Sick of the mental health services

Some good news am starting grief counseling on the phone next week

Eek!

Had to sell mine

Hope that you found a console, Mate!

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Neighbors are fed up with me

Can you even ask your neighbours for help?

Social Services are a waste of time; in your scenario. So, rely on community rather than bureaucracy. 

I can't function barely And They don't listen I haven't even got any food in house I can't get to the shops

The problem is the Trendy Image of Rehab, promoted by Perfect Sibling Journos. 

I'm coping better with little support, because I see myself as a fighter instead of a victim. 

I've been saying something similar for a long time. There's a lot of talk of "raising awareness about mental health"

Far be it for me to piss on the chips of anyone who is sincere in wanting to do something, but it's not awareness we need, it's treatment, or better yet, prevention.

What even is "raising awareness?" -

Hey, did you know depression is a thing?

Yeah? Sounds terrible, what are we going to do about it?

No idea dude, I just wanted to make you aware.

It's the same with "If you're feeling bad, talk to someone" as if

A) I hadn't thought of that

B) It's that simple.

I’ve been stupidly, uncommonly lucky in finding my therapist. I’d had run-ins with some real jokers in the past, and I was ready to call it a lost cause. You are 100% right; these people are incredibly dangerous and beholden to barely any oversight, and even then, the practices espoused by the oversight is so heavily corrupted by bias against the patients that it’s pretty much pointless.

It is baffling to me how many professionals in the psych field won’t listen to their patients. They subscribe to ideas that are… absolutely unhelpful at best, and try too many ‘one size fits all’ therapies, then become personally affronted when their haphazard techniques don’t immediately work. Like, what?!

On a personal note, a good portion of the abuse I lived through came from a guardian who was a mental health professional. They could do no wrong. I was suddenly, inexplicably, a problem child, their word against mine, and that was that. This person was fcking nuts. I know I don’t need to explain to this sub the types of abuse a child can suffer, so I won’t, but holy sht was this person insane. Insane. And, all the while, a respected member of the mental health care community.

Also, as an adult, I’ve simply known too many psychologists as social acquaintances to ever not be worried about the state of mental health care as it stands. ‘Bad things happen to bad people’ - that’s what they believed. How is it not an ethical breach of the trust a patient places in a therapist for the therapist to believe that?

I don't have a social worker

Again, Jobsworths with little genuine enthusiasm.

So true, they tell me I'm to complex.... Then say that Autism isn't a mental health problem, rather a neurodevelopmental disorder, okay but it kinda goes hand in hand with my touretts, anxiety depression and OCD does it not.... Grrrr and these are the apparent 'professionals' 

I agree Tardissteve (love the name btw) it is just here have pills and go away

Mental Health professionals have always dealt with MH problems / issues by strongly encouraging clients to be motivated to do things themselves 

You NEED to request in the correct way (don’t list you have MH issues as primary…your primary problems / Issues are solely from your ASD then request your ASD social work team to undertake a “Autism care assessment” to identify your ASD needs 

That's right. Jobsworths.

My Key Worker is off sick; since the middle of February.