@Eden1919I wish I had some way to help, my friend. 😢🤗
If you could get a therapist who would do anything and everything they could for you, a genie-from-the-lamp figure who could grant you any wish so to speak, what would you ask them for?
@RachSANECEO @moderator Last year we had a bunch of MPs who showed up on here for about half an hour to show their supposed support for mental health organizations. Is there any way we could get them to show their faces on a more regular basis?
THESE are the stories they really need to hear! Here-and-now crisises like @Eden1919 's!
Right now we have a news frenzy going on in NSW about whether psychiatrists are getting paid enough or not, and the state MPs are playing right into the game that the therapists have set up. Everybody wants to argue about whether $300,000 or $400,000 per year is fair for a psychiatrist, and ignoring the fact that, either way, we're paying these people hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to throw people like us back out into the street, and tell us: "Your on your own!"
The people in power need to hear these stories, so that they know that the problem isn't underpaid psychiatrists; it's a cruel psychiatric industry of bad character! Instead of paying these heartless people more money to stick around and keep telling their patients to bugger off, we need our leaders to start hiring good, sympathetic, helpful people who are actually going to help us when we need it!
The MPs need to be here. They need to hear these stories. And so do the media.
