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#WorldMentalHealthAwareDay2026
10 October 2026

Lived experiences heard: real voices, real change

World Mental Health Day is an opportunity to meaningfully engage with people with lived experience (PWLE) of mental health conditions and to recognize their knowledge as a vital form of expertise. This year’s campaign calls for their voices to shape the policies, services and decisions that affect their lives.

Lived experience is what someone has experienced themselves, especially when it gives the individual knowledge or understanding that people who have only heard or learnt about such experiences do not have.

Too often, PWLE are asked to share their stories but excluded from decisions. Meaningful engagement extends beyond simply being heard.

It means creating opportunities for people to influence decisions, co-design services, strengthen peer-led approaches, challenge stigma and strengthen accountability. When PWLE are meaningfully engaged, mental health systems are likely to become more person-centred, rights-based and responsive to people's needs and concerns.

One important priority for PWLE is the shift away from long-stay psychiatric institutions towards community-based, person-centered mental health care. Institutions tend to be isolating and are too often associated with poor-quality care, coercion and human rights abuses. Deinstitutionalization requires a carefully planned shift in funding, services and support so that people can live in their communities. Reflecting this priority, WHO will launch practical guidance on deinstitutionalization.

On this World Mental Health Day, let us move from listening to action – and build mental health systems with PWLE, not merely for them. by @joealtepeter

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.@megynkelly is a disposable human being. Rape is not sex and not about attraction. Rape is an attack to overpower, hurt, and humiliate someone. It’s not even about women. Straight men rape boys as well. Stop the yes but shlt. 1 in 5 girls and women, 1 in 34 boys and men. It happens every day.

#sexualassault #rape #survivors #violenceagainstwomen #violence by @joealtepeter

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Nothing Compares 2 Prince: A Celebration of Life & Legacy feat. Bilal and Special Guests with DJ Rashida, and Surprise Guest Wendy Melvin.

@bilalmusic and Wendy Melvoin @wigmusic “Sometimes it Snows in April” 💜

#prince #artistformerlyknownasprince #livemusic #ninties by @joealtepeter

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💜 Live @thefordla
Nothing Compares 2 Prince: A Celebration of Life & Legacy feat. @bilalmusic and Special Guests with @djrashida
And Surprise Special Guest @wendymelvoin

#prince #theartistformerlyknownasprince #music by @joealtepeter

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Aussie at the docs. @belmontshorelb @longbeachcity by @joealtepeter

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🌊 Waves 3 days after #hurricanemarie @longbeachcity peninsula. by @joealtepeter

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@longbeachcity @belmontshorelb the day after #hurricanemarie. Calm and humid along the shore. by @joealtepeter

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Say hi to Aussie! He’s my new 1yr old Aussiedoodle. Cute sweet and full of puppy energy. #BeachDog #Dog
@rosiesdogbeach @belmontshorelb @longbeachcity
🏝️ 🐕‍🦺 by @joealtepeter

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#Cycling at #sunset in @longbeachcity
From @belmontshorelb to @dtlb.arts
🏝️ by @joealtepeter

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#TheHandsThatHeal Exhibition @ Amsterdam Centrum Jul 29 - Aug 14 for #WorldPride 2026.

#Transgender people around the world face one of the most consistent forms of exclusion: being turned away, dismissed, or humiliated when they seek medical care. In response, something remarkable has happened. Trans communities have built their own clinics. Run by trans people, for trans people, in cities all over the world.

This project is about those clinics, and the people behind them. Not as symbols or statistics, but as individuals with full lives, who chose to build something instead of waiting for a system that wasn’t coming.

We photographed them. We sat with them. We listened.

What emerged is a portrait of resilience that refuses to be heroic on anyone else’s terms. These are people doing necessary work, often without recognition or resources, because someone had to.

At a moment when trans rights are under attack in country after country, that work has never mattered more. Neither has telling these stories.

More info @ TheHandsThstHeal.org

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#DancingHouses, #Westerkerk Church, #NEMO Science Museum, #EyeFilmMuseum
🌷🌷🌷 taken in Amsterdam Canals by @joealtepeter

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Rembrandt House. Amsterdam NL
#rembrandthuis #netherlands
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