Towards Mental Health Literacy
11/12/24 • 57 min
This episode of Profound Conversations will explore the intersection between cultures of care, the dynamics of loss and grieving, as well as the impact that donation has for families that give and receive the gift of life. Our intent for this episode will be to create new understandings and pathways to wellness within the context of great loss.
Our Profound Conversationalists include Dr. Clive Callender, Ingrid Palacios, Nila Schwab, Joey Boudreaux, and our conductor Joia Jefferson Nuri.
Show Topics and Highlights“Over the past year we've been talking about organ donation and how that works. But the one thing we haven't discussed yet, until today, is the grieving process. The world knows more about grieving now then probably did two years ago as we grieve in mass numbers around COVID. “
“My brother wanted to be an organ donor. He wanted to help somebody.”
“If you ever met a donor recipient, they always want to give back. They want to share the story they want to help.“
It's very hard to think when you're in shock, and that's usually what's happening when we approach a family about organ donation.
There are many people who help support families through the organ donation process. What exactly does that "support" look like?
“There are so many different levels of grief. And sometimes it comes back.”
Not everyone is educated to work with different types of grieving, different types of culture.
“We are there to be advocates, we are there to be liaisons, we are there to be those people that will honor those family's wishes.”
“The law requires the deceased persons wishes be followed, whether the family likes it or not. That you if you decided you wanted to be a donor, you will be a donor. And if the family doesn't like it, it is unfortunate, but the donation will proceed.”
There's still a percentage of people who still believe that they need their organs to get into Heaven, that is why more education is needed.
“In the African American community, there is a fear that you will be left to die because your organs are needed, you could keep five people alive. And that the emergency room doctors will not do the best for you, because they want your organs. That's wholeheartedly not true.”
“Grief is ongoing. And someone like me who held it in for quite some time because I didn't know who to say it to, I didn't know if anybody would understand what I was going through. But when I got to LOPA and I tell everyone, my healing began when I began to share my story began to listen to others and and how we can help each other through what we were going through.”
Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level. MLPN.life
The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This episode of Profound Conversations will explore the intersection between cultures of care, the dynamics of loss and grieving, as well as the impact that donation has for families that give and receive the gift of life. Our intent for this episode will be to create new understandings and pathways to wellness within the context of great loss.
Our Profound Conversationalists include Dr. Clive Callender, Ingrid Palacios, Nila Schwab, Joey Boudreaux, and our conductor Joia Jefferson Nuri.
Show Topics and Highlights“Over the past year we've been talking about organ donation and how that works. But the one thing we haven't discussed yet, until today, is the grieving process. The world knows more about grieving now then probably did two years ago as we grieve in mass numbers around COVID. “
“My brother wanted to be an organ donor. He wanted to help somebody.”
“If you ever met a donor recipient, they always want to give back. They want to share the story they want to help.“
It's very hard to think when you're in shock, and that's usually what's happening when we approach a family about organ donation.
There are many people who help support families through the organ donation process. What exactly does that "support" look like?
“There are so many different levels of grief. And sometimes it comes back.”
Not everyone is educated to work with different types of grieving, different types of culture.
“We are there to be advocates, we are there to be liaisons, we are there to be those people that will honor those family's wishes.”
“The law requires the deceased persons wishes be followed, whether the family likes it or not. That you if you decided you wanted to be a donor, you will be a donor. And if the family doesn't like it, it is unfortunate, but the donation will proceed.”
There's still a percentage of people who still believe that they need their organs to get into Heaven, that is why more education is needed.
“In the African American community, there is a fear that you will be left to die because your organs are needed, you could keep five people alive. And that the emergency room doctors will not do the best for you, because they want your organs. That's wholeheartedly not true.”
“Grief is ongoing. And someone like me who held it in for quite some time because I didn't know who to say it to, I didn't know if anybody would understand what I was going through. But when I got to LOPA and I tell everyone, my healing began when I began to share my story began to listen to others and and how we can help each other through what we were going through.”
Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level. MLPN.life
The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Previous Episode
The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know
The opioid epidemic refers to the enormous surge in opioid addiction and overdose over the last several decades in the United States. Much of the epidemic has its origins in medical practice. Devastating consequences of the opioid epidemic include increases in opioid misuse and related overdoses, as well as the rising incidence of newborns experiencing withdrawal syndrome due to opioid use and misuse during pregnancy. Opioid overdoses accounted for more than 42,000 deaths in 2016, more than any previous year on record. An estimated 40% of opioid overdose deaths involved a prescription opioid.
Episode VI will explore the less than obvious connections between mental illness and substance abuse. We would like to assert that one, often overlooked foundational connection is, the unhealthy need that leads to the opioid use, which completely destabilizes a Healthy Mental decision-making process. Are we still in an epidemic in 2022? What are harm reduction policies and what have been their outcomes? Which populations are currently most affected? What can individuals, neighborhoods, communities, cities actively do to assist in solving this epidemic? What are good Samaritan laws? Are their signs that the tide is changing? What are the Trust factors in need of transforming that will lead to satisfactory resolutions?
Show Topics and Highlights
There is a lag between technology and knowledge and the criminal justice system
A physician's background beliefs may influence their decision making
My own efforts have been in getting new technologies into African American and Latino communities.
There's what we call an opiate, and then there's what we call an opioid.
Everyone has a genetic element that dictates what their response is to medications
Are doctors ever held responsible, legally?
What training are doctors getting on proper use of opioids?
We've had great difficulty in changing the dosage requirements, which is set by law in some places, and we find that when people get inadequate medication they may end up using drugs to get by
A lot of a prescriptive practices involve the patient being given responsibility of taking the medication correctly.
There is a huge importance in getting a support system around the patient
There's more training and information needed on the best ways to work with people and making sure you're doing right for that person
This is where health equity comes into play. Because it's not just about making things equitable. It's about what investments would have to go on to raise the value of care.
The number of African American physicians is actually about the same numbers as it was the 1960s. Same as for the Latino community.
Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level. MLPN.life
The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Next Episode
Creating Cultures of Care
When organizations set out to achieve lofty goals, whether they are record breaking profits, client satisfaction indexes or the achievement of record-breaking organ transplants, what are essential elements that must exist within their culture in order to achieve success? This episode examines how effective Executive Leadership has the potential to create the deep sense of purpose and commitment to an organization's values and mission, and how this can ultimately lead that organization to breakthrough outcomes.
Show quotes and highlightsThe difference between an organization doing well, or not, typically has to do with their culture.
A company's culture determines the behavior of the organization and how effectively it provides its service.
People can be insecure as it relates to what their strengths might be and sometimes they might need someone to identity those strengths for them
A leader knows that his or her job is to make the tough decision. And by definition, you're going to be wrong a lot of the time, and it's going to be your fault. And you're going to have to take that on your back and move forward. And nobody will see you as a leader until you're able to do that.
“The way you build a movement is through empowering small groups to success and to connect wit each other.”
“I have a friend, David Burkus is the absolute best teams guy out there. And one of the things he says is, the talent doesn't build the team, the team builds the talent.“
If you want to change behavior, you have to start with the majority, you can always expand a majority out, but the second you're in the minority, you're gonna feel immediate pushback
There are important differences between management and strategy
“Trust has to be a foundational element in any movement you're trying to create”
“And so I went through a period of time in my career where it was difficult for me to ascertain what exactly I was trying to accomplish, what was my passion, what was I good at. And then I realized something that was even more profound, that goals that I wanted to accomplish, and that I had set up for myself are only possible and could only be as fulfilling as possible, if I enjoyed the company of others while I was doing it”
If people don't believe that you value what they do, no factors or figure or evidence you put in front of them is going to make a difference.
If you can find others who believe as you do, and are just as enthusiastic as you are. And you can help them to succeed and get out of the business of selling an idea and into the business of selling a success
Although I didn't realize it at the time, when people were trying to help me, enable me, I took a path of humility and decided that I was going to be of service rather than just trying to fulfill my own goals and aspirations. It really created a this genuine love for trying to help other people actualize themselves
“Far too often we confuse leadership with authority”
Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level. MLPN.life
The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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