ABSTRACT

The emergence of Covid-19 disrupted most aspects of life, creating a high degree of uncertainty and unpredictability about the future. Knowledge from a place of lived experience offers insights and strategies to better understand how to live, grow and thrive through the difficulties that people who experience mental health challenges, other disabling health conditions, people of color, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds have overcome. We report on a programmatic effort to investigate how lessons learned through lived experience could be useful to persons who are dealing with a destabilizing situation like this pandemic for the first time, especially mental health providers. Three listening sessions over Zoom were conducted to gather information, views and personal accounts related to the current pandemic. Twenty four people with experience of mental health challenges and people living with disabilities, of various ethnic and racial backgrounds, participated in the sessions. We suggest that the recovery framework can be helpful to address the current crisis; we challenge traditional notions of normality; and finally, we recommend that providers and systems of care adopt a framework that addresses health inequities and human rights.

摘要

Covid-19的出现打乱了生活的大多数方面，为未来带来了高度的不确定性和不可预测性。来自生活经历的地方的知识提供了见解和策略，可以更好地理解如何应对经历心理健康挑战的人们，其他致残的健康状况，有色人种以及社会经济背景较低的人们所面临的困难，如何生活，成长和繁荣克服。我们报告了一项计划性的工作，旨在调查从经验中汲取的经验教训如何对第一次处理这种大流行这样的不稳定局势的人（尤其是心理健康提供者）有用。在Zoom上进行了三场听课，以收集与当前大流行有关的信息，视图和个人帐户。参加会议的有二十四名具有心理健康挑战和残疾人经验的人，他们来自不同种族和种族。我们建议，恢复框架可以有助于解决当前的危机；我们挑战传统的正态性概念；最后，我们建议医疗服务提供者和医疗体系采用解决健康不平等和人权问题的框架。