NHS crisis team are useless...

[BipolarGuy]

Spot on as usual bpg.
If you believe some of the stuff today on here,.. ironically, the reason the crisis team are that rubbish is because they have deployed most of their staff to sit on SS all day in case a goodbye thread pops up.

A few of the comments on the other thread were ridiculous. I have not read the whole thread and do not intend to.

The trouble is that some people on this site are bad apples - I talked about all that before. These same people tend to politicise the fact that this website exists.
They probably started using this website because they were/are feeling depressed....but now they've morphed into a small pro-death cult on this site who see "pro-lifers" (as they call them) hiding in every bush.
Someone gives away too much personal info which leads to them being approached by the police or health service, and according to these people "the website is under attack".

I would say don't pay too much attention to the fanatic, uneducated minority on this site.



Instead leave them to me please. I very much like the taste of stupid people as I eat them up and spit them out.

 

[Mm80]

A few of the comments on the other thread were ridiculous. I have not read the whole thread and do not intend to.

The trouble is that some people on this site are bad apples - I talked about all that before. These same people tend to politicise the fact that this website exists.
They probably started using this website because they were/are feeling depressed....but now they've morphed into a small pro-death cult on this site who see "pro-lifers" (as they call them) hiding in every bush.
Someone gives away too much personal info which leads to them being approached by the police or health service, and according to these people "the website is under attack".

I would say don't pay too much attention to the fanatic, uneducated minority on this site.



Instead leave them to me please. I very much like the taste of stupid people as I eat them up and spit them out.

Yeah ive noticed the last bit lol.
Only thing that has opened my eyes a little is that if someone has a genuine illness like paranoid schizophrenia, maybe that explains why they have this opinion?
I suppose thats the difficulty of an online forum, things arent as visible. Also like you say there will be bad apples too.

 

[Fedrea]

Hi. Anyone from the UK? I finally got to speak to the crisis team today. My dr called me about a medication review and I told her I wanted to jump or overdose on propranolol and I couldn't stop thinking about it.
Crisis called me back and told me to try mindfulness videos on YouTube.
Feel worse than before they called. What are they actually there for?

I don't want to die right at this moment. But the pain is too much to handle anymore

LOL I'm in the UK and admitted to constant suicidal ideation. I didn't admit I had a plan. But still. Anyway the referral to secondary care got bounced back. You can literally be intent on killing yourself and it's not serious enough for referral

 

[Raminiki]

LOL I'm in the UK and admitted to constant suicidal ideation. I didn't admit I had a plan. But still. Anyway the referral to secondary care got bounced back. You can literally be intent on killing yourself and it's not serious enough for referral

UK here too. I'm frank and honest with GPs and psychiatrists. They ask the standard questions. Do you feel suicidal? Yes. Do you have a plan? Yes. Are you in danger of harming yourself? No. What is your plan? I'm not sharing that information lest the means be taken from me. Where do you get your information from? It's freely available online and in books. I've never been detained. There was one incident when I agreed to go to hospital on threat of being taken against my will. Just to talk things through. I went, they wanted to admit me. I called them out for trying to trap me when I was being cooperative and said that if they forced me, I would never trust them again. I was allowed to leave.

Have phoned 111 before, all they did was talk a little and try to bring an appointment forward. Didn't happen, it's always months and months between appointments, sometimes they forget completely to arrange another one.

 

[Emily_Numb]

The crisis team are a fucking joke. I called them when in massive crisis and was told to 'call the Samaritans'.
An absolute waste of time and NHS money

 

[Gsz1982]

I hung myself was in intensive care and was discharged with a month's worth of co codamol which I immediately OD on! They are nuts

 

[Emily_Numb]

I hung myself was in intensive care and was discharged with a month's worth of co codamol which I immediately OD on! They are nuts

FFS! That's such a joke. I bet after a cocodomol OD you didn't shit for a month!

 

[TheLostCause]

Honestly i had a relatively ok experience with my local crisis team. I od and ended up in hospital early this year after literally telling my therapist i had planned to and was going to do it. She stopped my therapy and made an appointment with a mh team who did nothing.
Ended up going to my gp after i was discharged from hospital, told her exactly what happened. She was amazing, she refused to let me leave until she referred me to the crisis team and made sure it went through. They rung me hours later. I was with them for a few months, saw them every couple days, got started on some actual medication that helped some stuff. Got discharged from them to a local mh team who im now under. Can't really say they are much use though, had 4 subsequent ods in the last 2 months, been sectioned once and currently in hospital right now after my recent od.

 

[elfgyoza]

I think the problem with crisis team's is that it's basically a postcode lottery and luck.
I've actually had a good experience with my local crisis team, I even saw 2 psychs in 1 week lmao. The first guy was unbelievably shit, but all the nurses I saw seemed to genuinely care; they knew I had the means to kill myself but didn't push too much for me to hand it over, they never threatened or forced me to do anything I didn't want to, and they seemed to be decent at getting you meds if you needed them.
The issue is that it's down to luck, and if you're a 'complex' case they just try to push you elsewhere and stop caring. It's not perfect, but I'd rather have to deal with a shit crisis team than automatic involuntary hospitalisation

 

[AutoTap]

Where I'm at if I mention I wanna die or whatever they want to put you in psych ward for 72h

 

[HopelessBorderline]

I think about suicide constantly. I'm not in a position to do it. But it consumes me. I question existence. "Is this it?" "Am I just here to suffer".

I've lost count of how many times I've gone to my gp. She tells me it's my anxiety. Puts me through for therapy and I get told all the same shit that doesn't work. I really put my all in to trying to help myself though, to no avail.
I'm alive but I'm not living. If I had my way, I'd travel the world. I wanna see sites. Experience culture, meet new people, explore, adventure. All these things I want for me and want to be. Positive things!

Reality is you need money. You need passports. You need permission. The world controls you. The only thing that gives you power and advantages is money. Cold hard fact. Nobody can convince me otherwise.

Sure you've got your loved ones. That's a reason to live. But it's not because you wanna be alive. You're alive because they want you to be.

Even if you're suffering.

So my therapist telling me that "I just need to dream big and fight for what I want" really puts the cherry on top. Morons.