Mental health workers

[GreenTree]

Questions i get asked.
You need to go for a walk.
You need to go for a coffee.
Therapy will work.
These medicines will work.

No it fucking won't. I want to die. Get that in your thick head. The people who work in mental health are all thick. It's a fraud from psychiatrist to care coordinators.
Sorry just ranting.

 

[SilentSadness]

You are right, everything the mental health workers say is unhelpful and only reveals them as obnoxious. It's quite frustrating to hurt so much day in day out that you can think of nothing but death and to be told that you need to go for a walk. All in all, life is a cup full of suffering and it is forced down our throats endlessly. And yes, medicines didn't work on me, probably because my source of suffering is life itself rather than me. I hope that you are treated better and that you find peace in this world with so little peace available.

 

[hellispink]

It's a business. They make money out of people suffering. That area is the same as medicine etc. Humans only do whatever to gain money even if that means affecting others

 

[Darkover]

the whole mental health system is a fraud i mean most of the medication they give you doesn't work yet some company gets paid for it
the truth is they've got no idea yet how to cure mental health conditions

 

[FuneralCry]

The whole industry exists just to scam suicidal people, it's a waste of time being involved with anything like that, it will just cause more suffering. Those people really couldn't care less about our problems and it's incredibly insensitive how they are so invalidating. The reality is that there is simply no real relief from suffering in this hellish world and this undeniable truth cannot be "helped" despite what delusional people like to think.

 

[WaitingToGo]

Go for a walk, take your bicycle out. They always say that to me too. Also pushing "therapies" on you. I'm supposed to be having this therapy next week to alleviate depression caused by a single thing. There's more than one thing causing my depression so what good is this going to do for me but I have to go as if I want euthanasia I have to have all the therapies they throw at me.
Then I've got a big session with another psychiatrist later next week, and if bicycles or walking is suggested, I'll scream.
Yesterday I put myself back on Citalopram after not taking it for several months. I took 20mg and immediately my heart started racing and I felt nauseous. The nausea last for several hours and into today. The doctor told me not to start taking it again but I never take any notice, but I'm off it again. Lesson learned

 

[Next-to-Nil]

"Why don't you try going for a walk?
-Well, I have to get to the middle of traffic somehow... maybe you're right." <- That USUALLY shuts them up or at least makes them consider other options. I always treat it like a game and counter-attack until they realize dissuasion is not the way to go... but that's in less formal settings. I've been scared straight from going to therapy.

 

[noaccount]

Yeah it's horrible, even on here they find me and send me shit like this. They're here on this fucking website bragging about how they personally have assaulted people like us because we were too disabled to stop them, and too disabled to have human rights.

 

[Deadweight]

I don't get this thing that when drugs are in the mix, you get pigeon-holed as another junkie. Like there's nothing more to you than drug abuse. Not the situations and the pain that led you to drug abuse

 

[rationaltake]

The Mental Health Team in the UK can be helpful in practical ways. This is my experience. Though it really helps if you're together enough to know what you actually want from them.

The Occupational Therapist helped me with reasonable adjustments at work. The Care Coordinator wrote a letter which helped me claim some practical assistance.

 

[Mr. Incapable]

I'm genuinely curious what kind of help people want from Mental Health workers or services?.. I've had depression and suicidal ideation for 20 years now (I'm 32 now), but I've never wanted help or support from Mental Health Services or workers because I don't want to live and I also don't want the fuss. I was under services for about two months back in 2010 after a suicide attempt which landed me in a psych hospital, and now, funnily enough, I have an office job in that same psych hospital. So I see and hear all the stuff practitioners, therapist, social workers and psychiatrists do and a lot of it seems to just help people uncover and manage their trauma and help them access the community (going for walks, socialising, building confidence etc) so they're eventually able to get 'back to normal', work and be independent etc. So what is it that people want or expect from MH workers? This is a sincere question btw so I hope it doesn't come across poorly

 

[rationaltake]

I'm genuinely curious what kind of help people want from Mental Health workers or services?.. I've had depression and suicidal ideation for 20 years now (I'm 32 now), but I've never wanted help or support from Mental Health Services or workers because I don't want to live and I also don't want the fuss. I was under services for about two months back in 2010 after a suicide attempt which landed me in a psych hospital, and now, funnily enough, I have an office job in that same psych hospital. So I see and hear all the stuff practitioners, therapist, social workers and psychiatrists do and a lot of it seems to just help people uncover and manage their trauma and help them access the community (going for walks, socialising, building confidence etc) so they're eventually able to get 'back to normal', work and be independent etc. So what is it that people want or expect from MH workers? This is a sincere question btw so I hope it doesn't come across poorly

As I mentioned in my post above I wanted practical help and got it.

 

[Roseate]

I don't get this thing that when drugs are in the mix, you get pigeon-holed as another junkie. Like there's nothing more to you than drug abuse. Not the situations and the pain that led you to drug abuse

Also for a mentally ill person looking for any sort of escape, it's the quickest way to an addiction or to abuse meds. I use abuse the meds they would prescribe all the time. For me at least, the medication portion works. It calms down my anxiety, and keep my emotion balanced. But then creates an even bigger issue which to me is my weight and feeling nauseous. And I feel like the side effects is more than I can handle. But talk therapy is a joke. I had a whole breakdown and I'm told to fucking relax. Find a way to relax myself so I won't snap again because it's my job to quiet the anger, and not the fucking assholes who triggers it.