WHAT WE NEED SUBMISSION By: The Stronger Project Kenya (A Youth Led Community Based Organisation for Persons With Psychosocial Disabilities) Living independently and being included in the community is a fundamental human right concept that is applied to the context of disability. Persons with psychosocial disabilities are not exempt from this. For years, persons with […]
This article was published in the Medico Friends Circle Bulletin and is being reproduced in good faith from MFC Bulletin (363-364/ Jan-Feb 2015). It is being reposted here, because years of critical psychiatry writings has not changed the mental health system nor brought it any closer to the universal development values, which binds all governments
It is a struggle and a challenge in Pakistan to even admit to having a mental health condition, it is even more difficult for people to accept it as a disability. Psychosocial disability arises when someone with a mental health condition interacts with a social environment and face barriers while interacting in the society on
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We, in TCI, a global OPD of persons with psychosocial disabilities, warmly welcomes the adoption of the Guidelines on De-Institutionalization [DI] including during emergencies by the CRPD committee at the 27th Session. We express gratitude to the Working Group (WG) on DI, the CRPD Committee and their Secretariat team for the tireless work and guidance
This post was originally published on Mad in America and can be accessed here. The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has announced a series of regional consultations on deinstitutionalization, starting with one for Central Asia and Eastern Europe on February 25 and a second for Central and South America on March 2.
1 Can you tell us a little about yourself and the work that you do? Ans: I grew up as a sick and recluse child, finding my anchor in writing and later in reading and nature. I was thirteen years old when I had my first suicidal ideation. Since then, I have been living with
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The #WhatWeNeed campaign is a yearly campaign organized by TCI Asia to present the voices and demands of persons with psycho-social disabilities in the region. The Spotlight interviews are a series of interviews that are going to be conducted as a part of the #WhatWeNeed campaign. The aim of the spotlight interviews is to highlight
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Participation of people with disabilities is central to the monitoring and implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Inclusion Advisory Group (IAG) shares their reflections and approach to supporting participation of marginalized groups of people with disabilities in technical advisory partnerships with governments and international cooperation stakeholders. Aleisha Carroll Aleisha
The #WhatWeNeed campaign is a yearly campaign organized by TCI Asia to present voices and demands of persons with psycho-social disabilities in the region. The Spotlight interviews are a series of interviews that are going to be conducted as a part of the #WhatWeNeed campaign. The aim of the spotlight interviews is to highlight the
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On 12 October 2020, World Mental Health Day, the WHO encapsulated decades of crises in mental health services that the pandemic has now brought to the forefront. It called for greater investment in, and prioritization of these services, and quality access of mental health for all. For Bapu Trust for Research on Mind
“It is a worthy quest to not simply develop a sense of identity, but become the magnanimous version of the self.” ― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls “I am what I am. So, take me as I am”-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German philosopher. Existential philosophers have aided us in understanding the precariousness of existence
During my final year M. Phil Clinical Psychology course in 2013, a professor of Psychiatric Social Work who saw the title of my thesis with the phrase, ‘psychotic patients’ suggested changing it to ‘persons suffering from psychosis’ in line with UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). That was my first ever encounter
