CMHT.... A broken service
It's sad to be writing this but as a first entry I would like to talk about 1 of many mental health services within the NHS and my experience of it. I wanted to keep this first entry quite short so I won't go into the in's and out's of all of my health problems for now. Let's just say after years of trying to get help (and failing due to services), I found myself for what must have been then 7th time trying to end my own life. This time in hospital it was different. On previous occasions in hospital I would be waiting for hours to see a mental health team who would play things down, tell me to read a book, do breathing exercises and that my attempt was "silly" (with different teams using different words and phrases). But.... This time I saw an Occupational Therapist. This OT was understanding, fair and really wanted to help me. I never thought or had it suggested (by the countless GP's and MH teams I had previously seen) that an OT could re...