The R4R Podcast | Episode 6 | Mental Health Crisis
On July 2nd, The Dock and Running for Resilience hosted a Community Forum on the “Mental Health Crisis”…
Like all of our podcasts so far, we’re so grateful that Lonsdale St Recording Studios have made it available for you guys to watch from wherever you are.
The panel was led by Thomas Emerson MLA and hosted Carrie-Ann Leeson from Lifeline Canberra, Ben Gathercole from Menslink, our very own Benny A… and don’t miss the intro from Lili!
No one is destined for suicide…
I think most people intuitively feel this… and as we unite on this belief and start looking at how we can help more people, we can see the sense of belief grow.
The sense of belief that a suicide-free Canberra is possible… and as Benny put it towards the end of the panel discussion… it starts with us, and it starts right now.
Hoo-bloody-roo.
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Holy fuck I’m still listening to this homelessness is like the one of the massive causes of mental health issues you cannot get well without security why partly why I was so unwell over the last few years was because I was made homeless because many reasons but one of them was you know People choosing to call me crazy after doing a music video and stuff in a public last resort safety home that really isn’t safety I don’t care if they take your money and everything and they just control you even more but yes due to their actions which were proven to be wrong that I default through human rights and all of that that ended up making me homeless and I I literally had two weeks with mental health foundation to find to try and find myself place with no money nothing I wasn’t I was a housewife before that and yeah I watched some people in this what they call respite literally get kicked out and onto the streets for not trying hard enough so the amount of stress was hell but they were actually beautiful to me they were like Crystal you’re so autistic you’re so creative you can do anything you can take it all the way there were some of the first kindest people I met on this journey the ones that bailed me out of adult mental health unit and 12 B because they were like what what the hell is she doing in here she’s perfectly normal whilst I’m writing in a diary everybody’s name day 🚫time saying I’m coming for you which I did I backed it up should’ve taken to court I still wish I had sometimes that’s the only way to make a legislation change but instead would join the green so we’re gonna try and fix things the political way I really like what this independent guy saying i’d like to hear from him a lot more and speak to him because he’s on the point I cannot believe that’s the story with the harmlessness and the HOUSING situation I have met so many homeless people there’s a reason like our lowest resorts are refugees in our mental health homes and all of that all of which have been in still take money from you still don’t lift you up I mean I can’t speak for all of them but I can speak for a goddamn lot of them and that doesn’t help anybody get stronger Wellways is pretty good but even then their approach is kind of too much paperwork too much let’s talk about your mental health every day baby and you rather than actually letting you be independent but they were nice they gave they gave you hugs instead of throwing you in psych wards I haven’t got bad things to say about them but there is so much education that’s needed I would like to see the future particularly in the public cycles not Trump further traumatise people and take away their rights in their self-esteem you know my mother when she was in there the stuff that happened is it’s disgusting it was shut down Kenmore due to abuse that’s the only way I got my mother back most of my life she was locked in that place with horrific stories even before that my grandmother‘s years they throw you in there therefore they wouldn’t get involved in Domestic violence with my grandmother but they’d throw her in a psycho all the police lock up and blame her and just throw away the key and you’d be freaking lucky to get out so we’ve become a hell of a long way but I would still like to see the public the homeless assistant also People addicts there’s a reason people are addicts treated with respect it’s Victim blaming to 2 blame them there’s a reason they turn to those drugsand due to our system that Victim blames and doesn’t provide enough houses for starters