NDIS carers say system exhaustion is harming their mental health
Carers navigating the NDIS report exhaustion and mental health decline. The scheme cuts funding to some supports from October 1.
Why it matters
Carers report exhaustion and mental health decline. The NDIS cuts funding for some supports. Families are struggling to get the help they need.
In Australia. Thousands of Australian families depend on NDIS support; when carers collapse from stress, participants lose crucial help and safety monitoring.
Key facts
- 21 years old
- Solarino's son age
- 6 hours Monday
- Support hours weekly
- $2,000
- Couch cost damaged
- October 1
- Funding cuts began
- Carers of people with disabilities say getting NDIS support has become draining.
- Many feel stressed and unwell.
- Amanda Solarino cares full-time for her 21-year-old autistic son in Victoria.
- His aggression toward family members and furniture is getting worse.
- The NDIS has given her only one support worker for six hours every Monday.
- Amanda Solarino says the system offers less help than she needs.
- Fighting it exhausts her.
- Her chronic migraines and arthritis have worsened.
- Doctors suspect stress is triggering autoimmune problems.
- On the Sunshine Coast, Breanna Medcalfe is a 24-year-old law student paralysed from the neck down.
- She has been denied extra support hours.
- The NDIS counts her parents as unpaid supports.
- So it refuses to fund more help.
- From October 1, the scheme began cutting funding for social, economic, and community participation supports.
