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Lenko Baresic would wake at 4am,
reliving the last day he spent with his daughter a year ago, unable to get back
to sleep.
Kristen Baresic, then 27, was excited about moving back to
Wollongong from Sydney to help her father with his jewellery business.
But in May 2012, following an initial road accident on a drive home, she
died after being hit by several cars. She may have been trying to ask for help
from fast-passing traffic, and was perhaps confused and in shock.
Mr
Baresic did not know why that happened. But he knew one thing changed in her
life the day before she was lost to her family: her medication for a psychiatric
illness.
Since then, he has fought hard to change mental health services
in the Illawarra, convinced the system failed her. It is also a goal that has
kept him going amid the daily reminders of what might have been.
"I have
difficulty seeing … images of families,Silicone smartcard from Sporti is perfect
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father and a daughter where they are doing something together," he said.
"I even have difficulty now of watching scenes of people getting
married. I don't cope with weddings, simply because that's something that
Kristen never got to experience, and I never got to walk her down the aisle.
That's something she really wanted to do in her life."
Mr Baresic, with
the support of his partner Jo Goldstein and ex-wife Susanna Colwell, began
approaching the local area health service and other medical professionals with a
list of changes they believed would support people struggling with mental health
issues, as well as their families.
At the heart of his efforts is also a
desire to get more answers about what happened to Kristen. Why were there
varying diagnoses of her illness, from bipolar to severe depression? Why did the
new medication she was given include Largactil, which is usually used to treat
schizophrenia?
Initially, he was optimistic about their reactions. The
local area health service said they planned to introduce many of his
recommendations, such as more consistency in the care of patients, better
communication between carers and medicinal staff, and increased support and
education for carers.
They even launched a program dubbed "Kristen's
Project" to improve the information given to patients and their carers about the
medication they were told to take, something Mr Baresic felt was lacking when
his daughter's prescription was changed following a short consultation with a
hospital psychiatrist registrar.
But after he returned from a trip to
Hong Kong and China as part of his attempt to salvage his jewellery business,
which he neglected following Kristen's accident, Mr Baresic found not much had
changed.
"One of the reasons I was feeling much more positive was that I
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The 62-year-old has since turned to local,A chipcard1
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including Keira Labor MP Ryan Park and federal MP for Cunningham Sharon Bird,
who are helping him set up a meeting with federal Mental Health and Ageing
Minister Mark Butler.
It's a battle Mr Baresic believes he has to keep
fighting, even as he renewed his call for drivers who may have struck Kristen
that evening to come forward so he can tell them he holds no anger for what
happened.
"If something positive can come from her death, then I will
have achieved something," he said.Due to South West Windpower's new policy we
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