Comments by "John Woodrow" (@johnwoodrow8769) on "Qld to increase funding for mental health" video.

If you value friends and family, be VERY careful in letting anyone in genuine need get anywhere near the mental health services system. About all that will happen is they turn them into a fat drug addict.
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More money to employ totally useless additional 'health professions' sitting around on their arses doing NOTHING to assist people in genuine need. Way to much effort to go help these people. Stick to assisting a few high school students feeling the pressure of their pending HSC exams, that'll look like we're doing something. If you can't relate to this comment then you are EXTREMELY fortunate as it means you'd never had to engage with the 'mental health' industry.
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@tonypepperoni3679 My true story is of a young teenager, being forcibly taken from a shelter home, because the staff psychology team had decided she MIGHT be a problem as she was not keen in taking the meds others had prescribed to her to be take only if she felt she needed them. They admitted when challenged, that she had been the perfect resident. She was removed by ambulance staff in a straight jacket, and placed in an adult large holding 'cell' (no other word for it) at a major public hospital full of chronically mentally ill, mostly elderly, adults. People just meaninglessly wandering around, observed by staff from behind glass windows. She had to sleep on the floor with the lights on 24 hours a day. That is the current state of the public mental health system in NSW.
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I used to be a supporter of legalising marijuana .... till I saw the permanent life-long damage it could do to a venerable person. It starts with smoking lots of dope to deal with issues, which turns to serious psychosis. THEN they get placed into the mental health system .... and it is only downhill from there as they befriend other mentally ill people, told what to think and do by staff who are also crazy (the motivation for them to get into mental health field), and the only 'help' offered is highly addictive psychotic drugs. Changed my mind, marijuana should NEVER be legalised. Decriminalize small quantity possession, but legalised and promoted ... no way!
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@laurielaurie8280 Not necessarily. They will turn people who have never touched an illegal drug in their life into prescription drug addicts in no time flat. That's ALL they generally do, stick people on strong highly addictive psychotic drugs, which often do little to improve things, only make the person worse. And these same people will come into constant contact with hard core drug addicts for the first time in their lives. The LAST people they want to be 'hanging out' with.
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