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Haha....pick just one?! Ok, here's my pet peeve...A lot of the services in my local area are gate kept behind case management. For example, in my area you can't go and stay at the PARC unit unless you have case management with the local area health service. I know from my advocacy work that the local mental health service case managers are overrun with extreme case loads. And it's extremely difficult to get case management.
In spite of having schizoaffective disorder and BPD, I didn't get case management until I had a suicide attempt in a delusional state in which I acquired a major spinal injury. I can walk now, but it was a long road back. This is not an ideal situation.
If they are going to gate keep services behind case management, then there needs to be more funding for people to acquire case management. They have threatened to exit me from case management because I have been doing better, but this means I would be cut off from a range of services in the local area.
