Sunny sits with Matthew Jackman for Episode 30 of Bottled Up. Matthew lives with Bipolar Affective Disorder and Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (defined by DSM/Psychiatry), is a sibling caregiver to his younger brother and sister who live with enduring psychosocial diverse abilities, and has lost his mother to suicide, and consequently his grandparents due to stigma. His experiences of distress and service use drive his passion for global social change in mental health. He is a global mental health advocate promoting human rights, social justice and lived experience as an academic science from public health and MAD STUDIES disciplines. Matthew describes the MAD Movement, which challenges the epistemological primacy of biomedicine in representing and informing global mental health.
Through the Australian Centre for Lived Experience (TACFLE), Matthew aims to expand the literacy around mental health to include and prioritize lived experience as a vital source of knowledge.
More About The Australian Centre for Lived Experience (TACFLE):
TACFLE is an institute for lived experience leadership in global mental health. The Center was founded to challenge the industrial complex around the biomedicalization of human suffering and establish a discipline of lived knowledge for global mental health care.
Website: www.tacfle.com
More about Matthew:
Matthew qualified in Social Work undertaking counseling, case management, group therapy, community development, social research, social policy, and personal/systems-level advocacy across diverse intersectionalities. Matthew's advocacy and research reflect alternatives to biological approaches to wellbeing. He mobilizes MAD STUDIES as the scientific foundation for peer/lived experience work in mental health. Matthew represented the Western Pacific Region on the Global Mental Health Peer Network and was a Global Shaper with the World Economic Forum. He has represented lived experience perspectives on the National Advisory Panel (mental health) for the Australian Association of Social Workers. Matthew is a Global Lived Experience Ambassador for Generation Mental Health. He consults the World Health Organisation in mental health. Matthew is trained internationally in certified peer specialist practice and is a visiting scholar in Psychiatry at Yale PRCH.
Matthew’s vision is to utilize personal power and privilege and mobilize vulnerabilities as strength and resilience, to make space for those with less power. Through giving voice to those silenced in achieving an equitable world justice is strived toward. Matthew instructs Mad Studies co-designing/producing a lived experience-focused critical mental health unit in Social Work. Matthew is proudly Mad, Neurodiverse, and Queer, utilizing his intersectional experiences of oppression and privilege in systemic advocacy.
These show notes are courtesy of ‘The Hope Project’ – who have hosted another great conversation with Matthew.
You can learn more about Matthew by visiting:
https://hopefulminds.org/matthew-jackman/
https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/lived-experience-profile-matthew-jackman/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-jackman-he-him-57b28951/
Matthew is also speaking at several different events over the coming weeks:
Finance and Mental Health Symposium (27 Oct, 2021 – 10AM – 12PM AEDT): https://bit.ly/3ElE61X
Celebrating Consumer Leadership Forum (Thursday 28th October 2021 2-4pm AEDT): https://bit.ly/3mfwdF6
Our Future in Mind, Mental Health Summit (Nov 5 – 6, 2021): https://bit.ly/3b6LeCJ
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This episode was recorded on the lands of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging and acknowledge that Sovereignty was never ceded.
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As always, Bottled Up is a passion project to help provide a voice to those many men who are going through the peaks and troughs of life. We are not trained professionals and if you're worried about someone close to you and their mental wellbeing, it's important to get professional advice.
Start a conversation with them and let them know that they're not alone and that there are many support resources out there - including friends, family, school chaplains and plenty more!
If you're feeling distressed or overwhelmed, Beyond Blue has a number of trained mental health professionals available 24/7 on 1800 512 348.
For immediate support, call Lifeline on 13 11 44 and in an emergency, always dial 000.
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