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In 2010 I hit rock bottom with my depression. I accessed the 'services' of the CMHT, which had a waiting list of around 30 weeks.
In the past few days, someone I know has been to see their GP about depression - and has been told that it's not just a question of waiting: it's now a question of whether the CMHT will accept you AT ALL.
Staffing issues are being blamed for some patients being rejected altogether.
Things are getting worse instead of better.
And then we start to hear crap about MPs needing mental health check-ups to find out if they're stressed, and how the poor souls are getting ill because of the new regulations on expenses.
What about the rest of us, who have far more serious mental health problems than trying to figure out who's going to clean our moats out???
Maybe if they stopped throwing money away on greedy bankers' bonuses and other such rubbish, they'd be able to afford to run our NHS.
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Posted 27 January 2012 - 05:52 AM
BipolarJ, on 27 January 2012 - 12:28 AM, said:
In 2010 I hit rock bottom with my depression. I accessed the 'services' of the CMHT, which had a waiting list of around 30 weeks.
In the past few days, someone I know has been to see their GP about depression - and has been told that it's not just a question of waiting: it's now a question of whether the CMHT will accept you AT ALL.
Staffing issues are being blamed for some patients being rejected altogether.
Things are getting worse instead of better.
And then we start to hear crap about MPs needing mental health check-ups to find out if they're stressed, and how the poor souls are getting ill because of the new regulations on expenses.
What about the rest of us, who have far more serious mental health problems than trying to figure out who's going to clean our moats out???
Maybe if they stopped throwing money away on greedy bankers' bonuses and other such rubbish, they'd be able to afford to run our NHS.
In the past few days, someone I know has been to see their GP about depression - and has been told that it's not just a question of waiting: it's now a question of whether the CMHT will accept you AT ALL.
Staffing issues are being blamed for some patients being rejected altogether.
Things are getting worse instead of better.
And then we start to hear crap about MPs needing mental health check-ups to find out if they're stressed, and how the poor souls are getting ill because of the new regulations on expenses.
What about the rest of us, who have far more serious mental health problems than trying to figure out who's going to clean our moats out???
Maybe if they stopped throwing money away on greedy bankers' bonuses and other such rubbish, they'd be able to afford to run our NHS.
Politicans are stressed - They found 16kg of snorting powder at the UN headquarters yesterday. I'm wondering if any of our MPs had been over there for a conference on the state of the global economy or something?
"If humanity does not urgently change its ways, several critical thresholds may be exceeded, beyond which abrupt and generally irreversible changes to the life-support functions of the planet could occur." UN Report 2012
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Posted 01 February 2012 - 06:34 AM
I'm not sure restrictions on accessing cmht is a bad thing.
I think one of hte problems in psychaitry is that people can get labelled and sucked in too quickly (yeah it may take ten years for a 'correct' diagnosis but the label of mentla health problems takes very little time to apply.
In the university town I live in there are a lot of overly worried upper middle class parents who push for thier student children to see the psychiatrist at the slightest hint of depression or eating problems and I think it can have the effect of giving thier child an 'illness identity'. I'm pleased the CMHt is refusing unnecessary referrals to secondary care.
I think one of hte problems in psychaitry is that people can get labelled and sucked in too quickly (yeah it may take ten years for a 'correct' diagnosis but the label of mentla health problems takes very little time to apply.
In the university town I live in there are a lot of overly worried upper middle class parents who push for thier student children to see the psychiatrist at the slightest hint of depression or eating problems and I think it can have the effect of giving thier child an 'illness identity'. I'm pleased the CMHt is refusing unnecessary referrals to secondary care.
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