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Mental health patients say they're avoiding treatment after 'traumatic' admissions

Caitlin said she was shocked by the experience, and that she raised it with Canberra Health Services through a feedback form at discharge, though she did not make an official complaint.

"It's not like anything particularly bad happened to me, I was never restrained or forcibly medicated or anything, it was just the …"I got to the point where I ran out of toilet paper … I was saving napkins from meals." He first entered the secure facility after being moved from a general ward in the middle of the night, where he was recovering from a suicide attempt.

Andy's wife Sam said staff also gave clothes that she had brought in for him to another patient by mistake.Fortunately, Andy was able to get his clothes back from the patient."It got to a point where I didn't talk to anyone about my mental health because I didn't want to be put back in AMHU again," he said.

 

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There needs to be more funding and clinicians not administrators listened to about how to improve things. One unverified account from a patient doesn’t make a story, the human rights comm. should be helping her. Look at the systemic issues rather than take the lazy option abc.

There is a triage system. Just because you think you are being hard done by this system means it's working to weed out those who don't need urgent help from those who do.

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