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

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

• WA spends the most on specialised mental health services per person
• But it has the highest rate of re-admission to hospital psychiatric units
• The state has the highest number of acute mental health beds per person

“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…

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