A good topic Serge, thankyou.
Unfortunately I see this in all sectors. Organisations simply dont talk to each other.
On a mental health front, take anxiety. I personally found in 1987 when my anxiety peaked (31yo) after many years that GP visits and medication wasnt near enough, enter therapy, great progress but not enough then I sat down one rainy day in front of a log fire and added many other changes I could make like- workplace, career, spiritual, activities, hobbies, passion, cutting off toxic relationships, environment change and so on then added to that list is short medium and long term goals. None of those were discussed with professionals because, essentially, only I could navigate that labyrinth. I did and it took 22 years for my anxiety to 95% disappear. Ideally a personal support worker could have designed a program of change to facilitate those changes but them days they didnt exist.
Only the other day a member here mentioned they didnt care to seek out another psychologist as it would require "me telling my long drawn out story yet again". That's the point you're making I think, we need to eliminate the gaps between the professionals in terms of sharing information but I suppose privacy has a barrier there and we cant ideally give a professional a book on our life story for them to read prior to a first appointment.
Plenty of issues there but certainly any progress has to come within the mental health field and like the ADF that I once joined I soon realised that the "machine" cant be rushed, the animal wont change its own DNA, it must come with reform, a Government direction... if it meant them getting more votes we'd get that reform. As a former prison officer decades ago a prison riot would lose votes, whereas a quiet no headline jail system wouldn't add one more vote. Hence my skepticism.
Cheers
TonyWK
