Using social change thinking to transform how we think and act about mental illness

This blog was delivered as a speech to the Matilda Centre at the University of Sydney on 31 March 2022.

When I was 19 years old in the second year of my law degree, I had a severe psychosis. It came on during the annual National Union of Students Conference — a gathering of the student movement. On return I was rushed to the psychiatric ward at Hornsby Hospital. I stayed there for 2 months.