Katie Hopkins recent comments leading to guilty feelings around seeking medical treatment

[Ranger Fairy]

I have tried to tell myself that Katie Hopkins is an extremely offensive and in many people's opinions has disgusting opinions and that her thoughts are worthless.

I have tried to think like this but I have been struggling. Some of her recent comments of patient's being 'bedblockers' in 'hotel NHS'. And that they shouldn't be there; that she would kill myself before she ever ended up like that. I know that it was about people suffering with dementia but that is irelevant.

I constantly feel guilty about the fortune the NHS spend on me. And that society and the NHS would be much better off if I were dead. It's increased these thoughts and clearly some people do feel that way. Especially as a lot of money is spent when I od trying to save my life.

I am feeling very unsafe at the moment and feel an od is very likely but it is playing on my mind that maybe I shouldn't seek treatment and I would die. So then I would no longer be burden on society. That life saving treatment is expensive and that it is a waste on me.

[Serendipity.]

I'm sorry you're feeling this way. I know it probably doesn't help for me/us to say so, but I don't think that these things are true at all. You deserve help and support. Obviously I hope that you're able to not OD - can you reach out for help before you do so? However, if you do, I certainly think you should seek treatment. It isn't about who deserves what, no-one can make those kind of calculations.

Katie Hopkins is a moron. Seriously, I have no idea why anyone bothers to listen to anything she says. She is only given space in the media because she is deliberately controversial and gets everyone all riled up. It's ridiculous. Can you try to rationalise - what would you say to someone else in your situation?

Take care of yourself x

[dragon uk]

i'm sorry that her comments have made you feel this way. I cannot really put into words how what I think of that woman for the simple fact I don't think there's enough expletives to allow me.

hang in there

[Arienette]

she's an idiot. pay no attention to her.

I personally boycott non useful media forms. So I don't watch the news, or read the papers, or pay attention to celebrity stuff. I don't find it useful to my life. I know a lot of people say it's important to know whats going on around the world - and i agree with that: I just get too stressed about things I can't change when I do read it though.

Besides, the news is always morbid - and people like katie hopkins are used merely for ratings. Really, everyone knows she hasn't got anything worthwhile to say.

its a shame the media works that way, because it could be used to do more positive stories and propel new and powerful voices. But they don't.

[Epicene]

The fact that you get treatment on the NHS doesn't stop anyone else from being treated. I know the figures are always in the news and the NHS is constantly in debt, but the amount spent on any individual is a drop in the ocean compared to the figures the nhs as a whole deals with. Nobody in your area will show up in A&E to be told 'Sorry, we cant treat you because X has used up that part of our budget'. I know that's a bit crude but its true; the beauty of the nhs is that it helps everyone and views that everyone deserves it. That includes you.