The SA Mental Health Commission is featuring a series of guest bloggers on our website to mark 2019 Mental Health Week (October 7–11). Monday's Blog by Lucy Brogden: Chair, National Mental ...
Derrick McManus: Depression & PTSD hit me in unexpected ways and at an unexpected time
Special Guest Blogger: Derrick McManus Former police officer, author and motivational speaker Please note this blog contains a description of a violent incident and may be disturbing for some ...
Chris Burns: Peer Support Workers – the disruptor we need in mental health
Special Guest Blogger: Chris Burns CSC SA Mental Health Commissioner Commissioner Burns’ blog is based on his recent 57th Barton Pope Lecture, delivered during 2018 Mental Health Week. The ...
Professor Nicholas Procter: Let’s ask what’s happening to you… not what’s wrong with you
Special Guest Blogger: Professor Nicholas Procter Chair: Mental Health Nursing and leader of the Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Research Group, Sansom Institute for Health Research Let’s ...
Karen van Gorp: Miraculously cured, but shattered
Special Guest Blogger: Karen van Gorp Senior Policy Adviser – Business SA Miraculously cured, but shattered In mid 2013 I was diagnosed with advanced melanoma. I had already taken time off ...