#nhs mental health

[nothing0fnothing]

If you work as a crisis mental health practitioner, and a patient presents to you in mental health crisis, and your response is "what do you want me to do about it?" and that person kills themself because you failed to meet their needs.

You've just committed manslaughter.

#nhs mental health #mental illness #mental heath awareness #mental healthcare #camhs

[chuuyasdog]

So now the wait times for the NHS A&E (the ER if you use the American term) is at its worst since it was the NHS was first established.

(screenshots taken from the bbc news article)

The government NEEDS to stop acting in its own interest and fucking fund the NHS properly, people are DYING for fuck sake.

And since the NHS is struggling to just get ambulances to people fast and not being able to give beds to so many people, no wonder they cant afford to put money towards the mental health department, which inevitably causes MORE deaths as people with mental health problems wont be able to access help.

But of course the fucking tories dont care about any of that, they only care about themselves and making mony. Fuck them, fuck the 1%, and fuck anyone in this country that thinks the NHS should be abolished in favor of a private system like America has.

#nhs #nhs mental health #uk nhs #uk national health service #Vent #Sort of #uk politics #cw death mention

[secretagentsagainstwhatever]

my therapist told me to try drinking coffee in the evening because it can help adhd (it actually does help fwiw)

and then my doctor asked me if i drink coffee, and told me that i should cut it out because it’s bad for ocd

🥲🥲🥲

#mental health #mental health is fun #like i stg #if you have more than one mental health issue #it’s guaranteed they’ll contradict each other in some way #like your anxiety meds will make you more depressed #or anything that gives you a dopamine boost to help adhd will make ocd worse #i mean i’m still drinking my iced lattes #i’m just crying whilst doing it #lmao #ocd #adhd #they recommend cbt for both though which would be great #if it could be the same therapist #but it can’t be #it’s a million separate ones #who all have separate waiting lists #nhs mental health #it’s a broken system #anyway #drink coffee #or don’t #maybe it’ll kill you #does anyone remember #that russell howard sketch #the daily mail cancer song #because that’s how i feel receiving mental health advice #these are not good tags

[uncnsrdsworld]

/Support_Option(s)

Adulthood is the end of the warranty, the end of easy to access support. when the parts are impossible to source and updates become less frequent and a lot less stable.

It has been proven time and time again that the mental health system is completely inadequate to neurodivergent people of all kinds, just pushing the cheapest med that has some basic clinical use instead of finding the broken file and repairing or replacing it. It's the equivalent of using a colander as a condom, it has a small chance at working but such a low chance that even nature has better odds by its self.

Being neurodivergent and needing to assess the mental health care system is the worst and hardest game it fells like I will ever play. If I slip even 1mm I'm in grippy socks before dinner time, freedom reduced to if its a pill or injection.

Being unwell with my mental health is just beyond me anymore, I don't want to continue, I'm forced to. I need a pause button to process everything, this continual march forward is causing every sub-system to receive damage. If this system was an OS that was universally used there would be massive lawsuits, but there is nothing. we are in the dark cold alone crying out for help, but we are kicked like pigs towards the slaughter, the endless machine must march on, forward and forward it goes until something breaks. This continual march of destruction of the machine has eroded myself, and all of my identity away. I have just became a worker drone my personality and social life has eroded away until I collapse from overworking and die, just to be replaced by someone younger and eager to carry on and even cary my body to the kerb for pick up on trash day.

Maybe just maybe I need to sleep or that I just need a break. Or the more probable answer to this just need to find me again.

#mental health #nhs mental health #neurodivergent #actually autistic #adhd #depression #anxitey #adult mental health #non binary #queer mental health

[bpdandmexo]

BPD & Me Diaries

I'm a lost cause and an amazing example of the failures in the NHS mental health services

#borderline personality disorder #bpd #bpd life #bpd things #emotionally unstable personality disorder #eupd #living with bpd #personality disorder #bpd stuff #actually bpd #mental health #mental illness #bpd blog #neurodivergencies #neurodivergent #neurodivergent community #nhs #nhs mental health

[scootybootynootydooty-san]

02:55

But yeah.

I have this- Well, I'm trying to have this sort of... 7 year (?) health plan sort of thing.

I'm 23 right now. I'm gonna turn 30 at some point.

And by the time I do, I wanna be in as close to my peak physical condition as I can be.

It's kind of personal, but like

I dunno, maybe I would like to have a kid of my own one day

and if I wanna give that kid the best chance possible, I gotta start with myself.

If I was gonna be anal about it, I'd aim to have the kid, like, if I was gonna birth it myself, between 32 and 34, cus I feel like (hopefully at least) it would be a good intersection of being emotionally ready, physically ready, and with any luck, financially prepared.

Cus honestly, I'd only want to have a kid/raise kids if I had the financial means to.

Which means that if I ever wanna make that a reality, I really need to start working on the financial aspect of it now.

Like, I got some major outstanding shit to do with council tax. Honestly, technically, I shouldn't even be in the wrong for it, but as far as the Barnet council is, I am and should be totally fucked.

But hopefully I can build a case for myself and unscrew myself.

Besides that, I need to claw myself back on top of my finances again. I've been unemployed since the end of April.

For a while I could justify to myself not immediately looking for work (and for good reason) but now I'm just starting to feel like a loser.

My bank account is scraped clean cus I fucked up providing basic ass information for my UC journal and now I'm putting off logging into my portal as hard as I can cus I'm scared of what I'll see.

I know it shouldn't be that big of a deal, but I just get so freaked out at the thought of doing it.

I met with my care coordinator and a psychiatrist on Wednesday for a catch up session and told them about it. My CC was all like, "Do you think you'll be able to do that yourself or do we need to set up an appointment with a specialist for you?"

I went for a halfway solution where I was all like, "If I don't get it done by Monday, I'll ask Jay (my therapist, and not his real name) to set up the appointment."

So yeah, gotta do that now.

I find as I type this, I'm compelled to jus do it now, but it's 3:11 right now.

It's such a good thing tomorrow's Sunday.

It's such a good thing my weekend schedule completely cleared itself at the last minute tbh.

Cus the thing about this UC journal thing is that the pressure to check and engage with it if off over the weekends cus anyone at the DWP who would've been assigned to my journal won't be working.

I think, assuming I still have an active UC account, when I log in, I'm just gonna make a journal entry asking someone on the otherside "hi hello, can I just come into the job centre to talk to someone in person please?"

cus seriously, I'm having some major problems with accountability right now.

#nightblogging #personal #uc #universal credit #nhs mental health #mental health #kids #having kids

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Gabriella Swerling

Published: Mar 21, 2024

An NHS Trust is investigating accusations that pro-Palestine nurses denied a nine-year-old Jewish boy care.

Elliott Smus, who is based in Tel Aviv, Israel, wrote on LinkedIn on Wednesday about an alleged incident at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital involving his young nephew, who suffers from a rare blood disorder.

Mr Smus said that his nephew, who has suffered with his condition for most of his life, requires a blood transfusion every month or two, spending up to days in hospital for treatment.

He said that his nephew is from a religious Jewish family and wears a kippah and tzitzit, clothing typically worn by orthodox Jewish males.

But he claimed that the child was “kicked out of his bay” by nurses wearing “Free Palestine” badges and forced “to lie on the floor with a canula in”.

As a result, Mr Smus said that his nephew is now scared that if he wears clothing that identifies him as visibly Jewish, he will not receive treatment.

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust has launched an investigation.

Incident was ‘horrendous’

Countdown presenter Rachel Riley, who is Jewish, described the alleged incident as “horrendous” and called on Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Greater Manchester, and the NHS to investigate “with urgency”.

Mr Smus, who has been contacted for comment, said on social media: “As a religious Jewish family, my nephew wears his black kippah (yamulka, religious hat whatever you want to call it) and his tzitzit proudly.

“Not today. Why you ask? The nurses (NHS employees) are all walking around wearing “Free Palestine” pins and he was scared.

“Beyond that, the last few times he went in he was denied correct medical care by the same couple of nurses every time.

“This culminated the last time he went in, when my visibly Jewish nine-year-old nephew, with an autoimmune blood disease was kicked out of his bay by one of the nurses who was covered in pro-Palestine badges and stickers, and had to lie on the floor with a canula in.

“Now the damage is done and my proudly Jewish nephew (and his parents) is scared to not get treatment if he wears his kippah and tzitzit.

“Coincidentally, today when not visibly Jewish, he received quick care. Also worth noting, prior to the conflict he received excellent care.

“It is terrifying to be a Jew in the world again.”

Anti-Semitism at all-time high

The Community Security Trust, which records anti-Semitic incidents in the UK, said that anti-Semitism hit an all-time high in 2023 in an “explosion of hatred” following the Hamas terror attacks on Israel.

The charity said the surge in anti-Jewish attacks, threats and abuse amounted to a “celebration” of Hamas’s Oct 7 massacre by anti-Semites whose own hatred was fuelled by the brutality of the attacks.

Its annual report said that there were 4,103 anti-Semitic incidents in the UK in 2023, nearly double the previous record in 2021, covering all types of “hate” against Jewish people.

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust said: “We are aware of images and very serious claims which are circulating on social media.

“We are rapidly investigating these to establish the situation and are discussing them with the family involved. Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital is committed to providing high-quality care to all patients.”

Mr Burnham said: “I have seen the troubling reports shared on social media and have asked the Royal Children’s Hospital to launch an urgent investigation. No one should feel treated differently in our hospitals because of their race or religion. I’ve asked the hospital management to provide regular updates as they gather the facts.”

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The "be kind" "right side of history."

Let's put aside for a moment that it's unethical for medical professionals to be wearing political paraphernalia of any variety.

Whether or not the accusation is true, literally nobody doubts that people who are pro-Hamas and support Islamic terrorism are completely capable of this kind of atrocity.

#Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital #NHS #National Health Service #antisemitism #pro hamas #hamas supporters #pro palestine #israel #free palestine #free gaza #ethics violation #religion is a mental illness

[360degreesasthecrowflies]

Right sorry but I don't understand why some people, even people that seem otherwise reasonable, seem to have absolutely internalised corporate capitalism talk to the extent that it completely subsumes their own personality and (class) interests???

At work today we had what's supposed to be an evaluation where as a department we, about 40 people, talked about things that have been difficult this year and what we'd hope will improve next year.

So I talked about how this year I have worked a lot of cover, including for managers (2 pay bands above me) and for multiple colleagues at once who have been off, essentially doubling and at some times even tripling my workload - for extra stress and no extra money. I said (using corporate language to hint) that I wasn't always good at asking for help, meaning, undertone, none of you offered to help me out and just expected me to sit and take it because I need my existing salary.

So this was in small groups, in which the focus was firstly giving feedback, and secondly remembering to praise each other for our achievements.

Well the nominated speaker for our group comes on and immediately my story of struggling to do a large amount of extra tasks that are essentially literally taking advantage of someone in a position of little power, actively causing stress to myself at work, for no extra money or any kind of reward but 'helping out the team' is told to the group as "sometimes we had to take on extra responsibilities but that was good because it let us learn about our inner strength and learn more about the business, increasing our skills for the future".

Excuse me! That was not AT ALL what I was talking about!

I already work a valuable job in healthcare. I ALREADY have skills - HENCE I was able to cover for senior team members and keep everything running and going literally at the cost of my social life, mental and physical health. And you aren't even going to say thanks or well done?! In the meeting where that is meant to be the focus?? In fact you're actually going to remove my agency and reframe the story of my own struggle and sacrifice to help out that I told you into some kind of heartwarming Disney ending where the servant felt that the work was its own reward?!

No sorry, get to fuck with that.

Ironically as a result of the teambuilding, feedback, evaluation and celebrating success meeting, I've come out feeling absolutely disheartened. They were like robots. I wasn't the only one that's made sacrifices like this this year, but I was the only one who didn't try and reframe it into a positive, with a neat learning experience and lesson for the group at the end of it.

This is the same workplace that asked us what we would like to add to the workplace to improve our own wellbeing (I reiterate, working in a stressful healthcare provider) and then shot down everything we suggested, even those things that wouldn't involve paying us more or giving us more time off. We were told that we could work longer hours in order to be able to 'earn' a team 'lunch out' during the work day (that of course we would also pay for), or that we could do a 'wellbeing walk' while also having a meeting, so... not exactly an opportunity to de-stress during the work day!

Honestly, I don't understand why these people don't pick up that they are becoming the architects of their own misery, constructing cages of their own making around themselves - and me! We don't have to play the game and turn everything into a positive. That isn't good for mental health OR morale overall either - it's just, ironically for the health background, putting a sticking plaster over a bigger wound. We need to grow up and actually address the issues we have as adults otherwise experienced and valuable staff are just going to end up burning out - which then increases the workload on everyone else and risks bringing the whole system back to square 1.

#nhs #uk nhs #nhs staff #healthcare #capitalism #work #antiwork #mental health #text post #business speak #2023 #real life #cost of living crisis

[chuuyasdog]

I need some advice.

I really want an official diagnosis for my bpd and avpd, mostly to prove to my family that im not making it up and also to make it easier to get accommodations at college and any job i might get in the future.

BUT, im in the uk, and ive been reading about other people's experiences with official diagnoses, and its not good.

People say that having a bpd diagnosis bars them from getting help from any kind of nhs services when it relates to their bpd, and people say that the nhs very rarely even diagnose avpd, and its best to go down the private route, which i cant afford.

I really dont know what to do now, if anyone thats got experience with getting a diagnosis in the UK can give me some advice, i'd be very grateful.

#bpd #borderline personality disorder #avoidant personality disorder #avpd #mental health #mental illness #uk mental health #nhs mental health

[secretagentsagainstwhatever]

media gives such a warped perception of what a patient/therapist relationship looks like…

#idk if this makes sense #but like #they’re doctors #mental health professionals #not your friends #and not just the relationship #they’re either shown to be utterly useless #or they lead their patients to life changing epiphanies #and that’s just like not accurate #mental health #therapy #nhs mental health #idk i’m struggling #rambles

[mariemariemaria]

Does anybody else feel like mental health awareness has done very little to help them in material reality

#i was gonna say done nothing to help but that seemed too harsh #like there definitely is more knowledge about it now. maybe more people feel comfortable speaking about it which is good #but personally i don't feel that. like idk. workplaces will post about mental health awareness and then do nothing to help employees #the same w universities. my uni cut back the already meager mental health support #and then the government is doing absolutely fuck all as well #like idk im just back in a place i thought id gotten out of long ago and i still don't feel comfortable talking about it with people #maybe that's a me problem or maybe it's cultural or something idk. but in the 10 years ive been depressed (🫠) i don't think it's gotten a #whole lot better. teenagers are still dealing with the same shit i did and they're still not being taken seriously #women's mental health is not even spoken about.....anxiety depression sh eds etc are still ignored or seen as hysterical behaviour in women #or just normal esp with disordered eating. society hasn't changed people still want women to be stick thin and weak #like i know 10 years is a short time and there has been massive improvements in mh awareness if we look back over the past 50+ years #but idk i just think that it hasn't gotten better for a lot of people #i think specifically of belfast and like god. the amount of trauma there is the amount of homelessness the amount of substance abuse #drug abuse in particular that has gotten visibly worse over the past decade or so* #and i connect the dots n see the 2008 recession + a tory gov defunding the nhs + dehumanisation of homeless people & addicts + the troubles #+ ptsd + generational trauma + a negative peace + classism + paramilitary drug dealers + parties linked to those paramilitaries #and its like hmmmm i think we live in a society. and a mental health approach based on individual actions like journaling and meditation #isn't the way to go. or at least is not the be all and end all which is what a lot of mental health awareness raising seems to promote #*visibly worse on the streets. it was always a problem ofc but even a decade ago my parents never imagined it would be as bad as it is now #and it's become so normalised. i do think there's less individualism here than there seems to be elsewhere which can be good and can be bad #but i think we are becoming more and more individualistic. slowly. there's still a sense of community here but i do think it's changing #and callousness towards homeless people is one of the most obvious examples of this. #love when i put a wee asterisk in the tags of a post. like i have A Lot To Say lol

[duskyjasp]

Okay so— imma need some advice… ok xx

General mental health TW <<nothing major but pls take care of yourselves

Today I went to my GP. The reason is unrelated but I came out with another booking, next week and this time for all the psychological stuff that’s wrong with me

Btw I’m a minor with some trauma so there’s a lot of parental dependence here

Okay! So!! The main question>> Should I at all be open about my alterhuman identity? Has anyone had any experience with how the medical field handles this sort of thing? Have you been met with any… like, discrimination, shit i hope not

Like I think I have psychosis or some sort of dissociative disorder anyway but I want to feel safe and at least finish college “normally”

Not rlly sure how to finish this. Thxx for reading this far. ur a menace :]

#therian community #otherkin #nhs #mental health #therianthropy #alterhuman #feline theriotype #catkin #leopard therian #canine theriotype #therian #advice #pls help #i am silly

[darkwood-sleddog]

pride this year for me has been about using my new position of power within my community to force change and acceptance. even subtly. i wore my bi flag pin this week, i have never come out to any of my co workers, i didn’t feel the need to. But now that I’m elected and have solidified myself for years as a fixture in my community I’m forcing everybody that comes into my rural office to ask a service of me to interact with somebody wearing a pride pin. You want me to issue your marriage license? Your dog license? Notarize your documents? You’re getting a bisexual doing those services. Ordering new indexing cards for our birth, death, and marriage index i’ve made the switch to more gender neutral language and options because that’s something I can control and it’s wonderful.

I looked the gay man that came in scared of his neighbor in the eyes and there was a mutual understanding between us that we knew of each other and I assured him of his safety with me, he spoke in codes I was only familiar with from my days years ago in drag clubs in a less liberal area of the country. We understood each other.  Yesterday, the first day of June, we hired not only a woman to an opening in a widely male dominated planning board, but an openly lesbian woman. 

Vermont may be more welcoming to LBGTQ+ folks compared to many areas of the united states, but being open can still feel scary to many. Some of us still feel the need to speak in code in our widely left leaning, blue voting communities which is in part due to how past people in similar positions of power to me have acted towards them. But i can help change that, even if just a little. If you’re LGBTQ+ you are safe in my office and safe in my care. 

#not dogs #pride #lgbtq+ #municipal stuff #do i dress in a way at work to sometimes make people that expect a certain type of dress from an elected person uncomfortable #yes #yes i do #i am of the opinion that marginalized groups need. i said NEED to feel safe in their municipal offices #which is very important imo in tiny white vermont #do we vote very left? yes #does that mean people are exempt and/or never engage in bigotry? nope #i see posts on r/vermont all the time of LGBT folk #looking to move and hoping its a liberal left leaning haven here #and sure yeah it can feel that way compared to other areas of the country #but you're naive if you think that a majority white farming state is going to be a left leaning monolith #we have extremely poor mental health care here and limited medical resources for trans folk btw unless you are close to MA in southern VT #or NH in eastern vt #but also eastern vt trends less left #so pick your poison #that being said i love it here and many of my LGBTQ friends from ohio who have visited note how different they feel they are treated here #(in a good way)