It’s my own personal experience that MH services are definitely none of the above. And I’d be far more comfortable in the acceptance that my own difficult circumstances and tolerance – straining predisposition didn’t help matters with your project partner in Wales. But the facts, backed by data, around my experience, demonstrates an organisational unwillingness or an inability to engage on a personal level and to explore paths towards resolution of issues, amelioration, and recovery. The resources were simply not there. At the same time, their website and public face was declaring their expertise.
How to deal with that kind of disconnect? Very probably with upping the anti with damaging power relationship, invalidation, and patronisation.
The MH ‘product’ and service will never be transformed with a one-cap-fits-all mentality. There’s nothing more personal than mental distress and social, cultural, and economic estrangement. And I really can’t see how you could possibly begin to understand that until you’ve experienced every facet of that reduced existence.
If this were a commercial product /service issue and not a human issue, there’d be bloody hell to play!
•Recovery-focused
•Personalised
•Collaborative
It’s my own personal experience that MH services are definitely none of the above. And I’d be far more comfortable in the acceptance that my own difficult circumstances and tolerance – straining predisposition didn’t help matters with your project partner in Wales. But the facts, backed by data, around my experience, demonstrates an organisational unwillingness or an inability to engage on a personal level and to explore paths towards resolution of issues, amelioration, and recovery. The resources were simply not there. At the same time, their website and public face was declaring their expertise.
How to deal with that kind of disconnect? Very probably with upping the anti with damaging power relationship, invalidation, and patronisation.
The MH ‘product’ and service will never be transformed with a one-cap-fits-all mentality. There’s nothing more personal than mental distress and social, cultural, and economic estrangement. And I really can’t see how you could possibly begin to understand that until you’ve experienced every facet of that reduced existence.
If this were a commercial product /service issue and not a human issue, there’d be bloody hell to play!