South African Mental Health Advocacy Movement - Samham

South African Mental Health Advocacy Movement - Samham SAMHAM is a body representing people with mental disabilities and empowering them to advocate for themselves

Membership is free of charge
Persons with mental disabilities can become SAMHAM members. Through SAMHAM, its members have a voice to address matters that affect their lives and the lives of other mental health care users. Members and their family / Friends have access to information and resources related to mental illness and mental health.

25/04/2018

Mental illness is NOT...
..a choice..attention seeking..an insult or an adjective..something you can 'snap out of'..a crime..a weakness..a flaw in character..laziness..fake or 'all in their head'..an excuse..funny or a joke..trendy or cool..'just a phase'..discriminative (it can affect anyone)..the same for everyone..less important than other illnesses

~ Mental Health and Invisible Illness Resources

14/02/2018

My bipolar diagnosis seems to come with a hypersensitivity that causes the smallest of situations to trigger a mood swing. I’ve always been told that I am sensitive, emotional and stubborn. At first when I was a child it was ‘you’re just like your mother’ or ‘you’re just like your gra....

03/02/2018

​Qedani Mahlangu’s department paid almost R60-million to the law firm that would later represent her in the run-up to arbitration.

27/01/2018

The Gauteng health department has asked mental health NGOs to check whether they are giving care to people on a list of 62 missing Life Esidimeni patients - but seven are not even properly named.

23/01/2018

Former Gauteng health MEC Qedani Mahlangu finally appeared on M0nday at the Life Esidimeni arbitration investigating the deaths of 143 mental health care users. Officials have implicated her as the driving force behind the project, but Mahlangu blamed her juniors. By GREG NICOLSON.

20/01/2018

JOHANNESBURG – Fee-free education for people with disabilities is up for discussion and could, in all likelihood, become a reality.

19/01/2018

The Life Esidimeni arbitration resumed on Thursday with yet another Gauteng department of health official saying she was only following orders in the project that left 143 mental health care users dead. By GREG NICOLSON.

19/01/2018

You're not responsible for it and you can't make it go away.

06/01/2018

'I had two cancers this year. Depression is worse.'

04/01/2018

After more than a week of staying in my pyjamas until lunch, eating all kinds of food at all kinds of hours, and being free to go for lovely long walks in the countryside with my favourite people, all of a sudden it’s January and time to go back to work!

13/12/2017

Help inspire others by sharing the for you turn to when feeling hopeless, anxious, depressed or stressed in this world.

12/12/2017

In an emotional morning at the Life Esidimeni arbitration on Friday, Dr Tiego “Barney” Selebano made a heartfelt call for forgiveness for his role in the death of 143 mental health care users. By GREG NICOLSON.

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