Welcome to the Heal My PTSD community

[matt]

If you’ve just arrived as a Pioneer member to the Heal My PTSD community this is where it all begins. We're delighted to welcome you all and Michele onto the platform. HealthUnlocked is a social network for health advocates like yourself to start an online movement. It’s about reaching other people and pooling together a mixture of information, support and experience to empower and change the lives of others. Everything here is designed to help you unlock the power of the crowd in PTSD. In a period of immense change in US healthcare you can be a bedrock of support and information to each other.

Back in 2007 I was a resident surgeon in a leading UK hospital. Our government was launching a series of changes to the way specialist doctors like myself were being accredited, and 99% of us felt it was a damaging step for the nation’s health, harmful both to us and future generations of patients we’d be treating. Big health institutions weren’t interested, so myself and a handful of doctors got together online. We started bringing more and more doctors into the group through the web. At first many thought we were crazy but quickly we became grassroots advocates for a generation of UK doctors, and in a couple of months we had a movement of 15,000 that provided support, inspiration and information to each other. We organized the biggest medical rally in UK history , an ongoing media campaign and, eventually, a high profile legal action. We got the health reforms radically changed for the better.

I learnt a lot about the immense power of togetherness, so when I joined forces with Jorge (our CEO) to dream up HealthUnlocked one of the main goals we shared was to make creating an online movement easier for inspired health advocates like you. From my own experience the importance of the group pioneers is the key. This 3 minute TED lecture speaks volumes about it: youtube.com/watch?v=V74AxCq...(Not working as expected?) That’s why you being here and reading this today is an important moment for PTSD. In my experience if you can summon up the persistence to connect with other pioneers, create some activity, and trigger the spirit of a community, there’s no end to what you will go on to achieve together.

Good luck from the team at HealthUnlocked. We're all excited to see what happens next!

Matt

Dr Matt Jameson Evans

Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder

HealthUnlocked

[Agape4us]

Thanks Matt!! You rock!! I am here for movement!! The power of the internet in coming together and creating a new reality is happening. All of the information I have gotten from PTSD research and talking with others is just amazing. Thank You. There is healing in PTSD. We do not have to suffer alone in fear. We can share and in this create a higher quality of life through healing!! Namaste~

[matt in reply to Agape4us]

That's great Agape4us (great name too!). I appreciate the sentiment. All of us at HealthUnlocked are loving the enthusiasm and energy from starting to work with US partners like yourselves. I agree, it feels very much as if the power of connections in health is soon to be seen in health as it has been in other sectors. Also v excited because we know there's so much experience and so much need is out there in PTSD particular. And so great to unite experience with need!

Very much looking forward to see how pioneers like yourself build the first blocks of this community, and some of the stories you've been through to achieve some healing.