A PAGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION BY PÉTER KÉRI
IT IS REALLY SOMETHING NEW
WE PLAN TO STAY
“NOTHING ABOUT US, WITHOUT US!”
For long, this has been the slogan of patient involvement in mental health.
And yet, when we look back, we rarely remember who among us actually sat at those tables.
Or whether their presence truly changed anything.
We’ve decided it’s time to move beyond just being included.
We want to be kept in — part of the ongoing process of making mental health care better.
Not to be consulted once, but to stay in the room where care is re-imagined.
Because real change doesn’t start with inclusion.
It starts with continuity, trust, and presence —
in the shared space where every voice matters.
WHY PLC IS DIFFERENT?
BECAUSE WE FILL THE GAPS
The Patient Leadership Community was created to help mental health advocacy networks, professional associations, and care systems connect what’s missing between them.
Not by leading or representing — but by bridging.
By offering a free, shared platform where experiences can move across borders, languages, and disciplines.
We believe real progress starts when stories meet halfway.
YES, YES, YES: EVERYBODY NEEDS US
FOR A MORE STRUCTURAL MENTAL HEALTH
It’s easy to think of mental health as something that only belongs to people with a diagnosis.
But it’s not.
Our mental wellbeing lives in everything we do — in how we laugh, cry, hesitate, or think to ourselves about a boss giving a terrible presentation.
Mental health is also social health. And everyone has it.
Those of us living with mental health conditions carry a unique knowledge — one that others rarely access.
We know what happens before an illness, what it’s like to live through it, and what comes after.
Often, we understand the patterns better than anyone else.
And that makes us more than “patients.”
It makes us mirrors — for our societies, our families, and even our care systems.
Maybe we are a bit “different,” but we reflect the truth that still needs to be seen.
LIVED EXPERIENCE (DEBUNKED)
OUR FELLOWS BRING TRUTH WHERE NARRATIVES USED TO BE.
PRESS (CONNECTED)
THE STORIES THAT STAY WHEN HEADLINES FADE.
CARE (REVAMPED)
REAL EMPATHY CAN’T BE TAUGHT — ONLY SHARED.
WRITING (IMPACTED)
WE TURN EXPERIENCE INTO EVIDENCE.
FUNDS (MEASURED)
THE VALUE OF CARE CAN’T BE COUNTED, BUT ACCOUNTABILITY CAN.
RESEARCH (INITIATED)
WHEN QUESTIONS START FROM LIVED REALITY, SCIENCE FOLLOWS.
What Our Client Say
“A diagnosis should bring support, not fear, and shame. Policy makers must review outdated frameworks and healthcare providers should re-think service delivery because people deserve care, dignity, and the chance to live beyond a label. We can hate the illness, but don’t hate the people living with it.”
Péter Kéri,
PRESIDENT (GAMIAN-EUROPE)
POLITICO INTERVIEW
Meet OUR HOST
MAN IN GREEN
He’s the face of nohierarchy.org — but not the face of mental health.
Because no person living with a diagnosis, taking medication, surviving trauma,
or walking through recovery should ever be seen as “more” representative than another.
Mental health has no single hero, no perfect example.
So we let someone entirely neutral take that role.
The man in green — generated by AI — kindly agreed to host this space for all of us.
He reminds us that what makes us human isn’t perfection,
but the courage to stay visible, together.
