As I've said in previous blog posts I suffer from depression and have terrible anxiety and in this blog, I would like to talk about mental health services and how I believe there could more to be done to offer people who suffer from mental health.
I will start this blog when I first believed I was suffering from depression I first saw a GP in 2015 and they weren't helpful they just asked me to self-refer to mental health and wasn't told what to do next. I'm not going to go into details about my depression in this blog its already been covered. So I move on to 2016 when I went to stay with my uncle and wasn't with a GP and I wrote a Facebook post about wanting to kill myself and someone called the police and I was placed under a section 135 and I was taken to a mental health place but when I was taken there I was made to feel like a criminal I was locked in a room where the windows were covered up it felt cold. I was cold and I had my mobile phone was taken from me, the staff were rude and cold and when I asked to speak to a lawyer I was told I didn't have that right I was suffering from a mental health problem but the staff there made me feel like a common criminal. I was let go after a few hours there with no offer of support they just they would write to my GP but when I went to my GP and they failed to write to my GP
So a few days later my uncle took me to A&E and the staff were really nice and they got me an appointment with mental health specialist but when I travelled up to the place I was told because I didn't have a GP in the local area I wouldn't be offered any help so I travelled back down to Clacton where I live and I saw my GP like I said the mental health place in Dagenham didn't tell my GP about the section and I was finally put on antidepressants and referred to mental health services. and I was given an appointment the next day which was good and the staff were really nice. But after I few days I got worse and I wanted to kill myself and I rang 111 and the staff were really helpful and I was asked to go to A&E and I was admitted to mental health ward called the peter Bruff ward as a voluntary patient. My time on the ward was nice the staff on the ward were nice but you never really spoke to a specialist about how you felt and why you were there you were left to your own devices, towards the end I meet my aftercare nurse from the specialist mental health team and she was so nice and I was under the specialist mental health team until March 2017 and she was so supportive and nice and I was sad when I was discharged from the specialist mental health service.
I fast word to my 2nd suicide attempt and my family was asked by the police to go to A&E once again I will not go into much detail due to this being covered in a previous post, and the mental health specialist was so nice and friendly we spoke for an hour and he told me why I should take my medication and to see my GP to get my prescription sorted out. I was given an appointment the next day to see my GP but I wasn't referred to a specialist. After a few weeks I got worse and just wanted to end it all I went to my Gp and he said there was nothing else he could do, I remembered this card that I was given when I was at A&E and I called this number for the crisis team and I was given an appointment for a few days but when I still felt that bad I just wanted to end it now my mum called the Crisis team back and they gave me an emergency appointment for the next day. I had my assignment and They recommend I should go under the home treatment team and the staff were so nice but kept asking the same questions so I grow frustrated With them towards the end. But when I was discharged I was offered no support and no information on what to do next so I felt like a fish out of water.
Before I get any messages I'm not attacking the NHS I'm a firm supporter of the NHS and was grateful to NHS for their support they offered me but I believe more could be done more to help people with mental health and in the coming weeks I hope to announce a project I've been working on for a few weeks and I will announce it on this blog and my social media first.
Thank you for reading this blog you can follow me on Instagram for my advantages @jakehumphries14 and twitter JakeHumphries1.
I will start this blog when I first believed I was suffering from depression I first saw a GP in 2015 and they weren't helpful they just asked me to self-refer to mental health and wasn't told what to do next. I'm not going to go into details about my depression in this blog its already been covered. So I move on to 2016 when I went to stay with my uncle and wasn't with a GP and I wrote a Facebook post about wanting to kill myself and someone called the police and I was placed under a section 135 and I was taken to a mental health place but when I was taken there I was made to feel like a criminal I was locked in a room where the windows were covered up it felt cold. I was cold and I had my mobile phone was taken from me, the staff were rude and cold and when I asked to speak to a lawyer I was told I didn't have that right I was suffering from a mental health problem but the staff there made me feel like a common criminal. I was let go after a few hours there with no offer of support they just they would write to my GP but when I went to my GP and they failed to write to my GP
So a few days later my uncle took me to A&E and the staff were really nice and they got me an appointment with mental health specialist but when I travelled up to the place I was told because I didn't have a GP in the local area I wouldn't be offered any help so I travelled back down to Clacton where I live and I saw my GP like I said the mental health place in Dagenham didn't tell my GP about the section and I was finally put on antidepressants and referred to mental health services. and I was given an appointment the next day which was good and the staff were really nice. But after I few days I got worse and I wanted to kill myself and I rang 111 and the staff were really helpful and I was asked to go to A&E and I was admitted to mental health ward called the peter Bruff ward as a voluntary patient. My time on the ward was nice the staff on the ward were nice but you never really spoke to a specialist about how you felt and why you were there you were left to your own devices, towards the end I meet my aftercare nurse from the specialist mental health team and she was so nice and I was under the specialist mental health team until March 2017 and she was so supportive and nice and I was sad when I was discharged from the specialist mental health service.
I fast word to my 2nd suicide attempt and my family was asked by the police to go to A&E once again I will not go into much detail due to this being covered in a previous post, and the mental health specialist was so nice and friendly we spoke for an hour and he told me why I should take my medication and to see my GP to get my prescription sorted out. I was given an appointment the next day to see my GP but I wasn't referred to a specialist. After a few weeks I got worse and just wanted to end it all I went to my Gp and he said there was nothing else he could do, I remembered this card that I was given when I was at A&E and I called this number for the crisis team and I was given an appointment for a few days but when I still felt that bad I just wanted to end it now my mum called the Crisis team back and they gave me an emergency appointment for the next day. I had my assignment and They recommend I should go under the home treatment team and the staff were so nice but kept asking the same questions so I grow frustrated With them towards the end. But when I was discharged I was offered no support and no information on what to do next so I felt like a fish out of water.
Before I get any messages I'm not attacking the NHS I'm a firm supporter of the NHS and was grateful to NHS for their support they offered me but I believe more could be done more to help people with mental health and in the coming weeks I hope to announce a project I've been working on for a few weeks and I will announce it on this blog and my social media first.
Thank you for reading this blog you can follow me on Instagram for my advantages @jakehumphries14 and twitter JakeHumphries1.
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