A Roscommon woman has spoken out on Facebook about how the Irish Mental Health Service has failed her family. Leah Cull from Arigna in County Roscommon lost both her dad and her bother to suicide. Both her father and brother sought help from the Mental Health Service; with equally bad experiences.
As Leah said about her father, “he came out worse than how he went in. I honestly wouldn’t put my dog in the psychiatric unit he was in”. She said we have “undeniably lost people as a result of the mental health services”.
Speaking about why she wanted to post this video she said it was “for my own sanity. I was constantly talking to myself and repeating what I would say to the government if they were in front of me so I felt I had to voice it some way or another. As I said in the video, a letter just didn’t feel effective enough. Also because I feel like if I (or we) don’t say anything then we are just a number to the government. They get so caught up in statistics that they seem to forget there are people and family’s behind all of the numbers!”
Watch the video:
Two TDs raised the issue in the Dail as a direct result of Leah’s video:
Two TDs raised the issue in the Dail as a direct result of Leah’s video:
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