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Any health system will inevitably have cracks through which some people will fall.

But what if the cracks become so big and so frequent, they can't be avoided,

and more and more people start falling through than getting the help they need?

That's the landscape mental health patients have had to navigate in Victoria,

with a recent Royal Commission shining a light on the multiple points of failure in the system.

So what's it like to fall through those metaphorical cracks? shining a light on the multiple points of failure in the system.

So what's it like to fall through those metaphorical cracks?

In this episode, we get a first-hand account of the experience.

There's literally no in-between in this system.

If you're in the not-that-ficked-up camp,

in Australia you can get 10 subsidised sessions a year with a psychologist.

And this works for a lot of people, which is great.

And then there's camp crazy lady coming through.

The kind with case managers and social workers and police interventions and hospitals and

community treatment orders, bureaucratic speak for forced treatment,

things that cost a lot in terms of money and time and resources. But in between these camps,

in the middle, there's the vast wasteland. And that's where I am.

Today, part two of the six-part series, No Feeling is Final, an award-winning podcast about

mental illness by Honor Easley.

It's a memoir, a deep dive into her mental health journey and her ongoing struggle to access help.

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