Hi, I'm Tamar! I run Pink Sky Thinking, which provides Mental Health consultancy, research & training from a Lived Experience Practitioner lens

Birmingham, UK
Joined March 2011
Looking forward to seeing people today at the slightly earlier time of 4.30 for #MadStudies as we have the incredible @kawaiilovesarah joining us to discuss her #MadManifesto and scoring a PhD as a #MadAcademic! pinkskythinking.com/so/85OaY…
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No #MadStudies tonight, but the website will be updated asap with a new May date! pinkskythinking.com
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Tonight's #MadStudies we'll be discussing how we recover our experiences as a tool for resistance vs. used as 'Disability Tourism' or 'Patient Porn'. Excellent paper by @LucyLuciaCosta @DrK3Church @DandyLandry David Reville, Jijian Voronka & Jenna Reid shoutout.wix.com/so/22OQPz8q…
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Amazing #MadStudies session tonight - thank you so much to @DianaRose160 and to our full house of Mad Participants! 🙏🏽🥰
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There is still time to book for tonights #MadStudies where @DianaRose160 will be joining us to discuss her new book! Remember the booking link shuts down at 5pm once the session starts! shoutout.wix.com/so/bbOGqZJH…
TONIGHT at 5pm #MadStudies Birmingham will be checking out a paper which evaluates a therapeutic approach towards racial trauma, by @DrMonnica et al. You can book up til the event starts, but if you try booking after 5 the system won't let u, so book now! shoutout.wix.com/so/b6OFcIJZ…
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We have repeatedly warned successive governments that IAPT would be politically used to give good numbers whilst tier 2, 3 and 4 would suffer. This happened. Trust the canaries at the coalface. Doing one thing effects elsewhere. Having said that we all need more money so both/and
The NHS is letting people with severe mental illness down. NHS orgs are focusing their work on mild/moderate mental illness to the detriment of people with severe mental illness.
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There is still time to book for tonight’s FREE #MadStudies - @hat_teaa is discussing over diagnosis of personality disorder amongst #transgender people and @HoppyPelican is critiquing @DrLinehan’s #DBT #DialecticalBehaviorTherapy approach to #SelfHarm
Book your FREE PLACE for tomorrow's (Thursday 1 Sept) #MadStudies where @hat_teaa will be asking if SO MANY #Transgender People should REALLY be getting diagnosed with #PersonalityDisorder & @HoppyPelican will be critiquing #DBT shoutout.wix.com/so/09OBrkb-…
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Book your FREE PLACE for tomorrow's (Thursday 1 Sept) #MadStudies where @hat_teaa will be asking if SO MANY #Transgender People should REALLY be getting diagnosed with #PersonalityDisorder & @HoppyPelican will be critiquing #DBT shoutout.wix.com/so/09OBrkb-…
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BOOK HERE 4 tomorrow’s #MadStudies!!! @HoppyPelican is talking her infamous blog, inc her critique of #DBT & @hat_teaa will be presenting the talk that people were sitting on the floor to hear at #BIGSPD22: Trans ppl being disproportionately given a PD dx pinkskythinking.com/service-…
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Please like & share. We don’t have enough research about how western mental health approaches impact women from South Asian backgrounds:
It has finally happened! Two years later my research has been published 🥳 If people would like to read, please use the link below, or message me for a copy of the PDF ✨ Shares are also much appreciated! Thanks again to everyone who made this possible 🧡 emerald.com/insight/content/…
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I’ve had feedback from my recent Dclin interview, there were 2 panels, the 1st deemed me ready for training, the 2nd didn’t, the second panel was the panel in which I spoke the most about my lived exp. They said they were worried I wouldn’t meet the demands of training
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For the first time ever #MadStudies Birmingham are connecting with our Mad Friends up in Lothian, Scotland. We're gonna be checking out the SECOND 'Oor Mad History' book launched 2 weeks ago, with editors from @capsadvocacy joining us! BOOK HERE: pinkskythinking.com/service-…
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This Brene Brown cartoon on #Empathy is a perfect way of describing the work of the work of #LXP staff - in particular ones who work directly with service users eg. #PeerSupportWorkers, LXP Researchers & Peer Group Facilitators. Empathy = Connection. LXP work is Connection.
BRENE BROWN - what an amazing woman - here’s a narrated cartoon as she explains the difference between empathy and sympathy. SO worth watching youtu.be/1Evwgu369Jw
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1. Tonight's #MadStudies night & we have Merrick Pilling with us to discuss his book chapter 'Sexual Violence and Psychosis: Intersections of Rape Culture, Sanism, & Anti-Black Sanism in Psychiatric Inpatient Chart Documentation.' BOOK HERE FOR ZOOM LINK: pinkskythinking.com/service-…
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2. The book the chapter is in is £80, but never fear, @Mad_In_America is here with a synopsis (see below). However, if you want to read the actual chapter in all it's glory, details of how to get hold of it are in the next tweet > madinamerica.com/2021/11/res…
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3. Newly Released 'Interrogating Psychiatric Narratives of Madness - Documented Lives' edited by Merrick Pilling & Andrea Daley is below. If you want to read Merrick's chapter for the #MadStudies session tonight, book using link @ Tweet #1's of the thread link.springer.com/book/10.10…
Please RT!!! #MadStudies Birmingham Presents: State of The Union with ⁦@mickmckeown2016⁩, who presents us with the background behind the motion to support #LXP staff being proposed by ⁦@unisontheunion⁩ Nursing & Midwifery Occupational Group youtu.be/Gw62nMQ181A
TOMORROW: @mickmckeown2016 joins us to discuss the motion being put forward to better support #LXP staff at @unisontheunion's Health Conference this month. Will be recorded so that people can view this subject which is of much interest to many #LXPs shoutout.wix.com/so/72O0axFK…
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I will never get bored of repeating this - until I no longer need to…. It’s perfectly possible to be in crisis and have suicidal thoughts AND yet Simultaneously be so fearful for your own safety that you seek help and support to stay alive
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