Share your Stories

We're inviting contributions across Twitter, Facebook and Instagram for Consumers, Carers and Clinicians to share their experiences, lessons and aspirations using the #bestlifem8 hashtag. In doing so, it help creates a public thread of personal, lived experience and real stories - contributing in this way is a highly democratised, social storytelling method. It also allows us to work with teams like Symplur to perform research at scale, using social research methods in their healthcare-hashtag project work.

We recognise that the experiences of substance dependence and recovery aren't necessarily something that people want associated with their own personal social profiles, so we're supporting anonymous contributions as well, in our survey below. We'll be actively curating and screening these, looking for themes and lessons that we'll reference in our ongoing design forums. 

Patterns that we identify through this process will likely become planned discussion topics in an upcoming series of #aodchat hosted twitter chats, with clinicians, researchers, lived experience advocates and carers. We find they're an excellent way of connecting stakeholders, in a short, timely and convenient format. Stay tuned for more news on this by expressing interest.