The Hope Matrix

The Lived Experience of Hope, featuring Matthew Jackman

This week’s special guest is Matthew Jackman. Matthew lives with Bipolar Affective Disorder and Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (defined by DSM/Psychiatry), is a sibling caregiver to his younger brother and sister who live with enduring psychosocial diverse abilities, and has lost his mother to suicide, and consequently his grandparents due to stigma. His experiences of distress, trauma and service drive his passion for global social change in mental health. He is a global mental health advocate promoting human rights, social justice and lived experience as an academic science from public health and MAD STUDIES disciplines, which challenge the epistemological primacy of biomedicine in representing and informing global mental health. Through the Australian Centre for Lived Experience (TACFLE), Matthew aims to expand the literacy around mental health to include and prioritize lived experience as a vital source of knowledge. Matthew is proudly neurodiverse and Queer, utilizing his intersectional experiences of oppression to give a voice to those suffering in silence and achieve equitable social justice.

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