"I felt mocked for my suicide attempt"

I spent the night in AMU after taking tablets to end my life. I didn’t manage to go through with the suicide, but I still needed medical attention.

I lay listening to some of the nurses making what I found to be mocking comments about my attempts. Before discharge, some of the doctors joked about me asking “why don’t they f***ing look it up?”, in reference to the amount and type of medication I had taken to end my life.

How are these people trusted to look after people in mental distress?