The Policy Post

  The great mental health experiment … and why it went so wrong. Half a century ago, governments around the world ditched their old psychiatric hospitals for something they said would work better. It didn’t.

It’s doing your head in: the hidden mental toll of all those crises. We live in a time of anguish: interest rates, cost of living, rents, mortgages, healthcare, the pandemic, the GFC, job insecurity, climate change. It’s having its consequences.