No help for schizoaffective disorder

[eightyninedee]

So I've been lurking for a while, never posted.

Schizoaffective disorder. Back in work after 4 years in and out of hospital. Got sent home today over concerns for my welfare after a meeting to discuss my obviously declining mental health.

Tried to get help but In reality it's easier to throw someone in to hospital than help them, trying to avoid that.

Psychiatrists throw medication at you, no other support. GP tells you to go see the psychiatrist. Counsellors won't touch someone with this illness in my experience, even if you're paying. Even the suicide helpline don't care, not responding to text messages. Got turned away by two mental health charities.

Even tried to reach out on Twitter of all places- not one response. Tried to change my psychiatrist to a private provider as he doesn't care about me, that's a whole other story, got told there is a 5 month waiting list! Which is probably short these days in fairness. The community nurses never call you back and they only work 9-5 anyway;

I feel like I am a problem and a waste of resources. Not worth helping. So I've no choice really do I?

I feel like if I did kill my self it wouldn't be a loss, it would be a statement, showing how people with my illness fall through the cracks, lots of help for depression and anxiety which is so important of course but there is nothing for other illnesses.

 

[Rachel74]

Let me guess your in the uk?

 

[eightyninedee]

Let me guess your in the uk?

No Ireland, come a long way when it comes to talking about mental health but when it comes to anything other than depression or anxiety there is no help,

 

[Rachel74]

No Ireland, come a long way when it comes to talking about mental health but when it comes to anything other than depression or anxiety there is no help,

Similar to the U.K. as there is no help. There are too many people suffering with MH issues and not enough trained staff to deal with us. So you get constantly farmed off from one person to the next. If you can afford it go private, this I had to do and it saved me.

 

[eightyninedee]

Similar to the U.K. as there is no help. There are too many people suffering with MH issues and not enough trained staff to deal with us. So you get constantly farmed off from one person to the next. If you can afford it go private, this I had to do and it saved me.

It's a night mare isn't it, so dehumanizing too, I have private health insurance with my job so I tried to go down that route but the waiting list is 5 months for the place covered. It's insane!!

 

[Rachel74]

It's a night mare isn't it, so dehumanizing too, I have private health insurance with my job so I tried to go down that route but the waiting list is 5 months for the place covered. It's insane!!

I was very lucky as I saw someone within a week but he was more crazier than me. It was a good balance.

 

[eightyninedee]

If I stay Public I will be seen within a week, as it's an emergency, but I hate the psychiatrist I'm under. I don't want to see him, he can't help anyway, and he'll just put me in hospital to get rid of me. I thought private would be quicker!

I've come to realize there is no help, I'm tired of suffering. My biggest fear is failing though, then I'd just end up in hospital anyway;

 

[lofistos345]

So I've been lurking for a while, never posted.

Schizoaffective disorder. Back in work after 4 years in and out of hospital. Got sent home today over concerns for my welfare after a meeting to discuss my obviously declining mental health.

Tried to get help but In reality it's easier to throw someone in to hospital than help them, trying to avoid that.

Psychiatrists throw medication at you, no other support. GP tells you to go see the psychiatrist. Counsellors won't touch someone with this illness in my experience, even if you're paying. Even the suicide helpline don't care, not responding to text messages. Got turned away by two mental health charities.

Even tried to reach out on Twitter of all places- not one response. Tried to change my psychiatrist to a private provider as he doesn't care about me, that's a whole other story, got told there is a 5 month waiting list! Which is probably short these days in fairness. The community nurses never call you back and they only work 9-5 anyway;

I feel like I am a problem and a waste of resources. Not worth helping. So I've no choice really do I?

I feel like if I did kill my self it wouldn't be a loss, it would be a statement, showing how people with my illness fall through the cracks, lots of help for depression and anxiety which is so important of course but there is nothing for other illnesses.

I'm schizoaffective too. How do you know that you are that? What are your meds?

 

[Rheaz]

I also have schizoaffective disorder. It has ruined my life. My delusions made me believe the most outrageous things about my family. I have children and they were taken away from me during my episode. I feel like everyone at the hospital is scared of me. They actually make fun of me like it's funny. They don't get it nor do they care. I'm sorry you also deal with this. It is hell.

 

[Irishsteve88]

Lot of Irish people here lately

But yes I'm from Ireland the mental health here is a disgrace people going missing people jumping off buildings people driving their cars into walls. Our government dont give 2 shits of the people of Ireland no more Ireland use to be such a great country when I was growing up happy go lucky its changed in the past 20years. People committing murder all litterly walking away. Prison is for tax dodgers in this country old people dieing in hospital waiting areas is crazy.

 

[eightyninedee]

I'm schizoaffective too. How do you know that you are that? What are your meds?

Because I was diagnosed, fluozetine, quetiapine, lithium and solian

Lot of Irish people here lately

But yes I'm from Ireland the mental health here is a disgrace people going missing people jumping off buildings people driving their cars into walls. Our government dont give 2 shits of the people of Ireland no more Ireland use to be such a great country when I was growing up happy go lucky its changed in the past 20years. People committing murder all litterly walking away. Prison is for tax dodgers in this country old people dieing in hospital waiting areas is crazy.

I feel like there is an over reliance on voluntary services like Pieta house and the Samaritan's, you are told to ring them if you feel at risk, but they know nothing about schizoaffective disorder.

I also have schizoaffective disorder. It has ruined my life. My delusions made me believe the most outrageous things about my family. I have children and they were taken away from me during my episode. I feel like everyone at the hospital is scared of me. They actually make fun of me like it's funny. They don't get it nor do they care. I'm sorry you also deal with this. It is hell.

I got told by a psychiatric nurse "you won't do it". Asked why I was in hospital by the psychiatrist, I said I tried to kill myself, he said "do you still feel like that?" I said no and he said "well what are you still doing here"....I was sectioned! Sorry you've had such a bad experience too, I thought I had a black mark against me or something that's why they won't help me but it seems everyone with this illness is being treated the same

 

[Rheaz]

Because I was diagnosed, fluozetine, quetiapine, lithium and solian


I feel like there is an over reliance on voluntary services like Pieta house and the Samaritan's, you are told to ring them if you feel at risk, but they know nothing about schizoaffective disorder.


I got told by a psychiatric nurse "you won't do it". Asked why I was in hospital by the psychiatrist, I said I tried to kill myself, he said "do you still feel like that?" I said no and he said "well what are you still doing here"....I was sectioned! Sorry you've had such a bad experience too, I thought I had a black mark against me or something that's why they won't help me but it seems everyone with this illness is being treated the same

I'm sorry you deal with this in your country. The place I usually go for inpatient stay is a mess. They just gossip and make fun of the patients and don't care if you hear. It makes you not want to seek help. It's like being bullied in high school. I'm struggling right now and I would never go back there for help. They need to screen workers better. Just a bunch of bullies working there. I'm obsessing about how to ctb every day. I just feel hopeless and don't want to live my life with this illness. I hope you can find some help. I wish you the best.

 

[BridgeJumper]

This is such bullshit.
Bipolar schizophrenic here, all they do is lock me up in psych wards where they tell me they cant help me and that I should apply for treatment in a treatment center, so then Im discharged, I file all the papers and go there only to be told Im too sick to treat, then I try another 2 or 3 places that act like Im a liability, basically being constantly juggled between various loony bins and no one can help me so I just scream inwardly.