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ShelleyShocked
@shelleyhofer
Living, loving & parenting with mental illness. Redefining life with Major Depressive Disorder. ECT & rTMS saved my life🧁🧁🧁 Mom of @zachmakestracks ❤️
Sep 25, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
(1/8) I’ll take “Shitty Behaviour You (Shouldn’t) Have to Put Up With” for $500

I’m often mistaken for an employee at @CAMHnews, instead of the patient I am. (What does a #mentalhealth patient LOOK like anyways?). I don’t hesitate to correct someone because I’m not ashamed... (2/8) ME: [standing in the parking lot by my car in-between #rTMS treatments]

MAN: [cutting through #CAMH grounds with walking group of seniors behind me] “...and here we are at the insane asylum, ha ha ha, if we’re lucky we’ll see some of the crazies doing their crazy shit...”
Jan 29, 2020 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
From @CAMHnews... According to the World Health Organization, around 450 million people currently struggle with mental illness, making it the leading cause of disability worldwide... #BellLetsTalk Here at home, it affects more than 6.7 million of us. In fact, one in two Canadians have—or have had—a mental illness by the time they reach 40 years of age... #BellLetsTalk @CAMHnews
Dec 4, 2019 • 42 tweets • 11 min read
This thread is about depression - but it isn’t ‘sad’. I've accepted that my mental illness was ongoing and cyclical. Caused by a faulty part in my brain. That’s ok! I could have had a pancreas that didn’t work or a heart that malfunctioned, too. But I got a broken brain... Fine! Let’s deal with it. What does treatment look like for a broken brain? Last week, my brain received 72,000 ‘zaps’ through a magnetic coil to the part of my brain that’s ‘broken’. I’m weepy because I already feel a difference...
Jan 31, 2019 • 24 tweets • 15 min read
Today was a big day for @diesel6751 and I. It was also #BellLetsTalk Day. Please read the thread to see how it unfolded... Image Derek and I were up at 4am to arrive, in the dark, at @CAMHnews . I was able to join one of the @CAMHResearch doctors, Dr. Daskalakis, for an interview with @JamieGutfreund from @CP24Breakfast. We discussed #rTMS (Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation)...

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