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Tag Archives: Mental health services
Have you tried mindfulness?
I was sitting at my dining table with Tom and two members of the Crisis Team. They were there because I was experiencing overwhelming intrusive thoughts of running away and killing myself. My mind was totally out of control; I … Continue reading
Posted in Crisis care, Mindfulness, Psychological therapies, Uncategorized
Tagged Crisis care, Crisis Team, DBT, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, Home Treatment Team, Mental health crisis, Mental health services, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy
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Some people find psychiatry helpful… and that’s OK
I grew up very close to a Victorian asylum. It began to close in the late 1980s, when I was in my teens, but even as a child I was aware that some of the people I saw wandering the … Continue reading
Posted in Antipsychiatry, Diagnosis, History of mental health, Hospital, Inpatient care, Medication, Mental health, mental health debate, Mental health services, NHS services, Psychiatry, psychology, Treatment planning, Uncategorized
Tagged Antipsychiatry, Asylum, Diagnosis, Mental health, Mental Health Act, mental health professionals, Mental health services, Psychiatric drugs, Psychiatric hospital, Psychiatric medication, Psychiatric ward, Psychiatrists, Psychiatry, Psychology
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Who’s listening?
It’s no fun being trapped in a pit. You were walking along in the forest and you just kind of… slid. And now you’re on your own in the darkness, looking up at the moon through a circle of dirt. You didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Crisis care, Depression, Hospital, Mental health, Mood disorder, NHS services, Psychiatry, Stigma and discrimination, Treatment planning, Uncategorized
Tagged Budgetary cuts, Depression, Finances, Mental health, Mental health services, NHS, Psychiatry, Stigma, Talking
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I asked for help
I asked for help when I was 12. I looked, alone, in my middle school library at a teenage health book. It told me that depression is an illness. It is real. You can be helped. It took me days … Continue reading
Posted in Bipolar, Child and adolescent mental health, Depression, Mental health services, Psychiatry
Tagged Activism, Antidepressants, Asking for help, Bipolar, Childhood onset, Depression, General practice, Mental health, Mental health services, Poetry, Postnatal depression, Psychiatry, Seeking help
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Enough of us both
TW: suicidal thoughts and planning On Monday afternoon I sat in a glass-walled consulting room with my Consultant psychiatrist. Out in the waiting room I had felt so weary, sick to the back teeth of coming to this building over … Continue reading
It’s my movie, and I’ll watch where I want to
I often like to go to the cinema. Because I live in a big city, I am fortunate that I have more than one model of cinema experience to choose from. As in most places there is, however, a dominant … Continue reading
A thousand little indignities: what it means to be “a service user”
[TWs for suicidal thoughts, suicide methods and poor mental health care experiences] Last week a relative I haven’t seen in years watched my hypomania vlog and afterward felt moved to “give me some feedback”. I was interested in his thoughts, … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Mental health, Mental health services, Stigma and discrimination
Tagged Bipolar, Crisis Resolution Team, Crisis services, Discrimination, Home Treatment Team, Loss, Mental health services, Psychiatric nursing, Psychiatry, Secondary care services, Service user identity, Stigma, Vlogging
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On seeking help
At twelve, I had a problem. Something was wrong with me. Something had descended upon me, out of the blue summer sky. In an instant I felt dreadful, weighed down, sick with something I couldn’t identify, that I felt in … Continue reading
A bath, a brew and a benzo: is this what Home Treatment Teams have come to?
Last week a paper was published in The Lancet Psychiatry entitled ‘Safety of patients under the care of crisis resolution home treatment services in England: a retrospective analysis of suicide trends from 2003 to 2011.’ The authors, among them Professor … Continue reading
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