This piece has been written from a lived experience perspective and explores different models of health, specifically the biomedical model and the biopsychosocial model. These are distinct from the models of disability – the charity, medical, social, and human rights models.
When I think about my many years of mental health treatment – the various therapists, medications, and approaches – the one thing I have always hoped for is peace. I had never truly felt at peace. I’m the eldest in a big family and my mother, my siblings, and I are victim-survivors of domestic violence….
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There are many parts that make us all into a whole. These parts can’t be separated. They are all intertwined. There are many parts to me. I grew up in a family violence context. A first generation Australian, born to Eastern European refugee parents, living in Melbourne. A lot was kept hidden, swept under the…
Barb Hill is a survivor and mental health advocate. Barb’s journey has included traumatic childhood experiences, domestic violence and the devastating loss of her daughter to SIDS. Due to grief, Barb battled with addiction and a profound sense of failure. But it was when Barb was admitted to a mental health hospital that things began…
Who am I? A simple question, yet one that most of us cannot answer with certainty, especially those of us who fight mental health battles. At various points throughout my 21 years, I have based my identity on an array of specific metrics and labels. My grades, my academic rank, my diagnoses, the ways I…
Content Warning: The following content may be distressing for some readers and includes references to sexual abuse, including in childhood, and physical violence. The story I will share is my own, a story of a 30 something year old woman, living with Complex PTSD, which I’ll shorten to C-PTSD, and having lived with it since…
Resources and information for those who have experienced a suicide loss.
Suicide Call Back Service provides phone and online counselling for anyone who has lost someone to suicide.