Your Story

Would you like to share your experiences with other consumers and carers? Your lived experienced is valuable and may provide support or guidance to others who are experiencing mental illness, as a consumer, their families, carers or someone working in the mental health sector.

This is an opportunity to share your story, as you have experienced it, in your voice.

If you would like to submit your story, please fill out the Your Story submission form.

STORIES

New Equally Well Ambassador leads by example in a commitment to embedding holistic health as a baseline in mental health care

For me Equally Well feels like a “bridge” between Physical and Mental Health.  As a person, I cannot put my mental health in one place and my physical health in another.  I carry both these things...

2025 ELECTION STATEMENT: Call to Action to save lives by unlocking opportunities for health equity for people with a mental health lived experience

At this time when change and challenges across the mental health sector are seen nationally and felt locally, Equally Well renews its call to all sides of parliament to take action for health equity...

New pathways to care, the answer for improving life expectancy for people with mental health conditions: A GP perspective

In the first in our fact sheet series at Equally well we are focussing on blood cancers with data from our Unequally Unwell Report showing in Australia blood and lymph cancers accounted for 1,865...

Smoking Program Media Release

Newly published research from Cancer Council NSW’s Tackling Tobacco program reveals evidence of an effective organisational change initiative at increasing the offer of quit smoking support, including...

Minds Collective Football Club: Kicking Goals for Physical and Mental Well-being

Physical activity is an evidence-based strategy for addressing physical health and supporting in mental health recovery, yet many adults with complex mental health challenges face significant barriers...

Equally Well calls for priority on physical health factors in National Suicide Strategy submission.

Equally Well calls for priority on physical health factors in National Suicide Strategy submission...

2024 Equally Well Forum Summary – Day 2

Lived experience was centre stage at the 2024 Equally Well Forum where innovation and impact for improving the wellbeing of people living with mental illness have been celebrated in the 2024 Equally...

2024 Equally Well Forum Summary – Day 1

Lived experience was centre stage at the 2024 Equally Well Forum where innovation and impact for improving the wellbeing of people living with mental illness have been celebrated in the 2024 Equally...

Equally Well Awards recognise achievements in mental and physical health

Lived experience was centre stage at the 2024 Equally Well Forum where innovation and impact for improving the wellbeing of people living with mental illness have been celebrated in the 2024 Equally...