Still Angry

It has been 4 months since my OD and I am still angry at the professionals who were supposed to help me. I was seeing someone from the community support team. I told her I was suicidal, her comment was "other people have problems too". I walked out. I called the office and told them I was suicidal to be told that no one was available until the next day. I told them that was too long. I called the crisis team but was told because I was seeing the community support team they could not talk to me. I needed to talk to someone, I probably would not have given up trying to get help and giving in to the suicidal urges if someone would have just talked to me. I blame the community support worker for the hell that my family went through. All of the people I tried to get help from were mandated by law to report me. No one reported me, no one got me help.

You have a right to be angry. That's ridiculous. I'm sorry that happened to you.

theyre not required to report you just for being suicidal - only if you tell them and they believe that u have a plan and will act on it.

Have u had a history of saying u were suicidal and they mightnt have taken you seriously? (not blaming you just looking at their possible reasons)

yes they should definitely have responded. I wonder why they didnt?

I told them I had a plan even said what the plan was, and no history of saying I was suicidal.

That's F@@ked!

This makes me so angry! Recently in Australia we had a long term TV personality commit suicide, she had history of major depression. Everyone was up in arms about how no one knew she felt that way as she was always happy and chirpy and funny and social.. The media went on this rampage about taking mental illness seriously and not to dismiss it because depression "kills"... and then I hear stories like yours tech.. geez, what a croc of...

I am waiting a call back from my community mental health worker about a creative writing therapy group I really wanted to attend.. I called after her twice in one week and still no return call.. The group starts in one hour.. (not that I can at all compare that to help regarding suicide!.. )

Not to fuel your flames Tech, but I can really see where your coming from.. and suicidal plans are the ones the medical profession takes the most seriously.. go figure..

Some mental health professionals are idiots.

No one deserves to hear comments like that. You have every right to be angry and upset. I'm not sure how the comment, "Other people have problems too" was supposed to be helpful. I guess that person was 'trying' to get you to think about your feelings, but did a very poor job at it. It sounds more like minimization rather than help to me.

I'd write a letter to the person who made that inane comment and let him or her know how it made me feel in explicit detail and what happened. I would also write a complaint to his or her superiors.

I have realized most mental health professionals don't deal with suicidal ideation very well. I've been through a very similar situation 15 years ago. After that I vowed to keep my suicidal feelings to myself if I ever got them. I'll never seek psychiatric help for that issue again, because I don't want to subject myself to verbal abuse and more psychiatric trauma.

I'm just glad you survived this.
Beyond outrageous.

She was reported but I don't think anything was done about it. I just hope no one has to go through what I did because of her.

I am glad you are safe................
I am also glad that she was reported.

Haven't been suicidal since then, depressed yes but otherwise good.

Good. Please **stay** that way.