Member

The problem the Bill will have if we do not tackle the new culture that is eroding the distinction between those who require expert intervention and those simply experiencing normal, if unpleasant, emotions or experiences, is that this is reducing time and resources for those who clinically require external help. That cultural climate is sadly leading to a diagnostic free-for-all, an issue I will return to later in Committee. That in turn is stretching community resources so thinly that CTOs become, in some instances, the only guarantee that those who have been ill enough to be hospitalised can access proper community help.