Indigenous Mental Health

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7 жыл бұрын

Learn how culture and spirituality affect the mental health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

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@swolesack2888 6 жыл бұрын

Not enough people in the health profession are aware of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island culture and beliefs. Thank you for this video. I hope it is shared broadly.

@daniekawebster2064 2 жыл бұрын

This is gold! I hope that this reaches far and wide, and that more non-Indigenous people heed this message

@katievr9249 2 жыл бұрын

I wish me [ from an African tribe with similar beliefs ] I’m 32 percent black, I wish I could get the same sort of recognition of culture and beliefs here in Australia too. It is recognised for indigenous Australians you can mention in it in hearings. But not if you’re from elsewhere. I’m on a long community order and heavily drugged to nothing, when in my African culture [the mpondo] hearing and seeing spirits is perfectly normal and indicates a healer role, it’s called intwaso, and I dreamt I was an imagqirha [healer] several times. Instead I’m on so much toxic deadening drugs, that have destroyed by brain, I can recall/think/ feel nothing, my sexuality has been destroyed, I can’t feel anything sexual on the drugs, even when I stop the drugs it’s complete sexual dysfunction,, it’s truly pitiful. I feel psychiatry has totalled me. It’s enraging. And I can’t ever stop the order, or will be extended 6 months, and then again 12 months. The scientific/biomedical only approach to ‘mental illness’ of the west, it’s hyper-reason, it’s hyperationalism must end. Stop the soulless perspective of everything in the west, the void of the sacred. I come back again and again to this video just because of that woman that talks about sending her daughter to the blue mountains telling her to talk to those spirits, the ancestors, were not crazy, were talking to spirits. It heals me so much to hear her proudly proclaim the truth.