(1 of 4) Happy Disability Pride Month! 💜 - a time to spread awareness about disabilities and celebrating the diversity of the disabled community. Here are 3 facts about Disability Pride Month ⬇️

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Collaboration is a great way to understand a different view of the same problem. It helps drive better solutions.

As a disabled person and a consultant clinical psychologist, I demand an end to the inhumane benefits system that makes people suicidal. We need a new politics of uplift, starting with stopping the divisive rhetoric between those in work and those not. #DisabledPeopleDemand 🪧💜

We're here all weekend long if you need someone to listen. 💚

A classy gentleman, who has put the Nation first.

A lot of parents who have a child with  Autism have said to me how much they  worry if anything was to happen to them,  who would take care of their child?  Here is a thread on the things my mum  did for me before she passed away.  A thread 🧵🧵🧵  Please share! 👇🏻

PIP matters: There are 14.6 million disabled people in the UK. After housing, the proportion of working age disabled people living in poverty is 27% vs 19% non-disabled people. Nearly half of folk living in poverty are disabled people or have a disabled household member.

Every Tuesday 6-8pm our peer support groups are at: 📍 Newton Aycliffe Youth & Community Centre Burn Lane, DL5 4HT. 📍(Chester le Street), Pelton Fell DH2 2DW. 📍 The Community Centre, Stanhope, DL13 2NQ. Please come along. manhealth.org.uk

Two new referrals this week. Spoken to the fellas and arranged a meetup with each of them. We try and meet them in a safe space for them, where they're familiar. This approach can eliminate as much anxiety as possible in the first instance. Thanks to #lscft & #socialprescribing

A referral today. A fella at rock bottom. Hit his final straw and a huge call for help. Good first contact and day 0 of the process. A lot of wellbeing support is exactly that. Non judgemental, open ears and seeing the need to walk their path with them.

Having sports stars as role models is great. Knowing he's gone through his own struggles, even as a winner is immense.

Every donation can make an impact. easyfundraising #DivineDays

WHAT A RIDE from Tom Pidcock! 🇬🇧 An incredible wheel-to-wheel performance to take #gold and defend his Olympic title for Great Britain in cycling men’s mountain bike cross-country! Team GB’s second gold of the day, and Pidcock’s second gold in this event after winning at Tokyo

Cannot comprehend what has happened in Southport today. A place I worked in for 13 years, only 15 minutes from my house and a place I know people who go/ have been there. The trauma for the survivors families & those of the poor children who perished is horrific.

I was listening to the radio this morning. We as a culture seem to be at our most negative between 4pm - 8pm. I can agree with that. So set your alarms &try and do something positive every day at 4pm. It could change your evening. Today I'll be watching a 3 min clip of #TimVine