Our Lived Experience courses explore people’s experiences of living with certain
conditions, disabilities or difficulties. Most importantly, the courses encourage shared
learning from people’s lived experience, and professional expertise, so that you can gain
a better understanding and learn ways to either support your own recovery journey or
support others in theirs.
“People who have a personality disorder, may find that their beliefs and attitudes are different from others. Their patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving are more difficult to change and they will have a more limited range of emotions, attitudes and behaviours with which to cope with everyday life. This can make things difficult for […]
If you are involved in or witness a traumatic event, it is common to experience upsetting, distressing or confusing feelings afterwards. The feelings of distress may not emerge straight away – you may just feel emotionally numb at first. After a while you may develop emotional and physical reactions, such as feeling easily upset or […]
“Self-harm is a way of expressing very deep distress. Often people don’t know why they self-harm.” (Mind)
A crisis presentation is when an individual feels at breaking point with their mental health and needs urgent support to navigate through this.
The World Health Organisation states that over 264 million people experience depression Worldwide. Depression is more than feeling low in mood for short periods of time and differs from everyday mood changes. In fact, depression can cause a lot of different feelings and experiences and can affect every part of a person’s day to day […]
“Psychosis is when people perceive or interpret events differently from other people. This could include experiencing hallucinations, delusions or flight of ideas.” (Mind)
