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mental health who cares

NAS78277

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hi i am a main carer and i have got personality disorder .reactive depression . anxiety .stress . i have been married for 25 yrs to my wife who has bio polar disorder . i have been trying to get help with mental health for a long time tried wellbeing . carer for the carers . ats mental health . health in mind . the problem i find that none of these support my kind of mental health ...
i also suffer with neuropathy tried various pain killers no help i am on antidepressants with nerve pain relief ..
my dr says i have no life and cannot see where to send me for my mental health issues ..i am waiting to hear back from the local mp about mental health issues .. they will support my wife only if she goes manic but nothing for me why is there no support for these conditions that i have got ?

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  • Hello. I also have a personality disorder (apparently), it's borderline as well and in my experience with that alone in the NHS is a lot of avoidance. Clinicians tend to want to avoid me because they view BPD as an untreatable malady (or at least extremely difficult to treat). At one point the hospital thought it was a good idea for one of their occupational therapists to give me some therapy. Basically talking and doing some breathing exercises. I can tell you it was useless and they seem to avoid me like the plague. Even the mental health charities do the same.

    The doctor should be referring you to the hospital OR a mental health charity like Mind - at the hospital you'll get a chance to speak to a psychiatrist who should refer you to appropriate treatment. The mental health charities are not very good. I have found them pretty useless to be honest. The people who work for them have big hearts but I am always thinking 'maybe I could be doing a better job than them?'.

    I am very much inspired by your idea and I am going to go to my local MP as well and complain about our similar situations.

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  • Hello. I also have a personality disorder (apparently), it's borderline as well and in my experience with that alone in the NHS is a lot of avoidance. Clinicians tend to want to avoid me because they view BPD as an untreatable malady (or at least extremely difficult to treat). At one point the hospital thought it was a good idea for one of their occupational therapists to give me some therapy. Basically talking and doing some breathing exercises. I can tell you it was useless and they seem to avoid me like the plague. Even the mental health charities do the same.

    The doctor should be referring you to the hospital OR a mental health charity like Mind - at the hospital you'll get a chance to speak to a psychiatrist who should refer you to appropriate treatment. The mental health charities are not very good. I have found them pretty useless to be honest. The people who work for them have big hearts but I am always thinking 'maybe I could be doing a better job than them?'.

    I am very much inspired by your idea and I am going to go to my local MP as well and complain about our similar situations.

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  • in reply to tophatstomper

    There’s not enough help - not even CLOSE to enough help. I’m sorry you are struggling - me too. I’m afraid we have to try to navigate our own way through as the support from state funded services just isn’t good enough. I think If you have the money you can access better help - but a lot of autistic people don’t have much money (I know I don’t). Good luck