Empower Yourself, Empower Others - OCD and Anxiety Living Library Event

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Come join us at the Pearl Cove library to observe OCD and Anxiety Disorders Month with our Human Living Library event! 

Have you experienced any OCD or Anxiety disorders? Do you know of a loved one who needs help with these particular issues? Or are you just curious to learn more about mental health? Well this event might just be for you! 

The Pearl Cove Library is honoured to be hosting a living library event to start a conversation about mental health issues which are silently affecting many of us and our loved ones. One in five (20%) of Australians aged 16-85  experience mental illness in any given year, with Indigenous and immigrant communites being much more at risk. OCD and Anxiety sufferers form a major part of these statistics and we hope to create a safe space at the library to have an open conversation about these issues.

What is a Human Living Library? 

A living library is where a person takes the form of a 'book' and another person 'borrows' them to listen to their story. Unlike a regular book though, a human book is more interactive and you may ask questions to learn more about them! It is becoming a very popular way to learn about others from diverse backgrounds and connecting people from all walks of life.

Who are our books for this event?

A 38 year old Indigenous representative from the Black Dog institute's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Lived Experience Network who suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

A 19 year old who experiences social anxiety disorder

A 45 year old refugee who experiences Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) from war-torn Syria

A 67 year old woman who has lived with Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

A 28 year old from the Chinese-speaking community who deals with OCD and GAD

Key Event Details:

Date - 20th August

Time - 1pm to 4pm

Location - Pearl Cove Library, Main Floor

Booking - please book at Eventbrite

Contact Info - Please call 9999 9999 or email us at pearlcovelibevents@librarymail.com.au

A $4 library cafe voucher is provided with your ticket!

Further Information:

Please visit https://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/resources-support/anxiety/ for more information on OCD and Anxiety.

We hope to see you there!

James Pozzar

Human Books Sharing their Story on Mental Health

HUMAN BOOKS SHARING THEIR STORY ON MENTAL HEALTH 

Thursday 22 October 2020 6.00-8.00pm

Pearl Cove Library on Level 2 in the library in a marked area - follow the signs and directions from staff.

To register for the event visit our link at Eventbrite or contact Pearl Cove Library on 9217 9991 during library hours or at library@pearlcove.com.au. 

This is a free event so book your place with a human book! Suitable for 15 years and above and refreshments provided.

Pearl Cove Library is presenting the Living Library event Human Books Sharing Their Story on Mental Health at Pearl Cove Library where we will be welcoming the community to join us in doing our bit to celebrate mental health month. Human books will include professionals and practitioners who have worked in the mental health field, advocates of mental health from our indigenous community, survivors with their remarkable stories as well as friends and carers who have learnt a lot along the way. Let's break down the stigma of mental illness for better understanding and outcomes for wellbeing in our community. So come "borrow" a human. 

The Human Living Libraries concept refers to the activity of a human acting the role of a storyteller for a "reader". It's a conversation and a learning experience between the books and the readers at the library, and the idea of giving a "voice to the voiceless" for marginalised people in response to discrimination and stereotypes.

https://www.humanlibraryaus.org/humanbooks

https://humanlibrary.org/about 

For some further recommended information on this subject you can check out the Mental Health Commission of NSW events page at https://nswmentalhealthcommission.com.au/events

For some recommended viewing watch Atypical on Netflix: 

https://www.netflix.com/title/80117540

Images used: 

 https://frelibrary.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/living-libraries-don%E2%80%99t-judge-a-book-by-its-cover/ 

Posted on October 1, 2008 by Freemantle City Library

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User Brian01 uploaded this Text Illness - Mental Disorder Text PNG image on August 6, 2019, 11:23 am.

William Arnott

 

Human Library, Anxiety & Depression, I'm ok, you're ok, we're ok!

2nd February 2020

Human Library, Anxiety & Depression, I'm ok, you're ok, we're ok!

When: October 22, 2020. Friday, 2pm.

Where: Pearl Cove Library Courtyard, 10 Wave  St, Pearl Cove. 4000.

Cost: free

Booking: www.eventbrite.com.au/areyouok
(event organiser Mr Simon Dent - tel 0405799088, dentsimon895@gmail.com)

*Reduce the stigma attached to mental illness in this human library event to meet someone with anxiety and or depression during mental heath Month (October).

*The human library events first started in Denmark in 2000, and came to Australia at Lismore library New South Wales, and it is your chance to chat to a living book, ask them questions, and unjudge them!

In this event, you can talk for 30 minutes….

…just to have a chat…no library late return fees here!

*so come, challenge the norm and ask some non-judgemental questions of these people...meet our human book list...

Interviewee 1 - Peter Hobbson - local Pearl Cove jobseeker

Interviewee 2: Peter Lynch - Operations Manager Beyond Blue

Interviewee 3: Lyn Olive - local Pearl Cove Library Technician

Interviewee 4: Judy Small - a Pearl Cove jobseeker

(photo from google images: https://www.offgridquest.com/images/3823/2.jpg)

(photograph copyright State Library of NSW)

   

…check out a person, not a book…no library late return fees here!

 Categories: anxiety, depression, Disability, human books, human living library, library, people, unemployment.

USEFUL WEBSITE LINKS: www.beyondblue.com.au, www.lifeline.org.au, http://mentalhealthmonth.wayahead.org.au/

 

STUDENT NAME - SIMON DENT