"NO URGENT ACCESS UNLESS SUICIDAL... 3RD WORLD..."

After a mess around with GP which caused a 3 week delay of my referral, and numerous calls to community mental health team to find out when my appointment is, I was called back by someone from CMHT who said that they had discussed my case and I would be seeing a Medic. The medic term I guess was to cause me distress and miss -understanding, when it comes to mental health it's more appropriate to use the words pysciatrists, Counsellors or psychologist,but after having to ask what she meant by medic she said a psychiatrist. Being desperate to sort my mental health out asap before I end up penniless from being off work for months, I asked when will I be seen, to be told I don't know, I explained to her that I desperately need to see someone urgently, due to insomnia,depression,moods, paranoia and not functioning and she just said she doesn't know, not even an estimated time, admittedly I started getting agitated because I was hoping I would be seeing someone this week and perhaps should have been more polite, but she said to me I should count myself lucky that I'm seeing a medic, because most people have to see a nurse first. After years of being fobbed off and then paying for a private psychiatric assessment just to actually reach mental health services on the NHS, J don't feel like I'm lucky at all. There is no early intervention that is advised, there is no urgent mental health services, unless your suicidal, this is so backwards, the nice guidelines mean nothing because they prevent you accessing services despite you fitting the criteria for urgent assessments.

Early intervention is advised but not available, how many people are living in poverty and unemployed and on sickness benefits because they couldn't get access to mental health services when it is most needed to keep them in work ? It's a vicious cycle, The NICE guidelines state what an urgent referral is, but the mental health service only assess you if your suicidal or ready to harm someone or yourself,how do they not understand that we don't need to hurt ourselves, we are already hurting, it's the lack of mental health services that is a harm to others, not the majority of mentally ill people.