Barbara Meyers

Hrannar Jonsson, a mental health consumer who is a member of Iceland's recovery movement, discusses his journey of recovery from depression and how an international mental health organization contributes to his wellness.

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Located in the UK, the Together program exists to work for the well-being of those with needs specifically related to having mental health problems. Anne Beales, the Director of Service User Involvement for Together, chats about the organization and her role.

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Jenny Speed, a member of Interrelate and Deputy Director at the Australian Mental Health Consumer Network, discusses her story and where her passion for mental health advocacy work comes from.

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Anne Beales, the Director of Service User Involvement at Together in the UK, shares her story of mental health and how she came to be where she is today.

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Interrelate, an International Coalition of National Consumer/User Organizations was launched at the IIMHL (International Initiative on MH Leadership) meeting in St. Catharines, Canada in August 2007. Join "Mental Health Matters" host Barbara Meyers as she chats with the creators of the organization and learns how and why it was founded.

Ethan Watters, author of "Crazy Like Us" chats with "Mental Health Matters" host Barbara Meyers about the appearance of anorexia in Hong Kong. Watters discusses how the Chinese form and understanding of anorexia differs from America and how different cultural atmospheres can affect the diagnosis or recognition of certain mental health disorders.

Author and journalist Ethan Watters chats with "Mental Health Matters" host Barbara Meyers about the importance for mental health providers to understand a patient's culture and not try to override that with their beliefs. Watters says it's important to understand how non-scientific narratives might have value, such as how a patient sees themselves in a group.

"Mental Health Matters" host Barbara Meyers chats with Ethan Watters, author of "Crazy Like Us," about America's views of mental illness and the resulting effects on the rest of the world. Watters says that many developing nations are actually doing better than the West, and America should consider importing -- not exporting -- other countries' ideas on mental health.

Journalist and author Ethan Watters explains that "the line between normal and pathological has been moved." While he acknowledges that drug companies do play a role in homogenizing ideas of mental illness around the globe, it also happens in other contexts, some of which have good intentions behind them.

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Did you know a person's actual symptoms of mental illness can be different from one culture to another? Ethan Watters, journalist and author of "Crazy Like Us," discusses how pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline sought to "change the Japanese understanding of depression" so that it could fit the drug it was marketing in line with the American model of mental illness.