Mental Health

Link between Diet and Mental Health – Role of a Nutritious Diet on Mental Well-Being

Mental Health / November 26, 2018

The link between diet and health is a well established one. Previous research has shown that there is a well established connection between a diet high on pro-inflammatory foods and depression. The benefits of having a rich, well-balanced diet on our well being and as an additional and alternative form of recovery is widely practiced […]

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From the Mental Health Movement to the Disability Movement – In Conversation with Yeni Rosa Damayanti

Mental Health / November 17, 2018

Left: Yeni Rosa Damayanti Recently, TCI Asia Pacific spoke with Yeni Rosa Damayanti, Chairperson of the Indonesian Mental Health Association, about her experience with international, regional and national advocacy in human rights for persons with disabilities, the ideologies she aligns herself with and where she sees and hopes to see persons with psychosocial disabilities in

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Reframing the Momentum: From ‘Mental Health’ to ‘Inclusion’

Mental Health / November 9, 2018

Blog contributed by TCI Asia Pacific #WhatWENeed – Reframing the momentum: From ‘mental health’ to ‘inclusion’ [1] TCI Asia Pacific advocates that the action field for persons with (psychosocial) disabilities is not the ‘mental health’ sector, but the Development sector. When we ask for ‘inclusion’, we have a more universal frame for our advocacy. Introducing

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Mental Health Europe Responds to the Lancet Commission Report

CRPD, Lancet, Mental Health / November 1, 2018

Mental Health Europe recently published a response to the Lancet Commission Report released on World Mental Health Day 2018. They write, “…the report’s key recommendations still come from a biomedical starting point, and therefore fail to recognise fully both the psychosocial model of mental health and community services. Change would involve tackling the power of

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A Response to the Lancet Commission on global mental health and sustainable development

Mental Health / October 19, 2018

Blog post contributed by Akriti Mehta More than ten years after the publication of a series of articles published in the Lancet[1]that heralded in the age of global mental health, a report of The Lancet Commission on global mental health and sustainable development[2]was released at the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit[3]in London. It seeks to

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The Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit and the Lancet Commission: Some Uncomfortable Reflections By China Mills

Mental Health / October 16, 2018

China Mills (University of Sheffield) writes in Mad in Asia today her thoughts on the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit and the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development. China Mills is a Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Sheffield, UK. Her research develops the framework of psychopolitics to examine the way mental health gets

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Getting better without drugs? Listen more here about the pharmaceutical industry

Mental Health / October 12, 2018

“___it took about 20 years before science owned what I was talking about. If you understand epigenetics you don’t need the pharmaceutical industry; That’s not in the interests of one of the biggest industries in this planet; to say “you can heal yourself without drugs”

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Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities response to the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health

Mental Health / October 11, 2018

Catalina Devandas Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with DisabilitiesIn her response to the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health that was released yesterday, Ms Devandas puts forward very clear message, that the report “fails to understand the potential of the CRPD to reframe, transform and enhance the global response to mental health in light

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Open Letter to the Organizers and Partners of the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit 2018

Mental Health / October 10, 2018

Dated: 09-10-2018 Open Letter to the Organizers and Partners to the process of the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit 2018, London, 9th and 10th October, 2018. Expressing dissent over the process adopted and the expected outcome of the forthcoming Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit TCI Asia Pacific is a regional DPO of persons with psychosocial

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TCI ASIA Pacific: Engaging the Global Mental Health Movement in Dialogue

Mental Health / October 10, 2018

Blog contributed by: Bhargavi Davar, PhD Convenor TCI Asia PacificPublished on Mad in America Read how Bhargavi elaborates on the assertion of full human rights for persons with psychosocial disabilities by bringing a “CRPD-inspired discourse to counter the globalizing of psychiatry, which has involved the Global North exporting its medical model to the Global South.” She says

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