Suicidal thoughts are more common than you’d imagine. BUT we are not our thoughts. Perhaps things have built up, you’re overwhelmed or can’t see how things can improve Can you try to ‘stay safe’ for now? StayingSafe.net has ideas for a way through how you’re feeling. Also Safety Plan Cymraeg ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Important paper by @alyscoleking.bsky.social and Professor Steve Platt: Suicide Prevention for Physicians www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Asking for help can be really hard. Don’t just say ‘let me know if I can do anything’

Know someone who’s dreading 2025? Please don’t wait for them to reach out. Instead ‘reach in’ to them. It may be hard to do, but also the most important conversation for both of you. Asking if they’ve seen the StayingSafe.net website is a gentle way to introduce a #SafetyPlan to help them stay safer

Do you support anyone who is dreading Christmas? It’s a difficult time of year for many. Safety Plans can equip people to know how to deal with their distress more safely •Self-help strategies •Making their situation safer (reducing access to means) •Support incl crisis 24/7 See StayingSafe.net

Talia don't apologise for being human 💖 There's a great free to access resource Stayingsafe.net from @alyscoleking.bsky.social & team, hope it helps xx

we are LIVE 🌈 stayingsafe.net aus.stayingsafe.net As always, totally free for anyone to use and could be especially helpful around the holiday period Thank you to everyone who has been part of this update, we are forever grateful for your support 🙏💜

Suicide prevention is EVERYONE'S business. It only takes 3 GOLDEN minutes (Cole-King & Platt) to change a full stop into a semicolon. The people of 4Mental Health are a shining light of hope.. we can all carry the torch with them 🙏🏼☂️

Great to see your commitment to continuous improvement. A really useful tool. I love the brolly too - to shelter from the storm, which will eventually pass.

📣 📣 NEW StayingSafe.net safety planning website •Easy navigation •Contemporary look •New interactive Safety Plan •Safety Plan headings in first person •Enhanced ideas for 'Making my situation safer' and 'Things to distract me' •Option to add timeframe for activities •New logo Please help to share 🙏🏼

At 4MH our vision is that people in distress have adequate personal and social resources and support from those around them to build lives worth living.

I feel like I shouldn't have to keep saying this, but it astonishes me that it keeps happening: If your patient has a very obvious, painful, traumatic injury, give them analgesia. Give them proper doses & give it early. Yes, even if they aren't screaming. Don't let people suffer quietly. #MedSky

Morning lovely people!

Check out this new work from our lab led by Stanley Seah, showing that better skills in emotion differentiation protect against intergenerational transmission of social anxiety symptoms from parents to teens. Effects are driven by reduced behavioral avoidance in teens with better ED! #PsychSciSky

Lovely to see so many familiar faces on here! Sorry not been posting much but snowed under working on some very exciting projects that will share soon!

Alas neither Labour UK nor Wes Streeting on here yet, but could we all agree that however MPs vote on AD next week, this is a huge opportunity for the government to announce - finally, after decades of successive governments failing dying people - proper NHS funding of palliative care?

Join us for a online open day webinar on Wednesday 20 Nov 10am-12pm. If you're a health professional or from a community organisation this is a great way to find out more about our life-saving work with men in suicidal crisis. Book a space at events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c37ff4...

How you make a Safety Plan is almost as important as what you put in it. Compassionate listening, validation and sitting with another person’s pain enables them to share their reasons for dying - so we then earn the right to share authentic hope and talk about reasons for living #SuicidePrevention

Bullying & harassment costs NHS £2 billion annually. Shocking but sadly unsurprising. The hesitation to call out racism, compared to sexism, shows the urgent need for antiracism & compassionate leadership as it saves costs & lives #NHS #AntiRacism #CompassionateLeadership #Bullying #Harassment

I made a suicidology/NSSI starter pack! Share and comment below to be added. go.bsky.app/MgL9J1j

link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Our edited volume, Epistemic Injustice in Mental Healthcare, has now been published and is free to download. I made a very small contribution - excellently edited and led by @lisabortolotti.bsky.social and supported by Wellcome

It’s #SelfPromotionMonday so may I present an article I wrote recently on how to use the SPACE framework (see next post) to support autistic patients and staff in the ICU It’s free to read and has points relevant to all healthcare settings journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

It’s so lovely to reconnect with lots of great people who’ve recently arrived over here! I’m too stubborn to fully give up the other place (despite everything) but it really is a breath of fresh air over here! 😌

Ooh it’s feeling like spring has arrived on Blue Sky! Here’s my #MentalHealthSky starter pack. Let me know who else has joined so I can add 💫 go.bsky.app/81fMQNK

Safety Plans should be like fingerprints - bespoke and unique to each person: •Not a one size fits all •Coproduced with trust and compassion •May look simple but include actions to safely navigate distress and suicidal thoughts Don’t have one? StayingSafe.net can help you make your own #SafetyPlan

I'm on the lookout for doctors with hobbies again! This time particuary interested in ones that have a cultural significance to you or link you to your heritage (I think I'm thinking dance, food etc but I don't really know) Does that make sense? Email me [email protected] if it does or to correct me

Hi everyone, trying out BlueSky like plenty of others it seems! Tips welcome? You can’t # I notice but can @ others? So I’ll give that a go… @suhana.bsky.social @agnesayton.bsky.social @bmj.com @alyscoleking.bsky.social @orthopodreg.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social @profrobhoward.bsky.social

Lovely picnic and walk around Llyn Crafnant in the Conwy Valley. Nothing quite like spending time in nature with loved ones ♥️

I’m running a lunchtime workshop on managing #burnout for health 🩺 and third sector professionals with Tony Adamson, 3rd sector leadership coach. Join us - it’s free! www.eventbrite.com/e/extinguish...

Really excellent contributions from @daryloconnor.bsky.social and @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social today on Radio 4’s All in the Mind www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

At long last the UK debate on masks can be ditched - buried with the reputations of those that refused to believe that Covid is airborne. Heroic perseverance by @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social. We owe these folks the avoidance of 100,000s of additional cases of Covid. HEPA filters are the next battle.

Today is a #NationalSuicideMemorial Day for Health and Care. I wish we didn’t need this. But we do. I’ve devoted 32 years to suicide prevention, initially spurred on by the loss of colleagues. I think of them often. Suicide is not inevitable and I will work tirelessly to support #NMDHCW

The safety plan below has special value because it's informed by user experience. Among these measures, reducing access to means is especially highly evidence-based. We used to keep our daughter's meds in a lock box. Eventually though, she and her boyfriend bought a place of their own.

#WorldSuicidePreventionDay Suicide Prevention is also about Govt policy: social justice, equality, fairness, education, jobs, secure housing and tacking poverty to build a future and have a life worth living ♥️ It’s also high quality, accessible, compassionate and well resourced healthcare #WSPD2024

📣 FREE training today! A few remaining places on 4 Mental Health’s Suicide Awareness for Professionals training delivered in partnership with Doctors in Distress and NHS Practitioner Health to mark #WorldSuicidePreventionDay Please share Use code WSPD24 to book FREE place store.4mentalhealth.com

#WorldSuicidePreventionDay Suicide is about overwhelming pain. For some people it’s not a conscious choice to let go - it’s just that they can’t hold on anymore Making time for someone, ‘reaching in’, sharing hope and showing you care can make all the difference ❤️ #WSPD2024 #StartTheConversation

A useful resource... ...well worth sharing!

Please share widely...!

📣Know any young people starting Uni? Please help share our ‘10 top transition and wellbeing tips for new students starting Uni’. Never too early to start planning! Thanks to Dr Dom Thompson, Student Health Expert and Dr Knut Schroeder #Freshersweek

Dear Elle MacPherson You and I had the same kind of breast cancer, HER+ (tends to be aggressive). I embraced conventional treatment (chemo, mastectomy, biologics); you eschewed these. We’re both alive years later. Here’s evidence that others should NOT copy you. 🧪 academic.oup.com/jnci/article...

My book review is out! The Story of a Heart by Rachel Clarke. 🧪 bjgplife.com/the-story-of...

Why are we taking little/no precautions in UK hospitals. Friends relative recently caught COVID in hospital, very very unwell. People coughing on ward taking no precautions. Struggle with why this receives limited infection control attention. Masks rare. Anyone else struggle with disconnect?

Nice to see more of my Twitter pals migrating over here. Seemed pointless posting anything last time I tried, so I’ll give it another whirl..

I knew this day would come. Loads of new people joining Blue Sky 🥳 Maybe we can make it a lovely space for #MentalHealth after all, like Twitter was for a good few years. Follow me if you like reading about mental health research that has implications for practice. Welcome to the woodland! 🌳🌤️🍄

‘Language Matters: Stigma and Suicide’ webinar (open to all) – 1pm – 2:30pm, Tuesday 17 September www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/language-m...

This photo makes my heart sing! ♥️ Two very special and fabulous women ….. my wonderful sister Ruth and the amazing @lizoriordan.bsky.social ♥️♥️

It's quicker to help someone produce a safety plan than you think.