Brainwaves

 Guest Indigo Daya, General Manager Consumer and Carer Advocacy MI Fellowship speaks to 3 key issues raised by Dr Eleanor Longden, guest speaker at the Bruce Woodcock Memorial Lecture. Indigo discusses the concepts and issues of recovery not as cure, living with experiences in a meaningful way - not as symptoms, and finally discusses the role of trauma in psychiatric illness, and treatment.

Zoe Probyn, Northern Support Services Manager, Homeground, speaks about issues connecting homelessness with mental health issues. She discusses 2 programs: housing and mental health and an intensive support program. Zoe discusses Indigenous programs at Homeground and ends with a discussion of the implications of the recent overhaul of the community mental health sector for both homelessness and me...

Professor Jayashri Kulkarni, Director Monash Alfred Psychiatry research centre speaks about women's mental health issues including the misuse of the term "borderline personality disorder" and discusses the concept and lived experience of complex trauma disorder. She also discusses a research project that MAPrc are currently recruiting for into schizophrenia.

Dr Jerome Sarris speaks about research evidence linking nutrition and nutritional supplements with prevention and treatment of mental illnesses. Jerome also speaks about specific nutritional supplements that have been found effective with anxiety, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. He ends with a discussion of factors to be aware of and take into account...

Michelle Graeber (CEO) speaks about ARCVIC (Anxiety Recovery Centre Vic): the current and upcoming programs, support groups, helpline and other services that the organisation offers.

Interview with Dream, who features regularly on the Roominations show, 3CR. Dream discusses the complex issues surrounding becoming homeless, advocates for changes that would improve access to accommodation for people in crisis, and discusses his own experience of homelessness.

Guest Rae speaks to her experiences as a nurse in PNG, the resultant acquired brain injury and epilepsy and her lived experience of mental illness and complex medical issues. Rae documents her journey with her own superb poetry

On tonight's show Jacqui talks about her personal experience of Bipolar 2

Dr Victoria Palmer, lead researcher on the CORE project, coordinated by Melbourne University, discusses continuing recruitment to the project and phase 2 - the co-design phase aimed at improving experience of services for consumers, carers and staff through collaborative work. Dr Rob Whitely, Professor of Psychiatry at Mc Gill University, Montreal, discusses the nature of recovery, barriers to rec...

Liam Leonard from Gay Lesbian Health Vic (GLHV) speaks about the Private Lives Report - a unique Australia wide survey of the GLBT community. Liam speaks to the mental health implications of the survey.

Hosts Ben Rinaudo and Nara recount and play interviews with some of the participants from the recent Raise Your Voice, Barwon Forum.  The forum was held on October 16 and the programme features the experiences of people who have been involved in the Barwon region (centred around Geelong) trial of the NDIS. 

In a special hour long programme as part of 3CR's day long broadcast for the International Day of People With Disabilities, Brainwaves host Ben Rinaudo interviews four guests: Aleisha Carroll the technical advisor with the Disability Inclusive Department at CBM, Joel and Helen Fernandes from the Leprosy Mission and the National Disabled Peoples Organisation in East Timor and Dr Erminia Colucci the...

Host Ben Rinaudo interviews Indigo Daya, General Manager, Consumer and Carer Advocacy and Leadership at Mental Illness Fellowship Victoria about the “Call to Action” campaign being run in the lead up to the Victorian state elections.

Hosts Ben and Sarah interview Nikki Blanch and three participants from Sprout, an initiative of Mind Australia. Sprout is micro-enterprise programme focussing on vocational skills, training and social inclusion.

Teula Wylde is a storyteller, actor, activist, and speaker whose debut memoir, Seed, reflects on her journey living with bipolar disorder. She's also our guest on our radio show Brainwaves

Peter Waterman is Vice President of Friends of J Ward, an organisation that runs tours of the former Lunatic Asylum in Ararat. Peter is today’s guest on our radio show Brainwaves.