The NSW Mental Health Commissioner, John Feneley, recently launched a paper about medication and mental illness that reveals the significance of the lived experience of medication use in informing improved clinical practice. The paper was developed in collaboration with the Commission’s Pharmacotherapy Advisory Group, comprising consumers, carers, clinicians, academics and allied health professionals, and provides a raw account of people’s experiences of medication, citing direct commentary from consumers and carers experiencing the good and the not so good reality of psychotropic medication use.

Read the report at
NSW Mental Health Commission