"Incompetent Mental Health Team"

In July 2023, I was told my Psychiatrist was leaving, that I was being transferred to another, but they couldn't say Who, didn't know Where or When I would be seen, and they didn't know whether the next Psychiatrist would continue to prescribe a particular antidepressant (the only antidepressant that significantly lessens daily suicidal thoughts, and lessens depression, - so a pretty big deal to me). The Psychiatrist was going to leave, didn't bother to transfer my Care to another (was being seen every 8 weeks). Had the medication not become available on the NHS (supply issues meant that an import was needed), then I would have been left with no medication, and no way of getting it! Absolutely despicable to know that a Psychiatrist would willingly do that to a Patient. 

After much back and forth, I finally get told another Psychiatrist will take over care, and a second opinion appointment was booked in September. This Psychiatrist is adamant they aren't taking over care. To this date February 2024, still has not completed the second opinion report. Nor can they, or anyone else in the mental health service tell me whose Care I am under. I had been told at one point that one of the locations had no Doctors! Absolutely astounded, how can a mental health team have no Doctors?! 

Despite being aware that a lack of report, lack of appointment is obstructing another health service from progressing a referral, still nothing is done. 

The result, months and months of distress. Months of no medical advice despite trying through the Secretary of Second Opinion Psychiatrist, and through other means, only to be told 'nothing can be changed until second opinion report done, followed by being adamant that they are not continuing care'.

So, guidelines about following up after medication changes are not being adhered to. A patient left for 7 months with no Psychiatrist, and no advise. Mental health team obstructing another referral (the fact that any health service is allowed to discriminate because a patient has a mental health diagnosis is absolutely appalling, but is apparently condoned, because that is the situation).

Denied treatment for an issue for over 18 months, passed about continuously, with every service stating another as being responsible.

Effectively, I have been dropped in the mental health service, with no accountable person, denied treatment, no help or support for either of the two health issues. It goes on and on. Attempts to get answers result in being ignored repeatedly. 

I feel that as soon as either a mental health diagnosis is applied, you cease to be considered a proper person, more like a 'dead man walking'. It feels as if maximum stress, distress is caused, possibly with the intention that the Patients lose all hope and cease to exist. Then a service for the patient and their problems doesn't have to be provided. 

To me, the mental health team have no awareness of the consequences of their actions for me as a patient. They either don't think, or simply, do not care about the distress, anxiety they cause. They act in ways that have worsened mental health,  and I am left feeling more and more despondent and devoid of any hope. To be denied treatment despite guidelines on N.I.C.E detailing options is absolutely soul destroying. Something could be done to help, but they have chosen not to. The Doctors involved seem to have forgotten the concept of 'Duty of Care' to a patient,  they seem to have forgotten the basic principle 'Do no harm'. They demonstrate a complete lack of respect to patients, show a complete disregard to the patient and their wellbeing. To not even be told the outcome of a second opinion appointment 5 months later can only be considered poor. There is no excuse to warrant that treatment. Appalling