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@ItsEmilyKaty
Sunday Times Bestselling author of GIRL UNMASKED: HOW UNCOVERING MY AUTISM SAVED MY LIFE 📚 & Trustee of Autistic Girls Network. Mainly on IG.
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    Apr 14, 2024
    Girl Unmasked is a Sunday Times bestseller. 🥹🥹🥹 There are no words to describe what an absolute privilege this is and how grateful I am. Thank YOU. #GirlUnmasked
    A graphic of my book Girl Unmasked with the title The Sunday Times Bestseller
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    Jul 4
    We walk around carrying shame and guilt for past choices, even when we were doing our best and didn’t have the skills or ability to choose any other option, if there were even any available. It is time to forgive yourself. You did what you had to do to survive. #MentalHealth
    It is time to forgive yourself. You are not to blame for what you had to do to survive. Forgive yourself for the choices you made while you were living in survival mode. Let go of the guilt and shame you are carrying. You just did what you had to do to survive.
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    Jun 9
    I’m thrilled that @NDConnectionUK let me write about how @LEGO_Group saved me in the darkest moments of being sectioned. Whilst very unwell with OCD and psychosis, brick by brick, LEGO helped me through. I honestly don’t know how I’d have got through the last several months
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    Jun 3
    In our latest blog, Guest Contributor Emily Katy shares how LEGO became a steady anchor during a twelve-week hospital admission. Hyperfocusing on LEGO provided a sense of purpose and direction during some of her hardest days. Read Emily's blog here: ndconnection.co.uk/blog/lego-save…
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    Jun 7
    Notes from a mental health patient #6. ‘No decision about us without us’ is something services love to throw around when it suits them…until it doesn’t. Until your voice suddenly doesn’t matter. Until suddenly the power imbalance comes into play. I have no words to describe
    Sometimes the deepest wounds aren’t left by mental illness itself. They’re left by the systems and people that were supposed to help us. 

Professionals love to talk about co-production and ‘no decision about us without us’ when it suits them, but when it doesn’t, decisions are made that have the power to change the trajectory of someone’s life, journey and recovery. 

Professionals will never understand the power imbalance. And how recovery from illness turns into recovery from being under services, from trust and promises being broken, from feeling helpless.
    Professionals don’t get to see the impact of their decisions. They go home at the end of their shift, having made a hundred decisions that day, unaware of the impact that one single decision has had on someone’s entire world. 

When your voice hasn’t been heard, when your life has been something to toy with, when promises and trust have been broken - there is grief, shame, fear, mistrust, anger and helplessness in that. Feelings that don’t just disappear, but which linger, affecting every future interaction with professionals and every part of your self-worth.
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    Jun 2
    Notes from a mental health patient #5. ✉️ Struggling to see the hope right now, but I know it is there somewhere. One foot in front of the other, one step at a time, and slowly we will get there. #MentalHealth #Recovery
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