Honestly for anybody who can afford it and who still believes in psychiatric responses to systemic problems, please donate to Lifeline because I'm beyond certain that there are at least 160,000 people calling tonight.
For everyone else, please e-mail your local federal MP and tell them removing participants off the NDIS with no non-profit support services available to non-NDIS participants offering sufficient levels of care is a disgrace. As a participant who's primary disability is psychosocial, there are no services available to me which compare to what I recieve on the NDIS. There are short term programs, usually based on capacity building to independence. That's not what I need. I've been adequately treated for my condition and my brain is still fucking toast 🙃
I also have a secondary condition that is physical which the NDIS is trying to deny that I met access for, but that's another story. Presently I still recieve support for that condition. The entire reason I used my psychosocial disability to gain access was because I needed support for my physical disability. I will still need support for that condition if I'm removed from the NDIS on the basis of having a primary disability that is psychosocial. There is no support for me that comes close to what is available through the NDIS and being on disability pension in a cost of living crisis? I can't afford it. I'll regress. My mum will get carer burnout. My quality of life will severely deteriorate.
There are 160,000 of us in this boat. Do not let disabled people become scapegoats for a government that won't hold tax evading large corporations accountable, and won't hold themselves accountable for underestimating the amount of disabled people who would need support from the scheme, and failing to provide enough oversight to providers.
