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Survey on sex, intimacy and mental illness

Unknown userMember01 Aug 2017, 10:17 pm AEST

Survey on sex, intimacy and mental illness

Hello Forumites

Last year a brave forum member started this conversation. It was quite an eye opener and had a ripple effect. It lead to this blog and this Topic Tuesday which in turn lead to an invite to a mental health conference. It's a chance to be part of a panel of mental health professionals making the point that our sector doesn't give this issue the time or attention it needs. It's to our clients detriment and it's something we need to change.

My role on the panel is to give voice to the experiences of those with a mental illness, their carers and partners. So I've created a survey to dig a little deeper into the topic. If you have a few minutes, I'd really appreciate you filling it in. It will only take 10 minutes and it's completely anonymous. The link will take you to another website (survey monkey) where no identifying information is recorded.

Here is the survey.

At SANE we'd also like to create some fact sheets and resources around this topic. And so your responses can also guide and give depth to this work.

Thank you. I appreciate you reading this far and for anyone able to do the survey 🙂

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Zoe7Senior Contributor06 Aug 2017, 3:09 pm AEST

Re: Survey on sex, intimacy and mental illness

@NatalieS This was really unfortunate timing for me to be tagged into this conversation. I have not read what you wrote - as I am not able to deal with this topic atm but please do not let that discourage you from continuing to post in other threads whereI am able to read and respond.

Zoe

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Unknown userMember07 Aug 2017, 7:19 pm AEST

Re: Survey on sex, intimacy and mental illness

Thanks @NatalieS, I appreciate your post and you taking the time to fill in the survey. We've had almost 1200 responses now which amazes me. Lots from people like you who have other fires to fight before they turn their attention to this one. But others too from people who wish there was more help available.

It's an area I certainly didn't venture into enough when I was in private practice, mostly because I was never sure that I had anything particularly useful to offer. So at the very least I hope we at SANE can create some resources to help both people affected and their treatment team.

Hope you stick around the forums now you're back 🙂