mental health assesment!!
 

i've never had one before!! what happens? i'm so nervous! its at 1.30 tomoro! can any one help at all please?!

Don't worry. I have had many done. Whenever I would get sent to the emergancy they always did one. They ask questions about your thoughts, about family, about your lifestyle. It isn't that bad. It may seem like it is. But take deep breathes and remeber it is too help you !!! Pm me and let me know how it goes

thanks! ive seen the crisis team n wot not before but i went to hospital friday night due to an overdose and no one came to see me but they've made an appointment! im really worried, shud i take a list of the symptoms i took to my doctors? should i be truthful, will they jsut admit me? i have no idea wot to say!

yeah they just ask you questions about how your feeling n how your thoughts are. they are trying to help you though. i get one everytime i go to AnE for self harm or mh issues. they ask you what your doing, like work lifestyles/college etc. just try and bee honest with them otherwise they cant help you

yeah its normal procedure after sumthing like that. Just be honest with them hun, they wont necessarily admit you theyl just do wot they think needs to happen for you to get the right help.

let us know how it goes xx

hey laura

i was shaking like aleaf at mine today at 2.30.. went ok though... i hope yours went well (even though i'm a total stranger here)

All the best with it - let us know how it goes.

Oooh, good luck =] Let us know how it goes :-)

I have one next week and no idea what to expect... really kinda apprehensive, i totally don't know what to do!

Hope it goes okay :-)

X

i am absolutely petrified my mum sed this morning that people often have one n dont come out after :|

I'm sure you'll be ok
It's just standard procedure. It's very unlikely that you'll be admitted
Just be honest with them, I think the only way they would possibly consider putting you in hospital is if you actually tell them that you are planning on commiting suicide.

If you tell them that your planning doing it again then they might keep you there, but if not then they probably won't.

It's more just a legal requirment on there behalf,
if you say that your going to try to kill yourself then they are required by law to do somthing about it.

But just don't worry about it, if you actually *are* planning on harming yourself again then it's best to tell the truth, so they know how to help you.

Good Luck, it shouldn't take too long and every time I do an assesment it's quite quick and straightforward.

thank you thank you thank you!!

Good luck,thinking of you.im only just learning to be honest with both myself and the CMHT but it is for the best.....i think.Sorry i delivered a letter to them this morning and am awaiting the response to it and anxious and dont want the police here [have been sent them before].But no that aside honesty really is best and i hope it goes well for you.i really do.i know how important these things can be.PM me anytime if you need to.

Take care
Sleepless123

PS I hope you are safe.

ok so apparently its psychological rather than psychiatrict. Sorry for wasting all your times xx

How did it go?

well apparently am not helping my self by taking overdoses, i dont actually see or hear things its a psycological thing coz i was abused as a kid, my inappropriate thoughts to ard children are also due to that. I am not depressed or even having psychosis its all in my head! so the fact people tell me to die and to si im pretending, and the fact i see ants crawling on walls and on my body is also pretending.

It's true that overdoses aren't healthy. At all.
From what you say, it's my understanding that you have intrusive thoughts and flashback type episodes because of childhood abuse - rather than an organic type of illness causing psychosis.
It is true it's in your head, but that doesn't make it any less painful or having its own reality - and it formed as a defence and response to unbearable pain, the pain of being abused.
I'm not so sure what they mean by 'pretending'. Nor am I quite sure why they've said you're not depressed. Hallucinations and voices like you describe can easily result from the stress of feeling violated and the attack on your self esteem that comes as a result of being abused.

Have they offered you any form of treatment?
If its psychological then surely therapy would help?
Just because its not psychosis it doesn't make it any less painful or frightening, it just means that its classified differently. I'm sorry they said you were pretending that doesn't seem like a very helpful thing to say.

i have to make my own referral to a place called open minds hu have psychologists there.. i'll here form them on tuesday..

Well good luck with that, hopefully you'll get an appointment quickly. If its psychological, therapy will be the best treatment and hopefully they'll be more understanding at this place.
Take care xx