Plans to build secure mental health facility - "a missing part of our system"

The other significant missing part of the mental health system is lack of any comprehensive treatment service for parents of young children who have mental health problems, such as postnatal depression in the public service. This may go a long way to prevent the criminal justice system burden. There is a psychiatrist who works one day a week. Population 400,000. Do the math.

gooterz said :

Are the rumors true that the ANU residence on northbourne once was a mental health facility?

Hah, that’s a new one. But not true.

HenryBG said :

Mrs_Potato_Head said :

bundah said :

DeskMonkey said :

I thought they put in a section for mentally ill people in the Alexander Maconochie Centre?

A temporary measure until the govt finally agreed to accommodate the mentally ill in a separate facility it would seem.

Surely they don’t lock the mentally ill inside the AMC just because they have mental health issues? It would be a sad indictment of our society, and the so-called Human Rights gaol, if that’s what they’re doing.

You’re right – they should let them roam the streets/beaches babbling incoherently and waving Kendo swords/knives until the police find them and shoot them.

What a success it has been, the leftie policy of “caring” for loonies by unleashing them into the community.

It should be simple – gaol is for lawbreakers, psychiatric wards are for the mentally ill. Unless the lawbreaker is mentally ill, then they shouldn’t be in gaol.

It’s obvious that Canberra needs a secure mental health facility with fully trained staff – the ill shouldn’t be placed in the AMC just because there is nowhere left to put them. But 15 beds seems a tad light on to me considering the stats say that mental illness in the community is climbing.

Couldnt they start combining this waste of money.

Not everyone needs their own building. We destroy a hospital only to build a dozen smaller individual ones that duplicate the servies to run them.

Are the rumors true that the ANU residence on northbourne once was a mental health facility?

I LOLd at the bit where Katy said:

“I think”

“I think this is a missing part of our mental health system,” she said.”

She thinks?

Who would’ve thought…

Dibs on being nurse Ratched

HenryBG said :

What a success it has been, the leftie policy of “caring” for loonies by unleashing them into the community.

And there was I thinking the closure of psychiatric hospitals was an Economic Rationalist approach to save money. Silly me. It was obviously another Communist conspiracy to destabilise society.

MHW

Mrs_Potato_Head said :

bundah said :

DeskMonkey said :

I thought they put in a section for mentally ill people in the Alexander Maconochie Centre?

A temporary measure until the govt finally agreed to accommodate the mentally ill in a separate facility it would seem.

Surely they don’t lock the mentally ill inside the AMC just because they have mental health issues? It would be a sad indictment of our society, and the so-called Human Rights gaol, if that’s what they’re doing.

You’re right – they should let them roam the streets/beaches babbling incoherently and waving Kendo swords/knives until the police find them and shoot them.

What a success it has been, the leftie policy of “caring” for loonies by unleashing them into the community.

bundah said :

DeskMonkey said :

I thought they put in a section for mentally ill people in the Alexander Maconochie Centre?

A temporary measure until the govt finally agreed to accommodate the mentally ill in a separate facility it would seem.

Surely they don’t lock the mentally ill inside the AMC just because they have mental health issues? It would be a sad indictment of our society, and the so-called Human Rights gaol, if that’s what they’re doing.

kakosi said :

They’re going to need more than 15 beds!

Especially if anyone has a multiple personality disorder.