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Feral GenXer: A Scornful Disobedient Woman

A huge thank you to the Kosciusko County Sheriff's Office and all the local law enforcement support staff who joined us today! 🤝✨

#LawEnforcementAppreciationDay #KosciuskoCounty #CommunitySafety #Partnership #CrisisCare #ThankYou

My new report details how Malaysia's emergency mental health response, plagued by hostile questioning and geographical neglect, turns patients' pleas into trauma. We demand systemic reform, not silent acceptance of cruelty.

https://kalvin.my/the-cost-of-care-systemic-cruelty-in-malaysias-emergency-mental-health-response/

#MentalHealth #Malaysia #SystemicCruelty #Healthcare #Sabah #Sarawak #Activism #PublicHealth #Neurodivergence #TraumaInformedCare #HumanRights #SocialJustice #CrisisCare #MentalIllness #DigitalWellbeing #Politics #Reform #HealthEquity #Advocacy

The Cost of Care: Systemic Cruelty in Malaysia’s Emergency Mental Health Response

Introduction: When Seeking Help Becomes Trauma This report is anchored by a brutal reality: for far too many, particularly those already battling complex mental health challenges like neurodivergence or chronic illness, seeking life-saving help in a public Emergency Department (ED) in Malaysia can lead to further harm. The experience detailed

The Kalvin Weblog

1 in 5 people affected by humanitarian crises experience mental health conditions, but funding and skilled support remain critically low.

Over 1 billion globally lack adequate care. For #WorldMentalHealthDay, advocate evidence-based action and lasting support for all facing crisis.

#MentalHealth
#MentalHealthMatters
#CrisisCare

Japan created universal artificial blood that could revolutionize emergency medicine worldwide
Japanese scientists developed artificial blood that works for all blood types and lasts up to two years.

The breakthrough, made at Nara Medical University, uses expired haemoglobin from donor blood, encapsulated in lipid shells to mimic red blood cells.

Unlike traditional blood, it does not require refrigeration, making it ideal for emergencies, disasters, and rural hospitals.

In March, 16 volunteers received transfusions of 100–400 millilitres in the first clinical trials.
The goal is to prove safety and reliability before expanding to large-scale efficacy tests.
If approved, the technology could save millions of lives by solving blood shortage and mismatch crises.

Experts say it may even reach areas current transfusion systems cannot, such as blocked vessels in stroke patients.

Japan hopes to achieve clinical rollout by 2030, potentially changing global health care forever.

Core Topic – Blood & Transfusion
#ArtificialBlood #UniversalBlood #BloodTransfusion #BloodInnovation #BloodSupply #BloodShortage #BloodTech #TransfusionMedicine

Medical Innovation & Research
#MedicalBreakthrough #MedicalInnovation #NextGenMedicine #FutureOfMedicine #HealthTech #BiomedicalResearch #LifeSavingTech #ScienceNews

Emergency & Disaster Response
#EmergencyMedicine #DisasterRelief #RuralHealthcare #GlobalHealth #FieldMedicine #CrisisCare #HumanitarianAid

Japan & Global Science
#JapanScience #JapaneseInnovation #NaraMedicalUniversity #MadeInJapan #GlobalHealthImpact

General Buzz & Inspiration
#ScienceIsAwesome #HopeInScience #TechForGood #HealthInnovation #SavingLives #HealthcareRevolution

> In summary, “reach out for help” or “find someone to talk to,” etc is secular thoughts and prayers. This is not suicide prevention. It is suicide delay.

> Suicide prevention is access to food, homes, medication, education, transportation, and more. Without material and community support, people will die. That’s just the way it is. The sooner we act on that, the better. But the hotline expanded while social welfare is at a crisis level is insult to injury.

https://write.as/niomi/i-know-the-hotline-helps #CrisisCare #hotline #SuicidePrevention #SuicideDelay

The Suicide Hotline Makes me Angry

I know the hotline helps. Lots of positive testimony already, so I’m not covering it, but I am aware. And the truth is it still makes me ...

niomi

Are you a Crisis Volunteer on a hotline, or a chat service?

Have you been one in the past?

There is a group that is trying to look at the ways that crisis volunteering can be improved, such as in areas around transparency, privacy, and support for volunteers.

Please, take this survey and help improve the situation for those in crisis, and those who support them.

https://www.crisiscrowd.org/

Please boost.

#CrisisHotline #CrisisHotlines #CrisisTextLine #988helpline #988hotline #CrisisCare #CrisisVolunteers #Volunteering #VolunteerSupport

CrisisCrowd

This survey, for active and former crisis line counselors, aims to get a summary understanding of your perspective on best practices and areas for improvement in crisis care, and to create an opportunity to connect with other people to share more deeply about your experiences in the field..

Jess is on a mission to reform psychiatric crisis care, and she's just started doing podcasts:
https://psychcrisis.substack.com/p/announcing-podcast-conversations

(I haven't listened to the podcasts yet, but I've been reading her blog for a while & I expect these will be good)

#podcasts #MentalHealth #MentalIllness #CrisisCare

Announcing: podcast conversations about what works in crisis care and mental health systems change

Interviews with the believables, to ask 'what do we need to do, and how can we do it?'

psychcrisis.org
Cop15 essential reading: seven books that explain the biodiversity crisis

Ahead of December’s conference our writers select titles that explain the issues at stake, from animal extinction to marine degradation and loss of habitat

The Guardian