This honestly doesn’t surprise me and is sickening, I needed epipen about 6 months ago and it took my gp 3 weeks to arrange a visit knowing I could of eaten the wrong thing and died, also had a lump on my head and they gave me an email saying I doubt at your age its nothing, trying everything to not be seen in persons, imagine it was something serious like caner. Thanks guys probably nothing serious what a joke
I thought they were to call the mental health hotlines, or Samaritans for health. I am uncertain why a gp would be who would be the one to go to or find fault with.
My (now adult, then 17 year old) son has had both mental health issues and a cough since before covid and hasn’t been able to see a GP in person despite the antidepressants he was prescribed making him suicidal and the cough persisting.
Fortunately we were able to afford private counselling and several thousand pounds later his mental health is stable. His cough on the other hand is exactly the same after nearly 4 years.
The first appointment is often the easiest part too. You can at least get medication prescribed quickly that way, it is getting the real help that takes an eternity; that was before COVID made demand for mental health services shoot up too. It can take six months at a minimum to get a phone appointment from the local mental health team, followed by another six months or more to see someone face to face. The system has always been broken but there has never been any plan to fix it, yet the cost of living crisis only means more and more people will need to access such a service. We are in a perfect storm when it comes to mental health issues in the UK.
> Over the next few months he carried out a number of NHS digital consultations and it had been noted that he had moderate depression and would benefit from talking therapy. However, italk, Hampshire’s NHS talking therapy service, had a six- to eight-month waiting list, the inquest heard.
> In an online consultation last October, Sean admitted that in his original phone conversation he had underplayed how bad his state of mind was.
GP appropriately referred given the information available at the time. Flaw is in underfunding of mental health services and doctor training in the first place.
Can almost guarantee he’s been seen by a few lesser trained ANPs online to save money when he needed a face to face psychiatrist.
But sure doctors and nurses are about to ballot to strike so we get these articles.
Disgraceful. Get this Tory party out of power now
“see ya”
– the health secretary, when asked for comment
I have a feeling we’re going to have an insane wave of late stage cancer cases in the coming year. All because people cannot receive preventive care.
Mental health support is bad. We need to invest as much in our mental health, as we do in our physical
Most complaints are about the waiting time, but is the actual help as effective as it could, or should be?
After months and months in a queue I still went in with a open mindset, but I didn’t feel any better after therapy. So, I joined the waiting list again, and saw a different therapist, and again it didn’t
help me. And medication just made me feel like a zombie which was even worse.
I won’t ever be able to afford private therapy, so I’ve come to an acceptance that I just have to live depressed, and just sleep whenever it’s bad
Another one to the Tory butcher bills. Their hands aren’t just covered in blood at this point they’re doing fucking backstroke.
My GP prescribed me antipsychotic medication without seeing me in person. They did not prescribe any therapy or other treatment, just quetiapine. I’m sure they should have at least done a blood pressure check but nope. So I’m really not surprised.
Does not surprise me, I have ASD/ADHD and have suffered with major depressive disorder since i was 15 and I’m having to wait 28 months to for an appointment with a specialist.
Deliberate tory policy.
This is the biggest bullshit article I have seen in a long time:
1) The coroner didn’t even definitively conclude suicide as a cause of death
2) A coroner has absolutely zero expertise or authority to comment on what social/political conditions could have been implemented to prevent the death occurring
3) There is zero evidence that the deceased would still be alive,or more likely to be alive, if he had seen the GP in person
4) The article indicates that the initial GP consultation was successful in directing him to more specialist services. And it seems the long waiting list was the issue here rather than the ‘remote/inaccessible GP’ bogeyman
Article is clickbait nonsense
Well yeah what’s the fucking point seeing anyone. Why go on an 8 month wait list just to see a therapist you don’t get on with for 3 weeks and then get prescribed some pills that just cover up the problem
The people in charge of the NHS budget need to get their act together
All too common. Anyone with serious mental health concerns knew that the whole mental health campaign during Covid was bollocks. Nobody cares and nobody wants to know.
I was lucky enough to see my GP about my mental health in January which had deteriorated. My GP was able to refer me for cognitive behavioural therapy as my anxiety was terrible and I was too scared to go out the house. The cbt was to be done by phone, which I was happy with. I’ve had cbt years ago and it was great, but I can honestly say that when I had it over the phone it was useless. I felt as though my therapist was just reading nhs leaflets to me, and I wasn’t able to talk as freeIy as I’d liked.
Stealth eugenics still working.
This doesn’t surprise me one bit. The mental health service in the UK is nothing more than a back door cull. My GP told me he couldn’t help me until I tried to kill myself. There needs to be some serious change in the attitudes towards mental health in the NHS.
A couple years ago I was close to the taking my own life and made to go to my GP. After 10 weeks, I was put onto “therapy”. This so called therapy lasted 5 weeks and consisted of a 15 minute phone call once a week. During this 15 minute call I was asked the same questionnaire, given a task such as “go for a walk or clean your room”, then asked if I was still suicidal before they would end the call.
On week 4 I put in a complaint to the department and my therapist blamed me saying I wasn’t “engaging with the therapy” and that I was rude because I called the phone calls pointless.
Eventually the department apologised and said they would put me in for a level 4 phycological evaluation. It’s been 2 years and I still am waiting.
This doesn’t surprise me, I went to the GP pre-pandemic when I was young and told her I had self harm issues. She basically laughed at me, told me it wasn’t that severe and said “well are you going to kill yourself?” Then the other suggestion was to go to a meeting where I would watch a powerpoint about mental health- it set me on a tailspin and I got so much worse that eventually my dad had to frog march me back to the doctors and only then did they start to try and help (but I still had to end up seeking help via outside services in my city.)
I really feel for the poor kid and his family, mental health services in this country are a joke.
Mental health in the UK is the biggest and most broken cog in our fragile engine of a country. If we invested double what we are now you’d alleviate so much strain on Police and A&E/Ambulance that you’d see such a tangible increase in both services.
Purposeful by patriotic pathetic Government. They have under funded the NHS especially the mental health sector cos they know it will likely result in deaths.
NHS is useless for stuff like this. GP’s pay lip service to mental health.
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This honestly doesn’t surprise me and is sickening, I needed epipen about 6 months ago and it took my gp 3 weeks to arrange a visit knowing I could of eaten the wrong thing and died, also had a lump on my head and they gave me an email saying I doubt at your age its nothing, trying everything to not be seen in persons, imagine it was something serious like caner. Thanks guys probably nothing serious what a joke
I thought they were to call the mental health hotlines, or Samaritans for health. I am uncertain why a gp would be who would be the one to go to or find fault with.
My (now adult, then 17 year old) son has had both mental health issues and a cough since before covid and hasn’t been able to see a GP in person despite the antidepressants he was prescribed making him suicidal and the cough persisting.
Fortunately we were able to afford private counselling and several thousand pounds later his mental health is stable. His cough on the other hand is exactly the same after nearly 4 years.
The first appointment is often the easiest part too. You can at least get medication prescribed quickly that way, it is getting the real help that takes an eternity; that was before COVID made demand for mental health services shoot up too. It can take six months at a minimum to get a phone appointment from the local mental health team, followed by another six months or more to see someone face to face. The system has always been broken but there has never been any plan to fix it, yet the cost of living crisis only means more and more people will need to access such a service. We are in a perfect storm when it comes to mental health issues in the UK.
> Over the next few months he carried out a number of NHS digital consultations and it had been noted that he had moderate depression and would benefit from talking therapy. However, italk, Hampshire’s NHS talking therapy service, had a six- to eight-month waiting list, the inquest heard.
> In an online consultation last October, Sean admitted that in his original phone conversation he had underplayed how bad his state of mind was.
GP appropriately referred given the information available at the time. Flaw is in underfunding of mental health services and doctor training in the first place.
Can almost guarantee he’s been seen by a few lesser trained ANPs online to save money when he needed a face to face psychiatrist.
But sure doctors and nurses are about to ballot to strike so we get these articles.
Disgraceful. Get this Tory party out of power now
“see ya”
– the health secretary, when asked for comment
I have a feeling we’re going to have an insane wave of late stage cancer cases in the coming year. All because people cannot receive preventive care.
Mental health support is bad. We need to invest as much in our mental health, as we do in our physical
Most complaints are about the waiting time, but is the actual help as effective as it could, or should be?
After months and months in a queue I still went in with a open mindset, but I didn’t feel any better after therapy. So, I joined the waiting list again, and saw a different therapist, and again it didn’t
help me. And medication just made me feel like a zombie which was even worse.
I won’t ever be able to afford private therapy, so I’ve come to an acceptance that I just have to live depressed, and just sleep whenever it’s bad
Another one to the Tory butcher bills. Their hands aren’t just covered in blood at this point they’re doing fucking backstroke.
My GP prescribed me antipsychotic medication without seeing me in person. They did not prescribe any therapy or other treatment, just quetiapine. I’m sure they should have at least done a blood pressure check but nope. So I’m really not surprised.
Does not surprise me, I have ASD/ADHD and have suffered with major depressive disorder since i was 15 and I’m having to wait 28 months to for an appointment with a specialist.
Deliberate tory policy.
This is the biggest bullshit article I have seen in a long time:
1) The coroner didn’t even definitively conclude suicide as a cause of death
2) A coroner has absolutely zero expertise or authority to comment on what social/political conditions could have been implemented to prevent the death occurring
3) There is zero evidence that the deceased would still be alive,or more likely to be alive, if he had seen the GP in person
4) The article indicates that the initial GP consultation was successful in directing him to more specialist services. And it seems the long waiting list was the issue here rather than the ‘remote/inaccessible GP’ bogeyman
Article is clickbait nonsense
Well yeah what’s the fucking point seeing anyone. Why go on an 8 month wait list just to see a therapist you don’t get on with for 3 weeks and then get prescribed some pills that just cover up the problem
The people in charge of the NHS budget need to get their act together
All too common. Anyone with serious mental health concerns knew that the whole mental health campaign during Covid was bollocks. Nobody cares and nobody wants to know.
I was lucky enough to see my GP about my mental health in January which had deteriorated. My GP was able to refer me for cognitive behavioural therapy as my anxiety was terrible and I was too scared to go out the house. The cbt was to be done by phone, which I was happy with. I’ve had cbt years ago and it was great, but I can honestly say that when I had it over the phone it was useless. I felt as though my therapist was just reading nhs leaflets to me, and I wasn’t able to talk as freeIy as I’d liked.
Stealth eugenics still working.
This doesn’t surprise me one bit. The mental health service in the UK is nothing more than a back door cull. My GP told me he couldn’t help me until I tried to kill myself. There needs to be some serious change in the attitudes towards mental health in the NHS.
A couple years ago I was close to the taking my own life and made to go to my GP. After 10 weeks, I was put onto “therapy”. This so called therapy lasted 5 weeks and consisted of a 15 minute phone call once a week. During this 15 minute call I was asked the same questionnaire, given a task such as “go for a walk or clean your room”, then asked if I was still suicidal before they would end the call.
On week 4 I put in a complaint to the department and my therapist blamed me saying I wasn’t “engaging with the therapy” and that I was rude because I called the phone calls pointless.
Eventually the department apologised and said they would put me in for a level 4 phycological evaluation. It’s been 2 years and I still am waiting.
This doesn’t surprise me, I went to the GP pre-pandemic when I was young and told her I had self harm issues. She basically laughed at me, told me it wasn’t that severe and said “well are you going to kill yourself?” Then the other suggestion was to go to a meeting where I would watch a powerpoint about mental health- it set me on a tailspin and I got so much worse that eventually my dad had to frog march me back to the doctors and only then did they start to try and help (but I still had to end up seeking help via outside services in my city.)
I really feel for the poor kid and his family, mental health services in this country are a joke.
Mental health in the UK is the biggest and most broken cog in our fragile engine of a country. If we invested double what we are now you’d alleviate so much strain on Police and A&E/Ambulance that you’d see such a tangible increase in both services.
Purposeful by patriotic pathetic Government. They have under funded the NHS especially the mental health sector cos they know it will likely result in deaths.
NHS is useless for stuff like this. GP’s pay lip service to mental health.