The future of mental health care is now

Dina Tyler is making it happen in the system right now. This is what a peer specialist looks like. We are the ones who can make the system transform. We know, better than anyone, how to help one another and, more importantly, how to help ourselves.

Dina Tyler is working in the system. Anyone who thinks change cannot happen from within hasn’t met people like Dina. I’m for change happening wherever the movers and the shakers dare to go. Inside and outside…there are no rules for us! The only rule is to deeply and profoundly become ourselves.

She also makes it clear that in her life that resistance and non-compliance is what allowed for her recovery.

The video is 4 minutes that is very much worth your time.

Dina Tyler accepts Peer Specialist of the Year award from National Council for Behavioral Health at NatCon15 in Orlando, FL

Congratulations to Dina!

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For more about Dina you can listen to the interview on Madness Radio: Communicating With Psychosis

Below is a list of posts from Beyond Meds that look at the system and how we might change it

The below are pieces written specifically about the divide between the professionals in the system and those who are subject to their care and/or abuse.

Bridging Patient-Professional Divide
Mental health-related stigma in health care and mental health-care settings: response to journal article
Professional denial is a form of retraumatization (new)
Being the empowered patient
The divide between client/patient/consumer and professionals (with list of links)
healing journey — part 1 and 2 (brief thoughts from this morning to a friend)
A doctor who talks sense about the all too frequent use of coercion in medicine
Informed Choice: Pro-information and pro-choice when it comes to drugs and medications
Words for all in the “helping” professions (and for any human who wants to benefit others)
Medical compliance? Adherence? No. My MDs are my PARTNERS
Letters to my shrink

Other significant pieces:

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