Introducing: an independent platform to raise awareness for all of the lives injured, harmed, and lost inside NSW’s chronically underfunded mental health system.
WATCH: Emergency by Four Corners, ABC News
The Four Corners episode, Emergency, by Avani Dias and Amy Donaldson delivers critical insight into the devastating reality of mental healthcare in NSW. Featuring the harrowing stories from renowned healthcare professionals, their patients, and families alike, the 2025 documentary opens the doors into a crisis demanding to be seen.
Full episode will be made available to watch on June 2, 8:30pm on ABC TV and ABC iview
About NSW Needs More
NSW Needs More is a grassroots organisation created to amplify the experiences of patients, their families, and health professionals across NSW who have experienced or witnessed preventable harm due to our state’s poorly funded mental health sector.
Built and operated by an individual who personally experienced preventable harm inside NSW’s mental health system (you can read her story here), this campaign aims to hold our state’s government accountable for neglecting it’s mental health sector at the price of people’s wellbeing, futures, and lives.
Feel free to submit your story If you or your loved one has experienced preventable harm due to NSW’s poorly funded mental health system. (Click to read: “What is Preventable Harm?”) Similarly, we also welcome and encourage any healthcare workers wishing share their stories, as well, if you can do so without breaching patient privacy. Submissions can be published anonymously, and once published, you can request for its revision or removal at any time.
To learn more about NSW’s Mental Health Crisis, view educational resources and information available here. For more information about our policies, please read the below disclaimer.
PLEASE NOTE: For safeguarding reasons, all submission will, by default, be made anonymous, and only released for publication once it has undergone a process of authentication and approval by site moderators. Once published, you will maintain full ownership of the story and can request for it’s revision or removal at any time. The only exception to this is if you are sharing the story of a loved one— in that circumstance, they will retain full ownership of the story and can request for it to be edited or removed at any time.
Stories containing the following will not be approved:
1. The name, photo, or other pieces of personal information which could risk revealing a minor’s identity.
2. The name, photo, or other pieces of personal information which could risk revealing a patient’s identity (unless consent is otherwise obtained). Healthcare workers must not disclose any information which could risk revealing their patients identity.
2. The depiction of other individuals, including healthcare workers, in an overly negative light. Any stories involving negative encounters with other individuals must be written in a way that clearly ties back to the systemic problems inside NSW’s mental health system. The emphasis of your submission must on the system as a whole, not others within it.
Our Archive contains the lived experiences of patients, families, and healthcare professionals affected by the under-resourcing in NSW’s mental health system. Reader discretion is heavily advised as the following content may contain themes of mental illness, self-harm, suicide, eating disorders, trauma, substance misuse, and other potentially triggering topics.
If you are struggling with suicidal thoughts or are otherwise feeling unsafe, call 000 for immediate support. To explore other mental health support options, access NSW Health’s Mental health services and support contact list here.
