To mark Mental Health Awareness Week 2021, we are releasing a short audio edit taken from a mental health training video series currently in production. This training is aimed at christian healthcare professionals and will be delivered during our formal training courses. However we feel that whether you’re a healthcare professional or not, you might benefit from learning about today’s chosen topic - dissociative disorders - which are a less widely known and often misunderstood mental health problem.
Listen below as one of our volunteers kindly shares her experience of living with dissociative disorders:
Warning: this content contains the discussion of sensitive topics, including self-harm.
If you or someone you know may be struggling with symptoms of a dissociative disorder there is more support and information on the NHS website and also on the website for mental health charity Mind.