Chyrell D. Bellamy: The Value of Lived Experience

Chyrell D.Bellamy, Associate Professor of Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry. She also serves as the Director of Peer Support Services and Research; and the Interim Director of the Office of Recovery Community Affairs at the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addictions Services. Dr. Bellamy discusses her own journey through the mental health system as a teenager and how it informs her work today. She advocates for increased access to technology and to mental health services, development of recovery supports, and increased valuation of lived experience in treating mental illness. Do you have any thoughts? Please email us at [email protected]. We post new episodes every Monday. “The Health Technology Podcast” is produced by Herminio Neto, hosted by Christine Winoto, and engineered by Andrew John Rojek.