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Originally Posted by TheOriginalMe
Hmm, I so relate to the only diagnosed issue being depression. I've just started CBT with IAPTs and so far all we've done is screening and risk management. Needless to say the screening has thrown out all sorts of potential issues with no resources to follow them up. 
The risk management thing has p*** me off a bit too, as I thought I was doing pretty well on that score and I feel like I'm being told I'm not. Perhaps they deliberately generated a faulty cognition to give themselves something they could actually work with.
Sometimes in the NHS merry-go-round we get lucky and find the right person, sounds like that happened with the crisis team the other night. Obvious advice really, but keep a record of what works and why and share it with your support network as appropriate. Experience is always better than theory, perhaps. |
I read that and my heart really goes out to you (I think you know this anyway from posts I've made before)... It's about 9 months ago that I went private for therapy and that was after coming home... not moving from the sofa and the wife finally prodding out of me what had happened from the 1st session of my 4th iapt T (at our surgery the turn over was ridiculous... you'd see them once a month... and after the 3rd or 4th session they'd move else where so you had to start from scratch).
That weekend I had become more and more despondent and by the time I saw this T I was very very numb... monotone and battling suicidal thoughts. Lady asked me how much of a risk did I feel that I was at doing something and I told her that I didn't know... that as I spoke to her I just didn't care about anything... but it could dip an hour later.. 2 hours later... that evening.
She didn't seem that phased and I left feeling that as long as I had told her I wasn't about to top myself in her office, she was just covering her own arse.
As for keeping a note at the moment, yeah I do... kinda lucky in so much as the crisis team and other agencies have access to some file that is ongoing so, I think they are essentially on the same page.
I find out tomorrow what is happening with regards to a future care plan if there is one (as in I get a cpn or not)... so, a little anxious about that as I don't think I'm ready to be dropped back to my GP at this time... had a really bad anxiety attack in his office a week or so ago when I went to get a prescription renewal.
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