It’s always stage four in locked mental health wards

Simon Katterl takes us inside a public mental health hospital where it’s a daily battle for power and control.

Victorians have emerged from lockdown with renewed appreciation for ordinary freedoms. 

Everything once small seems big; seeing friends, having a drink, going to the shops.

2020 has been a test of our collective mental health and wellbeing. 

While we are all in this together, not everyone has been impacted equally. And while many of us are now experiencing these greater freedoms, spare a thought for those whose life and liberties remain locked behind closed wards….[read the full article on the Right Now website].

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