Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate with me yesterday. A huge thank you to Ms Rachel Booth-Gardiner 💚 for giving an amazing speech! 🥳

I was then joined by family and friends in the evening a truly special day!🥰

To add: 'High masking' is a functioning label

A misinformed & limited understanding of masking, based on a superficial & exclusive social narrative of 'fitting in'; rather than as a multi-faceted developmental behavioural response to multi-layered intersectional stigma & trauma

In loving memory of Nafez Al Najjar, a dental technician from Gaza.

We will not forget Nafez and will continue to call for a permanent and immediate ceasefire so that no more lives are stolen and humanitarian aid can be offered.

PUBLICATION PARTY DAY!!🥳🥳

An up & down week filled with joys of learning & opportunities to share skills & take part in a collaboration that makes a creative occupational therapist’s 💚sing. In contrast, disappointment of a long term project folding before fruition. Where one door closes another opens …

1/11 “I sometimes think of monotropic attention
as being like the flow from a hose: it has to go somewhere, and if it can’t flow smoothly,
it’s liable to go everywhere.” Fergus Murray monotropism.org/wellbeing/

🧵1/3
After last week's brilliant conversation with Kelly Mahler on #Interoception and #Monotropism , we're following up with a conversation about Interoception and #AutisticMasking (which is ironically an opportunity for me to be monotropic on my favourite topic).

'It always felt as though we were in a cycle. Jen would have a MH crisis, then go onto the waiting list; receive minimal intervention; then she was discharged. At no point did a practitioner LISTEN to me about how Jen was really doing.' David Gray-Hammond doughtystreet.co.uk/news/jennifer-…

'Jen’s last discharge from CAMHS took place three months before her death, in June 2021, after a 15-minute audio call, by practitioners who had not properly reviewed her medical history. The Senior Coroner found that the assessment was wholly insufficient and discharge took place…

Researchers/ADHD people help please

Does Research on antidepressants & ADHD clash exist?

I’m so blurred & dazed I need some initial clues

Can’t function v well due to being completely messed up by one this week

Is it me? Or is it a thing?

Need 2 know

#ADHD #Antidepressants

In loving memory of Mahmoud Othman, a paramedic from Gaza.

Mahmoud Hussein Othman was an ambulance driver killed on 7th October, 2023. We will not forget Mahmoud and will continue to call for a permanent and immediate ceasefire so that no more lives are stolen.

Poll for autistic people who are diagnosed.
After your autism diagnosis, did you get any other diagnoses of things you probably had for years/all your life - but they missed it before? E.g. ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, hypermobility, IBS etc?
Feel free to repost/discuss.

Ben Claimant 💚 Join a Union Royal College of Occupational Therapists Georgia Vine (She/Her) DeathsByWelfare OT History Matters OT_CarersUnite #RetiredNotRetiring #LegacySkills💚🌞🌐 OT_Skiff 💚 OT_Expert DrLecturerMish PhD 🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸💙🌺 She/Her/Hers Dr Linda Renton Dr Anita Atwal AbleOTUK Rox TalbOT (she/her) Professor Elizabeth McKay Professional Adviser Gen RCOTSSWork RCOT Campaigns, Policy & Public Affairs RCOTSS Housing RCOT IP HCPC I will respond Ben Claimant 💚 Join a Union on my position on this but it may not be today

Dr Jenny Ceolta-Smith (PhD OT) Royal College of Occupational Therapists Georgia Vine (She/Her) DeathsByWelfare OT History Matters OT_CarersUnite #RetiredNotRetiring #LegacySkills💚🌞🌐 OT_Skiff 💚 OT_Expert DrLecturerMish PhD 🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸💙🌺 She/Her/Hers Dr Linda Renton Dr Anita Atwal AbleOTUK Rox TalbOT (she/her) Professor Elizabeth McKay Professional Adviser Gen RCOTSSWork RCOT Campaigns, Policy & Public Affairs RCOTSS Housing RCOT IP HCPC 5 years ago the RC issued a consensus statement on the importance of health and wellbeing in work. They emphasise good work but I bet this forms part of the 'evidence' DWP uses to support their belief work is good for health.

rcot.co.uk/news/healthcar…

Royal College of Occupational Therapists Georgia Vine (She/Her) DeathsByWelfare OT History Matters OT_CarersUnite #RetiredNotRetiring #LegacySkills💚🌞🌐 OT_Skiff 💚 OT_Expert DrLecturerMish PhD 🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸💙🌺 She/Her/Hers Dr Linda Renton Dr Anita Atwal AbleOTUK Rox TalbOT (she/her) Professor Elizabeth McKay Professional Adviser Gen RCOTSSWork RCOT Campaigns, Policy & Public Affairs RCOTSS Housing RCOT IP HCPC I could add posts here all day Royal College of Occupational Therapists and my activism is costing my health and recovery from #LongCovid x.com/BenClaimant/st…

Royal College of Occupational Therapists Georgia Vine (She/Her) DeathsByWelfare OT History Matters OT_CarersUnite #RetiredNotRetiring #LegacySkills💚🌞🌐 OT_Skiff 💚 OT_Expert DrLecturerMish PhD 🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸💙🌺 She/Her/Hers Dr Linda Renton Dr Anita Atwal AbleOTUK Rox TalbOT (she/her) Professor Elizabeth McKay Professional Adviser Gen RCOTSSWork RCOT Campaigns, Policy & Public Affairs RCOTSS Housing RCOT IP HCPC x.com/PollardTom/sta…

Royal College of Occupational Therapists Georgia Vine (She/Her) DeathsByWelfare OT History Matters OT_CarersUnite #RetiredNotRetiring #LegacySkills💚🌞🌐 OT_Skiff 💚 OT_Expert DrLecturerMish PhD 🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸💙🌺 She/Her/Hers Dr Linda Renton Dr Anita Atwal AbleOTUK Rox TalbOT (she/her) Professor Elizabeth McKay Professional Adviser Gen RCOTSSWork RCOT Campaigns, Policy & Public Affairs RCOTSS Housing RCOT IP HCPC x.com/DisRightsUK/st…

No, no, no! PIP is there to support the additional costs for disabled people which it is £975 a month!!

Glad to see the transparency on this. I have raised it for a while.
We need urgent round table discussion on this within Royal College of Occupational Therapists #OT to include lived experiences of #OT who have been through such assessments. It's just just #PIP its all practice associated with #DWP

OT History Matters Royal College of Occupational Therapists RCOTSSWork x.com/JCeoltaSmith/s…