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22 Oct 2021
4 years ago I was suicidal & getting ready to leave care & about to face the worst 6 months of my life. Today I start my new job as a beauty therapist as well as being at uni, working with care leavers & working in mental health. Change is 100% possible & suicide is preventable!
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14 Feb 2025
A whole new meaning to love โค๏ธ
Happy valentines day from our perfect little valentine โค๏ธ
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13 Aug 2024
Crazy to think in just a few weeks ill have my own tiny human, even crazier to think that the house she will call her first home is also the first place I could call home! I'm just so grateful she doesn't have to wait until she's 21 like i did to have a safe place to call home ๐
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19 Jul 2024
Almost 32 weeks!! She definitely has my nose but those lips she didn't get from either of us๐
By far one of the toughest, most physically taxing experiences I've ever experienced but she's worth it all๐ฅฐ
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11 May 2024
22 weeks already spent cooking our miracle baby ๐ฅฐ
If anyone needs me for the next 4 months there's a good chance I'll have moved to the North Pole to cool down๐ฅต๐คฐ
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6 Dec 2023
12 years.
12 years since 12 year old me took some paracetamol, wishing & praying to never wake up. 12 years old!
I wish I could go back and give this scared little girl a hug. I wish I could stop her being failed. I can't but I will fight everyday to help other girls like me.
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Xsteph craigX retweeted
25 Oct 2023
โNever doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.โ - Margaret Mead
Just some of the amazing folks who took part in our Networking event yesterday.
#CreatingHopeTogether #SuicidePrevention
ALT A group photo of participants who attended the Creating Hope With Peer Support: The Power of Lived Experience Networking Day yesterday. Also features four giant blue jigsaw pieces.
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Xsteph craigX retweeted
24 Oct 2023
A powerful start to our event as panel members have a fireside chat about why they share their experiences & highlight examples of supportive & less supportive situations they have been in.
#CreatingHopeTogether #SuicidePreventionScotland
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11 Oct 2023
Wow! Best advert I've seen, such a powerful message!
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๐๐ ๐๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ๐, ๐ถ๐ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฏ๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ฏ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ ๐๐๐ฟ๐๐ด๐ด๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ผ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฒ, ๐ฏ๐๐ ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ป๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ต๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ฝ๐ผ๐.
Check in on those around you.
#WorldMentalHealthDay | #YouAreNotAlone | @samaritans
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2 Oct 2023
Grateful for @PoliceScotland for continuing to listen to lived experience and using it to create change! Lived experience is the way forward, what better than to hear from those who have lived it & actually understand tough situations like suicide and trauma. Game changing!
2 Oct 2023
Deligted to participate again in police negotiators training with @Stephrc16 sharing powerful insights on importance of understanding trauma and its impact on people in suicidal crisis. Brilliant discussion, great questions and top tips being shared. @SAMHtweets @TalkToSaveLives
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29 Jul 2023
10st lost in just over a year, I did that! Sometimes we all need to just invest in ourselves to give us the best leg up in life ๐
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Xsteph craigX retweeted
18 Jul 2022
An open letter to the social worker who wrote my case files: Trigger warning - contains extracts of case notes some may find upsetting, with reference to CSE & domestic abuse. Putting this out there is scary, but not nearly as scary as the thought that nothing will change.
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Xsteph craigX retweeted
13 Apr 2023
๐ An evaluation for @SAMHtweets, who host our Lived Experience Panel, has been published.
Researchers @thelinesbetweet identified an increased profile for lived experience, big impact on SP strategy & delivery and individual, personal benefits.
โถ๏ธ samh.org.uk/about-mental-heaโฆ
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ALT Graphic with text: The impact of being an LEP member
ALT Text says: 01 Raising the profile of the lived experience voice
ALT Text says: 02 Contribution to the delivery of the Suicide Prevention Action Plan
ALT Text says 03 Benefits for individual LEP members
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24 Mar 2023
I officially quit my job today! The amount of relief I feel shouldnt be the case. Over 2.5 years I've been with the same organisation in care & it broke me. Lack of training, lack of support, 1 supervision, being attacked & more. Time to find something new, that excites me again.
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13 Mar 2023
So impressed with @PoliceScotland getting lived experience input into their negotiator training. This is the way forward, lived experience needs to be essential in mental health, suicide and trauma training!
13 Mar 2023
Huge thanks to Stephanie from our Lived Experience Panel for an amazing input to National police negotiators training. Great insight on how to support people in suicidal crisis. Compassion, perseverance and being trauma informed saves lives. @SAMHtweets @NSPLG_Scot
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3 Feb 2023
I went back to uni this week after 2 years after being SA by another student, it was tough returning & I questioned going in the rest of the week. My lecturer sent this after my first day & its the reason I went back, Im so grateful for the support from @GCU_SocialWork @GCUCares
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Xsteph craigX retweeted
29 Jan 2023
Going into care is not a choice. It's not an experience but a condition. At 18 you're abandoned by the state, left to defend for yourself. Imagine if your parents totally cut you off at 18 and said never make contact with them again. #changeiscoming #protected #characteristic
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23 Dec 2022
Why after being told by the fiscal he couldn't change his plea again, was he allowed to. I've already been told at the end of this he's getting an absolute discharge because going through court was enough for him! People wonder why victims don't come forward this is why!
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Xsteph craigX retweeted
4 Dec 2022
Scottish Mail on Sunday 4 Dec 2022
A generation in crisis as almost 18000 teenagers in Scotland take #antidepressants
By Cameron Charters
With โฆ@Antidepressed1โฉ
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Xsteph craigX retweeted
28 Nov 2022
I never find it helpful when MH services ask "well what do you want from us?"
Um... the will to live?
Please manage my expectations by telling me what you can offer instead of asking something vague where I have no idea what I'm supposed to say.
Also - it's dismissive & rude.
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