Medical Negligence and Maindiff Court
This is my first blog entry regarding my depression and anxiety. I have a lot to say about the past few months.
I have had mental health issues as long as I remember. When I was 21 I started in earnest trying to understand what was happening to me. I later realised I had depression.
I have had little help from psychiatrists or GPs. They are undereducated fools with little empathy or true understanding of the mind. There have been SOME decent professionals along the way such as some counsellors (but only those privately paid for - the NHS ones are pathetic fools with bureaucracy strangling their potential capabilities - At one point I was £20,000 in debt due to paying for my own healthcare, this is in the UK where healthcare is supposed to be free). My recent mental health advocate has been the most amazing professional I've ever seen. This person needs a medal.
Apparently only 7% of people feel some benefit from counselling, but counsellors egotistically believe that they help about 50% of people that come and see them! Imagine any other profession where there was only a 7% success rate. What about a car mechanic that could only fix 7% of cars, or a chef who only cooked 7% nice food, the other 93% being sent back by the clientèle of the restaurant!!!! What would happen to these professions or individuals? Well the profession would be a laughing disgrace, and the individuals would be fired. Why doesn't this happen to counsellors.
Another study showed that para-professional counsellors (people who use counselling in their job but who lack training) have better results than fully trained counsellors. What this means is that counselling training makes people WORSE at counselling!!!! There really is no profession like it. We need to expose this profession as being quite pathetic!
I went to my GP a few months ago (again) to get help for my depression. She sent me to the GP counsellor to have some CBT. After our first meeting she said that she could help me, and that I would benefit hugely from going through exercises in a book she recommended. She suggested I started reading the book and visited her again after a month. Well after a month I returned. Within 5 minutes of this session she had suddenly decided that she couldn't help me. I hadn't even said enough for her to change her mind so much. I felt let down, and told her as much. She became angry. I was quite surprised and realised it was quite shocking for a counsellor to have such anger issues and poor emotional intelligence!
I then went back to my GP requesting further counselling. She said she couldn't really help. I went back again with frustration and asked to be referred to the community mental health team. I had an assessment with them and I told them how much I had been struggling. My assessment came back with just 3 helpline numbers on it... that I could have googled in 5 seconds. I was told by the GP counsellor eventually that I was too 'ill' to get help with her, and now I was being told that I was too 'well' to get help with the community mental health team. So this means I drop through the net.
I got depressed for a couple of weeks. One day I was in bed and I suddenly realised the farcical unjust nature of the situation. I then became very angry. I decided to focus this anger in a positive(ish) way. I phoned my GP practise and threatened them with legal action. My legal angle was regarding medical negligence. I eventually spoke to the practise manager and he did take me seriously. (It's odd that in Britain people and organisations can only do a job properly if they are threatened with legal action!!!!!!!! - what a 'Great' Britain we live in).
I ended up having a double appointment with my GP. She was far more supportive, however I still didn't get much help. I also threatened the CMHT with legal action (again medical negligence). I got a second assessment in which the two people I saw attempted to bully me. Luckily I went with my mental health advocate. I'd like to expose this particular CMHT as being Maindiff Court in Abergavenny, Wales. They need to be exposed for such abuse and negligence. Maybe this expose will force them to improve?
I would actually recommend my doctors surgery as they tried their best to help me, but they don't have the resources.
One voluntary organisation I was recommended by the CMHT was called Hafal. Unfortunately I will need an official diagnosis for them to help me. Sadly the CMHT didn't give me that diagnosis. So why did they waste my time by referring me then? Yet more negligence and a lack of professionalism.
Hafal tried to help me by getting my GP to sign the document. I handed in the document at my GP surgery. A few days later I get a letter saying that my GP is off sick for the foreseeable future and that none of the other doctors know me well enough, therefore they can't fill in the form. So I'm back to square one.
Thanks to all that work in the CMHT. You are useless.
I know so many people who haven't had support for their mental health. This is NOT acceptable. The NHS are brilliant at so many things, but you are inept and negligent at helping people with mental health. Most psychiatrists still think it's acceptable to electrocute people's brains, what great progress.
The people who have helped me most are my friends and family. They have been amazing. Thanks to those people.
I have had mental health issues as long as I remember. When I was 21 I started in earnest trying to understand what was happening to me. I later realised I had depression.
I have had little help from psychiatrists or GPs. They are undereducated fools with little empathy or true understanding of the mind. There have been SOME decent professionals along the way such as some counsellors (but only those privately paid for - the NHS ones are pathetic fools with bureaucracy strangling their potential capabilities - At one point I was £20,000 in debt due to paying for my own healthcare, this is in the UK where healthcare is supposed to be free). My recent mental health advocate has been the most amazing professional I've ever seen. This person needs a medal.
Apparently only 7% of people feel some benefit from counselling, but counsellors egotistically believe that they help about 50% of people that come and see them! Imagine any other profession where there was only a 7% success rate. What about a car mechanic that could only fix 7% of cars, or a chef who only cooked 7% nice food, the other 93% being sent back by the clientèle of the restaurant!!!! What would happen to these professions or individuals? Well the profession would be a laughing disgrace, and the individuals would be fired. Why doesn't this happen to counsellors.
Another study showed that para-professional counsellors (people who use counselling in their job but who lack training) have better results than fully trained counsellors. What this means is that counselling training makes people WORSE at counselling!!!! There really is no profession like it. We need to expose this profession as being quite pathetic!
I went to my GP a few months ago (again) to get help for my depression. She sent me to the GP counsellor to have some CBT. After our first meeting she said that she could help me, and that I would benefit hugely from going through exercises in a book she recommended. She suggested I started reading the book and visited her again after a month. Well after a month I returned. Within 5 minutes of this session she had suddenly decided that she couldn't help me. I hadn't even said enough for her to change her mind so much. I felt let down, and told her as much. She became angry. I was quite surprised and realised it was quite shocking for a counsellor to have such anger issues and poor emotional intelligence!
I then went back to my GP requesting further counselling. She said she couldn't really help. I went back again with frustration and asked to be referred to the community mental health team. I had an assessment with them and I told them how much I had been struggling. My assessment came back with just 3 helpline numbers on it... that I could have googled in 5 seconds. I was told by the GP counsellor eventually that I was too 'ill' to get help with her, and now I was being told that I was too 'well' to get help with the community mental health team. So this means I drop through the net.
I got depressed for a couple of weeks. One day I was in bed and I suddenly realised the farcical unjust nature of the situation. I then became very angry. I decided to focus this anger in a positive(ish) way. I phoned my GP practise and threatened them with legal action. My legal angle was regarding medical negligence. I eventually spoke to the practise manager and he did take me seriously. (It's odd that in Britain people and organisations can only do a job properly if they are threatened with legal action!!!!!!!! - what a 'Great' Britain we live in).
I ended up having a double appointment with my GP. She was far more supportive, however I still didn't get much help. I also threatened the CMHT with legal action (again medical negligence). I got a second assessment in which the two people I saw attempted to bully me. Luckily I went with my mental health advocate. I'd like to expose this particular CMHT as being Maindiff Court in Abergavenny, Wales. They need to be exposed for such abuse and negligence. Maybe this expose will force them to improve?
I would actually recommend my doctors surgery as they tried their best to help me, but they don't have the resources.
One voluntary organisation I was recommended by the CMHT was called Hafal. Unfortunately I will need an official diagnosis for them to help me. Sadly the CMHT didn't give me that diagnosis. So why did they waste my time by referring me then? Yet more negligence and a lack of professionalism.
Hafal tried to help me by getting my GP to sign the document. I handed in the document at my GP surgery. A few days later I get a letter saying that my GP is off sick for the foreseeable future and that none of the other doctors know me well enough, therefore they can't fill in the form. So I'm back to square one.
Thanks to all that work in the CMHT. You are useless.
I know so many people who haven't had support for their mental health. This is NOT acceptable. The NHS are brilliant at so many things, but you are inept and negligent at helping people with mental health. Most psychiatrists still think it's acceptable to electrocute people's brains, what great progress.
The people who have helped me most are my friends and family. They have been amazing. Thanks to those people.
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