Text reading: What we need from the next stage of Foundational Supports. And a photo of Kate Wood a person with medium length brown hair, holding a black dog.
Text reading: I have been rejected for the NDIS three times. My concern is that the NDIS does not understand mental illness. When applying you are asked to pick the “most impactful” illness. We are told to stop after three. Unfortunately, the world doesn’t just give you only three illnesses and stop. Kate Wood. And a photo of Kate Wood, a person with medium length brown hair, looking off to her left.
Black text on a purple background: An NDIS application also requires you to identify which diagnosis causes which symptoms, something that is impossible with complex mental illness. Illnesses exacerbate each other.
Text reading: If the new Foundational Supports program is to work then it must be built on a fundamental rethink of the way the NDIA understands what mental illnesses are, how these conditions are experienced by real people, and how multiple diagnoses interact with one another. Simply moving people that are not properly understood from Box A to Box B, where they will be handled by different people who still don’t understand their needs will be of little help. And a photo of Kate Wood, a person with medium length brown hair, looking off to her right.
What we need from the next stage of Foundational Supports.
I recently spent four weeks as a psychiatric inpatient, and much conversation between patients was about the NDIS and our difficulties in accessing it.
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