Nhs Mental Health Services – She Has Had Words

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Plenty of individuals have had to take legal action after care was withdrawn.

I have to agree that complaining is a BIG risk you only need to search the newspaper archives where I live for evidence of vindictive treatment of mental health patients who have complained. Whenever helping to reduce ‘self harm’ quite dramatically and slowing down painful emotions with Mindfulness It’s a proven therapy, dBT -Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Marsha Linehan’s original therapy for PD focuses on giving you support when feeling suicidal or ‘selfharming’.

Now let me ask you something. I understand that staff do lie and are defensive and practically the opposite of what they gonna be but does that mean we must just let them get away with it?

I was extremely annoyed by what the psychiatrist had said so wrote back to my MP to politely correct the bullshit that letter contained and it carried on further.

That doesn’t being that they can’t see the point. They don’t make it easy for you and you shouldn’t give up at the first hurdle. As a result, you may as well open your mouth and say something, or write it or email or it or whatever. Everybody has to be aware of their rights and fight for them, they can not merely withdraw treatment. There’s a lot more info about it here. Consequently don’t expect it to get better, By the way I understand that some individuals can’t bring themselves to do that and that is their decision. This is where it starts getting really serious. Fight, I’d say in case they even try to withdraw treatment. Actually, he got in uch with the chief executive of who produced a letter from my psychiatrist which was forwarded to me, when I contacted my MP. On p of that, just Therefore if legal action is required. Of abrupt diazepam withdrawal 8 years ago it became clear that the drug was masking suicidal compulsions and, as I have blogged previously, By the way I spent a day preparing to die.

I lived the perfect day and it was before making final preparations.

I agreed to go voluntarily/informally into hospital.

At the last minute, a combination of love for my mum and ME/CFS made me reveal my plans to her. So this has usually been at personal cost to me, in one case even being banned from a service. Basically, I do, for sure, need to protect other clients and service users, and here’s why I have always brought things to the attention of people’s line managers or supervisors. Thanks for your kind support. So, I was suicidal AND compliant with medication and my acute paranoia was the result of stress and not medication ‘non compliance’. My family and I were just aghast at this I’ve been tally complaint with medication for the 8 years I have been diagnosed and have never missed more than one dose about maybe twice or three times in 8 years. Nevertheless, had I misread the situation and reacted differently defensively or been other people, therefore this could easily are a tragedy in the making. Nevertheless, at a local mental health day centre I was just making a cup of tea one afternoon late last year when a support worker pulled out a knife on me in the kitchen and pretended to stab me with it.

It is amongst the most dangerous things any mental health worker could possibly do in a mental health setting.

I complained to Trust management a couple of times by phone and email.

Indeed initially I just rang up other Trust numbers and said. Only once I emailed my MP to say I’d been suicidal and unable to contact the local NHS mental health team for 3 days did they finally admit there was a issue and invite me to send in evidence. Please can you let IT know that all of your phone lines are down?. Eventually, the Trust denied it, repeatedly, and even wrote to me and emailed me denying it. Basically the problems with the phone lines persist. Outcome this one is ongoing. Keep reading! Meanwhile, back at my local NHS Trust, the telephone lines was down so often over the past year sometimes completely down other times, the Cr Team or the Community Mental Health Team and even the switchboard.

My mum broke bown in floods of tears.

To picture my mum and those floods of tears, there been times when I’ve wanted to die, even felt compelled to die.

She was unconsolable. I will never forget. I was unconsolable. Of course, I know that if I were ever to be successful in taking my own life, she should never forget either. On p of that, ever since, every time I have felt suicidal, therefore this moment has kept me safe. Usually, I had a painful Roman Catholic upbringing, including experiences of abuse. On p of that, I do not seek for to consider that anyone who attempts suicide will end up there, I believe in Hell. Also, Islamic Hell. I do? Also, I did so informally via my NHS keyworker. Outcome words was exchanged. As a result, for about a year anyway. It was only when a very kind young occupational therapist probed me about Catholic guilt that I realised I needed to complain.

When a Muslim support worker preached his values to me and explained the full horror of Islamic Hell and damnation to me in an attempt to keep me safe.

At that point, I became traumatised at the thought previous suicide attempts will mean I would suffer for eternity.

I kept it to myself. I am a liberal Christian if you don’t know what one is, try Googling John Shelby Spong a American Liberal Bishop I once interviewed for Sunday programme when I was working for BBC Radio. Now pay attention please. When he got back to base, he discovered the nearest bed was two counties away and I wouldn’t get there until 30am, the CPN offered to admit. Seriously. Understandably, we decided to ugh out that night and resume negotiations with the Cr Team the next day. Therefore this was 10pm. Now regarding the aforementioned fact… Should you find yourself unable to maintain your safety, dial 999 and ask for am ambulance to take you to AE, or get a lift or taxi there.

NHS has a legal duty of care wards you and you have a right to be taken seriously and treated with respect and dignity and compassion and hope for the future.

I think it is a perfect place to start.

Will you believe I never actually did complain formally about this intimidating and aggressive junior psychiatrist my NHS keyworker stayed behind after the incident and spoke to him and I understand he treated everybody else with schizophrenia similar. Know what, I often keep contemporaneous records of conversations with mental health professionals if they cause me undue distress we have the full transcript, as a journalist of some 15 years. Notice, I rang the NHS Cr Team. Next, and this time, believe me this was so serious we complained offcially to the local NHS Trust and it resulted in considerable changes to working practices and even staff.

I was sent home after a cup of tea and a chat.

They should not admit as I had, in their opinion no intent, Actually I got my mum to drive me up to the local psychiatric hospital with an in one day bag.

I was in a desperately low state 3 years ago when I unexpectedly and without warning felt compulsions to kill myself. Learning about your condition is key to winning the battle as you say a big part of you wants to recover, tap into this and fight for your rights to treatment. PsychoEducation -I did a group just like this on personality distress last year and it MASSIVELY reduced how badly and how long I feel suicidal for and I have always come out the other side without making any attempts since. I am now a firm believer that with the right help, personality distress can be lerated and tamed. It’s only due to an anticipation of faults said the CEO and she added that the phone lines had never been down for a whole weekend.

Now what cashstrapped mental health trust replaces its entire telephony system without there being an urgent need it’s cutting beds so hard that it’s boasting it’ll have amid the lowest bedtoclient ratios in the country and saying so it is because of its brilliant community care.

When I complained to my NHS Trust about the phone lines being down so frequently my care ‘co ordinator’ broke boundaries and asked me during a ’11’ to drop the complaint as she had been approached my Trust management.

One has to be really careful in services not to alienate the people delivering care. I felt unable to pursue it any further as it could affect our therapeutic relationship. So, sadly, the next day, whilst supposedly on suicide watch, I’m pretty sure I used something I had not had taken off me when admitted to attempt suicide.

You better don’t even wonder about what I did, it was a bit innovative, and there’s no way I’m planning to risk anyone vulnerable copying it.

The CPN came back round.

I still get suicidal ideation now I was going through it recently, on Valentine’s Day, and since. Remember, she has had words. It wasn’t for 5 months until the consultant psychiatrist changed my medication to a brang new drug that the relentless compulsions to die stopped Samaritans guidelines prevent me from telling you the methods I considered but I was particularly attracted to certain things and by the end of those five months it was almost more than I could manage not to kill myself. I have made gentle noises to my NHS keyworker about it. The Cr Team after that, spent 5 and a half months refusing to admit me or offer me home treatment and my the care coordinator wouldn’t help either.