Staff Contributors
WE are urging all readers impacted in any way by mental illness issues to reach out and seek help.
We know that at the current time there are 154,000 people with a severe and complex mental illness who are – in essence – missing out on support.
We have a very strong view at the Mental Illness Fellowship of Australia that it is time to do better.
Without doubt, Australia’s current mental health system is fragmented and sadly utterly dysfunctional.
We feel people with mental illness issues, which includes schizophrenia, have been woefully neglected by governments.
It has been going on for literally decades.
Tony Stevenson,
National chief executive officer,
Mental Illness Fellowship of Australia
