Tweets by @bowenbrigid, founder of Compassionate Mental Health CIC. Curating a series of events & trainings to change the conversation around mental illness.

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I hope to see some of you! Join @_innercompass on 12/4 in CT, as we bring together patients, clinicians, researchers, journalists, academics, families, and advocates to take a hard look at today's mental health system. theinnercompass.org/conferen… FRIEND10 for 10% off
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These are excellent guidelines for contemporary humans. #existential
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Exactly!! @CeliaRichards0n knows what she’d need to rest & heal .. if only we could all design our perfect sanctuary space .. While waiting for miracles, go get your #NatureDose and take #TimeToBreathe at a @nationaltrust property near you 🌳 nationaltrust.org.uk/discove…
I stand here once a year and think it’s where I’d want to be if I had a breakdown. It sits snugly between a second hand bookshop, a sweetshop, a good boozer and the sea. All it needs is a tired woman with a quilt, hot water bottle and a playlist that’s predominantly Kate Bush.
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Find the beauty and do not let the misery of this world efface it. #existential
Let’s remind ourselves, once again, that there is much beauty in this challenging world we live in. It’s Friday, so be happy and enjoy the day 🥰
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CompassionateMH retweeted
Join us for this one day pop up therapeutic community at Kingsley Hall on Monday 20 October. @joannamoncrieff
12 days to go until we gather at iconic Kingsley Hall for #RadicalHospitality Here’s philosopher, psychologist and existential therapist @EmmyvanDeurzen on why you should be there .. youtube.com/watch?v=zkN9wRUP… More info & to BOOK compassionatementalhealth.co…
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Still time to join us in London on Monday for nourishing #MentalHealth learning retreat with @EmmyvanDeurzen @kalungubanda @victischler and much more #TherapeuticCommunity #ArtAndHealing #Existential #SystemsChange compassionatementalhealth.co…
Join us next month #RadicalHospitality at iconic #KingsleyHall - nourishing day of learning, reflection, and pop up #TherapeuticCommunity. Together we’ll explore how to support ourselves & others move from crisis to coherence compassionatementalhealth.co… #Transformative #MentalHealth
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12 days to go until we gather at iconic Kingsley Hall for #RadicalHospitality Here’s philosopher, psychologist and existential therapist @EmmyvanDeurzen on why you should be there .. youtube.com/watch?v=zkN9wRUP… More info & to BOOK compassionatementalhealth.co…
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Join us next month #RadicalHospitality at iconic #KingsleyHall - nourishing day of learning, reflection, and pop up #TherapeuticCommunity. Together we’ll explore how to support ourselves & others move from crisis to coherence compassionatementalhealth.co… #Transformative #MentalHealth
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CompassionateMH retweeted
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Hopeful conversation @_innercompass Treat the person not the condition says @joannamoncrieff - we need a more personalised, less harmful approach Safe deprescribing needed both within & outside #mentalhealth services @LauraDelano theinnercompass.org/
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CompassionateMH retweeted
(1/2) It’s been a whirlwind leading up to and following the launch of my memoir about my experiences with the mental health industry—appearing in many places from CNN, to the BBC, to the Dark Horse Podcast. I’m especially excited to be doing this event with @joannamoncrieff , whose nuanced, original ideas about the way we think and talk about psychiatric drugs were very helpful for me as I “depsychiatrized” myself back in the early 2010s. I hope you’ll join us! (Link to register in comments)
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CompassionateMH retweeted
ICYMI: If you’re a member of our online mutual aid platform, Inner Compass Exchange, you’ll find our community is truly global, with members from across the planet. We’re pleased then that our founder, @LauraDelano, recently spoke with BBC World Service, which reaches hundreds of millions worldwide each week—because we know only too well the impact of the mental health industry extends far beyond us here in the US. On the program, Laura discussed her experiences of being a psychiatric patient caught in a system that was worsening the very problems it aimed to treat, recognizing that while this is not the case for everybody, she is not unique in such experiences. She was followed by @MarkHoro, the-co-author of the Maudsley Deprescribing Guide, with presenter Julian Worricker noting how little help is available for tapering of psychiatric drugs. We hope this program helps convey to those of you around the world who’ve had similar experiences to Laura, that you are far from alone. And if you’re here on X and not in the US (or the UK), let us know in the comments what the local picture is like for you, including unique challenges and positive developments.
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CompassionateMH retweeted
3 Apr 2025
🗣️Please share 💫 join us for the ISPS UK conference ‘Psychosis: Beyond Them & Us, Finding Common Ground’, May 14th, Manchester #trialogue #community #mentalhealth #ISPS #socialjustice #relational #madness #carers #family #survivors #users #psychosis #psychiatry #gmmh #dialogue
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Great @CNN interview @LauraDelano about her book Unshrunk 📖 & how she lost her late teens & 20s to being in & out of psych wards & programmes & on a raft of meds. She says she wishes there had been other choices available, of places and ways to recover cnn.com/2025/03/29/health/vi…
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Wonderful to have a review #ByTheWell - our 16th Compassionate Mental Health gathering - in @psychmag 🌟 thank you #VictoriaTischler for being part of our pop-up community, & sharing your brilliant research on the transformative power of Art 🦋 Save dates for no.17 June 2-5 🌸
Rethinking compassionate mental health, by the well. @victischler, Chartered Psychologist and Professor of Behavioural Science at the University of Surrey, visits a pop-up therapeutic community in Coed Hills, Wales @CompassionMH bps.org.uk/psychologist/reth…
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CompassionateMH retweeted
Only in recent years I learnt my ‘mental illnesses’ were more than my broken brain. Education & awareness of causes, rights & more hopeful narratives of healing are sorely lacking. The individualised narrative can add to stigma & shame. Time for a new conversation #Give5!
11 Mar 2025
Great to have all the main political parties endorsing #Give5! There’s a clear desire and energy for a new conversation, and approach to mental health. We now look forward to the @healthdpt and @mikenesbittni implementing this framework! Learn more 👉 nlb.ie/take-action/give-5
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Limited spaces left on our upcoming #Compassionate #MentalHealth learning retreat. If you’re in need of some nourishment & inspiration, & are interested in more creative ways to meet distress in ourselves & others, then join us #ByTheWell compassionatementalhealth.co…
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