'Not the place to get better': Patients rushed through the mental health system are leaving worse than they entered

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Milly Baker is sitting on a ward at the Canberra Hospital waiting to be admitted to the mental health unit — but she says she wouldn't be there at all if she had gotten proper treatment the last time.

Official Visitor Shannon Pickles, appointed by government to monitor the system, said it had remained at that inflated level.

One email exchange between staff, seen by the ABC, indicated bed pressures did influence judgements on whether to discharge patients. ACT Mental Health Minister Shane Rattenbury accepted the ward was at capacity, but said there had been recent progress, and that the ward had run at 85 per cent capacity since employing a"patient flow coordinator" late last year.Frightening experiences are hindering patient recoveryMilly said some admissions, like her very first, could be intimidating and discouraging.

He said the Government had recently opened specialised long-stay beds at the University of Canberra Hospital, and a sub-acute facility at Woden to provide more options.

 

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They discharged my husband to this 5 times refusing to believe he was worse off but cannot explain why so many admissions in less then a month the last time he was discharged still in psychosis

It's a business model under the guise of healthcare and not all doctors are angels. 2 weeks ago I took an ambulance to ER, asked for sedative. No psychotic symptoms. They gave me an anti-psychotic! I went home, had couple of Panadols instead. Overstretched ERs = declining ethics.

Go back to New Zealand they will Look after you .if our healthcare system is not working

Good looking Australian she looks normal

WHAT, getting locked up in the mental ward is not good?

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