Community Responses

Although the document shows a side of the coin, it does not evidence the rights approach in its entirety. Mental health problems are a part of the equation that generates psychosocial disability, they are not disability by itself and it is here where there is...

Finally got to read the draft Lancet GMH Report and am so proud of the work put in. I just loved seeing your name (Charlene) in that commission and I could just visualize your sharing your lived experience and ensuring several factors were taken into...

Thank you again for sharing this very important document, it is incredibly powerful to be part of a new generation that addresses evolved & learned issues of mental health in OUR generation!   Please see some feedback from my side: I am particularly vested in...

Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to read this report prior to release. I would like to comment from three different perspectives.   In my capacity as Peer Advisor for the Mood Disorders Society of Canada I am heartened by the recommendations and global...

Primary care psychiatry needs to be emphasized to pick up and encourage patients to seek appropriate help. Often times there are cultural misinterpretations eg. Possession or ancestors being unhappy as the cause of mental disorders or symptoms thereof. This makes it tough for patients to seek...

Mental health needs to be reframed within the sustainable development framework – Needs to be marketed as public good through facts/ research/ statistics emphasising universality of mental health. We all have a brain, therefore we all have mental health to varying degrees. This calls into...

Thank you so much for sharing this valuable research output. It is so comprehensive and deeply evidence-based. I sincerely wish it to be instrumental in reframing global mental health. I am really impressed by the robust background and experience of all those involved in this...

Overall, I found this paper to be extremely thorough. Nothing was left out, except (in my opinion) more on gender and women/girls. The MDGs brought the plight of women and girls to the forefront of the UN and development and I believe that the SDGs...

The Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development is a publication put together by an innovative collaboration of leaders in the Global Mental Health Movement. The document provides a history of the global mental health movement; demonstrates a reframed perspective of global mental...