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11 July 2024
Our guest shares their experience of psychosis and depression, overcoming adversity, finding purpose through reading 200 books in 2 years, and discovering a life worth fighting for.
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Our guest shares their experience of psychosis and depression, overcoming adversity, finding purpose through reading 200 books in 2 years, and discovering a life worth fighting for.
This is a conversation with Jesse about suicide. Jesse shares his own experiences of suicidality and offers different ways we can have more compassionate conversations about it. We think about suicide as a natural physiological response to distress that contains a message for the individual and those around them. We explore some of the misunderstandings around suicide, the importance of language and allowing people time and space to process and heal.
We sat down to chat with Mary O’Hagan, who’s currently the Executive Director of Lived Experience in the Department of Health in Victoria. Mary shares snippets from her memoir “Madness Made Me” and speaks about how value and meaning can be derived from experiences of madness. We ponder what it could look like if communities looked after each other and created space for people in distress.
Take time to read, watch or listen to a bunch of different people’s ways of understanding mental health and wellbeing
Elsa talks us through her new role as the spiritual care lead and some of her hopes for the role.
Elsa breaks down and simplifies what the word ‘spirituality’ means, what it can look like in a modern world and why it can be important in the context of mental health and healing.
Explore some more about sensory stuff with this resource bag.
https://youtu.be/70HNmSsJvVU?si=zbrLIT8EED39j8M8 The Wisdom of Trauma is a documentary featuring Gabor Maté, exploring the question “Can our deepest pain be a doorway to healing?” Watch the film In this documentary, Russel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUedQ0_EGCQ Jordan shares her insights into what it is like to live with high functioning anxiety and how people like her can be perceived – to be both shy
Paul helps to bust some myths about common misconceptions in the medical world. Paul speaks about the value of humanizing people’s experience rather than medicalising it and how including people’s loved ones in their care can make a real difference.
Dip into this resource bag to explore more about unshared realities at your own pace.
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