Leading mental health not-for-profit Smiling Mind has welcomed the release of the Productivity Commission Report into Mental Health and called for generational reform of Australia’s mental health system.
Smiling Mind CEO and clinical psychologist Dr Addie Wootten said the report was right to highlight that too many people experienced preventable physical and mental distress, disruptions in education and employment, relationship breakdown, stigma, and loss of life satisfaction and opportunities as a result of poor mental health.
“The challenge is so great, that too often we focus on managing the problem of mental ill-health at the expense of building a solid foundation of prevention,” Dr Wootten said.
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