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// Online Event // Our rights as mental health carers - with Mental Health Carers NSW // Tues, Oct 27th 7-8.30pm AEDT

// Online Event // Our rights as mental health carers - with Mental Health Carers NSW // Tues, Oct 27th 7-8.30pm AEDT

Hey there to all the wonderful Carer's 👋🧘🏻‍♂️

Come and join us as we have a text-based chat with our friends at Mental Health Carers NSW about our basic rights as Carer's. We will break down some of the jargon, and share strategies with one another on some of the resources available to us as Carer's working alongside our Carer's rights. You can read more about Carer Rights here ❤️

Join us right here in this thread for a 1.5 hour text-based discussion.

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In response to: // Online Event // Our rights as mental health carers - with Mental Health Carers NSW // Tues, Oct 27th 7-8.30pm AEDT

Re: // Online Event // Our rights as mental health carers - with Mental Health Carers NSW // Tues, Oct 27th 7-8.30pm AEDT

I have felt limited when my family member was unwell and we were given very little useful information about what mental illness was, about the symptoms were being experienced, what drove decline or recovery. Like many people we had to discover many of these things for ourselves with our loved one

In response to: // Online Event // Our rights as mental health carers - with Mental Health Carers NSW // Tues, Oct 27th 7-8.30pm AEDT

Re: // Online Event // Our rights as mental health carers - with Mental Health Carers NSW // Tues, Oct 27th 7-8.30pm AEDT

Hey there @Shaz51 ! Hello 🙂 How is sunny Queensland today?

We are just discussing As a carer, has there ever been a time where the mental health sector (hospital, doctor etc) has left you feeling restricted in your role?

In response to: Re: // Online Event // Our rights as mental health carers - with Mental Health Carers NSW // Tues, Oct 27th 7-8.30pm AEDT

Re: // Online Event // Our rights as mental health carers - with Mental Health Carers NSW // Tues, Oct 27th 7-8.30pm AEDT

This was due to the intensely personal nature of mental health and illness and the strongly interpersonal nature of wellbeing and recovery. We managed this experience because of our focus on our loved one and just instinctively trying to find what helped them and to avoid the things that didn’t.

In response to: Re: // Online Event // Our rights as mental health carers - with Mental Health Carers NSW // Tues, Oct 27th 7-8.30pm AEDT

Re: // Online Event // Our rights as mental health carers - with Mental Health Carers NSW // Tues, Oct 27th 7-8.30pm AEDT

Becoming better educated about the nature of mental health and the psycho-social nature of mental health and recovery helped us to understand what was likely to help and what was not and reinforced our focus on working with our loved one ‘where they were’ to help them take their place again.

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Re: // Online Event // Our rights as mental health carers - with Mental Health Carers NSW // Tues, Oct 27th 7-8.30pm AEDT

Very powerful @JH_MHCN to follow that instinct and use intuition to guide you in supporting your loved one.

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Re: // Online Event // Our rights as mental health carers - with Mental Health Carers NSW // Tues, Oct 27th 7-8.30pm AEDT

As a carer, has there ever been a time where the mental health sector (hospital, doctor etc) has left you feeling restricted in your role? --- ohh yes @Former-Member , @JH_MHCN

even had the feeling that i was to blamed

@Former-Member, @outlander , @Anastasia , @Scoo , @FindingStrength , @Determined

In response to: Re: // Online Event // Our rights as mental health carers - with Mental Health Carers NSW // Tues, Oct 27th 7-8.30pm AEDT

Re: // Online Event // Our rights as mental health carers - with Mental Health Carers NSW // Tues, Oct 27th 7-8.30pm AEDT

😞 @Shaz51 I am really sorry to hear of that experience. From Mr Shaz? Or from the staff themselves?

In response to: Re: // Online Event // Our rights as mental health carers - with Mental Health Carers NSW // Tues, Oct 27th 7-8.30pm AEDT

Re: // Online Event // Our rights as mental health carers - with Mental Health Carers NSW // Tues, Oct 27th 7-8.30pm AEDT

Maybe carers and peer workers of all kinds have this in common?

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Re: // Online Event // Our rights as mental health carers - with Mental Health Carers NSW // Tues, Oct 27th 7-8.30pm AEDT

very true @JH_MHCN and when you are the first timers is very hard , over time you learn as I have

but then my husband does not want any help @Former-Member

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Re: // Online Event // Our rights as mental health carers - with Mental Health Carers NSW // Tues, Oct 27th 7-8.30pm AEDT

from the staff themselves? @Former-Member , by the time I got to the hospital they had already set judgement @JH_MHCN

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