Mental Health Through the Voices of Those Who Experience It. Talking about mental health is important, but listening to those who experience mental health challenges first-hand is even more valuable.<\/p>\n
This year, World Mental Health Day<\/strong> is celebrated under the theme \u201cLived Experiences Heard: Real Voices, Real Change\u201d<\/em>, highlighting the importance of giving people a greater voice in conversations and decisions that affect their own mental health.<\/p>\n For too long, mental health has been discussed primarily in terms of diagnoses, treatments and statistics, often overlooking personal experiences. Yet behind every diagnosis is a different reality, with individual challenges, needs and expectations.<\/p>\n Listening to these stories helps us better understand how mental health conditions affect everyday life and what we can do to provide more meaningful support.<\/p>\n People with lived experience of mental health challenges have valuable insights to offer into how we understand and respond to these issues.<\/p>\n Their involvement is essential to developing more accessible and person-centred services, challenging prejudice and ensuring that decisions about their well-being reflect their needs and perspectives.<\/p>\n It is also an opportunity to change the way we see others. Mental health should never determine how we value a person, their abilities or their future opportunities.<\/p>\n At We Are Like You (WALY)<\/strong>, we work to bring greater visibility to these experiences and encourage more open conversations about mental health, free from labels and stereotypes.<\/p>\n This 10 October, we want to highlight that raising awareness begins with listening, showing respect and recognising everyone’s right to have a say in decisions that affect their lives.<\/p>\n Because making space for different voices is also a way to start making a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This 10 October, World Mental Health Day focuses on the experiences of people living with mental health conditions and the importance of listening to their voices to build a more inclusive society Mental Health Through the Voices of Those Who Experience It. Talking about mental…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":227,"featured_media":32189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-we-are-like-you-en-en"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32194,"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32191\/revisions\/32194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Listening Also Means Including<\/h2>\n