00:00Imagine struggling with your mental health but having no access to treatment.
00:09At just 12, Marie's health condition hit a breaking point.
00:24She has had access to emergency treatment
00:27but then had to wait three months to be admitted to a clinic
00:30and another five months for regular therapy appointments.
00:56The number of children and adolescents with mental illness has been rising for years in Germany.
01:02But getting help like therapy can take years.
01:06Görres warns that such health issues can end fatally when left untreated.
01:10And perhaps also, and this is actually the hardest thing,
01:15is suicide under children and children.
01:21Due to cuts in health care funding, the situation could get worse.
01:26Demonstrations have been taking place across Germany for weeks.
01:29The government now aims to create additional treatment capacities.
01:34For Görres, improvements are long overdue.
01:38That's why I am very frustrated
01:41and I hope that the policy makes better decisions
01:46and that this role, which is important, is system-relevant,
01:51that it will be more supported than spared there.
01:59The movement, because of those two people,
02:00who do not want a patientiziack for years,
02:00but there is some sort of thing for people to compose a patient.
02:00If that is ready and Clinic, they prescribe and will make them
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