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 www.ted.com/tedx

[@PHanomaly]

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

[@philippal8666]

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 RUclips is a help.

[@sueanderson6650]

I found myself really moved by Louise's take out of the need to 'show up for ourselves.'

[@louisebyrne9170]

Thanks so much Sue. It's not easy but so important I believe!

[@tomvernham4594]

Brilliant talk. Thank you for having the courage to persevere.

[@craigworland8712]

So brave and courageous, I have watched this multiple times

[@melissathayer5859]

That was awesome thank you 😊 🙏

[@StuartGClark]

Amazing, moving and inspiring…thankyou

[@larrywhite6262]

Awesome! So very much the truth. I can relate to every second.

[@PHanomaly]

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

[@livedexperienceleadership]

Thank you very much and fingers crossed things will turn around for you soon (or already have I don't look on here very often!). There is a lot of risk of co-option in this space but also some great new initiatives - particularly staring in Victoria, that give me hope and will provide lots more jobs for our mob.