Whoo hoo! I had a ball at TheMHS today. I think I like conferences. It started with breakfast at Higher Ground this morning, with lots of other carers and consumers about, who I really enjoyed meeting. Then various thought provoking talks happened, with regular breaks to ply us with delicious food, and an awesome comedic interlude by peer worker Kylie Harrison! (you can see some of her story here) It’s really fun to get out of my own little box for awhile a get to meet all these other people, all passionate about making mental health services better. Tomorrow night I’ll be there for the launch of the Art Exhibition, which I’m really looking forward to. I wish I’d been sponsored to go to the talks during the next 2 days though! So much to be missing out on. I’m really hoping that this time I wont be so buzzed after my Friday talk that I can’t take anything else in. It’s not too long or too personal so I have my finger’s crossed a bit that I’ll be able to sit in on some of the rest of the talks that day and get the most out of my day’s registration. 🙂

And in other news, myself and my colleague Cary will be giving a free talk on Friday, September 23rd, Introducing Dissociative Identity Disorder. There’s more information under the What’s On tab at the top of this page. 🙂 For those who came along to this talk last year, the content will be the same. We were asked to hold it again outside of 9-5 work hours so that people could invite working spouses or school age children along. So we are!