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Supporting cast: Family, friends and your treating team
14 December 2018
We all need someone to lean on, so make the most of your supporting cast. Family, friends, treating team, carers, support groups, consumer and carer organisations can all offer ongoing and invaluable help, focus and direction to aid your recovery.
14 December 2018
Working with mental health professionals, treatment and services works best if you are engaged in your care.
Getting paid for having a lived experience
14 December 2018
Living with or having lived through mental illness gives you unique insight that can help others going through it. This lived experience is highly desirable in consumer and carer roles, including peer support.
Lancet study debunks one of the greatest mental health myths
28 June 2017
Research published in the June Lancet Psychiatry 2017 journal showed that physical assaults in a UK psychiatric hospital reduced by 39% when a smoke-free policy was introduced and supported with proper clinical treatment of nicotine withdrawal.
New $33 million Intensive Care Unit opens for critically ill Victorians
18 May 2016
Victoria’s first comprehensive Intensive Care Unit (ICU) serving three major Melbourne hospitals has opened at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
I’m not a diabetic, I just have diabetes
12 June 2015
Here's a story from Raj, a person with diabetes.
