A journalist’s personal and moving story published this weekend.

“Every 15 minutes someone in Australia attempts suicide. Every 4 hours someone… succeeds. One desperate life lost because that person felt they had no one to turn to.

Ninety percent of people with physical illness gain access to ready good quality care in Australia; only 35 percent of those with mental illness do.”

Vasek, L 2010, ‘The Secret History of Me’,The Weekend Australian Magazine, June 26 -27, p.18.