People with Lived Experience Talk FEAR In Mental Health Services

People with Lived Experience Talk FEAR In Mental Health Services

naturally as a black man there’s always been a lot of fear around engaging with services whether it comes from old interactions that you’ve had with the police or school or other services where you’ve just been labeled or already put into a box if i’m honest sometimes i could be fearful of what will happen to me if i admit i need help am i going to be stigmatized there’s probably so many people out there that have mental health issues but don’t want to ask for that help because they don’t want to be labeled they don’t want things to change in their life they don’t want their families to look at them differently their friends to look at them differently there’s a fear of being judged let’s talk about the workplace if you admit that you’ve got a mental health issue are your work colleagues gonna judge you and only look at the negative sides when people come back into services there is a fear of failure you feel like if you’re admitting that you’ve got something wrong with you you’ve failed there’s also fear of the unknown because you never really know what’s going to happen when you admit that you’ve got a mental health issue sometimes people will take it seriously sometimes because you don’t fit into a certain category they won’t even help you

During Race Equality week 2021, the key theme arising from our safe space explorations was trust. In order to better understand the barriers to building trust and compassion within mental health services we have developed in partnership with people who have accessed services five short videos. Todays video explores Fear.