WA election: West Australians reveal what they want for mental health spending — and it’s not more of the same

For 15-year-old Sam Littlewood, an anxiety attack can be debilitating.

“I tend to get angry, hot and sometimes I can’t breathe … I will physically throw up,” he said.

While Sam has always excelled academically at school, socially he had never really fit in and the teenager’s first year of high school had been particularly difficult.

“Over the summer holiday he gradually got more withdrawn, sad, miserable,” Bernadette Littlewood said of her then-12-year-old son, the oldest of her three boys.

Not long after school had…