#9: Strangers to Mental Health Care: Interviewing the Outsiders
-Do you know someone who struggles with mental illness?
-How would you define mental health?
-Do you believe that anyone is truly mentally healthy?
-What do you know about our current outpatient care system for mental health patients?
-Do you believe that there is a stigma surrounding mental health in your community? What about elsewhere?
-How do you think the stigma, or lack thereof, affects people in your community?
-Are you aware of the recent shift, over the past few decades, from institutional to community-based care for mental health care?
-Have you heard anyone use words like retarded, autistic or imbecile in demeaning or appropriative ways?
-Have you, yourself ever used those words in that manner?
-Do you feel that there are enough accessible mental health care resources in your community?
-How do you believe that past trauma and stress affects a person’s mental health?
-How do you believe present stress affects a person’s mental health?
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Good questions, Maisie. We’ll definitely chat about these specifically when we meet in December.
Quick question: what will your focus this week be?