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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

5 years

Maybe she’s born with it. Maybe it’s Fluoxetine.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

4 years

THIS

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ilona burton

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6 years

When you come into work dressed as the carpet. I am MORTIFIED.

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ilona burton

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4 years

Bit in love with this pic of the old Corrie ladies.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

8 years

Can we all tell @NewLookFashion that 9 year olds shouldn't even know what a 'cheat day' is? So wrong.

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ilona burton

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3 years

There’s a kitten on the train!!

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ilona burton

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6 years

@aIeexx @GaryLineker They’re saying that even if he is a rapist, he’s a good player so it doesn’t really matter. As Gary said, that’s awful whether he’s guilty or not.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

5 years

I hope Katie Hopkins watches #OddOneOut and realised what a disgusting piece of work she really is. I hope she regrets what she said. I hope she learns.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

2 years

The scariest thing this Halloween is that there were thousands of people, including children, stuck in a building that was petrol bombed yesterday and people on here don’t care because they’re apparently “illegals”.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

5 years

Mad how on World Mental Health Day everyone is all “this is so important, we need to talk about this, no stigma, reach for help” etc. But the second Meghan Markle appears vulnerable and admits struggling they’re like, “she’s fine, she’s rich, she’s an actress, it’s an act.”

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

7 years

@KTHopkins GO SUCK A FUCK.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

4 years

If you #clapfornhs tonight, vote for the NHS in future. Clapping is nice, funding saves lives.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

3 years

Really, horribly sad to hear about Nikki Grahame. Anorexia is an evil illness, so much more complex and twisted than you can possibly imagine if you haven’t lived with it. Love to all who knew her, and all those who are living with eating disorders. ❤️

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

6 years

People: You should talk to someone. Person: *talks to someone* Someone: You should see your GP. GP: *puts person on 18 month waiting list* #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

3 years

Rosie Jones was by far the most articulate panellist on #bbcqt tonight and all the gobshites on here taking the piss out of her need to have serious words with themselves.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

3 years

Pretty decent day ❤️

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

4 years

How have we got to 2020 with people STILL using 'OCD' when they mean 'tidy'?

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

1 year

@OliLondonTV I’ve met her in person and she is strong, beautiful and kind. A better person than anyone giving her hate will ever be.

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ilona burton

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3 years

Did it! ❤️❤️❤️

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

7 months

75% of freelancers in TV are currently unemployed but I’ve got an idea. ITV don’t spent £1.5million on Farage and instead commission some new shows that me and my friends can work on. Please.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

6 years

Kinda sad that #MedsWorkedForMe is trending. Nobody feels they have to explain themselves for taking insulin or statins or having chemotherapy.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

3 years

Good morning to everyone except the vile scum bags doing everything they possibly can to prove exactly why Meghan and Harry needed to leave.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

2 years

@Gus_JordM @moominmarxist Another man who doesn’t understand consent.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

1 year

@uhhmmily Angelina, Haim, Lizzo, Anya Taylor-Joy

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

3 years

Why can’t people just… have a nice day?

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

3 years

IM GETTING MARRIED TODAAAAY!

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

7 years

Seriously, fuck the tories.

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@ViceLife

7 years

Mother of four found dead in freezing home after her welfare was cut off

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

3 years

To spare you all from reading the article - I did, and it's even worse than it sounds. Liz Jones, who lives with an eating disorder herself, spews fatphobic bile in order to promote her first novel. I hope it ends up pulped into porridge.

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@RossMcCaff

3 years

Sorry what the fuck?

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

5 years

Imagine running an ad campaign for checking your breasts and then more people go to their GP having found a lump and be told 'Sorry, come back when it's got bigger/worse/you're actually dying.' Because that's kind of what mental health ad campaigns are doing.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

6 years

Lessons learnt from #Bodyguard 1) Never trust anyone 2) Never underestimate women 3) Everything is better after one meeting with occupational health

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

3 years

Can they just fucking not?

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

6 years

Report this stupid woman.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

5 years

@mkbutera Too many already have. Please delete this rubbish.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

4 years

Wake me up when #TimeToTalk day moves on from conversations about mental health to pushing for early interventions, ring-fenced funding and access to services without facing year long waiting lists. Talking is great but it’s not nearly enough.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

2 years

@pritipatel But you won’t give Ukrainians a safe route to the UK.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

2 years

Calories on menus don't help anyone. Fight me.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

4 years

Umm, I’m on furlough and by law, I’m not allowed to work?

Robert Peston

@Peston

4 years

Has the furlough scheme removed the incentive to work? | The Spectator

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

6 years

Awareness is good. Talking is great. Funding - proper, solid, ring-fenced funding - would save so many more lives. Same every year. #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

3 years

Thank you so so much for all the lovely messages and comments! Yesterday was weird, but perfect. Pure happiness ❤️

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

6 months

Two sides of Manchester tweeted within minutes of each other. Heartbreaking doesn’t cover it.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

3 years

Will someone PLEASE open a lido in Manchester?

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

3 years

Meanwhile in Spain...

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

3 years

I’m sure the doctor off Love Island will do a cracking job, but please God don’t believe for a minute that Boris Johnson actually cares about the state of CAMHS or waiting lists or early intervention. This is purely performative.

Boris Johnson

@BorisJohnson

3 years

I’m delighted to announce that we have appointed @DrAlexGeorge to be our Youth Mental Health Ambassador. Young people have sacrificed so much during this pandemic and we are going to do everything we can to support them.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

4 years

I’ve had a few drinks but I’m going to say it. I get married in 19 weeks and I’m going to try so hard to put some weight on, despite my eating disorder. I wanna look good, and skinny isn’t it. So here goes nothing...

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

6 years

@SharonHorgan @jackseale Welcome to the club!

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

5 years

Love that it’s @martynhett ’s birthday and #stormdeirdre is trending, he’d have appreciated that.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

3 years

Great British Bake Off, I think, has been so successful for so long because of its warmth, humour and pure love of baking. It’s the antidote to diet shows. But every time calories or fat are mentioned, it loses a bit of that loveliness. Make it stop. #GBBO

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

6 years

@jon_sayers Not sure awesome is the word I’d use!

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

4 years

Funny how they weren’t this clear on their guidelines about VE Day Street parties, beach trips or crowds gathering to clap on Westminster Bridge.

Metro

@MetroUK

4 years

BREAKING: Do not attend protests of over six people this weekend, government warns public

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

3 years

Should probably try to sleep now but I’m wondering how Will and Kate did all that mental health awareness shit while their sister in law was contemplating suicide. #OprahHarryMeghan

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

6 years

You know what will save lives? Early intervention. Increased, ring-fenced funding for mental health services. Compassion. Care. Everything our current government has failed to deliver. #horizon #stoppingmalesuicide

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

3 years

Everyone: it’s ok not to be ok, talk about your mental health, especially men! Harry: talks about his mental health Everyone: no not you, not like that

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

3 years

Just gonna say it. I’ve struggled this year, struggled for a long time. Realised yesterday that since the age of about 7, I’ve never allowed myself to be my ‘natural’ weight or size or shape. In 2021, this changes. Wish me luck eh?

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

4 years

Everyone really seems to care about ‘mental health’ when they can’t get their nails done for a few weeks and it’s doing my nut in.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

3 years

While CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) is trending - a few facts: - CAMHS accounts for just 0.7% of NHS spending, and around 6.4% of mental health spending - a year after the Gov’s 2015 pledge to invest £1.4bn into child mental health services by 2020...

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

7 years

This woman is incredible. YES! #bbcqt

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

4 years

Oh piss off.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

4 years

If you work out your calorie intake for every meal and then work that off, you won't just lose weight, you will DIE. If you don't think #Horizon tonight is dangerous, why is the UK's leading Eating Disorder charity keeping their helplines open after hours?

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

1 year

@OliLondonTV Also she didn’t take anyone’s place at RAD, she literally trained with a RAD teacher.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

7 years

This can't get retweeted enough.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

3 years

I absolutely love that our northwest weatherman @OwainWynEvans is already a national treasure at the tender age of 37 ❤️

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

1 year

@carolvorders @FunSoph Why is Gary Linekar being doorstepped and this lot just continue to cheat, lie and gaslight us and get away with it?

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

3 years

@BBCNews It's called rape. Sort it out.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

8 years

When you think you're not good at anything, think how good you are at self-deprecation.

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@ilonacatherine

3 years

How old are you based on your first mobile phone?

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@ilonacatherine

3 years

During the course of the pandemic, calls to the UK’s leading eating disorder charity @beatED have risen by 140% - I really hope the media does us all a favour and goes easy on the standard post-Christmas diet diatribe. Please.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

7 years

If you're quite tidy and someone at work says you're "a bit OCD", put them right. OCD is an all-consuming illness, not a personality trait.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

8 months

I’m declaring @krishgm a national treasure just in case that hasn’t already been done. #StrictlyComeDancing

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@ilonacatherine

5 years

@eldritchvix @Gatwick_Airport I hope she makes an official complaint, this is disgusting.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

5 years

1) she doesn’t need to ‘slim’ 2) why is she hugging scales? 3) oh god just stop

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

6 months

Taylor and Beyoncé ♥️

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

4 years

I know nobody wants to hear this because everything is already so bleak, but it's really important. Already, there's been a spike in suicides as a result of #Covid19 and everything around it. I don't have the answers, but it is SO important that we look out for each other...

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

6 years

@nicolathorp_ @_iweigh Honestly think you should name the publication

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

4 years

@marshychemist @AdrianHarrop @zipedydodah Our government is an embarrassment.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

7 years

Timely reminder that anti-depressants don't kill people. Neither do films. Guns do. #BBCPanorama

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

7 years

Shut up.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

2 years

Can we all agree that - this year especially because we’re kind of going through enough shit as it is - anyone planning to publish articles intended to make us feel guilty for eating food this Christmas should just… give it a miss?

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

4 years

fuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckoff.

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Series begins tomorrow at 9pm... lots of emotion, revelation and great science

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

4 years

@lickedspoon @hollyshortall I want to know what it smells like.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

4 years

I’m seeing a lot of ‘I feel really rubbish but also guilty because others are dying/worse off’ tweets and just want to say this: Your feelings are valid. You are allowed to feel however you feel without it making you a ‘bad’ person.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

4 months

I’m no Nigella like but this is the first time in years I’ve cooked and eaten something proper off my own back in YEARS. I have feelings but I think maybe, finally, something is shifting in this little brain of mine.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

4 years

This time 10 years ago I was stuck in an eating disorder unit, 9 months in. Now I’m away with my fiancé and friends looking forward to 2020 🥰🥰🥰

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

4 years

I totally get all the good intentions of Stacey Dooley: On the Psych Ward but I feel a bit uneasy. It feels bordering on intrusive. Parts of it go against Samaritans media guidelines. I worry that mental illness porn could be the new poverty porn. I hope I’m wrong.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

3 years

This is why, as an eating disorder campaigner, I am so tired. It’s why I don’t ‘speak out’ as much. Because the situation is more desperate than ever and I was literally saying all this YEARS AGO.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

6 years

I really wish the media would learn how to report suicide responsibly. It's really not that hard.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

3 years

Filthy piece of toe rag

merritt k

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Who’s your favorite character from the UK Extended Universe?

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@RachaelvsWorld Agreed to play ‘snooker’ on the table with Anne-Marie. I sharpened my pencil, took aim (can’t remember what the balls were made of) and proceeded to ram the sharpened nib just next to her eye. Pretty much got done for assault coz she denied all knowledge of the actual game.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

6 years

Went and got engaged 🥂🍾

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

7 years

@BBCNewsbeat No. Absolutely not. Not ever.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

7 years

A Corrie coffin, half the cast, video message from Mariah Carey, tribute by Michelle McManus. Couldn't have been more perfect. #bemoremartyn

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

5 years

@PageSix

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

6 years

@matthaig1 See also women and 'snapping out of it'/'getting a grip'.

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@ilonacatherine

5 years

It makes me so sad that the likes of Prince William and Harry, Stephen Fry and Professor Green are all applauded when they talk about mental health, yet @BegumNadiya gets a load of shit. Speaks volumes.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

1 year

I need a bloody diazepam after that. #HappyValley

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@ilonacatherine

6 years

@gilly_1888 Incredibly, I have better/more productive things to do than study the carpet.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

7 years

Guys mental health awareness week starts tomorrow so get ready to get super aware but still have no funding! #MHAW2017

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

3 years

Jesus did not spend 40 days and 40 nights fasting in the desert for you to have 'protein pancakes'.

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ilona burton

@ilonacatherine

7 years

BBC tonight: #BluePlanet2 : 'Fish are weird' #MyScientologyMovie : 'People are weirder.'

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@ilonacatherine

3 years

“once covid is over” is starting to sound a lot like “when mental health services are properly funded”

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@ilonacatherine

4 years

@MattHancock Is there anything in the NHS Long Term Plan that will help those stuck on 18 month waiting lists for eating disorder treatment?

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