CMHT not listening; can't trust them

[CupsofTea]

How do you communicate that you feel like the mental health services aren't listening to you?

I've said "I feel like you're not listening", "I'm struggling", for weeks now but they are not doing anything. Last session my care coordinator said "let's stop talking about how you have been and concentrate on WRAP". After a while he then said how it's a "pattern" that I show, that when I start doing well I fear people think I'm all better and therefore must become worse again.

When he said that I told him that I do not pick and choose when or if a relapse happens. I was diagnosed with BPD last year and ever since then truly feel like it's affected how the CMHT respond when I say I'm having a hard time dealing.

I don't trust them.

[chinahorse]

Can you state why you are struggling, what the symptoms are? What do you need from them?

Not to me but to the people you need help from.

[Arienette]

can you enlist the help of an advocate maybe?

When they had my Dx as BPD I had this problem - and only lately after a reassessment by a number of docs and a string of crisis have things changed, and now I'm with a new team who listen and seem very good.

Is there any chance of going under a different team, maybe one that specialises more. I got moved from CMHT to a MAP team (mood, anxiety and personality) and even when I still had bpd diagnosis, they were much better (in fact it's not that my treatment changed since my dx changed with them, but since i went under this team things have been far better)

i think an advocate would be good though. How many cmht's respond to bpd diagnosis is shocking and really unhelpful. I think trying to get some change in your treatment now if you can would be good before they make you worse, or you get worse and they do nothing until you hid danger zones.

*hugs* I ended this for years until I went under another team. I sympathise. It's horrible.

x

[CupsofTea]

@arienette Maybe an advocate would be a good idea... how would you go about getting an advocate? Could I please have some more info on MAP team as well?

It sucks because my use of behaviours has reduced so it feels like they aren't listening to me.

[Ghost-With-Scars]

I have the same feeling when talking to my care coordinator. I have BPD and ever since the diagnosis, I feel like they don't listen to me anymore. I was in hospital and the psychiatrists said there wasn't much they could do. So I know how you feel :(

[Arienette]

I'll message you tomorrow about map with links etc

But I'll PM bc it's a lot about my loal services etc.

Xx

[CupsofTea]

I'm so sorry to hear that @Ghost-With-Scars :(

I think what is getting to me most is that I had been seeing them for about 3 years before the dx of bpd was made and the attitude swift is just so sudden. I thought they knew me, if that makes sense??

[Ghost-With-Scars]

I know what you mean. It feels like they are willing to listen until you get a diagnosis and then they don't want to know anymore :(
Sorry that you are also experiencing this. I thought it was just me at first!