Everyone deserves to be understood (trigger warning – suicide)

Jack shares the story of a friend who didnt recieve the support they needed. How those working in the system should reframe to what they can do to support people could make such a huge difference.

Jack describes it as feeeling like those working in care do the bare minimum because that is all they feel they can give.

“Everyone deserves to be understood, everyone deserves to be validated in some shape or form, and everyone deserves the time and the respect to be able to approach things, or have conversations about things or express things in ways that are natural to them, but I don’t think thats the way our support systems run” Jack highlights the lack of awareness about what effective support looks like from the system perspective.