The nhs are terrible when it comes to diagnosing anything. It was just as bad before covid. The doctors have so many patients to see they literally have no time to go through one patients symptoms and figure out what's wrong. Nobody matters now except for covid patients.
a private doctor is no better either. The nhs has forced me to go private because I would've been waiting 5 years to see a nuerologist on the nhs. I went to him with a list of my symptoms and he said "well it's not clear from this list what's wrong" and I was like isn't that your fucking job to find out?!" I have to pay 200 pounds every time I see him and each appointment is only like 5 minutes. Barely enough time to get in and sit down.
in the U.K. you really have no hope. If you have a condition that is non visible or doesn't show up on a scan or a test etc you're fucked. They just say it's all in your head to get you off their back. They couldn't care less if you dropped dead. In fact they'd be happy because it's one less patient they have to deal with.
The NHS i call it the No Help Service.
Lawrence Fox( i don't like him he is an idiot) he said on Twitter the NHS is not my church and saviour.
NHS in Britain has become a religion oh my god.
What did you think of the whole clap for NHS thing?
I thought it was ridiculous especially as it was every week.
First attempt aged 19 I got called a 'stupid cow' by the nurse pumping my stomach. Hasn't got much better they're mostly ridiculous, only ones with power seem to have godlike tendencies and definitely don't get it right lots of the t8me. I feel totally failed. If people like us with lived experience mostly worked on psych wards and with others experiencing this sh** I reckon it'd be transformed. But we're stuck with dinosaur mostly useless system. Anecdotal rant over. I just got discharged in record time after bipolar diagnosis in late 40sand I don't care as I have zero faith in them at this stage..
SorrySandy
I am sorry to hear that. Horrible nurse what a bitch.
Why do people go in to healthcare when they lack compassion for peoples suffering?
I read online there is a lot of abuse within mental health hospitals.
They are the laziest people. If they spent as much time concentrating on their work as they did bitching about the Tories then it might be a decent service.... "service" is probably too generous a word to describe what they currently do
DJJE
The way the NHS was talked about during the election last year was disgusting
-pictures of people sleeping on floors
-media stories of Trump buying the nhs and the leaked documents jeremy was showing. My friends thought we will end up paying for nhs.
The NHS never will improve if we cant have civilised discussion on what needs to be done. The nhs needs money but it also wastes money as well. The nhs managers are eating the money.
I'm in NI they are probably better here too than in England. Maybe it has something to do with population and a shortage of mental health professionals too.
but maybe the only reason I've been able to have easy access is because I've been seeing psychiatrists since I was 13 years old. It's probably easier once you're in the system to continue getting therapy down the line.
Mediocre
NHS mental health services varies from area to area. Some areas are good others are bad.
Just depends whre you live really.
The nhs are terrible when it comes to diagnosing anything. It was just as bad before covid. The doctors have so many patients to see they literally have no time to go through one patients symptoms and figure out what's wrong. Nobody matters now except for covid patients.
a private doctor is no better either. The nhs has forced me to go private because I would've been waiting 5 years to see a nuerologist on the nhs. I went to him with a list of my symptoms and he said "well it's not clear from this list what's wrong" and I was like isn't that your fucking job to find out?!" I have to pay 200 pounds every time I see him and each appointment is only like 5 minutes. Barely enough time to get in and sit down.
in the U.K. you really have no hope. If you have a condition that is non visible or doesn't show up on a scan or a test etc you're fucked. They just say it's all in your head to get you off their back. They couldn't care less if you dropped dead. In fact they'd be happy because it's one less patient they have to deal with.
The NHS is so shit!
I can't actually remember properly what happened with my experience with the NHS.
I have posted about it before though on here and reddit, but I can't work out how to find the posts.
Anyway, here's what I do remember.
That they told me that I was not in the right mindset for therapy, and when I told them I tried to hang myself twice (actually more then that but I only told them about those 2 times), they just brushed off and she actually said to me. "I wonder why you can't do it right."
She also made me watch a TedTalk about suicide and said it was an incredibly selfish thing to do.
Shthrowaway213
Disgusting.
If a person suffered from cancer there is no way a healthcare professional would recommend Cancer patient watch tedxtalks
I am so sorry you were treated this way.
This thread has shown how everyone on here has been failed by the system.
People want this site taken down but these are the same people who do nothing to campaign for a better mental health care system or tackle mental health discrimination.
People today care about what is trendy such as black lives matter*, never trump movement or the stop Brexit movement
* Black lives matter: I am black female but this black lives matter movement is fake. Most of these people taking the knee or sharing the hashtag never cared about racial discrimination in thier own neighbourhoods or within thier families but are only caring because it is trendy to do. It is so nauseating.
This site i have found my friends here. The outside world didn't listen to people like me
If i was helped to live i wouldnt be here.