The evaluation of mental health policies such as ATAPS (a scheme to pay for 12 free psychology sessions for anyone in Australia referred by a GP) was complicated by the simultaneous rollout all across Australia. If instead the policy was trialed in small areas with iterative improvement and A/B testing we could have a better program and more scope for counterfactual analysis in the evaluation. This issue is shared in the alcohol, tobacco and other drug spcae. An independent mental health and substance abuse policy body to independently devise and evaluate policies independently of political point scoring is an important non-partisan issue in the national interests. It is also an opportunity to shift the paradigm of substance and mental health policy for ideological regulation to pragmatic algorithmic regulation since it is a particularly complex field where optimal regulation is unsuited to high political sensitivity. There’s not clear reason this has to be just an Australian thing, but perhaps this is already a thing overseas.
I went to my GP to check I’m doing my exercises right since my chronic pain has persisted for years. Turns out I’m doing squats and kettlebell lifts totally wrong. I guess all my effort into helping my back pain was counterproductive. :’( But there was some positive things that happened today: I heard my friend who was an anxious fella commited suicide and figured I shouldn’t worry about imposing, people aren’t as anxious as you. Tell people you’re into healthy stuff even if you are worried it will make them look weak or bad.
See silver linings in your decision processes, not at the object level because you’ll be reassured things are good, put positive spin and rationalise. And, time map from.now till project due dates incorporating response. Maybe ask about strengths and opportunities this week rather than obstacles first in peoploe with problems. His suicide teaches me that the anxious life ain’t worth living
The evaluation of mental health policies such as ATAPS (a scheme to pay for 12 free psychology sessions for anyone in Australia referred by a GP) was complicated by the simultaneous rollout all across Australia. If instead the policy was trialed in small areas with iterative improvement and A/B testing we could have a better program and more scope for counterfactual analysis in the evaluation. This issue is shared in the alcohol, tobacco and other drug spcae. An independent mental health and substance abuse policy body to independently devise and evaluate policies independently of political point scoring is an important non-partisan issue in the national interests. It is also an opportunity to shift the paradigm of substance and mental health policy for ideological regulation to pragmatic algorithmic regulation since it is a particularly complex field where optimal regulation is unsuited to high political sensitivity. There’s not clear reason this has to be just an Australian thing, but perhaps this is already a thing overseas.
I went to my GP to check I’m doing my exercises right since my chronic pain has persisted for years. Turns out I’m doing squats and kettlebell lifts totally wrong. I guess all my effort into helping my back pain was counterproductive. :’( But there was some positive things that happened today: I heard my friend who was an anxious fella commited suicide and figured I shouldn’t worry about imposing, people aren’t as anxious as you. Tell people you’re into healthy stuff even if you are worried it will make them look weak or bad.
See silver linings in your decision processes, not at the object level because you’ll be reassured things are good, put positive spin and rationalise. And, time map from.now till project due dates incorporating response. Maybe ask about strengths and opportunities this week rather than obstacles first in peoploe with problems. His suicide teaches me that the anxious life ain’t worth living