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Reimagining Mental Health: Beyond Illness to Meaningful Existence

Explore the complexity of depression, suicide, and mental health through different models - medical, psychological, psychosocial, and psychospiritual - encouraging conversations beyond traditional labels to find meaning and purpose in existence. Embrace a holistic, interdisciplinary approach for healing individuals and society in the face of mental health challenges.

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Reimagining Mental Health: Beyond Illness to Meaningful Existence

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  1. Suicide - Mental Illness or Spiritual Crisis? David Webb - suicide survivor Exclusion and Embrace Conversations about spirituality and disability 3rd Australian conference, October 2001

  2. Is Depression a Genuine Illness? • defined solely in terms of symptoms • the many forms of “depression” • the many causes of “depression” • mental illness and madness - the disabling them-and-us exclusion of psychiatric labels • depression as a cause of suicide? • the ‘beyondblue’ initiative

  3. The Medical Model. • an illness of the brain, the organ of the mind • the chemical imbalance of the brain theory • anti-depressant medications • is subduing symptoms “recovery”?

  4. The Psychological Model. • a dysfunction of the mind • from psychoanalysis to cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) • “talking cures” • notions of self - the mind as the essence of our being • are better coping strategies “recovery”?

  5. The Psychosocial Model. • disability due to social exclusion • nurture and develop strengths and talents rather than pathologising • change environmental sources of disability • more wholistic, interdisciplinary • must also heal society/communities • Current trend - the biopsychosocial approach

  6. The Psychospiritual Model. • that which is other than mundane and gives meaning and purpose to being • the suicidal question: • “What does it mean to me that I exist?” • a question the mind cannot answer: • that which is other than mundane • liberation through spiritual awareness: • meaning and purpose to being

  7. A Way Forward … • a reconciliation of science and spirit • embrace the differences • - humbly accept our ignorance • - an ecological, interdisciplinary approach • - learning to speak with each other • resist exclusion • - reject them-and-us labels • - challenge illegitimate authority • - citizens not consumers

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