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Anna – who works as a mental health researcher – is among the clients and carers from Victoria’s public mental health system calling for the Andrew’s government to initiate a restorative justice process to acknowledge harms and human rights breaches in the sector.
A report commissioned by the state’s health department has recommended that the government formally apologise for harms caused by the system, along with a truth-telling process to hear and document those it says are unresolved.
It points to a variety of mistreatment in the mental health system such as the use of practices like seclusion and restraint and making the loved ones of clients feel invisible.
‘I chewed my way through the restraints in front of two security guards who were laughing at me’, one woman says