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...peer support is a significant part of the solution to the mental health challenges we are facing.

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#PeerSupportScot #MentalHealth #ILovePeerSupport #Recovery #LivedExperience

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We have a lot of institutional barriers & there is a dominant narrative about what’s possible & what isn't but we know from other countries that that narrative does have to change at some point.

“but is the best person to attend to someone who is suffering a mental-health episode someone in a blue uniform, wearing a vest and carrying a firearm, Taser and handcuffs? NO! We should not be criminalising a health issue” MH services need a huge boost and redesign. But when?

'There is evidence that peer support, in diverse forms, can provide a distinctive contribution that complements other roles, as well as creating a wide range of career pathways for people who bring expertise from personal experience to mental health services.'

'solutions are out there - people with lived experience'. let's recognise this future in australia too Mental Health Commission of NSW Mental Health Coordinating Council National Mental Health Commission BEING – Mental Health Consumers

invest in the peer workforce

I wonder if anyone at #SIRS2024 could list clinical advances that draw on the research presented all these years? I suspect it's a very short list derived from the least expensive research.

The review below helps explore this problem. tldr: do research that those with LEx want.

Today is #WorldHealthDay2024

let us be reminded that there is

No Health Without #MentalHealth
&
No Mental Health Without #HumanRights

Become a World Health Organization (WHO) #QualityRights advocate and promote human rights in mental health

#MyHealthMyRight #WorldHealthDay2024

a good reason for stopping

#peerwork

BMJ calling for a focus on harms and real world data.
In mental health, people with lived experience have been calling for this for decades, because of the real world data of catastrophic outcomes for those most subject to our rights-breachy systems.
See livedexperiencejustice.au

Phenomenal co-creation at work for the closure to ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research Holistic Formations Annual Symposium '24. Thank you communities.

Day 2 the Net is ready to Cast!!! The NPY women joined our efforts to [re]-form holistic systems and for Casting the Net for What Matters.

‘Before there were doctors there were ngangkari’. Traditional healers of NPY women’s council in ⁦The Australian Botanic Garden⁩ ⁦ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research⁩ coming to @unsw next week. ⁦The Big Anxiety (festival & UNSW Research Centre)⁩

***New Paper on lived experience allyship in #mentalhealth services. Here we make recommendations for improved uptake of roles and ways to ensure deep impact in support of peer workforces. First author verityreeves #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Denise McGarry 'Antipsychotics block dopamine activity in the brain and this leads to brain shrinkage, which in turn is associated with a worsening of negative symptoms, functional impairment, and cognitive function'.
Mad In America

Our analysis of ECT pt info sheets may come as a shock, but not to
Dr John Read andy luff JD Indigo Daya Simon Katterl
An audit and analysis of ECT patient information sheets used in NSW Australia Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/in…

A project to tackle seclusion and restraint in one Local Health District in New South Wales not only reduced these practices, but improved leadership and collaboration in the mental health units.

Read more: ow.ly/YSvt50QPNba

Got up early this morning to read this judgment. Deep respect and congratulations to all Gomeroi Elders, warriors, leaders, lawyers for this landmark victory and your fight for country and justice over many generations

'Our findings suggest that open-door policies can be safely implemented in psychiatric wards without an increase in coercive measures or serious adverse events.'

New research Article
thelancet.com/journals/lanps…

A compelling case for rendering locked wards across Vic, Qld & the ACT an unlawful breach of human rights.

The law requires:

- a rational connection (e.g. evidence) btw the purpose (e.g. safety) & the measure (e.g. Locked Wards).
- it is the least restrictive option (its not).

ICYMI from Emeritus Prof Bernadette McSherry:

💡The value of consumer perspective work
💡 How #Rec29 #OurAgency is a crucial part of the Royal Commission's report
💡 How we need lived experience to challenge dominant ideas in the system that hold us back.

pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/peopl…