The Retreat Lecture, 2021: Equality, truth and privilege in mental health, by Alison Mitchell
‘Knowing that you are loved yourself, loving others, seeing love in practice, serves as a foundation for resilience.’
Alison Mitchell is the development officer for the Quaker Mental Health Fund (known until last year as The Retreat York Benevolent Fund). She has worked for more than three decades as a mental health social worker. During that time, she told some 250 Friends, she had had a good view of what she called the ‘stress-vulnerability matrix’, that combination of factors that can increase one’s risk of developing mental health problems. In an inspiring and compelling lecture, she used her own life story to talk about how inequality or privilege could have an enormous effect on mental wellbeing.
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