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It's good to see this getting looked at more and more over the years. We'd like to emphasise the importance of looking beyond work based stressors to any mental health problem due to facing any of life's challenges. it is fully humanising the workforce that is important, the wonderful curiosity needs to be wide, on how we understand people in life, and accept that people have always had mental health problems, do now, and will do in the future, us lot too. It is not about the possibility of erasure or fixing, unless you were able to fix a whole set of health inequalities and how our society runs increasingly contrary to nature, and further, it abuses, and makes people ill. So to look at mental health difficulties in mental health professionals, is to look at the state of society in the same way you would with anyone else, not only specific job spec pressures. Sometimes within the scene, it is hard to see outside of it, polarity is still rife, and the ability to grasp or want to look at the widest iews, is narrowed or shit down within workforces - this is what we see in the NHS often.

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Wonderful to be in touch with Miriam Larsen-Barr over the years and to see this emerge: 'We Are the Many, Not the Few': Survey of Attitudes Towards Lived Experience of Mental Distress Among Clinical Psychologists in New Zealand" So good that international support for destigmatising mental health difficulties in the mental health professions continues. We're not a minority, we're just simply human beings too like everyone else who can sometimes have hard times. Reading a bunch of books and going on courses, reflecting, may help your intellectual knowledge about mental health, but it doesn't, for example, protect you from the felt experience of PTSD following a terrible car accident. This is not a minority issue, nor should it be made to feel like one. Join our last webinar on the subject of Occupational Health and Employment law around mental health as a mental health professional on 16th June...go to our website to book. https://lnkd.in/ej7ZPjbi

We're totally unsurprised that this has happened. It was born in the crucible of the covid pandemic, which shone a light on the fact the staff need (and are worthy of) support. We knew once the spectre of Covid had diminished, that the funding would too...as if it was only about the pandemic...as if staff aren't people who are humans with needs sometimes in the workforce since whenever...as if those who are in need of help are only in the 'other chair' ever...as if the structures we work in are not complicit in the generation of some of those same additiinal support needs in any individual. So we watch this space with the same interest that we watched it the minute it was raised as an idea at conception. What a shame that, still, no one really feels that staff are people who have needs too, and still a blindness around the symbiotic nature of caring, where caring for staff means caring for patients/clients. Yet again, shortsighted views leads to the same manifesting in policy and commissioning. So no, no surprises here, we keep doing what we do, and what we can, with no funding, because everyone thinks we're the 'worried well'. No one believes our pain, and no one thinks we suffer with difficulties both inside or outside of work that are worthy of attending to. Why? because we've got titles attached to us which make us immune from all things, and because people read books they should be, what nonsense. Find us a book that made anyone immune to experiencing live trauma :D Anyway, if your reading this thinking we're playing our woeful song on the tiniest little violin you ever heard, then just join the ranks of many who think the same, we won't be surprised. But if you're reading this thinking that that violin actually needs to be heard with full orchestral sound, then we invite you to be an ally. Also, while we're at it, we're not sure all needs can be met through therapy anyway, did anyone ever really understand the power of peer communities? We do, but no, we didn't think so, because epistemic injustice is rife...'of course people with lived experience can't help each other as well as 'experts''. Weve been at this around 8 years or so and seen it all, you can't pull the wool over anything here when it comes to how systems work. Have a good evening.

The results of our 2023 community survey are out - who are we? Have a look and find out more from our respondents. If you're a mental health professional with lived/ing experience of mental health difficulties, and you've come across us somehow (from mentoring to valuing our posts), click on the QR code within to enter our 2024 survey. https://lnkd.in/dgwdPgc6