Who are we?

Family group, created in 2022, with the aim of meeting to share experiences with our children, who have been diagnosed at some point with a mental health-related diagnosis. Some situations are more serious and chronic, others perhaps milder and slowly recovering. Our discussion initially focuses on sharing how we have lived through this process, how we feel about the treatment offered to our children, and how we have felt treated as families by the healthcare service system we have had to access, always with the intention of generating alternative (or improvable) proposals to the model of care and treatment for patients' families.

The group meets regularly on the second Monday of each month. The meetings also serve to mark new milestones that allow the group to consolidate progressively.

The group's intention is not to create a therapeutic or mutual help group, but rather to bring together families who have lived or are living with the reality of having a daughter or son, or a close relative, affected by a mental health issue. These are families who, at some point, received a diagnosis and didn't know what to do with the news. They include families with minor children, families with young adults or adult children (and thus already excluded from the care system), and diverse families who shared the bewilderment of being individually and alone within a system thatAssigns blame and excludes. Progressively, care professionals have also joined the group to facilitate discussion and broaden knowledge and understanding of the current model.

Coordinator Montserrat Rovira

What are our goals?

  • Sharing life experiences that have marked us
  • Generate alternative/improvable proposals to the relational model with families from mental health/addictions.
  • Generate debate among group members and with mental health professionals
  • Build an opinion group
  • Visualize ourselves and escape the stigma

Who is part of the group?

Family members of people (early adolescence) diagnosed with, or not, a mental health disorder (chronic or episodic) and/or addiction.

If you want more information, contact us at: info@fccm.net

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