Kym Mcminn visits the Mental Health Couch podcast
- Kym Mc Minn - Managing Director
- Feb 16
- 1 min read
I spoke with Nick a little while back on the Mental Health Couch podcast about something that still sits heavy in my chest.
Being Lachy’s young Mum was extremely challenging.
I was young. I was single. And I was 100% judged.
I carried so much guilt.
Guilt that my boy didn’t have his father in his life.
Guilt that it was me - because why else would someone abandon such a beautiful little boy?
Then later… a different kind of guilt.
Guilt that I let other people’s opinions shape decisions about what was “best” for him.
Guilt that I buried his neurodivergence because the judgement was loud, and I was surviving.
Guilt that I didn’t have then the grit, resilience and determination I have now.
If I did, maybe we both would have accessed the support we needed during some incredibly challenging years.
But here’s what I know now:
Opinions are just that. Opinions.
And they can cause real harm.
When we support people - families, young mums, neurodivergent kids, people living with complex mental illness - we must come from evidence, from humility, and from within our scope.
And we absolutely must stop positioning personal belief above professional expertise.
Because who did that teacher think she was telling a young Mum, already in survival mode, that the doctor was wrong? What qualification gave her that entitlement?
Judgement can shape trajectories.
Compassion and evidence can change them.
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