"Lack of mental health services"

I feel that the mental health services have gone downhill and are becoming dangerous. After a period of stable health, I started to experience quite unmanageable symptoms again, only to be told that I could be offered discharge from New Craig’s hospital outpatient services. Being on anticipatory care means I have nobody to monitor my health or speak to about my mental health.

I feel if I wasn’t coping with physical health symptoms I would be offered treatment. I have been left to endure acute illness by myself. I have been offered medication but I find the side effects too much and believe that social supports would be of greater benefit.

I’m on a waiting list to have an assessment to talk to someone but the letter from psychology assumed that it would not be of benefit. My psychology letter said I was being referred because I had anxiety about my health when my health is legitimately not good since having long covid/vaccine injury symptoms, which are not in my head. I spent 5 days in hospital after becoming so unwell I could hardly move.

I would prefer psychology to help me with my psychosis that I have been diagnosed with, instead of neglecting to treat that. I feel let down by services and find it very difficult to cope without any intervention. The services that used to run prior to the covid lockdowns were of benefit, and have not been replaced. This places a great burden on patients and their families. In my experience, care in the community is disintegrating.

I feel psychiatry are no longer interested in collaboration with the patient and are in too much of a rush to develop any rapport. This is one particular field of medicine where I feel that would be particularly beneficial. 

When people struggle to get help when they’re at their most distressed and in crisis and are turned away, what is the point of the mental health system?