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Mental Health should be taken seriously and talked about more. I’ve observed that even when mental health is a part of a discussion, it is still scooted under the rug. To the level of, yes I’m tired and feel a little down and I can’t stop these headaches…… It’s because I need to drink more water that’s all. Let’s keep talking about it and start taking mental health seriously. It is also a common factor in sickness and disease (Dis) (Ease). Have you noticed that it’s not just our Grandparents passing away at an old age. Now it’s your peers having heart attacks, strikes, fighting cancer and passing away that you went to school with in the age limit of 20’s, 30’s, 40’s. Mental health does not have a name or number on it. MH does not discriminate, WHOEVER CAN GET IT! I MEAN WHOEVER. #spreadawareness #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthadvocate

Thank you for your unique, and important contributions to suicide prevention, Leslie! Your course aimed at helping clinicians understand the relationship between dream activity and suicide risk & prevention is definitely on my professional development course list! For those interested, here's the link! https://lnkd.in/gEZJpUEQ

Your dreams are an excellent barometer of your emotional life. And for those at risk for suicide, they can be a warning sign that is too often ignored. I have been calling for more clinicians to ask about dreams when their clients are dangerously depressed, and am pleased to see that others are joining the chorus. Geoffroy suggests clinicians ask one simple question of their clients at risk for suicide: How are you dreaming? He says dreams and their recent changes represent “a meaningful warning signal of the suicidal crisis” (Bipolar Disorders Journal, 2023). This simple inquiry could help detect one of the foremost causes of death worldwide, particularly lethal in youth populations. Check out my latest blog post for full details. https://lnkd.in/e4HhPRHM

Mental Health – Epilepsy Ontario https://buff.ly/3P8Ip7x This is an Excellent summary showing the impact of epilepsy on well-being and mental health status. Hope that agencies will also educate on the benefits of precision medicine for therapy management. https://buff.ly/3gCDL22

It is important to continuously work on addressing mental health stigma, and tackle poverty and discrimination to reduce people's likelihood of becoming mentally unwell in the first place. In this recent study published in Australia, it found that individuals who are most likely to experience involuntary psychiatric care are those who were born overseas, spoke a language other than English and were unemployed. Herein, we need to think more critically about how we can protect and ensure the autonomy and agency of those who are most impacted by mental health issues, address structural factors and other inequities that have disproportionately increased their mental health burden, and provide better options for them to get the mental health care they need, without forcing them against their will. Read more here:

This article highlights an issue close to my heart. Clinicians needs to have proper support for stressful situations, in this case it resulted in PTSD. The support should be provided by employers. However, people may choose to avail of therapy via their own resources. #ptsd #mentalhealth https://lnkd.in/efwYQn3U

HUGE NEWS!!! DO NOT SCROLL PAST!! UN and WHO call for 'significant shift away from biomedical model of mental health' But what does it mean for us all? I have summarised the new guidance for you. On the 9th October 2023, The World Health Organisation and United Nations collaboratively published their new practical guidelines to move away from the biomedical model of mental health, and instead, focus on the social determinants, oppression, poverty, abuse, violence, and other contextual factors that caused trauma and distress in humans. https://lnkd.in/eDtEpquq

This is a very personal campaign I've been working on with Bipolar UK to help save Bipolar Lives. The statistics around Bipolar and suicide are frightening. The Bipolar Commission found that it’s taking an average of 9.5 years to get a diagnosis of bipolar and 36% of people in our community tell us they attempted suicide because of the delay. Research suggests one in five people with bipolar will end up taking their own life. One of the many reasons behind this shocking statistic is the long delay to diagnosis. Another key factor is that there is not a specialist care pathway for bipolar which would speed up diagnosis and save bipolar lives. The recent government strategy for reducing suicides generally only makes one reference to bipolar disorder. It is a much misunderstood and ignored mental illness and that has to change or we’ll continue to lose people. We need your support and urgent action now.  We're asking people to e-mail their local MP to raise the following in parliament : 1. How the Government will commit to making it a priority to reduce the delay to bipolar diagnosis down to five years within five years to save bipolar lives 2. How the Government will commit to prioritising bipolar in the implementation of their suicide prevention strategy to save bipolar lives. Please click on the link below for all the details. https://lnkd.in/eyeFXXWs It's too late for Megan, me and her family but I want to create a positive from an absolute tragedy and just hope this campaign will make a difference to people with Bipolar and #savebipolarlives #bipolar #bipolarawareness #mentalhealthawareness

This is great news!! I believe it’s also important now to have tools and guidelines available for people who want to heal differently and empower themselves..! Just gentle tools to help them land and accept their reality and understand that there never was something wrong with them. Us. Excited for what’s to come. It’s the number 1 reason why we, at Beyond Psychology, offer new tools for mental well-being that help heal suffering at the root. Beyondpsychology.eu 🙏🏼

This is a big step forwards towards creating a trauma-informed future! The World Health Organization (WHO) is moving away from the biomedical model of mental health to focus more on social determinants of health. A few things I hope will eventually come from this new shift: -making trauma-informed care the standard of care within the mental/health field -more concerted efforts to acknowledge trauma and oppression as root causes of SDOH and ensuring healthcare delivery is rooted in anti-opprrssive and trauma informed models of care -considering the bi-directionality of trauma-informed care in that includes the humanity of mental health providers and therefore we need to better prioritize the mental health workforce for the future sustainability of care BIG gratitude to Dr Jessica Taylor for this incredibly generous and helpful summary below and also to Rachael Dietkus, LCSW who also shared this with me! #traumainformed #traumainformedcare #socialdeterminantsofhealth #trauma #socialimpact #traumainformedleadership