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Moving up the Mental Health Hub

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Mr Keshy:
This does seem like a rather minor thing, perhaps too minor haha.

But I think the Mental Health Hub should be moved higher up on the main page. The reason for this is that I think that more people will recognise it, more often. I think that's a positive thing

As I said, it's a rather small thing to worry about, but given it's importance, I believe it's warranted

Am I alone on this?

Professor Polonsky:
My suggestion would perhaps be to collapse the interstate (HSC, SACE and WACE) by default (if that is possible), as they are seldom used and take up a fair bit of space. I think the mental hub's current position in the boards is logical.

ninwa:
You can collapse boards yourself :) just click the little minus button at the top right hand corner of each subforum.

The status of the Mental Health Hub is currently in a bit of a limbo unfortunately, which is why I haven't responded to this suggestion yet (my apologies). I spoke to a lawyer who said that because none of us are trained professionals, we could be opening ourselves up to legal issues. Options right now include 1) doing a partnership with a mental health organisation 2) changing the name of the hub so it's not overtly "mental health" related 3) scrapping it altogether.

slothpomba:

--- Quote from: ninwa on February 08, 2013, 07:14:47 pm ---You can collapse boards yourself :) just click the little minus button at the top right hand corner of each subforum.

The status of the Mental Health Hub is currently in a bit of a limbo unfortunately, which is why I haven't responded to this suggestion yet (my apologies). I spoke to a lawyer who said that because none of us are trained professionals, we could be opening ourselves up to legal issues. Options right now include 1) doing a partnership with a mental health organisation 2) changing the name of the hub so it's not overtly "mental health" related 3) scrapping it altogether.

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Not to be Mr. Negativity or anything but i think we're of dubious ability and education to help anyone who has any kind of serious underlying problem. I worry quite a bit about the fact that people might start handing out amateur diagnoses ("well...you sound depressed") which could do a lot of harm. If someone has any kind of legitimate mental illness, we'll do almost nothing in the way of treating it. We might make them feel better for a little but its just masking it because, in this case, professional treatment is needed to actually resolve anything. I almost worry if we end up masking it or start helping out many people constantly that might reduce the impetus for them to go to a doctor and actually resolve it. We wouldn't attempt to treat diabetes as a forum community, it's not much different here because its in someones head. We can talk all we want but for people who are actually ill, most won't get better unless they get medication and/or counseling.  The idea of a "mental health hub" almost implies we're treating people or we're even able to offer much more beyond a chat.

That said, i'm sure we can help a fair bit for people with everyday problems and who just feel sad (not clinically depressed, even though in some peoples minds that line is getting blurry) or frustrated with a situation. Maybe we should just rename it to something like "Advice board" or something like that, it would certainly change expectations, even if the nature of the board is still roughly the same.

Russ:
A couple of us had similar concerns which is why we're working out what to do with it atm

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