Many veterans need help adjusting when they return home. But for Tasmanians, that often means spending weeks interstate getting treatment.
"And so walking in the bush … you don't often hear it. You just hear nature," he said.
Tasmania is home to 17,515 veterans. That is 3.5 per cent of the population, the highest proportion of any state or territory, tied with the ACT.Psychologists have full books and one of the state's biggest providers of inpatient care, St Helen's Private Hospital, is shutting down. "We want to put people in hospital to get better, not to get freaked out and re-traumatised because someone came up behind them and touched them on the shoulder and then they lost it.""One of my patients spent four days in emergency waiting for a bed because he was suicidal, and he couldn't go into a private hospital because he was suicidal," Dr Lane said.
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