/news/national-news/fear-of-discrimination-stops-lgbti-australians-from-seeking-mental-health-support/176265 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Sun, 03 Feb 2019 22:14:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 /news/national-news/fear-of-discrimination-stops-lgbti-australians-from-seeking-mental-health-support/176265#comment-611220 Fri, 01 Feb 2019 17:17:51 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=176265#comment-611220 As someone who has lived with a mental illness for the last 28 years, I can say from my experience that it really is a lottery when it comes to getting discriminatory free treatment. It really does get to a point where I have to be experiencing quite severe symptoms before I seek any kind of treatment. I wish things were different, but the combined stigma of being gay and having a mental illness makes it extremely difficult. I do think things are gradually changing, but for me it’s a case of too little, too late.

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