Changing Minds

Hi Kenny,

Thanks for explaining that. I guess my preconceptions about ECT were shaped by One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, sounds like yours may have been similar.

Take care.

Kind regards,

Kristin

Kristin, I thought that rather than having an ugly morbit logo I went with my ARL team, Up the Broncos.

I do my best under the situation and I really hope that some of my posts make someone smile. This is an absolutely super dicussion forum, and I love it. One sad thing is we will never get to see the faces or talk to those with whom we converse.

Thanks so much Kenny66, really appreciate you sharing your views on your experiences at Liverpool. Have spoken to a number more people in the past two days who strongly agreed with you that the program was not stigmatising and provided great and real insights. Looking forward to watching the final episode on iview. Thank you!

If some people found changing Minds 'stigmatising' then I wonder if they want to deny the rrality and seriousness of mental illness for those worst affected? Mental health isnt t just about mindfulness and posters with butterflies on unfortunatley! The program was not just accurate from my experinece of psych units it was really moving too. Good on the ABC for this show.

your so right morningstar. It is more than the touchy feely phrases and some nice sounding practices in vogue at the time.

The first time some of my friends visited me in the clinic they were absolutely shocked. They had no idea of the complexity of mental illness and the level of expertise and resources required to treat it.

Hopefully the viewers watching the ABC got the same impression. I thought the epilogue was great, sensitive and ever so slightly euphoric.

I'm finally watching episode 3 right now. Part of my job includes working inside a mental health ward and I've enjoyed watching another view. I've also found myself watching and thinking gee, I wonder if that's how I behave lol.

@Former-Member personally I think it makes no difference to the way people will think. I've spoken to some people who found themselves wanting to ask more questions and others who decided they were really actors playing a role. I think it's been a great series.

I cried at the closing credits seeing how their progress post filming. It brought up thoughts for me about how I behave and react.

It seems to me that it is pretty disgraceful that it took an event like mental health week to bring the issue of mental health into the national spotlight. I wonder what will flow from it?

Mostly the issue gets very little attention and very little publicity. Swept under the carpet mostly by the pollies.

I read today that about 14% of Australians are living below the poverty line., a great many of them the mentally ill. DSP and Newstart allowances ensure people live in poverty.

It was a shame that the changing minds program did not get into the area of social disadvantage and the entrenched barriers to mentally ill people getting jobs.

I saw one report by a federal politician about mental health and that was only focused on politicians being stressed out.

I didnt see much involvent by state or federal governmnents at all. Probably a whole lot of reviews and studies will be done on the issues raised during mental health week and as usual nothing will come out of them.