Casi di salute mentale a livello di crisi A&E – man mano che le attese si riducono e si riducono i letti specializzati
https://news.sky.com/story/mental-health-cases-at-aande-reach-crisis-level-as-waits-get-longer-and-specialised-beds-dwindle-13378864
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I dunno, maybe we could open some modern-day asylums. You know, to offer proper, specialised help to those in need.
Instead of the current guidelines of mindlessly prescribing standardised doses of sertraline to anyone who scores high enough on their shitty questionnaire.
Future humans will look back on how we treat mental health the same way we look back on the olden days electro shock therapy.
A&E is not the appropriate environment for people in mental health crises. It’s too damn noisy and overstimulating, especially for people with comorbid autism or psychosis.
They should develop more therapeutic crisis centres, either in the community or within the hospital structures, that have dedicated trained workers to support the patient in crisis and escalate care if necessary.
This should be a tranquil environment that’s structurally designed to be safe but therapeutic and has staff members trained in all aspects of mental health.
They could centralise these hubs within regions where admission rates are high. This would save the NHS money and reduce bed blocking by ensuring that acute hospital care is prioritised for medical interventions.
They should also be nicer to people with chronic pain or inflammation pain caused by an illness. At the weekend you can’t contact anyone to get help. Offering someone who is crying in pain paracetamol should be banned.
I would probably help if people with mental health issues weren’t left without appropriate support until they reach crisis point. But that would mean spending money.
No shit. There are not enough specialists to help people and are only available to those in crisis. No wonder people turn up to A&E, you can’t get shit from your GP except some meds and CBT which is useless for a lot of illnesses.
If you read how Wes Streeting wants to dismantle Public Healthcare in this country you would have a mental health crisis it’s not surprising
And the vast majority of them will be sent straight home by the MH liaison team.
71 weeks so far on the urgent wait list for PTSD treatment for me. And this is after exhausting all of the usual tracks. I used to get a “don’t kill yourself” text every month, now it’s every three months. 3 plans written out, and only sheer spite is keeping me going.
The problem with the pandemic lockdown was that it stopped folk suffering from mild forms of mental illness managing their condition via the chop wood and carry water method of mental ill health evasion, for the idleness of lockdown to enable contemplation to find post pandemic national mental ill health had become that much worse. For the government need to force people back to work to have been two fold, of course cash had to be recouped as wealthy folks were aneeding and back to chop wood, carry water it was hoped the impending mental ill health pandemic could be evaded. Not so for once the seed is sown and has germinated it doesn’t stop growing until it is addressed.
We’re pathologising typical psychologically stress and labelling it as ‘mental health’.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0732118X2300003X
Not going to go into too much detail but my mental health struggled a bit last year and I was literally told unless I walked into A&E and tried to kill myself then and there it was unlikely I’d get any help or support at all without ~3 years waiting in line. For “urgent” care. Between “needs a bit of a chat” and “needs immediate admission to A&E or a psych ward” apparently there is just absolutely fucking nothing to help anyone?
Honestly feels like a sick joke when [the NHS’s own guidelines](https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/hospitals/guide-to-nhs-waiting-times-in-england/) quite clearly state anything over 18 weeks is considered generally unacceptable. When honestly I don’t think I’ve had any NHS treatment of any sort over the last 10 years where I wasn’t waiting more like 18 months or more.