National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 Submission 1361
My name is and I am a concerned NDIS participant.
I experience severe mental illness and I have been a NDIS participant since 2019.
I lack social skills and have sabotaged all my relationships throughout my adult life. This causes me great emotional pain and loss of confidence. I also lack the emotional regulation tools to maintain friendships and consequently live an isolated and sad life.
Before receiving the NDIS, I was suicidal. Even today, when I find myself alone for more than an hour or two, I experience extreme loneliness and lose all motivation.
My only relief was to die so l didn’t have to feel the terrible mental pain anymore. That’s the only way l can explain this as these thoughts, plus feelings never go away.
Even though I was physically alive, I was dead inside. I sat in my recliner day in, day out, only getting up to go to the toilet and slept almost all day.
When I am left alone longer than a day, I quickly decline into serious depression and without the input of the support workers that are paid for by NDIS funding, I’m terrified I will return to the dark depression or even worse. The supports I’ve received using NDIS funding have greatly assisted me with massive psychological improvements, plus have saved my life. My self-esteem has increased as a result of the supports workers who assist me and I’m less likely to fall into a decline.
With the assistance of the support workers I access, I have made major important life improvements like, showering daily, having breakfast, eating regularly and eating a healthier diet, taking my important medication, doing exercise and challenging the detrimental thoughts I often have. Plus, have positively challenging me to modify my very negative thoughts, plus behaviour.
Under the proposed changes to the NDIS Future Generations Bill 2026, I’m certain that I will return to how I used to be prior to being accepted for NDIS funding and this frightens me terribly as I don’t know that I will survive without any support
I oppose the NDIS future generation bill 2026.
I would like the committee to recommend a balanced approach to the changes for the future of the NDIS and to put in place a balanced decision-making approach to any funding cuts.
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 Submission 1361
I oppose the automatic decision and algorithms with no individual appeal. I also oppose the funding cuts by the Minister without appeal (s 34 A) as both of these actions will leave people with severe and lifelong disabilities to feel absolutely neglected, cast aside and left without essential supports.