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‘You leave worse off’: WA mental health system triggers PTSD in designer Aurelio Costarella – Brisbane Times
The fashion designer whose work has been loved around the world has slammed the state government for only providing mental health services once someone is in crisis….
The fashion designer first made contact with the mental health system in 2015. He says in 2018 he emerged harmed and broken.
Mr Costarella lived as a mental health inpatient for eight stints totalling 51 weeks during this period, during which time he says he was put on a cocktail of 23 psychoactive medications mostly off-label including benzodiazepines, which depress the central nervous system, without appropriate informed consent around the potential risks of long term use.
He now is three years…
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