While I believe it’s vital we start addressing mental health before it becomes an emergency, we also need a strong system in place for when mental health emergencies do happen.
And right now, that system is a mess (to put it nicely). Emergency mental health is something I’m so passionate about because I’ve been through this system plenty of times, and have seen others go through it many more.
And while there are incredible workers out there who are just doing the best they can with the resources they’ve been given, in my experience at least, the system has only left me in a worse place from where I started.
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