This powerful first-hand account describes a mother's harrowing experience navigating the NSW mental health system after her daughter, Evie, experienced a sudden decline in mental health. The narrative highlights the lack of support for teenagers, the overwhelming pressure on frontline staff, and the system's failures in providing adequate care and communication.
A mother talks about the trauma of seeing her daughter admitted to a psychiatric ward and what it told her about the stresses faced by staff in the public health system
The personality changes were making her unlikeable; if you didn’t have to continue a relationship with her, you would just drop out because it was too hard. She lost everybody, except the people that really, really loved her. The system kicked in: she would be going into the psychiatric facility as an involuntary patient. We had no idea an assessment in an emergency department could lead to this.
The nurse buzzed us in to a space where you can’t go anywhere else without more buzzers being pressed. You walk in and these doors shut behind you, and you recognise the sound – the sound that these doors cannot be opened. We’re locked in. How could I blame her? I witnessed with my very own eyes, the stress and the pressure that she was under. I could see how easy it would be to forget.That little bit of my story sums up so much of what was happening in the system: really good people doing their absolute best but in impossible circumstances. You not only have an underfunded and under-resourced system but it’s in a domain of health where you need the most.
But over the course of several admissions to the psychiatric facility that year, the continuity of care Evie received meant the psychiatrist developed a personal knowledge, allowing her care and medication to improve.
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