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💡 Let's get real about what's in our medicine cabinets. With a staggering number of the population on SSRIs, it's time to pause and reflect. 🤔 Findings from Oxford and others are challenging what we've accepted for decades. Are these medications truly a lifeline, or are we missing the mark on treating mental health at its core? It's not just about the numbers or the science; it's about the real stories of people feeling worse, not better. 🚫💊 This isn't about dismissing the struggle or the need for help; it's about demanding better, more effective solutions that address the root of our mental health crisis, not just the symptoms. Why are we settling for a "solution" that might be amplifying the problem? Let's talk, let's question, and most importantly, let's listen to each other. Your voice matters in reshaping the future of mental health care. 🗣️✨ #MentalHealthAwareness #SSRIs #TimeForChange #ListenToTheScience #BeyondMedication #RealTalk #CommunityHealing #QuestionTheStatusQuo Tim Jensen Grunt Style Foundation Veteran Mental Health Leadership Coalition Reason for Hope The American Legion

🌟💜 UPDATE: CHANGES TO MENTAL HEALTH STEPPED CARE 💜🌟 | As you may be aware, NQPHN has been working to redesign mental health stepped care services in North Queensland. Read our latest update to find out: ✨ What is changing ✨ Why it is changing ✨ What the new model will look like ✨ Who the providers are from 1 July and how they were selected ✨ What will happen up until 1 July ✨ What will happen from 1 July when the new model takes affect 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e5G_V_ic Over the next two months we will provide more information in phases. We will shortly announce the service providers delivering the new model, followed by another update on the progress of the transition, and then in June 2024 will provide more information about the new service.

Excellent read - very useful to help plan, and understand some ‘why?’ stuff too

Community is the Medicine We All Need! Workshop with Elizabeth Markle The REAL Summit https://lnkd.in/e9PDP4cG Deutsche Bank HQ Oct 17-18 I know firsthand how crucial community is to healing—it played a huge role in helping me get better. That’s exactly what THE REAL Mental Health Foundation is all about: creating a space where people can connect, support one another, and grow. Research shows that individuals with strong social connections are 50% more likely to live longer, and community support has been proven to reduce feelings of loneliness and isolation, which are key factors in mental health challenges. I’m especially looking forward to Elizabeth Markle’s upcoming workshop at THE REAL Summit. Her work on community and mental health is groundbreaking, and I believe it can make a profound impact on how we all support each other through difficult times. Join us in exploring how community can truly be the medicine we all need! Does this capture the tone and message you’re aiming for? Brent Herd Josh Cohen Allen Graber John Mannix George Harrington Giuseppe Brizi

Prioritizing mental health care is necessary for any form of justice in our society. When asked about the future of justice in New York City, Errol Louis predicts that providing mental health care will become just as urgent as other transformative initiatives like re-entry, Raise the Age, and Clean Slate. 📺 Watch the full panel here: https://bit.ly/48loj1N

Here is me presenting at the #FMHC24 on Tuesday. I asked the audience if they think the situation in regards to the mental health of first responders has been getting better or worse since the increasing injection of money into the sector over the last few years. Only 8% of attendees thought it was getting better. The vast majority of that group are right. The last 3 years have seen a 56% increase in serious psychological injury claims in NSW. Also increasing numbers of personnel from every first responder agency in NSW report lower levels of perceived wellbeing (PMES results). What we are doing is NOT working at a macro level. It is time for a change in the way we understand and respond to psychological distress. The evidence for the need to change our programs is loud and getting louder. Let’s change the operational and occupational context first responders work in. #moralinjury #psychosocialhazards #systemschange #leadership #justculture

The recent passing of Graham Thorpe reminds us all, again, of the vital importance of raising awareness of, and smashing the associated stigma of, #anxiety #depression & #suicide. So many of us suffer in silence, become lonely and isolated within our crippling thoughts and often toxic behaviours, and quickly spiral into chaos, uncertainty and self-destruction. What's needed is a full awareness of the necessary environment that empowers those living with the darkness and demons of poor mental health to reach out, to ask for help and to engage with help when it's available and offered. Openness, honesty and being non-judgemental are essential elements of this necessary environment and we all have a role to play in this. We also must strive, as individuals, organisations and as a society, to put yet more emphasis upon embedding the #livedexperience of those who have lived, and continue to live, with poor mental health at the heart of decision making, funding and provision of support services, signposting and diagnosis. Only then will society truly understand and get what it is to live with the demons and darkness that drive too many to the edge of their sanity and to take their lives. I'm so proud to have worked, through The Daparian Foundation Trauma Fellowship & Society journey into academia, on research studies that have sought to champion and showcase the lived experience of those living with #trauma and #ptsd, initially within the #veteran and #bluelight worlds and laterly within all #marginalised communities, and to continue to do so through my research role at the Doncaster Health Determinants Research Collaboration. So much more to do, so much more raising awareness and so much more stigma smashing! We all have a part to play on this journey. RIP Graham. ❤️

I am excited to share this article which I co-authored with Claudia M. Gold, MD. I am even more excited about the friendship that has emerged from this process. Please check out our piece, “Early Relational Health: A Model for Peace,” published by WAIMH World Association for Infant Mental Health in the Infants in Crises section, on the power of babies to teach us about healing through connection. https://lnkd.in/gt2z4c_q

Today we've launched our '360 review' of mental health care services in England. This deep dive into the state of mental health care explores nine key areas including prevalence, access, funding and services for children and young people. We also examine what data is available and why limitations in coverage and quality of data can make the planning and provision of mental health care challenging. Read our findings ⬇️ . https://lnkd.in/dTJY2Yvk

The final regulations under the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act have been issued. Effective in 2025, these rules require detailed comparative analysis of mental health and substance use disorder benefits versus medical and surgical benefits. Read more about the implications and how to prepare: https://lnkd.in/gfq9JJWF Authors: Alden Bianchi, Jacob Mattinson, and Sarah Raaii