Published on 12, July, 2020
As some of you may recall my problems with my social care worker a couple of weeks back in my Done With Mental Health thread i had a phone call from him yesterday and his disdain for me was so obvious in the way he spoke to me i was quite taken aback he couldn't have been more inconsiderate if he had tried ( the urge to tell him to just F%&K OFF was on the tip of my tongue ) all because i missed a home visit and didn't tell him ( i left a note on my door but my phone had bust and i lost his number ) so now he won't come to my home i have to walk half a mile to bus stop then walk another mile and a half at the other end ( most likely hes peeved because i complained about him as well i always assumed that NHS staff were compassionate and understanding but obviously not )
why is mental health care in this country so crap
Thank you Giddy, I really hope you get some answers about what is causing the pain in your arm. By chance I spoke to someone with a similar ankle problem to mine this morning. She has been in pain for a year, now has hip problems too, and will finally see a consultant in a couple of weeks. I'm sure in many cases earlier access to specialist assessment would help to prevent unnecessary complications.
ive no idea what's caused it i haven't strained it or anything and im already on high does of tramadol twice a day for oesteoarthritus but they don't do anything for my arm im hoping hes not going to fob me off like the last one did...bhope your ankle feeling better soon
Sorry to hear you're in pain. If you knew what it was you might be able to do something to help it. Or just ignore it and take painkillers if it's nothing to worry about. Not knowing is hard.
My physio appointment for my injured ankle wasn't due to be until mid November. Luckily I got a cancellation appointment last week, got an additional diagnosis, and got given some new exercises to do.
Waiting so long to get an appointment must be very hard. I bet if you phoned 111 they would end up sending an ambulance. They did that when my husband had a bad unexplained pain. The ambulance crew who came asked why we had called an ambulance, we said we hadn't, we just wanted him to be seen by a nurse or GP!
I have experienced mental health care. I've also learned how to step back from a situation and assess it more objectively.
People are generally nice and mostly want to help. I do my best to let them.
yeah im waiting for an appointment ive had a bad pain in my right upper arm for 2 months and i have no idea why
That's good to know. I've had mixed experiences lately. If you have several different conditions it's sometimes tricky getting a holistic approach that takes into account the combined impact.
all contributions welcome sunflower im lucky my doctor is really patient and understanding it means hes often running late but it's worth the wait
Realise topic under discussion is mental health service - no recent experience but I suspect I might feel the same!
I wish (and I mean this seriously!) I could go to the vet with physical problems rather than the GP. The vet doesn't limit discussions to just one issue and although he's always busy he seems kinder and more patient.
spot on
Just some guy said:The only one of those you can directly and easily influence is how easy you are to help.
For heaven's sake don't be an awkward patient with complex needs
you sound like an N.T NHS employee, when you've been through what i have and experienced the so called mental health "care" i have you will understand what i meant
So someone that's almost certainly overworked and underpaid takes time out of their day to travel, finds out they've wasted their journey and as a result resents the person that caused them this, quite apart from being complained about, shows less than complete empathy with you.
I find that unsurprising.
You don't have to like him. You don't have to try and get him to like you. You may be able to get someone new to support you so that you don't have to work with him. In the meantime you do have to work with him.
None of this makes him a nazi. Try and avoid such hyperbolic labelling as it will influence your own thinking when interacting with him. He may be incapable of empathy but you are not. Treat it as a professional service which requires you to also engage professionally, ask the awkward questions but depersonalise it all. He's as constrained by the system as you are, except that he has to deal with it all day every day.
Mental health care in this country is crap because the people its trying to help are frequently unhelpful in receiving that help, because it's horribly underfunded, because the medical profession often lacks the simple knowledge of how to best help and because diagnosing the underlying issues to even start the process of trying to help is exceedingly hard. The only one of those you can directly and easily influence is how easy you are to help.
It's only taken MH services 45 years to entertain the possibility I might be on the spectrum. There's too many professionals who don't listen,choose to ignore what you're saying and fail to treat the whole person.
Absolutely agree, mental health in this country is crap, and I also thought the NHS staff should be compassionate and understanding, but they are not. Not only do they know nothing about autism, they couldn't care less either.
it's a disheartening thought but you're probably correct tom
I was a punk at the beginning of the Thatcher years. I was only thinking what a dismal time in our history that was... until I was reminded of today. Mental health, as you say, is crap - especially if you're autistic. I honestly think that if you chuck more money at it, all you'll end up with is better-paid and resourced idiots.
ah punk rock i remember those days always wanted a bright red mohawk but could never stand growing my hair
I've not introduced it to a JC fan yet that didn't like it!
Puts me in mind of some of the agit-prop during my punk days at the end of the Thatcher years, too!
ive bookmarked that page to browse later