“Mental health is every day and every week. We can’t just have these mental health weeks – what we need to understand is mental health is a daily thing,”
Where is all the mental health funding going and why is there a six-month waiting list for Christchurch university students needing help? Dr Thompson said there’s now a six-month waitlist and they’ve “had to close their books.”
“We are highly under-resourced – there just aren’t enough staff, not enough resources. There is huge demand, really, really high need and we’ve been significantly impacted not just by high rates of severe mental illness but significant deprivation, homelessness,...
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