Human Rights

I attended our monthly State Hospital Local Human Rights Committee meeting yesterday. Another endeavor I am highly grateful to be a part of, I belong to two, one for the state hospital (not named for privacy concerns)...and the other a Community Service Board Local Human Rights Committee, which those meetings are held every quarter.

Our Regional Advocate, he is awesome! Adore him beyond belief! He steps up to the plate well, guides us, and allows us to be the best advocates we can as committee members. We are at times the only hope for a patient to have and be given their due rights as everyone involved and related to their care within the hospital does have to go through us, our concerns must be both addressed and remedied on behalf of patients rights within the facility.

With me being on both committees, I was asked to attend a formal meeting held by State Advocacy Officials. This is a pretty big honor to have. Especially to be a consumer. I am indeed pretty excited to attend this meeting. They are the top level, we are local human rights, they are state human rights, the only thing higher than them, is legislation. Which I am headed that way. I want to see what is available to the mentally ill out there, and if need be, work my way into making differences at the highest of levels. I have some goals in mind. Some ideas that would prove worthy to set in motion on the legislation level. I feel it is about time that there are some things that could be changed to benefit both mentally ill and the goverment, if mentally ill were doing better according to these changes, and shows improvement, this would overall benefit the government in statistical proof and as well monetarily.

I have stated before, there is power in even a mentally ill mind.....

To tell them, no one listens, no one wants to hear it...

To show them, they have no choice but to see.