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Lynsey McAlpine

@drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social
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Perinatal psychiatrist | half of @beyondbabyblues.bsky.social | #maternalmentalhealth #womenshealth #meded #patientsafety | here for perinatal chat, book recommendations and cat pics 🏳️‍🌈

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Family Wellbeing Research @familywellbeinguoy.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Join our event to talk about how nature-based interventions can support families with young children! This event is for parents/caregivers, researchers and practitioners to come together and share ideas. Register at the link below 👇 Tues 13 May in Sheffield.
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
And this toolkit for amplifying maternal voices full of creative ideas and practical tools to empower individuals to shape perinatal mental health care: maternalmentalhealthalliance.org/amv-toolkit/
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
@mmhalliance.bsky.social has created some brilliant resources including this guide for safer storytelling: maternalmentalhealthalliance.org/amv-toolkit/...
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
New episode just dropped! 👇👇👇
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Doctors in Distress @doctorsindistress.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Don't forget to tune in to our free webinar tomorrow for midwives and nurses! If you can't attend, make sure you register anyway to receive the recording and all other materials. Find out more here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/midwives-2in3-webinar-tickets-1223353405969?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Midwives 2in3 Webinar
Join us for a informative webinar on Staying Well in Maternity: A Radical Act with Obstetrician Florence Wilcock and Midwife Kate Greenstock
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Maternal Mental Health Alliance @mmhalliance.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The Maternal Mental Health Alliance is a network of over 130 member organisations working together to improve perinatal mental health care in the UK. Meet our members on Bluesky: go.bsky.app/NFDGT3P More of our members are joining the app every day, so we expect this starter pack to keep growing.
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
We paused for a Q&A at the halfway point. Really appreciated hearing Luca Marinelli speak about the technical and emotional challenges of portraying a man like Mussolini - he said that he had to suspend all judgment of the man in order to take on the role.
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Emerging eight hours later: wow, what a show! Compelling storytelling with a weirdly anachronistic but incredibly effective soundtrack.
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Trip to the cinema today to see M: Son of the Century, the new eight-part series dramatising Mussolini and the rise of Italian fascism
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
And over at @beyondbabyblues.bsky.social we recently did an episode on this: www.buzzsprout.com/2290576/epis... #maternalmentalhealth
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ADHD - Beyond Baby Blues
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects up to 4% of the adult population although it is under-recognised and under-diagnosed in women and girls. In this episode we are joined by D...
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Tommy’s Pregnancy Hub has a great resource on ADHD in pregnancy: www.tommys.org/pregnancy-in...
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) before, during and after pregnancy
You may have questions about pregnancy with ADHD. This page covers planning a pregnancy, being pregnant, and having a child when you have ADHD.
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
It’s the RCPsych perinatal trainees conference today, and I’m speaking about ADHD in the perinatal period! #rcpsychperi #maternalmentalhealth
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Ruth Naughton-Doe @ruthndwrites.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I’m incredibly pleased to share the LGBTQ+ parents and carers digital zine. To reduce feelings of loneliness and isolation, we asked people to share their thoughts and experiences of being LGBTQ+ and a parent to make an online creative resource. The result is beautiful! heyzine.com/flip-book/d0...
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LGBTQ+ Parents and Carers Zine | PDF to Flipbook
Created with the Heyzine flipbook maker
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
There’s a more detailed breakdown on the final tab of the spreadsheet, you have to dig through the data to get to it!
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
It’s 2011 - 2019 so a little bit out of date. Couldn’t find anything more recent!
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
There’s some ONS data for England and Wales - table 4 on the spreadsheets here: www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
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Suicide by occupation, England and Wales, 2011 to 2019 registrations - Office for National Statistics
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Dr Karen Bateson @karenjbateson.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
A couple of new additions since i last shared this go.bsky.app/KKeTmNP
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
New books for the RCPsych library from the perinatal faculty - essential reading for any aspiring perinatal psychiatrist! If you’re a member and you’d like to borrow a book, get in touch at infoservices@rcpsych.ac.uk and they will post it to you for free #maternalmentalhealth #rcpsychperi
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Nicolette Porter @nicolette-midwife.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
📢 Calling all UK #Midwives! Please complete my quick anonymous survey on midwives’ knowledge, attitudes, and confidence in caring for autistic clients during the perinatal period. ✨ Your input can help shape future care practices + training! 🤰🏾 🔗 Survey: tinyurl.com/yc79yscc 🕑 Takes only 10 minutes
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
I’m 100% here for poetry slam cats!
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Oh nice! I’ve not read any of her stuff yet but Eileen is on my list 📚
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Thanks for sharing!
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
What did you go for in the end? I decided to start the year with an old favourite 🐈‍⬛
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I thoroughly enjoyed chatting to @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social about the complicated relationship between infant feeding and maternal mental health - it comes up in our clinical practice all the time! For more info and resources, check out @bfn-uk.bsky.social and @1stepsnutrition.bsky.social
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
literature in translation should be the biggest section of any bookstore tbh
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Omg I would love matching socks! Could you do something in blue or green? 😍
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
That’s so disappointing Chrissy, I’m really sorry!
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Dr Krystal Wilkinson @drkryswilkinson.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
So happy to see The Parent Gap website go live!!! 😍 Really proud to have contributed to this important new resource for employers interested in better supporting the mental health of new & expectant parents from @mmhalliance.bsky.social & PANDAS Foundation. Check it out: theparentgap.co.uk
Text saying 'our website is now live' with logos from The Patent Gap, MMHA & PANDAS Foundation
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Interested in #perinatalmentalhealth research? Here’s a starter pack of #maternalmentalhealth accounts to follow! go.bsky.app/9oEsdih
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Programme and booking info: www.rcpsych.ac.uk/events/confe...
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Trainees Perinatal Mental Health Conference for Health Care Professionals 2025
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
We’ve just finalised the programme for our RCPsych trainees #perinatalmentalhealth conference on 22nd January in London. Featuring talks from wonderful speakers inc @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social and @actiononpp.bsky.social ambassador and author Catherine Cho. Full programme and booking info below 🔗
Poster for the trainees perinatal mental health conference, 22nd January 2025
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I’m totally here for it 🧶
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Ruth Naughton-Doe @ruthndwrites.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I’m looking for academic researchers who research mental health and also (like me) have lived experience of mental ill health! Please share and get in touch if that’s you ❤️#academicsky @academic-chatter.bsky.social @mhrincubator.bsky.social @nihrspcr.bsky.social
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Useful resource: sleepful.org.uk is an online self-help resource based on the principles of cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBT-I). It’s evidence-based, easy to use, and free!
sleepful.org.uk
Sleepful
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
If you’d like to hear more about sleep in the perinatal period, Chiara recently made a guest appearance on our podcast @beyondbabyblues.bsky.social @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/2290576/epis...
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Sleep - Beyond Baby Blues
Sleep is absolutely vital for the body and brain to function properly, but sleep disruption is almost universal in the perinatal period. This can have a huge impact on parenting and on mental health.&...
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Our next talk, from obstetrician Dr Chiara Petrosellini, focuses on sleep in the perinatal period. There are implications for maternal mental health: a recent #MBRRACE report identified a link between sleep disturbance and maternal suicide #RCPsychPeri #PeriConf2024 #Psychsky #maternalmentalhealth
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Some OCD symptoms are specific to the perinatal period: obsessional thoughts about the child, paternity, contamination of bottles, unwanted sexual thoughts, visualisation of worst-case scenarios. Chrissy encourages us to explore ego-dystonicity and compulsive behaviours
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
And perinatal psychiatrist @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social talks about OCD in the perinatal setting - it’s common but often missed or misdiagnosed. Why is it so common in the perinatal period? There’s emerging evidence about neuroendocrine factors, and Chrissy also highlights the role of perfectionism
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Next up, a session on perinatal OCD. Dr Himanshu Tyagi (medical psychotherapist and neuropsychiatrist) starts us off with an overview of the history and the neuropsychiatry of OCD #RCPsychPeri #PeriConf2024 #Psychsky #maternalmentalhealth
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
3. Foundation trainee Dr Emma Cook shares a retrospective case register study exploring the rate of subsequent bipolar/schizoaffective disorder diagnosis in women presenting to secondary mental health services in the perinatal period
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
2. Dr David Ibrahim (core trainee) presents a post-marketing evaluation of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) for women with postnatal depression. Initial results look promising - but needs further research especially regarding longer term outcomes.
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
The audit standards came from the excellent SIGN guidelines published on 2022: www.sign.ac.uk/media/1987/s...
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
(We’re actually doing some joint work with the perinatal and eating disorders faculties - hoping to publish guidance in 2025!)
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
1. Psychiatric higher trainee Dr Amritha Sastry presents an audit on the management of eating disorders in the perinatal period and discusses the challenges of raising awareness and promoting joint working in these cases.
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Now we’re hearing trainee presentations for the Daksha Emson research prize… #RCPsychPeri #PeriConf2024 #Psychsky #maternalmentalhealth
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Prof Anitha has written extensively about this topic - this paper looks like a good place to start: doi.org/10.1177/1077...
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Understanding Economic Abuse Through an Intersectional Lens: Financial Abuse, Control, and Exploitation of Women’s Productive and Reproductive Labor - Sundari Anitha, 2019
Financial abuse refers to men’s control over money, assets, and women’s education or paid work. As a corrective to existing undertheorization of men’s (and thei...
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
“Bordering processes and policies can be weaponised by perpetrators to construct precarity for women during the perinatal period with serious implications for maternal mental health”
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Next, Prof Sundari Anitha talks about domestic abuse at the intersection of gender and migration. She urges us to look beyond the “vulnerability” lens to consider structural factors - including precarity in migrant populations. #RCPsychPeri #PeriConf2024 #Psychsky #maternalmentalhealth
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I was very fortunate to get a ticket to the London premiere. It had an incredible response from the audience - lots of laughter, lots of tears, lots of thought-provoking conversations afterwards. Looking forward to hearing what you think when you see it!
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Lynsey McAlpine @drlynseymcalpine.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Lots of questions and discussion from the audience - in particular highlighting the challenges of getting women engaged with preconception counselling and planning at an early stage
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