How social health factors can impact severe mental illness – a lived experience perspective

In this presentation, McPin senior service user researcher John Gibson gives a talk about the Social Health Hub, and the role and importance of lived experience in developing it and shaping the work that it does. He shares what the Hub is, the role of the LEAP (Lived Experience Advisory Panel), power dynamics in this kind of work, the importance of looking at people with mental health diagnoses holistically, the project’s hopes for the future, and why social health ‘isn’t rocket science’.