Mental health but not as you know it | Louise Byrne | TEDxRockhampton
Louise works from the perspective of her own experience of significant mental health challenges, service use, and periods of healing.
Dr Louise Byrne has utilised her lived experience knowledge in a variety of roles in government, non-government and tertiary settings since 2005, including a role as an expert advisor to the Queensland Mental Health Commission and as Australia’s first full-time Lived Experience Mental Health academic at CQUniversity.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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I found myself really moved by Louise's take out of the need to 'show up for ourselves.'
That was awesome thank you 😊 🙏
Brilliant talk. Thank you for having the courage to persevere.
This was the best mental health recovery / TED talk that I've seen seriously it's everything that needs to be said and said clearly in everyday terms that everyone understands thank you
I have to add your part about the loss of friends and loss of your job at the University yeah that was a turning point in my life too that still hasn't ended and actually I was working in recovery I had just started and so I know these principles well and where I'm at now in another state I am really struggling to survive because they've co-opted these terms and pretended to be something they're not in their mental health services here are very very threatening and not helpful so I needed to hear everything you said because it reminded me of what's important what I've always known and congratulations your excellent speaker and very inspiring
Lived experience, in my experience, needs to be respected by professionals; financially (it shouldn’t be always volunteer work), that it’s a profession in it’s own right, that experience is valuable. Each time that discrimination hits, even YouTube is a help.
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So brave and courageous, I have watched this multiple times
Amazing, moving and inspiring…thankyou
Awesome! So very much the truth. I can relate to every second.
Thank you so much Louise – I work as a peer wellbeing navigator in mental health and have done so for the last 5 years – if anyone had told me that my experience of poor mental health years ago would eventually lead me to a job walking and sitting beside other people going through their own struggle, I would have thought I was the sane one – but here we are. I have watched time and time again, the relief on people's faces when I explain my lived experience role to them – as you say, the playing field is even, the empathy, understanding, compassion and non-judgemental perspective we can offer is unique, humbling and so very critical in the current mental health sector. You put it so beautifully 🙂