Community-based mental health care: the Power of Purpose

“What happens to a person when they are treated as less than human? When they are treated as a tranquilized problem that needs to stay docile and become more prisoner than participant?” This powerful poem, written and narrated by Scottish author, Erin May Kelly, sheds light on the human rights violations that are still far too common in mental health services around the world. The poem also explains what mental health care in the community can and should look like, and the tremendous difference that care provided with respect for people’s human rights, and that is focused on recovery, can make to people’s lives.

The poem was commissioned for the launch of new WHO guidance on community mental health services that are based on a rights-based approach.

More information on the new WHO guidance: www.who.int/news/item/10-06-2021-new-who-guidance-seeks-to-put-an-end-to-human-rights-violations-in-mental-health-care

22 Comments

  1. Domagam się, aby działania WHO zostały rozpatrzone przez międzynarodowy trybunał!!! Domagam się nałożenia moratorium na rozpatrywanie wszystkich decyzji WHO w sprawie porozumień dotyczących pandemii. Odrzucam ofertę przyjęcia i ratyfikacji wszelkich porozumień WHO, które naruszają prawa ludzi!


  2. BEACON 23: 230
    WHO: 60

    0: Good (if not good, then not zero)

    0001: Uniqueness

    001: Identity

    002: Individuality

    003: Variability

    01: Awareness

    02: Diversion

    03: Sensibility

    04: Love

    05: Capacity

    06: Reasoning

    07: Ingenuity

    08: Maturity

    09: Truth Seeking

    1: Ethical

    2: Problem-Solution

    3: Matter / Asking

    4: Cognition

    5: Expression

    6: Why/Who/When/How/Where/What

    7: Information/Code

    8: Structure Stability

    9: Sanity

    10: Network (Good Network, because zero)

    11: Justice

    12: Time/Spread/Dissipation/Easter

    13: Death

    14: Perception / Memory

    15: Agent

    16: Reasoning

    17: Argument

    18: Establishment

    19: Mission / Control

    20: Judgement

    21: To Solve Problems with Ethics

    22: Resistance/Endure Introspection

    23: Consideration

    24: Humor / Mental State

    25: Behavior

    26: Motivtion

    27: Cohesion

    28: Dependability

    29: Prognostic

    30: Liberty

    31: Consent

    32: Discernment

    33: Response

    34: Ideas

    35: To Denounce

    36: Technique

    37: Design

    38: Determination

    39: Optimism

    40: Good Will

    41: Cognitive Process

    42: Critical Thinking

    43: Education

    44: Free Love

    45: To Plan / Task Force

    46: Evaluation

    47: Interpretation

    48: Feeling

    49: Admiration

    50: Good Expression

    51: Manifestation

    52: Support

    53: Respect

    54: Care

    55: Peace / War

    56: Profiling

    57: Tell / Counter-Terrorism

    58: Invoking / Building

    59: Proficiency

    60: Certainty

    61: Identification

    62: Qualification / Characterization

    63: Inquiring

    64: Conjecturing

    65: Function

    66: Questioning

    67: Arguing

    68: Indicator

    69: Intelligibility Scrutinity

    70: Validation

    71: Illustration Knowledge

    72: Construct

    73: Explanation

    74: Data

    75: Materialization

    76: Delineation / Instruction

    77: Flow / Cadency

    78: Share

    79: Evolution

    80: System Power

    81: Strong

    82: Resilience

    83: Decision

    84: Autonomy

    85: Severity

    86: Authority

    87: Stream

    88: Personal Sovereignty

    89: Self-Control

    90: Wisdom

    91: Assertiveness

    92: Scrutiny

    93: Scrupulousness

    94: Integrality

    95: Composure

    96: Blockchain

    97: Anarchy

    98: Veganism

    99: Revolution

    100: Liberation

    101: Peer-2-Peer

    102: Decentralized Network

    103: Financial Revolution

    104: Production Revolution

    105: Labour Reorganization

    106: Needs Evaluation

    107: Instruction

    108: System Accessibility

    109: Resources Availability

    110: Honor

    111: Grace

    112: Distributed Ledger

    113: Privacy

    114: Abolitionism

    116: Pacifism

    119: Mission

    120: Harvest

    122: To Sort Out

    130: Energy Management

    140: Serenity

    141: Mindfulness

    150: Good Character

    151: Virtue

    155: Honesty

    160: Technology

    181: Structure

    200: Sanctuary

    210: Ethical Solution

    211: Termination

    220: Contemplation/Meditation

    221: Alignment

    222: Cooperation
    230: 58

    250: To Thrive

    255: To Emerge

    230: Resilience

    300: Crusade / Jihad

    310: Consensus

    311: Unity

    320: Deliberation

    330: Win-Win

    333: Abundance

    340: Abolitionism

    360: Technology

    400: Civilization

    410: Culture

    440: Fellowship

    444: Direct Digital Democracy

    500: Assumption

    510: Admiration

    511: Honorable

    512: Altruism

    520: Proficiency

    530: Acceptance

    540: Appreciation

    550: Excellence

    555: Gathering Diplomacy

    600: Organizator

    660: Operation

    661: Operator

    665: Role

    666: Method

    700: Constitution

    710: Intelligence

    750: Consolidation

    751: Enlightment

    766: Plan

    770: Gear

    771: File

    773: Algorithm

    775: Output

    777: Pattern / Rhetoric

    778: Development

    780: Systematization

    788: Design

    800: Providence

    801: Production

    802: Necessities

    803: Resorces

    804: Energy

    808: Renewable Cycle

    810: Permaculture

    820: Management

    830: Logistics

    831: Scheme

    832: Reach

    833: Demand

    834: Stock

    835: Distribution

    840: Consumption

    850: Labor

    860: Human Resources

    863: Assignments

    870: Structure

    880: Peace

    888: Globalization

    890: Needs

    899: Conception

    900: Transparency

    910: Institutions

    930: Energy Distribution

    931: Only One Global Currency

    960: Blockchain

    962: Traceability

    970: Optimination

    995: Accountancy

    998: Regulation

    999: Fiscalization

    1000: Militancy

    1001: Nova Era

    1042: Drug Liberation

    1100: Liberation Army

    1500: Benevolence

    1807: Black & Yellow

    3000: Freedom

    3100: Triumph

    3330: We All Can Live In Abundance

    5000: Glory

    5500: Greatness

    8000: Sustainability

    10000: Universe

    . This is a numeric Matrix for communications purposes.

    . This can be used to convey meaning.

    Ex.: 6022: Good Reason to Resist.

    . Mathematical operators can be used to calculate meaning.

    Ex.: To liberate with a good force: 340. 300 + 40 = 340.

    . Logical operators to create statements.

    Ex.: ¬11: 13. If not Justice then Death.

    . Colors can also be used as information.

    – You can help build it.

  3. I just watched this for my support worker training and wow!!! So powerful and potent. Well done on creating an incredibly movement art piece on human rights ❤️

  4. When you, as a patient, are put as a price tag. You come and you go, cause only symptoms got be tucked in while you are still bleeding underneath. 6 years of screaming goes by, i said all the symptoms i have, even my childhood full of trauma, even the CFS i developed after my experience of a new perpetrator again, nobody hears or believes you, institutional trauma and parental betrayal trauma – again. I am silenced by GP, town hall, mental health service only provides social anxiety "you are the problem" i already told them 'it is not enough, i have C-PTSD with every writed letter i gave them. Now, all alone i sit in the shadow, nowhere to go, cause i cannot ride a car, i cannot ride a bike cause of my head full of chaotic thoughts and concentration what is lost and lethargy.

    After so much years, i do not know where to go anymore, do not know what to tell, i shut-down again. created high blood pressure cause i am full of stress, overstimulation and still CFS and other complaints (echo in my head: i already told them 'childhood trauma can cause CFS, especially when you fell mostly in the 'freeze response''), they pile up, so that you become more internally locked up because details become too much. I am alone, they isolated me, cast out of society. – Netherlands

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