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Abuse from NHS nurses.

Miss.Omnivore99

I would like to ask others if they, too, have been abused verbally, mentally etc by nurses that work in General hospitals prior to being diagnosed with autism?

I've suffered horribly in both my local hospitals - Poole General and Royal Bournemouth - and now flatly refuse to go anywhere near any hospital, anywhere in Britain. 
I have been verbally abused and had the p!ss taken out of me by nurses and due to being physically disabled, have had to crawl on my hands and knees out of A&E whilst nurses have walked alongside me laughing. 

I’ve been ‘different’ all my life and have only recently been diagnosed with autism. Suddenly everything makes sense. It’s heartbreaking that I’ve had to wait my whole life for somebody to realise that all the ‘reports’ about me were wrong. I’m not mad and I’m not bad but after decades of mental health diagnoses - EUPD amongst others - I was told my troubles were “behavioural” and MH washed their hands of me. Everybody then assumed my meltdowns were delinquent behaviour and I ended up in prison. 
It was my saving grace. 

whilst in prison they had eyes on me 24/7 and realised that I had been wrongly convicted and wrongly labelled. After many assessments I was diagnosed with autism with Complex Post traumatic stress disorder. 

I left prison just under 2 years ago and have the support that I’d been denied all my life. 
People now know that I’m not a horrible person, I’m not violent or aggressive and I’m not attention seeking. 
Im 60 years old in a couple of months time and my life has finally started to be one that I would like to keep. I’ve been on life support twice when things have gotten really unbearable and now that I’ve left prison I have a great team of people supporting me. 

The one thing that causes me any upset now is wondering how many other women are out there going through the horrors that I have?

I hope they find somebody that sees them for who they truly are and not treated harshly because MH services and the NHS are still living in the dark ages and reject anyone that doesn’t fit the mould that they’re trying to squeeze them into. 

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  • You may want to report this to the Nursing and Midwifery Council which is the regulatory body for nurses. People with that kind of behaviour need to be struck off. You can make a complaint here English - Enquiries and Complaints if you know the names of the nurses responsible or make a complaint in writing directly to the hospital. 

    But yes in general the NHS is garbage when it comes to autism in particular and mental health in general. I work for a hospital and the way I've been treated by managers and so called "colleagues" has been nothing short of appalling at times to the point of me having to be signed off with stress and the way they treat patients can be even worse. 

    Still at least in my trust we are doing something about it. We've formed an Autism advocacy group similar to the groups that exist for ethnic minority staff or LGBT groups where we make suggestions and argue with management to ensure a better place to work and a better place to be a patient.

    For example we've introduced health passports which describe all your medical conditions, they way you prefer to be addressed the nature of your autism, any particular sensory issues or preference you have etc. Hopefully we'll manage to make the NHS a little less garbage. 

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  • You may want to report this to the Nursing and Midwifery Council which is the regulatory body for nurses. People with that kind of behaviour need to be struck off. You can make a complaint here English - Enquiries and Complaints if you know the names of the nurses responsible or make a complaint in writing directly to the hospital. 

    But yes in general the NHS is garbage when it comes to autism in particular and mental health in general. I work for a hospital and the way I've been treated by managers and so called "colleagues" has been nothing short of appalling at times to the point of me having to be signed off with stress and the way they treat patients can be even worse. 

    Still at least in my trust we are doing something about it. We've formed an Autism advocacy group similar to the groups that exist for ethnic minority staff or LGBT groups where we make suggestions and argue with management to ensure a better place to work and a better place to be a patient.

    For example we've introduced health passports which describe all your medical conditions, they way you prefer to be addressed the nature of your autism, any particular sensory issues or preference you have etc. Hopefully we'll manage to make the NHS a little less garbage. 

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