
tjo73
Well-known member
I'm afraid i am about to have a rant, so I apologise to everyone first.
I got involved with mental health services again properly in april this year after coping on my own for a couple of years. I first saw the shrink they referred me to in april for the first time, he referred me to home treatment, who after a couple of months discharged me back to the shrink. I saw him again in June and then again in July for an emergency appointment when my mood took a serious nosedive.
Anyway my mood has gone through the floor again and when someone tried to get me an appointment with Him today was told that I was no longer under him or involved with mental health services. It seems that he discharged me without even having the decency to contact me to let me know.
I admit that I did have a problem with him as he diagnosed me as BPD after two appointments and I think he found me a little difficult, but I had explained to him that I find talking to male doctors difficult.
This is not however the first time the mental health services have let me down, in fact it is the fifth time that I have been discharged for things that were not my fault or simply because they have just done it. They have not done things they have promised and on occasions the CPN's have been near on impossible to get hold of and never ring you back as promised.
How can this be right, that a service that is designed to help people in need be so flawed that it abandons people, doesn't do the things it is supposed to and generally justs medicates and sends you away and if you refuse medication washes it's hands of you.
That isn't right I am a human being and I deserve to be treated with respect no matter how ill I am.
It just makes me mad that the system can fail so badly.
Rant over for now
I got involved with mental health services again properly in april this year after coping on my own for a couple of years. I first saw the shrink they referred me to in april for the first time, he referred me to home treatment, who after a couple of months discharged me back to the shrink. I saw him again in June and then again in July for an emergency appointment when my mood took a serious nosedive.
Anyway my mood has gone through the floor again and when someone tried to get me an appointment with Him today was told that I was no longer under him or involved with mental health services. It seems that he discharged me without even having the decency to contact me to let me know.
I admit that I did have a problem with him as he diagnosed me as BPD after two appointments and I think he found me a little difficult, but I had explained to him that I find talking to male doctors difficult.
This is not however the first time the mental health services have let me down, in fact it is the fifth time that I have been discharged for things that were not my fault or simply because they have just done it. They have not done things they have promised and on occasions the CPN's have been near on impossible to get hold of and never ring you back as promised.
How can this be right, that a service that is designed to help people in need be so flawed that it abandons people, doesn't do the things it is supposed to and generally justs medicates and sends you away and if you refuse medication washes it's hands of you.
That isn't right I am a human being and I deserve to be treated with respect no matter how ill I am.
It just makes me mad that the system can fail so badly.
Rant over for now
