Not Waving, Drowning by Sarah Krasnostein

Author:Sarah Krasnostein [Krasnostein, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Schwartz Books Pty. Ltd.
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

ME, MYSELF, I

“It seems generally true that members of a social category may strongly support a standard of judgment that they and others agree does not apply directly to them.”

—Erving Goffman, Stigma

The current mess has arrived right on time. The Victorian Royal Commission pointed out that the Victorian government has known “for at least a decade” about the “challenges” posed by the mental health system. The Department of Health’s 2009 mental health strategy, for example, stated that action was needed “not only to address the current needs of the Victorian population but to plan for the projected numbers of people likely to be seeking help for mental health problems in ten years’ time.” The Royal Commission’s 2019 report quoted Simon Straface, now Chief Adviser of Mental Health Reform Victoria:

The system is achieving exactly the results it was set up to achieve, every time a decision was made to take funding out, without keeping track of its impact on patients and their families. It is achieving the results it was set up for, every time decisions were made to fragment the system further by introducing elements that linked poorly with one another . . . every time we . . . turned a blind eye to deteriorating hospitals, the substandard accommodation, the homelessness, the poverty and the violence that is all too common an experience for people with severe mental illness . . . We all have a hand in where we are today.

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