Wrong place, wrong time

I wonder how many times this has to happen to “strong” people before they no longer bother even trying to share. I think people here are brave to take the risk of opening up...not that pc isn’t safe, but the world in general isn’t accepting of mh issues, in this forest anyway. And someone tried to tell me that other places are “every bit” as bad. Sorry, I just don’t buy that. Unless someone has lived in this forest for a prolonged period of time they would find it hard to understand the profound disrespect and lack of “care” from so many “providers”. . They are trained to Cut People Off. What sort of “help” is that And they are trained to blame the patient. There is nowhere to “move forward” to in this forest where they offer even basic respect and care

(Sorry about the rant )

(Not about anyone here)

I think it must be a plan to try and get rid of us...

It worked where I am concerned...
I would never go back to my local mental health team...
They called the police on me when I begged them to help me...
So I was just in their way...
I had an appointment which they told me they were canceling after 5 minutes...
I clearly bored them....

In the UK, we are not allowed to make an appointment for mental health outside of your area.... Thats only for physical health patients to have a choice of where to get treatment...

The forest is a dark and cruel place to be....
Much love to all those who find themselves there today

Yeah mental health "help" here in the UK sucks

I think the help has to come between those of us that have a mental illness...
I have a mental illness...I like to help others...I can help...we can help..
professionals are paid workers...they look at it differently...
fuzzy you are bringing up a very frustrating problem...

Honestly - this is why I turned to research while "getting help" (aka listening only for information and making statements or asking questions that would get information I wanted .. only saying distressing things if I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt I needed hospitalization) and reading up on things outside of my appointments that pertained either to my disorders or the information I had been given.

Then when I had exhausted what information I could get from that counselor, I went to another - either by complaining about the first, making them cancel me out, or simply stopping going to them and asking for someone else later. I then did the same routine with that counselor. I repeated this until I had obtained so much information I was no longer receiving anything new. I then continued my outside research, kept my appointments until that was done but only have them enough info to keep them interested but not worried unless again I knew I needed hospitalization (which was the whole reason I kept going until the research was done so I could keep myself safe til I knew what I was doing). After I had researched everything - I quit going. I experimented with what I had learned to see what worked for me and what did not and what worked best (same process docs do for meds). Since then, I have kept to that and remain controlled unless I cannot buy the essential oils I need at the time I need it due to financial issues.

So .. If you ask me .. self-help is best but only if you take the time to understand what you are doing first. ❤

Mental health support . what a joke . its so hard to get here in the UK . supposidly i have a care-coordibanator but she forgot all about me. I never see her or hear from her . i try to ring her its just voicemail .

Yes there is so much stigma around mental health. Too much. This place here is pretty safe place to talk but many of us are scared to share certain things because we are so scared of being judged because of how we are treated in the big scary world .
Good post fuzzy bear . you always make good points

Thank you all

Yes, that's right (((Fuzzy))).

No mental health professional or doctor should be judgmental of their patients/clients. Their job is to help and that's it!

Oftentimes, be it consciously or unconsciously, they break it down into who they believe 'deserves' to be helped the most - which is wrong. Yes, I've seen that happen.

I’ve seen that happen too, thanks for your reply ((((((( mote )))))))

I will never trust the mental health system ever again.

After what I went through in my childhood of being forced onto medicine I didn't need because my doctors were greedy pricks and my mother lying to said doctors about my mental health issues to garner sympathy, and after being hospitalized or threatened with hospitalization when I wouldn't obey my mother's every whim, any chance of me trusting the system is now gone.

It's to the point where just being near hospitals trigger my PTSD symptoms. Even going to a hospital for non mental health related things is something that almost makes me feel like having a panic attack. Also, I am terrified of police officers because my mother would call them on me to make me go to the hospital to receive my "punishment" often time in handcuffs. I avoid hospitals like the plague now and am so terrified of police that I would be to scared to call 911, even if I had a legitimate emergency. Both the mental health system and my mother are to blame.


The mental health system is just a money grubbing Ponzi Scheme anyways. There are other ways to treat mental health issues. I would suggest looking into them.

I'm so sorry Darkness