The Brave Discussion

Guest Post by author and former barrister Pamela Burton.  Improvement of Australia’s woefully inadequate mental health services requires Brave Discussion about complex issues of health justice and ethical issues about when and on what grounds someone suffering from a serious mental illness should be confined for treatment against their will. These issues are raised by [...]

Today we begin the first in an occasional series of papers known as The Brave Discussion backgrounders. They are designed to encourage debate and to start us talking with one another about what we can do to change the story and have The Brave Discussion and in this instance to work towards de-stigmatizing mental illness. [...]

Professor Cyndi Shannon Weickert once dreamed of being a famous chef until her twin brother Scott Shannon was diagnosed with schizophrenia in his teens. After witnessing the devastating symptoms of delusions and hallucinations first-hand in the person she loved the most, Cyndi Shannon Weikert embarked on a life mission to find a cure. She watched [...]

The story is the statistic: 1 in 3 of us have mental health challenges to overcome at some stage of our lives. I had been thinking over the weekend how best to introduce this post as I really wanted to express how important it is to reach out to others in our daily lives but [...]