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The story of Lexi Daken and a New Brunswick mother’s fight to fix a ‘completely failing’ system
mental health issues. It took eight hours for Lexi to be assessed by a mental health professional.According to her family, after those eight hours a nurse told Lexi that calling a psychiatrist would take another two hours.The family said Lexi felt like a burden after she was asked something along the lines of, “Are you really going to make us call them?”Lexi went home that night, receiving no immediate help.