... why the mental health system in this country lets down so many and why those in need of help end up either at the wrong end of the line or exempt from it - detracted, withdrawn, isolated, exempted, ridiculed, generalised, frowned upon, scape-goated, misunderstood and abused - persecuted by those uneducated schlemiels who believe and adhere to the unparalleled fake nonsensical reality and law of the living laid down via the likes of the mass media and their evil codes of practice.
Screw your mental health system, Screw your stigmas and your biases and screw your fucking fake shit-stained puppeted way of living!
Free your mind and your ass will follow.
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I could go on for pages about this subject and totally agree. It's a total failure/fuck up at all organisational levels let alone the sad lack of understanding that a lot of people have about it.. Makes me very angry sometimes to think of the shit that people I know have gone through including being made homeless, neglected, willfully persecuted, ignored by the people who are supposed to help them and eventual suicide.
Problem is we only ever hear about the bad cases. There's a hell of a lot of good going on out there as well. My girlfriend is training to be an addiction counsellor, having lost a parent and a close relative to drink, and there's a massive amount of help out there and a massive amount of good being done. But you rarely hear about that as the media and the internet is rife with bad stuff, bad stories.
It's also nice to see that the attitude to depression, anxiety etc medication changing with therapy being offered a lot more rather than sending off patients with a prescription which will help them in the short term.
Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of problems as well but we just don't hear the success stories of which I know from 1st hand experience there is.
Not to mention, our mental health care is leagues above most countries in the world. Just crazy that resources are so over stretched.
I wouldn't want to need hospital / health care treatment in many other countries.
I hear what you're saying Wilsh and agree, there are the do-gooders out there however I've also met alot of people who enter the realms of the mental health system with good intentions only to be washed up in the mass of red tape and other systematic nonsense. I've also know a couple of blighted people who gave up working in this area due to the stupid way in which the system works.
wilsh Wrote:It's also nice to see that the attitude to depression, anxiety etc medication changing with therapy being offered a lot more rather than sending off patients with a prescription which will help them in the short term.
Now thats pretty much bollocks really. Sure attitudes have changed over the last few decades but acceptance is one thing, dealing with it appropriately is another and the innapropriate measures in place extend to too many people. To even get past the GP stage one must enter the GP's room foaming at the mouth singing gothic hymms backwards in order to be recognised as a case in need by the GP.
Take me for example, just been referred to the councilor at my GP surgery by a mental health team who I was referred to because the GP councillor was deemed as not being appropriate to my needs/requirements in the first place. This, a cycle involving a period of about 4 years just trying to get the GP to recognise my situation and just two appointments with the mental health team over the course of the last 4 months whom I was referred to over a year ago. As far as the 'immediate' solution was concerned, I was chucked on a course of anti-depressents and beta blocking drugs that were A) dangerous for me to take due to the medication i was on for my back.. and B) had absolutely no positive health impact on me due to my tolerance levels to drugs, which was emphasized plenty of times to the GP but I was put on them and sent away regardless. so it seems your views on those being 'sent of with a prescription' is a slightly distorted and over-optimistic one.
It seems from my experience and from others who I know and have spoken to about this - that due to the state of the system and its flaws, those who ought to be helping are simply not doing so due to the overwhelming requirements put upon them by the system and the majority of these people seem more happy to simply pass you on to other services just so they can keep on top of the cases they are already involved in.
in terms of media coverage, you would normally only hear about bad cases as they tend to be more newsworthy.
There's nothing inherently newsworthy about a system working the way it should be working. Should a service be congratulated in the media for providing the service it is supposed to provide?
Saying that, you don't hear that much about bad cases of mental health treatment as, sad to say, it's still a subject people would rather not hear about
Blunt Wrote:in terms of media coverage, you would normally only hear about bad cases as they tend to be more newsworthy.
There's nothing inherently newsworthy about a system working the way it should be working. Should a service be congratulated in the media for providing the service it is supposed to provide?
Saying that, you don't hear that much about bad cases of mental health treatment as, sad to say, it's still a subject people would rather not hear about
Very true what u say and I completely agree, however I was talking about mass media in the broader context of things, ie: the 'how to live your life'.. 'what you should be wearing'.. 'view it how we tell it'.. 'buy what we're selling'... 'this isn't normal because we say it ain't' approach. Sure, there are those with the ability to make up their own mind in this world.. but fuck mass media all the same!
well yeah, but you would expect, or at the very least, hope, some sections of the media to challenge those setting the agenda and confronting the sheep with, at the least, a different point of view.
its all controlled by the same c***s tho. I see the presentation of a 'different point of view' as being nothing more than merely a kick in the bollocks of a society down.
'let the exposures go on. What the fuck they gonna do.. cause a revolution? hardly likely, they drink fluoride supplemented tap water and there are enough social networking apps to keep em on lockdown anyway!'
face it, only real revolutions in western society seem to go only as far as the utilization of facebook groups. Million-man protest march...? they laugh at that shit!
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Don't get me wrong, I agree with a lot of what you're saying and you have bad experience 1st hand. I've been quite lucky with the treatment I've got over time for depression, but have done a lot of self help and alternative therapies as well, which I have a lot of time for.
However, my bad experience extends to certain doctors in the NHS. I've had dizzy spells, like vertigo or BPPV (google it  ) for years now. Long story short, I had numerous MRI scans despite me insisting it was an inner ear problem. One neurologist packed me off saying it was stress and prescribed me beta blockers if it got really bad. Terrible diagnosis. Finally pushed hard for an ENT referral and got to see an amazing audiologist who's literally transformed my life with not so much as a tablet. I still have the vertigo like symptoms but they are so mild now and are basically because I got lazy with the regime she "prescribed". I could get myself 90% better if I continued.
So there's failings all over and it's sad to hear your story mate.
Invisible illness, a very hard thing to live with whether you are the sufferer/victim, the partner or the family.
"now.. lets be frank.. if you will.. tell me.. is there anything wrong with your mind.. really.."
"not a thing doc... IM A GOD DAMN MARVEL OF MODERN SCIENCE!"
"all mental illnesses are a human construct, psychology is bullshit, it's all about fitting people into society, rather than having society fit around them."
Profane Wrote:"all mental illnesses are a human construct, psychology is bullshit, it's all about fitting people into society, rather than having society fit around them."
Good grief, where does that crap come from? Sounds almost L Ron Hubbardish in its wrongness 
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