Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova @Chitailova Twitter profile

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

6 months

When I was escorted in my capacity as Buddha to the nearest psychiatric hospital near Amsterdam, I honestly expected a more royal approach to my condition: Champagne, private plane, a couple of bodyguards, etc. Instead I was injected with something into my ass, slept for 3 days

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

1 month

@KensingtonRoyal Wonderful to hear some good news from The Princess. I wish you total recovery and walking in grace through life like you do for many many years ahead, Catherine.

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

11 months

The psychiatrist from my first hospitalization with a psychosis told me that I was sick, and most probably chronically sick. My second psychiatrist told me I had schizophrenia. My third psychiatrist labelled me as bipolar. My fourth psychiatrist changed it to schizo-affective

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

11 months

I could never imagine that I would ever create a post comparing psychiatric hospitals in different countries but here it goes: I had the ‘opportunity’ to experience psychiatric ‘care’ in both England and The Netherlands and differences are astonishing. 1. Twenty years ago I would

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

11 months

It was twenty years ago that I entered my first psychiatric hospital, in a town called Purmerend, not far from Amsterdam. I was driven there by my boss and a colleague/dear friend, who were concerned about my health. I was in a ‘psychosis’, in which I experienced the most amazing

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

7 months

Wine in, truth out. Bipolar disorder ruined my life. After my first psychosis at the age of 27, I lost confidence in myself. A French guy I loved didn’t stick around which was a sign for me that with such a diagnosis I had small chance to have a nice life. I lost on a few

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

8 months

@stillgray The medicine in Russia is so advanced, you have no idea. They might be able to soon heal some forms of blindness.

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

1 year

Things happen because we take decisions at each moment of our lives: sit at home or go into town (and meet your soulmate), do nothing or apply for that dream job and get it, be shy or smile at a stranger on the train and fall in love, etc etc. On Amsterdam, Master and Margarita,

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

7 months

The stigma is climbing on me each day a bit more. I decided to be open about my experiences with psychosis a couple of years ago, and since then feel the need to prove that I am worth it, in all aspects of my life. I don’t know whether I can sustain my path of openness for a

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

1 year

The psychiatric hospital of today. The psychiatric hospital of today is a place you are better to avoid. Vulnerable people end up there, hoping and praying for some kind of help. You can meet some kind nurses around, and you can meet a couple of empathetic doctors, but if you end

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

7 months

I really don’t understand how can someone advise someone online to stop taking psychiatric medication in the case of such serious conditions as psychosis, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia or depression. It is really an irresponsible way to play with lives of people.

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

8 months

What is going on X within the mental health community??? I see some angry exchanges, people blocking each other, positioning themselves in either pro-psychiatry camp or anti-psychiatry. There shouldn’t be such a division when people really suffer one way or another. No one should

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

7 months

In my psychoses I experience a better reality than we one in which we are living right now. Stop calling me mentally ill.

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

4 months

My beautiful mother passed away today. I baptised her 3 days ago as we were never hundred percent sure that she was officially baptised. She was born in the Soviet Union. The chaplain at NHS did it for me. I stepped away today from my mum to have a walk with my best friend here

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

7 months

I struggle a bit lately. I have an official diagnosis of bipolar disorder, with vulnerability to psychoses, on heavy medication. I work almost full time at a job I love but it costs me a lot of efforts. I don’t live in my native land. I had to move from the UK back to The

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

6 months

Psychosis is a sane reaction to the world becoming insane. It shouldn’t be stigmatised, and put into the domain of shame. It needs a compassionate care, instead of being sectioned and on antipsychotics for the rest of your life.

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

1 year

What brings you peace? For me it’s simple things: birds singing in the morning, the sound of the rain, great friends to share a meal with, sunshine and staring at the sea. What brings you peace?

What brings you peace?

What brings you peace? Birds singing in the morning bring me peace. I love sitting with my coffee and listen to them. It’s the best meditation possible. Sharing meals with good friends brings me pe…

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

1 month

@RussiaIsntEnemy Russia is the biggest country on earth. No one can cancel it. One is an idiot if he/she thinks they can destroy Russia. The whole history of Russia is a struggle to remain existentially present. Russia has everything. All the resources on earth. Here, in the West, you don’t

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

7 months

I am unfollowing the accounts that invalidate the experiences of people who have suffered because of psychiatric treatment they received. Their suffering is real and I was there as well.

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

9 months

Mental health is so delicate. All of us can go mad. One day you are a portfolio manager in charge of an equity portfolio for a pension fund, and the next day, you are in a psychiatric hospital, in a psychosis. Never take things for granted. It can all collapse in one single

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

1 year

After catching a brief glimpse of a woman’s face on a friend’s Tinder page, world-famous pianist Elena Sokolova’s life is plunged into total chaos and collapse. The quickly vanishing image is the face of her missing twin sister Olga, separated from her in a Russian orphanage at

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

1 year

Good evening wonderful people. So, yes, I write about my ‘bipolar disorder’. I am accused by some that I accept my diagnosis without thinking. I would like to clarify my position on this. It’s a balanced view. I follow psychiatrists, critical psychiatrists, other people with

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

1 year

On #vaping I was thirteen years old when I smoked my first cigarette. I was with my friend, Anya, chilling after school in one of our favorite spots – a green space near the church that saw its doors open to the general public, once the Christianity was allowed to return to

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

1 year

A post for 'mental' people. In the current society of medical capitalism, of over-prescription and over-diagnosing, you are perhaps one of these people who struggles to make sense of it all. We might appear as being a bit open-minded about ‘mental illness’, but in reality,

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

11 months

Every day when I look at myself in the mirror I repeat to myself that I am capable, am worth it and still deserve the best, despite my history with the psychoses. #psychosis #stigma #mentalillness

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

1 year

After catching a brief glimpse of a woman’s face on a friend’s Tinder page, world-famous pianist Elena Sokolova’s life is plunged into total chaos and collapse. The quickly vanishing image is the face of her missing twin sister Olga, separated from her in a Russian orphanage at

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

1 year

Good morning! I would like to reflect a bit on psychiatric disorders, especially in regards to diagnoses of ‘severe mental illness’. My main argument is that we should avoid labelling people. I understand that for some, it brings a relief but for many others it creates a scarlet

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

11 months

Prior to my first ‘psychosis’ and my first psychiatric hospital in a small Dutch town called Purmerend, I was leading quite a successful life, according to the society’s standards. I somehow managed to get a job as a financial analyst of banks (and later, as a portfolio manager)

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

6 months

Sorry to bother you with yet another mental health post, but here it goes: I will try to make it less boring. I don’t agree with diagnosing people with serious mental illness, such as bipolar, schizophrenia or schizophrenia-affective disorder. I think it damages people who are

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

4 years

@Independent That’s a scary thing to read, isn’t? A subtle way to move us into wearing something that makes us feel as less human. Hiding our smiles and facial expression will not lead to personality disorder but rather towards depression of the whole human kind and we don’t want what, do we?

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

7 months

@PM_ViktorOrban @MorawieckiM @MLP_officiel @GiorgiaMeloni @PellegriniP_ @RobertFico @matteosalvinimi @AndrejBabis @geertwilderspvv @Santi_ABASCAL A voice of sanity in our crumbling European world.

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

10 months

Stigma is so big around serious psychiatric diagnoses such as bipolar disorder or schizophrenia that once you disclose it, you have to prove each day that you are worthy, can behave ‘normal’, raise your child, and have the right to existence like everyone else. I am so tired of

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

8 months

@IainSForrest Oh my god, this is awful. How are you doing now?

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

6 months

The main reason why mental health patients stop the antipsychotics is because of their (sometimes intolerable) side effects at prescribed doses. It isn’t ’non compliance’. It’s a fight to get a life, where one can enjoy being alive.

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

6 months

I would be very appreciative if those who follow me and disagree, realise that I am a real person, with a real name, not hiding under a pseudonym or anonymous account etc. Please, stay respectful. If you don’t like me, then unfollow. Mental illness is a delicate matter.

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

7 months

"I am 28. And I’m Scheduled to Die in May.’ If a treatment fails, find another doctor and a treatment that helps. Mental ‘illness’ is a shaky domain. No one knows what to do in some cases. But how can anyone tell a 28 years old woman that there is nothing more that can be

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

5 years

@eliistender10 Read a good book

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

11 months

No one should ever pill shame you. Taking psychiatric meds is an individual matter, and sometimes, life and death matter.

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

6 months

Before I tweet myself to death l would like to make my position in the domain of mental health care a little bit clearer. I am in the field of critical psychiatry/mad studies from intellectual point of view. I am not for banning psychiatry or psychiatric meds. But I am also a

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

1 year

Good morning! Mental illness, does it exist? A question to all of you. So far, I haven’t met anyone whom I would call mentally ill. I encountered them only while reading the news, those who inflict pain on others. They are sick in their mind, that’s for sure. But when they try to

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

9 months

They say that it’s your illness and not the medication (anti-psychotics). How wrong it can be! Two and a half years ago after a psychosis provoked by aripiprazole, I was put on 100mg injections of Xeplion and I thought that was it for me, the end. I lost desire in absolutely

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

1 month

Just saw a heartbreaking post from someone on a psychiatric ward back in Sheffield and can only cry in solidarity, remembering my own ordeal. They section you for no particular reason. They keep you in there for weeks in a row. Sometimes, months. They overdose you with

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

6 months

Welcome to my timeline, where I speak openly about my diagnosis of severe mental illness (bipolar, schizophrenia or schizo-affective disorder: they don’t know!). I had psychoses. For me they were religious experiences. For doctors I was ill. I am who I am. Real name, real

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

7 months

I feel like I am letting other mental health patients down, when I post a ‘cheerful’ post around my ‘bipolar disorder’. I have vulnerability to ‘psychosis’ and each time it happened I didn’t have a choice or alternative option, besides a psychiatric hospital. It is impossible to

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

6 months

Bipolar disorder and working full time is almost impossible. It does require super effort, super-human effort. Being a single mum of a son is also extremely hard. Not my fault. Being a foreigner in a foreign land even if it became your own isn’t easy. But what hurts the most

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

6 months

Does anyone still love Russia? My beloved native land?

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

6 months

For those who waited for some news about my amazing mum, it isn’t as bad as I feared! She just had a massive fall but will recover and live well! Thank you all for your support and prayers! It worked!

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

6 months

I hope that you all realise that I am simply joking around. In reality I am heartbroken. Having vulnerability to psychoses is serious condition. I have been discriminated and stigmatised. I am a single mum and am isolated. My life is full of stress. But I love living.

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

6 months

I was accused that I run in circles: being critical of psychiatry while admitting that I am under the care of a brilliant psychiatrist. I also heard complaints that I talk too much about psychiatry in general. I am not a medical doctor, I am a doctor of philosophy. As it

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

7 months

I am lying in bed totally emotionally and physically exhausted and still need to clean dishes. I don’t know whether it’s me getting older, raising my son on my own, my bipolar disorder, or due to sadness about life in general. It’s massive effort everyday to show up to the world

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

1 year

#smoking #vaping #smokefree Regarding cigarettes, before going cold turkey, I made at least ten attempts to stop smoking. But as the doctor from the Chinese centre, where I went on a regular basis for an anti-smoking acupuncture treatment, once said: ‘Your case is hopeless.’ He

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

6 years

@MargaretAtwood I teach Margaret Atwood also in sociology and media classes! The Handmaid's tale is a treasure to study power, feminism, gender issues and nationalism, plus it is also an incredible story, and students love it.

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

6 months

You would think that after being injected with drugs and being discarded as Buddha, would be the end of my ordeal. But it didn’t stop there. There was this psychiatrist who told me that I was mad and was insisting on some sort of medication, making me suspicious as to what

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

7 months

I just talked with someone from Russia and asked them how it would be for me if I were in Russia😪😪😪 I would never be given a job with an official diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Nuances such as bipolar disorder and schizo-affective disorder don’t even exist. It’s considered

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

6 months

I take care of everyone and no one takes care of me.

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

11 months

Let’s look at the phenomenon called ‘psychosis’ in a slightly different, even controversial way. What is it exactly? The biomedical model describes it as a loss of touch with reality, accompanied by delusions, hallucinations and sometimes, hearing voices. Psychosis in itself is

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

9 months

I think that everything is possible in this life. Even with a severe mental ‘illness’ one can lead a life full of meaning and joy. It is possible. Please, don’t take it as arrogance, but look at me. Despite the fact that I had several psychoses, I managed to move across

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

2 years

I wrote the novel during Covid lockdowns, thinking that the world couldn't get any worse. My novel teaches us love towards others, compassion towards the difference, understanding and knowledge of diverse cultures and walks of life. I wrote it with love

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

10 months

I am sorry that sometimes I write something and then delete my posts. I struggle with my voice, because of my ‘bipolar disorder’. Do I have the right to be outspoken with my condition? I don’t know. I struggle with it. I have so many things I want to say, outside of mental

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

2 months

@SoumDesigns I am honestly exhausted by how many men are being hated nowadays. Pity that online social networks dictate how we should judge people. Almost everyone has some things in the past that are perhaps not that nice. Trashing dirty laundry‘thanks’ to ‘me too’ trend has become

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

11 months

It has been pointed out to me that those who read my posts might get the impression that I am in a state of constant psychosis, visiting psychiatric hospitals in different countries. I am NOT in a psychosis! The last one was two years ago. Also I call them ‘psychoses’, while for

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

5 months

It is the saddest moment of my life. Thank you all for your support. I am praying for my amazing beautiful mum.

Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

6 months

Please, pray for my beautiful mother, the best mother in the entire world.

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

10 months

Okay, now that a major study revealed the damage caused by anti-depressants, there is a debate as to how to decrease its prescribing. Another study revealed that it’s almost impossible to avoid a relapse when stopping the antipsychotics. But these ‘meds’ are causing tremendous

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

6 months

Please, pray for my beautiful mother, the best mother in the entire world.

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

1 year

Good morning! The advice I heard yesterday on X is to start the day with a gratitude. I am grateful that I have my coffee, can still vape, instead of smoking, my cat is happy, my son goes to a nice school and I am lucky to have found a psychiatrist who works with me and not

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

11 days

@DavidYatesPhD Oh my God, this is so difficult. Many others are under impossible pressure in academia back in the UK. You are brave to share it. You created the floor for others to speak.

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

9 months

Someone asked me the other day: but what has changed in terms of psychiatric treatment in comparison with twenty years ago? The answer is: not much. We have more diagnoses and meds but the attitude is still the same. You are proclaimed as sick for the rest of your life, are

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

1 year

One of the most idiotic PR (public relations) statement that I heard in my life was the slogan that ‘mental illness is like any other illness’. I pondered what to do with it for a long time. I was watching in total bewilderment the launch of huge campaigns promising to combat

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

7 months

A good psychiatrist will never tell you that you can’t be helped any longer. A good psychiatrist will tell you: “Of course you will get better and of course, we will find appropriate treatment’. These psychiatrists exist.

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

6 months

I am a bit fed up with the fact that we look at severe mental health conditions only in a negative light, as if we are doomed for the rest of our lives, and should die from shame. There is so much more to people who are proclaimed as ‘mentally ill’. I would like to pinpoint to

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

6 months

Trust me. I am going to find my soulmate with a style. My diagnosis of schizo-affective disorder puts me on a good footing for dating, I just didn’t realise its full potential till now. I am a super, hypersensitive being. I deserve only the best. In terms of what I can offer

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

6 months

Backstage of the mental illness! An important thing to discuss! For instance, I once heard that some family members called me ‘inadequate’, right after I got my PhD from England, and started to teach. In England. Since then I moved countries and ‘mountains’ to be there I am

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

6 months

I don’t know anyone, including myself, doing that great while being on antipsychotics. I mean, I do outstanding from the exterior: I work, raise my son, meet with friends, write, walk, enjoy simple things in life. While vaping ALL the time, and I have the feeling that it’s my

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

1 year

Seven days in a week, seven days to discuss the psychiatric drugs. To my unfortunate regret, I am a specialist in anti-psychotics and so I will start with them. The first anti-psychotic I was given twenty years ago, and without proper consent and information was Olanzapine

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

10 months

Something is definitely wrong with our mental health system where on one hand, people desperately waiting for help, can’t get it, and if they get it, it’s too late, while others are forced upon them some medication whose side effects are monstrous and can ruin lives.

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

3 months

@PM_ViktorOrban @CharlesMichel This war has to stop. Thank you for putting down the reality in your report in a clear and accessible language.

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

4 months

It is being literally on the death bed when you see who is a real friend and who is not. Real friends don’t chicken out when you are about to die. They stick around till your last breath.

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

1 month

What happened to my followers and views? Hardly any! How come? Likes boost seriously my dopamine level. It’s scientifically proven! Comments bring me joy! My ego is shattered. So much effort to create my niche to end up in a bin. What happened?

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

11 months

No ‘bipolar’ person is like any other ‘bipolar’ person or like any other person. This diagnosis has been used to label deep human emotions together with real distress. Each of us has a unique life, personality and experience. We shouldn’t mass categorise people.

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

10 months

Sometimes meeting a genuine empathetic person who happens to be a psychiatrist, can change the course of one’s mental health narrative in such a way, that you wake up each morning, thanking the universe that you are still alive. #psychiatry

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

9 months

It was a while ago when I ended up in a psychiatric hospital attached to the jail, because there was no space in other psychiatric hospitals in Amsterdam, where I lived at that time. I survived the experience, thanks to a bottle of wine that the staff had failed to check in my

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

5 months

I don’t like what looks like campaign to justify euthanasia in cases of serious mental illness. I have a bipolar disorder that is successfully treated by a brilliant Dutch psychiatrist, with a massive love for life. I love living and I fight for it.

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

9 months

It has been a long time that I remain stable health wise, and now, when I regained some confidence back in myself, I looked at what has been keeping me well grounded, and realized that subconsciously I developed some tricks to cope with my 'bipolar disorder'. I would like to

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

6 months

So, Sunak wants to remove PIP, the one remaining element for people with mental illnesses to enjoy life, a little bit more. And he expects them to rejoin the work field? He probably forgot about the campaign that tried to reassure us that mental illness was like any other

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

6 months

I travel tomorrow by ferry to be with my mum. Travel can be very stressful and I find it beyond stressful. Maybe it’s related to my condition (vulnerability to psychoses). Maybe something else, just stress and anxiety. But rest assured: I take all my medication with me to be

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

6 months

You can’t imagine how many small beautiful things happened since I arrived to England to look after my mum. As you know already, my love for this country is enormous. My son was born here and I lived here for 11 years. Someone just took me to share a taxi from the ferry for

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

9 months

Never feel discouraged when you receive the label of a severe mental illness. Nothing can stop you from enjoying your life to the fullest with a right approach to how you look at it. There are pills that help instead of sedating, some doctors are genuinely interested in your

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

6 months

My mother is much better, on the road to recovery. Thank you so much for your prayers. She needs to feel better and then move to me and my son.

Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

6 months

Please, pray for my beautiful mother, the best mother in the entire world.

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

11 months

The only way to survive a psychiatric hospital is through some degree of laughing, especially if you also have a diagnosis of ‘severe mental illness’ attached over your head. There is no other way really. I was sectioned twice in the United Kingdom and had to endure the hospital

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

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I was offered a PhD full funded bursary twice, despite my psychoses and the diagnosis of bipolar disorder. I finished one of them in England. I was offered a job contract while being in a psychiatric hospital in a psychosis. It happened before 2023, but this year I am proud that

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Dr Ekaterina Netchitailova

@Chitailova

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In my first psychiatric hospital (twenty years ago) in Purmerend, a small Dutch town, there were cameras everywhere, including in each patient’s room. When I noticed this phenomenon I wondered whether by some accident I had ended up in an episode of Big Brother, with a question

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