it. Others have been cruel and thought we were possessed by demons or evil >

@kateneuropsych @threadreaderapp @kawaiilovesarah @viscidula @SaferAcademia @DisabledAcadem @DisInHigherEd @APApsychiatric @APA @BacaBaca2012 @MadBlackPixie 5) spirits and treated us very badly. You are right that WS made this much worse and more brutal. If you have Afro American or Caribbean heritage we likely share the intergenerational trauma of chattel slavery and it’s impacts. However, even in mental health institutions, as LXP>

@kateneuropsych @threadreaderapp @kawaiilovesarah @viscidula @SaferAcademia @DisabledAcadem @DisInHigherEd @APApsychiatric @APA @BacaBaca2012 @MadBlackPixie 7) we are discriminated against. It is well dobcumented in the NHS that Black staff face a block in career progression beyond a Band 6. Locally, LXP staff who were required to train with a BSc level module were employed at a Band 2. That is the same rate as a cleaner. There was >

@kateneuropsych @threadreaderapp @kawaiilovesarah @viscidula @SaferAcademia @DisabledAcadem @DisInHigherEd @APApsychiatric @APA @BacaBaca2012 @MadBlackPixie 8) career progression. I was an anomaly employed elsewhere, at a Band 4 - support worker level. I have an MSc in my discipline. I would be at table with Band 8-9 member of staff, mainly White but some Black. I would advise at the same level. Decisions and poor systems were >

@kateneuropsych @threadreaderapp @kawaiilovesarah @viscidula @SaferAcademia @DisabledAcadem @DisInHigherEd @APApsychiatric @APA @BacaBaca2012 @MadBlackPixie 9) developed by others, because an untrained inexperienced ‘sane’ member of staff can do a better job at a highly trained and experienced #LXP member of staff can. Equality is always about concentrating on the most discriminated and vulnerable person in the room. In this case, >

@kateneuropsych @threadreaderapp @kawaiilovesarah @viscidula @SaferAcademia @DisabledAcadem @DisInHigherEd @APApsychiatric @APA @BacaBaca2012 @MadBlackPixie 10) that person was me. It wasn’t because they knew I was mixed race despite my white passing face, it was because they saw me as med and couldn’t see past that. Intersectionally, dark skinned #LXPs are a rare staffing group nationally - the weight of the discrimination they >

@kateneuropsych @threadreaderapp @kawaiilovesarah @viscidula @SaferAcademia @DisabledAcadem @DisInHigherEd @APApsychiatric @APA @BacaBaca2012 @MadBlackPixie 11) face is too much, as Premila Trivedi wrote about: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/97…. she was a respected published scientist yet her work as an #LXP was not. Locally, even a white man who used to be a social worker, highly qualified, is a Band 2 LXP. No room for career progression. >

@kateneuropsych @threadreaderapp @kawaiilovesarah @viscidula @SaferAcademia @DisabledAcadem @DisInHigherEd @APApsychiatric @APA @BacaBaca2012 @MadBlackPixie 12) This is why we so desperately need a name for the unique discrimination we experience. We are not even counted when they survey staff for protected characteristics, yet our madness is our Genuine Occupational Requirement and we are not listed as to where we fit within pay >

@kateneuropsych @threadreaderapp @kawaiilovesarah @viscidula @SaferAcademia @DisabledAcadem @DisInHigherEd @APApsychiatric @APA @BacaBaca2012 @MadBlackPixie 14) structures. LX labour is my thing, but sanism is everywhere and affects everyone differently. Some people are still brutalised in locked wards. We need a name for this, a spoken word to call it out. Maybe sanism isn’t the best but it is what people from our community have >

@kateneuropsych @threadreaderapp @kawaiilovesarah @viscidula @SaferAcademia @DisabledAcadem @DisInHigherEd @APApsychiatric @APA @BacaBaca2012 @MadBlackPixie 15) started to use and are starting to identify and understand it’s existence because there is a word for it. It has certainly helped me reframe my thinking, and I’ve experienced my mental health condition from early development -40s and studied/been an activist in the area. >

@kateneuropsych @threadreaderapp @kawaiilovesarah @viscidula @SaferAcademia @DisabledAcadem @DisInHigherEd @APApsychiatric @APA @BacaBaca2012 @MadBlackPixie 16) This is a conversation where people are going to have to be quiet and listen to the voices of the Mad Community, in all its intersections. We need funding and decision making power. Sanism and loss of power is what stops this happening. But we need our word, our language.

@kateneuropsych @threadreaderapp @kawaiilovesarah @viscidula @SaferAcademia @DisabledAcadem @DisInHigherEd @APApsychiatric @APA @BacaBaca2012 @MadBlackPixie @threadreaderapp please unroll