These are just a few areas of mental health that can surface when you also live with physical disability – or any disability, or even life itself.
It’s nothing to be ashamed of. Everyone goes through times of personal struggle. The stigma unfairly attached to mental health comes from not understanding, often making people feel distressed, alone and not wanting to ask for help.
Whilst this is slowly changing, there is still so much that can be and needs to be done to support people who experience mental health concerns.
With October being Mental Health Awareness Month, and with mental stress being an unwanted visitor in the lives of many within our community, on Wednesday 1st October (6pm AEST) we are hosting a webinar around the impact of disability on mental health.
With a panel of experts with both lived and professional experience and knowledge on the subject, this presentation will highlight the issue, provide advice and support and bring together Australians living with disability and their support networks to better understand and combat mental challenges.
So whether you are a person with disability, a carer, family member, friend or service provider who has experienced mental health issues or supported someone who has, if you want to know what help is available, learn how others dealt with difficult times or just want to feel heard, understood and supported, this webinar is for you.
You can read about our esteemed panelists by going to:
www.pda.org.au/2025/09/12/youre-invited-to-our-webinar-the-impact-of-disability-on-mental-health/
We encourage you to register for the webinar, by going to:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Rly2wyx3RaKD53KiY3CL0Q
To address questions and experiences of those attending our webinar, we invite attendees to share these on registering. Anonymous contributions are welcome if preferred.
The opportunity to ask questions will also be made available during the webinar. However, these questions will be answered dependent on time constraints.
Please join us in this important conversation.
