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"Home treatment team won’t listen"

About: Somerset NHS Foundation Trust / Adult community mental health

(as the patient),

I’ve been going through some issues which as affected my mental health and it’s got to the point where I’ve started self harming myself. I have hurt myself twice this week and I still want to continue and the health treatment team and my key worker doesn’t seem to help and I was asked what help would I like I said I feel I’d get help by being an informal patient voluntary into hospital as I will feel safe and not self harming or take overdose on paracetamol but the home treatment team have categorically said that won’t help and can’t stay in Hospital forever but I never said forever and they reakon that therapy will be better but I know for a fact therapy won’t work and I know hospital will but Home treatment team won’t listen till it’s to late.

I do need to get help as I wonna be in a better place and be able to go back to work but this won’t happen if they just gonna do therapy even friends of mine work colleagues and my doc have said therapy won’t work and I’d be best off in hospital. Because I’m still a risk to myself and I don’t feel safe atm my key worker and home treatment team didn’t even bother to refer me to safeguarding team it only when my doctor called me to say that she said she was concerned because I don’t feel safe and that I’d self harmed again and want to know why I wasn’t referred to safeguarding team I said because my key worker and home treatment team didn’t do it, so know she has made the referral to the safeguarding team and now I gotta wait for a call from a psychiatrist.

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Response from Associate Director of Mental Health & Learning Disability Services, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust 5 months ago
Submitted on 29/11/2024 at 14:10
Published on Care Opinion at 14:10


Dear whisperee84, thank you for taking the time to post this, and I am sorry that you are going through a difficult time. As I don't have your details, I can't respond directly about your situation, but please be assured that our Home Treatment teams are committed to supporting patients in the community, as at times, admission to hospital is not a solution, so they support patients to engage in therapies to enable and empower them to remain in the community. If you need urgent support can I remind you of the services available 24/7:

Telephone Mindline on 0800 138 1692 (freephone) or 01823 276892 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

First Response Service: 0300 1245016

NHS 111

I hope that the situation improves for you and please do access the above services if a crisis occurs.

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