Dr Zoรซ Hamilton ๐ช๐บ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
@zoeahamilton
Clinical Psychologist @UCLH Neurogastro and IBD and @GSTT IBD. Lived experience of IBD. All views my own. Motown/jazz enthusiast. Amateur figure skater.
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10-10-2015 19:57:20
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Lovely morning hanging out with our pal Dr Zoรซ Hamilton ๐ช๐บ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ - who gives excellent Doggie Cuddles!
โYou have cut local services to the bone - and then you worry about antisocial behaviour?โ This #bbcqt audience member gives an excoriating appraisal of the governmentโs performance, saying sheโs โstaggeredโ at the gap between the audience and the panel bit.ly/3Zt4wZF
Tuned into Josรฉ Menรฉndez on CNN. Thank you for raising this - let's not conflate the need to address endemic mental health issues with the desperate need for gun control. The 'mad, bad, dangerous' argument doesn't fit the statistics, and it won't stop further mass shootings
Just a note from a child and adolescent psychiatrist: people with mental illness are far more likely to be victims of violent crime, stop blaming mental illness for white bigots shooting people, kids are suffering from our inaction around protecting them, and itโs still the guns.
Interesting read, makes me think of recent Royal Institution talk by Andrew Mangham bigthink.com/the-well/mary-โฆ
โฆthe boyโs mum grateful phoned me and told me where to take the wallet. โMy son is autistic so he would have been very anxious so this is such a reliefโ she explained So, the result: โprofit maximising multinational financial institution 0, cash starved municipal service 1.
Thank you Richard Gadd for bringing complex trauma to an accessible, beautifully cast and acted piece of deeply moving media. The ways we try to solve problems and heal are sometimes in direct opposition to the 'perfect victim' the justice system asks for. Your brought it raw.