I needed help. I have a community team in Islington. I have depot injection antipsychotics. I get very bad voices I hear things and get very scared and when I ring the duty worker in the day team where my psychiatrist is they say at night ring crisis team. There is a crisis line number. I have a plan where it says what to do or I get very very ill, I said I am not safe and such a rude man says we cant help you and you must wait to see your psychiatrist or care coordinator ( who had left the team and I was waiting for another ).
But I was having bad visions and suicide thoughts or death thoughts or others and I saw threatening people following me. It was very frightening. And then because I got ill and then there was no support at night or on the bank holidays like always never any staff to talk from crisis team and I missed my injection and no care coordinator as waiting list in the team even when you have a psychiatrist. So no one noticed I wasn't haven't meds and I would ring the crisis team many times and they would say we cant help you or talk to you.
And then I said I wanted to go to a crisis house and they said that is only for after admission to hospital with people with schizophrenia like I have and that crisis houses not for 'people like you'. This went on what feels like very long time. In the end police sectioned me and took to whittington which I found a horrible place to be, no nurses at all just security men and then I was sectioned. My team psychiatrist said the crisis team did not contact the day team when I rang them so they didn't know. This happens lots people on wards always say the same and in my experience people always say crisis team so rude and really bad. I think they should be replaced with better trained people as some of them don't seem to care
"Crisis Line"
About: Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust London NW1 0PE
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