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Author Archives: Lol Butterfield
On loss and learning
TweetI have lost too many friends and service users through suicide over the past 30 years. We examine our consciences to see if we could have done more to prevent such deaths, that’s a normal human reaction. It’s what empathy … Continue reading
Self-harm: the power of talking face to face
TweetSelf-harm has always been a taboo subject and in my many years of mental health nursing probably provided more challenges than anything else for me. It touches at the very core of who we are and how we deal with … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Mental health, Uncategorized, Wellbeing, Young people
Tagged health, young people
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Why I always had time for George: older people and mental health
TweetI’m walking across the grounds of the psychiatric hospital on a very wet winter evening and a patient, let’s call him George, steps out from behind a bush to talk to me. He needs to tell me something that he … Continue reading
Posted in Mental health, Older people, Social care, Uncategorized, Wellbeing
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We should be kind, while there is still time
TweetOver 30 years ago as a young man I first set foot in a psychiatric hospital. It was an old Victorian “asylum” in the rolling countryside of Bedfordshire. I had travelled to the south of England from my native north … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Mental health, Social care, Social exclusion, Third sector, Uncategorized, Volunteering, Wellbeing
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Depression: when a bad day becomes a nightmare, and a wish list for youth mental health
TweetTo mark World Mental Health Day, two bloggers with experience of mental health issues share their thoughts on action. Here, campaigner Lol Butterfield writes about the fine line between “a bad day” and something more serious, while below, youth mental … Continue reading
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