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NatCon16

Suicide Prevention Through Inspiration

May 24, 2016 Janet Kennedy Get Social Health, Podcast 00:22:45 0 Comments

Meet Greg Van Borssum and Joe Williams. They don’t just talk about suicide prevention, they live it. Every day.

In March of 2016, I had the opportunity to serve as a Social Media Ambassador for the National Council on Behavioral Health at their annual conference. NatCon16 brought together almost 5,000 mental and behavioral health specialists for dozens of talks, presentations, poster displays and, most importantly, the chance to connect. As a Social Media Ambassador, my job was to capture my unique perspective on the event and share it via social media. As I wandered through the exhibition halls I met dozens of software companies, pharma representatives, educational training firms and workplace wellness programs.

Suicide Prevention through InspirationTurning down an aisle I heard voices with “not from around here” accents belonging to Australians Greg Van Borssum and Joe Williams. When you meet Greg and Joe it’s easy to make a false assumption. What you see are strong, chipper, intelligent men who were successful professional athletes. What you don’t see is their struggle with mental illness and suicidal thoughts.  Being at #NatCon16 gave them the opportunity to take their suicide prevention through inspiration message to a larger audience.

This podcast episode took place in the Exhibition Hall of NatCon16, a very lively space with lots of great conversations happening all around us. Our interview competes with a bit of background noise but both Greg and Joe were very eloquent in their thoughts so I’m sure you would mind a bit of hubbub.

To learn more about Greg’s work, click on his sites below:

  • Greg’s website
  • Greg in LinkedIn
  • Greg in Twitter
  • “GVB Mind Warrior” in GVB in Facebook
  • Why does GVB speak about suicide prevention?
  • GVB speaking at a National Mental Health Conference here in Australia. 
    http://youtu.be/yZfWyTgr-nw

The Enemy WithinTo learn more about Joe’s work, click on his sites below:

  • Joe’s website
  • Joe in Twitter
  • The Enemy Within Facebook page

To learn more about The Ripple Effect Film, click on the sites below:

  • The Ripple Effect website
  • The Ripple Effect in Twitter 
  • Kevin Hines in Twitter

 

http://traffic.libsyn.com/getsocialhealth/Australians.mp3

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Physician suicide letters - answered

Physician Suicide – Is medical school killing our doctors?

February 9, 2016 Janet Kennedy Get Social Health, Podcast 00:45:53 2 Comments

Dr. Pamela Wible is a physician calling for a change. The author of  “Physician Suicide Letters – Answered,” Pamela addresses the public health crisis that is the high physician suicide rate. Pamela was brave enough to write about her own suicidal thoughts generated by the abusive medical school experience and the corporate mentality in the practice of medicine. She found that after sharing her thoughts, many other medical students wrote to her to share their experiences. Talking about suicide is still a taboo subject, but by writing this book she has found many others want to share their experiences. Listen to our full conversation or drop in at the time stamps below.

Pamela Wible Book 2-100:00 Introduction
00:53 Meet Author and Physician Pamela Wible
02:44 Why you felt you could answer suicide letters?
04:15 If someone has suicidal thoughts, is it always that way?
05:10 Why is it so hard to change a culture of bullying?
06:51 Are there any TV shows that accurately portray medicine?
09:18 Professional distance versus professional closeness
10:34 What is your practice like?
11:18 Difference between concierge medicine and Ideal Patient Practice
12:38 How many patients do you serve?
13:20 What was the genesis of your suicidal thoughts?
14:46 What was the trigger to get help?
16:25 How did you solve deeling depressed?
17:25 Can patients envision a different kind
18:40 How are you helping other physicians?
19:35 How did you get letters?
20:38 What is the “Answered” part of your book?
21:36 What’s the response from the physician’s community
Pamela Wible Book 1-221:44 Is it starting discussions?
22:36 What is the experience of medical school like?
23:50 Is it medical school or the healthcare business that’s at fault?
24:38 What can physicians do about dealing with suicidal thoughts?
25:50 What is your plan for the book?
26:46 Need the C-suite to make changes?
27:50 Nurses also suffer in the work environment
28:45 Are suicidal thoughts a mental illness?
32:10 Can a suicidal physician give competent medical care?
34:00 #SPSM Tweet Chat
36:50 Do you blog on this topic frequently
37:50 Old school attitudes
38:38 Training to commit suicide?
39:25 Pleas from her community
40:19 How can I help?
41:34 Book summary
44:58 Sally Oken, Patients Like Me “Contribute your data”

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Website Physician Suicide Letters—Answered

Book purchase link Physician Suicide Letters Answered: Pamela Wible M.D.: 9780985710323: Amazon.com: Books

Any other applicable links.Pamela Wible MD | America’s leading voice for ideal medical care

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Global Social Media – TweetChat Pioneer

September 2, 2014 Janet Kennedy Get Social Health, Podcast 00:24:27 4 Comments

Dr. Gia SisonDr. Gia Sison is a physician who recognizes the potential of social media to share content among fellow physicians and educate patients.  Unusual? Maybe not in the US but as a practicing physician in the Philippines so is more than an early adopter, she is a social media pioneer. In our conversation we discuss how she started her social media journey by participating in Tweet chats happening in the US (12 hour difference). Dr. Sision joined with 3 other physicians in social media to promote the use of  Twitter to engage her nation in healthcare advocacy.

In our conversation we discuss how she found Twitter through Stanford’s #MEDx chat and then joined the #HCLDR and #HCSM chats to engage colleagues around the world.

To follow along, here is a time stamp of our conversation:

00:00 Introduction
00:10 EHR 2.0 Advertisement
00:51 Opening
01:16 Welcome
01:52 Hey – Dr. Sison is in the Philippines!
02:26 Maritime health care & tele-medicine
04:00 How do you perform health care at sea?
05:05 Is there a similar HIPAA law in the Philippines?
06:00 What is the state of social media in the Philippines?
06:33 Help from @NurseFriendly & #healthxph
06:50 #HCLDR chat – #HCSM chat
07:30 Are you encouraging physicians or patients to enter social media?
08:05 Who is involved in Philippines Tweet Chats?
09:30 Are you using Twitter to teach health education or about using social media?
10:05 Are all your Tweet chats global?
10:48 WHO project
11:40 Youth and social media in the Philippines
12:40 What other social media platforms do you use?
13:06 How do you manage to be involved in so many US Tweetchats?
13:38 MEDx at Stanford
13:55 Social media used for physician promotion?
15:00 Using Facebook to educate about Ebola
Ebola Symptoms17:02 Closer to Ebola in NC than the Philippines
18:00 Dr. Sison’s breast cancer journey
18:53 Patient privacy and social media. “A Culture of Shyness”
20:32 Mental Health Stigma
21:30 Social media goal – to drive in-person engagement
22:58 Dr. Sison “walks the walk”
23:20 Stanford’s MEDx program
24:35 Social Media is a great tool for learning
26:17 Social Media Tip from Theresa Robinson of Express Mobile Solutions “Keep it short and Sweet”
26:46 Close

Visit our resources page for more valuable (and free!) resources on social media and digital health:

Contact Dr. Gia Sison:  LinkedIn, Twitter, Blog

Stanford’s MEDx program

#HCLDR Chat

#HCSM Chat

Ebola Facebook page

Nurse Friendly – Andrew Lopez

Philippines colleagues in social media:

Dr Iris Isip Tan @endocrine_witch
Dr Remo Aguilar @bonedoc
Dr Narciso Tapia @cebumd

 

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@DocForeman

Social Media’s Potential for Suicide Prevention

July 15, 2014 Janet Kennedy Blog Post, Get Social Health 2 Comments

Doc ForemanThe future is now. Sophisticated technology has made things possible that mental health is not ready to tackle. And maybe, in the case of suicide, that’s a good thing.

It is already possible, “today” to monitor social media for messages from people sharing their suicidal thoughts and feelings; to geo-locate those individuals, and then to send rescue to their door, within only minutes of their first suicidal message. IT professionals know this. It’s the mental health community that is just figuring this out. IT professionals are already developing this technology. When they “throw the switch” and begin to use it, mental health needs to be ready to respond effectively.

This is an interesting development for several reasons. First, most mental health professionals avoid even passing familiarity with the use of social media, let alone understanding the culture and nuances of interacting on various mainstream platforms, such as Twitter or Tumblr. Many in my field aren’t familiar with research that suggests that suicidal people may be more honest about their risk on social media (some research suggests people report a suicide at higher rates on social media than in real life).

Right now there is a “street nurse” in Toronto that finds people on Twitter who are suicidal and gets them local resources in real time (@RealTimeCrsisis). But for many in the mental health industry, the thought of doing this is anxiety provoking, and overwhelming. It is our community’s anxiety that is getting in the way of making a meaningful contribution at the intersection of mental health and social media.

Second, the IT industry has no “IRB” or mental health review process, and it’s not going to. People who can develop a code or technology will do it, whether they have thought through the mental health implications of it or not. It is up to the mental health community to become familiar with social media and IT and to initiate relationships with the IT community. This is the only way that we can increase the chance of technology and social media being used thoughtfully and effectively in mental health-related matters.

Can you imagine an IT developer “throwing the switch” on a program that quickly identifies and geolocates suicidal people via social media posts, only to find people in need of help with no idea how to go about helping them? While our mental health community is still debating the utility and security of encrypted email with patients (we’ve had that capability for years, patients want it, and yet few mental health providers use it), IT develops are rapidly expanding the capabilities and possibilities for communication with people who are suicidal. It is past time for our mental health community to begin to engage with IT and social media developers in meaningful ways about public health and safety.

Finally, this is interesting because IT and social media developers now have the tools to initiate social science experiments on a scale that was unimaginable only a few years ago, and they are already doing it. Facebook developers have demonstrated the ability to manipulate your mood. They performed an experiment on over 700,000 users with a speed and scale that is unimaginable to most social science and mental health researchers today.

Quite honestly, our mental health community isn’t sure how to react to this. Should we be impressed? Nervous? Indignant that we weren’t consulted and our safety review methods not used? Ashamed we didn’t anticipate this and prepare? Intrigued at what might be possible, and how to use that for the greatest good?

In the end, I think the only useful reaction is to replace fear with curiosity. Anxiety and avoidance is no substitute for thoughtful caution and curiosity. If our mental health community stands by our tradition of advocacy and compassion, then we have a duty to acknowledge and embrace the possibilities of social media for preventing suicide and improving mental health. Because if we don’t do it, then someone else who doesn’t understand mental health will.

When it comes to suicide prevention and mental health, technology is moving too fast for our field to wait until we are comfortable enough with social media to innovate. Instead, we must innovate until we are comfortable.

social media for healthcare

Doc Foreman: Suicide Education and Twitter

June 26, 2014 Janet Kennedy Get Social Health, Podcast 00:30:15 2 Comments

Get Social Health talks to Dr. April C. Foreman (or @DocForeman to her healthcare social media crew). She is a Licensed Psychologist serving Veterans in Louisiana as a Suicide Prevention Coordinator for the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System. Prior to that she worked as the only Licensed Psychologist providing care in the four of the sickest and poorest counties of rural Kansas. Dr. Foreman received her Ph.D. from Texas Tech University in 2005.

social media for healthcareDocForeman’s mission in life is to relieve pain, one person, one problem, one minute at a time if she has to. She is known for her practical experience using innovations in emerging technology to solve problems for patients with severe emotional pain.

Our conversation, while about a very serious subject was not without humor, an essential element in dealing with people with suicidal thoughts. ”

You can find DocForeman on Facebook (April Foreman), and on Twitter, where she moderates a weekly Twitter Chat on Suicide Prevention and Social Media (#SPSM). SPSM chat is a project designed to build and spread expertise in the intersection of social media and suicide prevention. A weekly guest expert or targeted discussion topic is featured each week, and targeted at a diverse and multidisciplinary group of stake holders in this field. Each week’s chat is curated, creating a centralized and searchable body of expertise and thought leadership. You can find it here.

Visit our resources page for more valuable (and free!) resources on social media and digital health:

  • American Association of Suicidology
  • New Partnership Between Facebook and the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
  • How to report suicidal content/threats on Facebook
  • Ed Bennett – Mayo Clinic Social Media Network
  • Tony Wood – Midwest Computer Solutions
  • 4chan – An Hero story

Social Media Tip:

From Dana Harris with REX/UNC Healthcare: “Talk to people” -engage on a personal level.

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