NGO "Psychability" sincerely congratulates you on World Mental Health Day!

Our organization brings together relatives and legal representatives of people with mental disorders, mental health professionals, and people with mental disorders themselves. We set ourselves the task of providing people with mental disorders with opportunities for a barrier-free life.

We understand that there are many obstacles on the way to our goal. They need to be discovered and then solved. Today we see the following as obstacles:

- unavailability of medical services for persons with mental disorders, including in case of failure to provide timely psychiatric care without their consent

- unavailability of social services for persons with mental disorders, including in the absence of a guardian

- the problem of employment of persons with mental disorders.

These obstacles lead to the violation of the rights of persons with mental disorders to receive timely and high-quality psychiatric care, to abuses during formal guardianship over them, as well as to the disability of the person with a mental disorder. The above-mentioned obstacles have a systemic nature, and therefore their solution requires a certain amount of time and effort from both the state and the public.

In our opinion, the above-mentioned obstacles are based on one basic problem. We formulated it as follows: the absence of comprehensive individual support services for persons with mental disorders.

Despite the reorganization of the outpatient system and its focus on an individual approach, there is still no such service network for people with mental disorders that would fully ensure the accessibility of their lives.

It was to discuss this problem that we invited specialists from various spheres of society and leaders of public opinion of Ukraine to our round table on the topic "Pathways to a barrier-free life for people with mental disorders." You can watch his full recording at the link below.

We wish you and your loved ones good health!