The Queensland Government is being urged to fund more mental health positions as a 90 per cent increase in emergency department presentations have been reported.
Queensland doctors are also reporting a 30 per cent spike in people seeing their GPs for mental health problems.
Queensland Health says it will be providing $46.5 million as part of a Mental Health and Wellbeing Community Package.
However, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists' Queensland branch chair Professor Brett Emmerson says it is a drop in the ocean of what was needed.