borderline personality disorder

Reports are rampant that health authorities are making savage cuts to their psychiatric services, while a review of the NHS suggests that psychiatric care has never been more crucial to British society, especially to the over-65s.

Trying to seek support has never been more difficult! You are made to feel like a pest when you phone for support.

My nurse was off sick for 8 months and on holiday for the last month. I have never even spoken to her. I am advised to call the duty nurse who is never available. The advice is always if you are in crisis dial 999. This seems like a complete denial of responsibility simply passing the buck.

Nowhere is this crisis more real than in our mental health services. As this report shows, years of real-terms spending cuts have left services unable to cope with growing demand. Beds, doctors and nurse numbers are falling while the number of patients accessing services continues to escalate

Having been so well supported all my life until 2 years ago, I am appalled by the lack of care and concern over patient safety that exists today. It feels like our lives are not valued which actually results in our incapacity to contribute to society as we are perfectly capable of doing with minimal support. I was able to work with support and am not without it . This is not financially sensible but politicians seem unable to view the the bigger picture and so society loses out and so do we, the mentally ill and our families.

We need a whole system approach to the mental health crisis. And this can only come with
meaningful and sustainable investment in the NHS, adult social care, local authorities and
public health and in our schools and colleges. And despite extra cash for the NHS, the 2018
budget doesn’t undo the austerity that has devastated our health services

Desperate today, suicidal if honest! Taken all morning to even talk to a doctor. Apparently you cannot see a doctor until you have spoken to them on the phone and been assessed. The phone terrifies me, so what do I do. I get increasingly distressed. They have altered my meds without discussion. I must admit, I am shocked. It has always been a discussion. I have suffered migraines since childhood and saw a neurologist 20 years ago and found only med that worked. It was stopped by my GP last month without discussion or even telling me. This has terrified me as I fear returning to the horror of unbearable pain 3 out of 4 weeks.

Am I treated like this because I am mentally ill?

I asked the receptionist if she knew of my anxiety and they thought it best not to tell me.

What makes me different or lesser to any other patient. The only way I could get a face to face appointment was to threaten suicide.

I so do not want to do things this way. I simply want to be valued and respected by any other patient. Now have appointment today but am terrified. Will tell you how I get on.

 Eastcliffe Road, Par PL24 2AJ

I saw the doctor today and she could not have been more helpful. I needed to actually talk to someone and I did. I was offered a hospital bed which I have refused at the moment but the mental health services are to phone me today and she is calling to check that they have done so and the option of hospitalisation remains open.