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what_the? · 13-05-2009, 10:08 AM

I hate, hate, hate crisis teams, I've seen them in two different areas, and they've been just as rubbish in both.

Sure, they kept me as safe as possible, but they did it in a manner that was just like I was wasting their time, like because I hadn't seen all the situations that they had, I couldn't possible know what a "true" mental health crisis was. Sure, because what I was doing seemed pretty crisis at the time. I think that they are just really arrogant, and I always get the same questions that other people seem to be asked, even on the time that I hadn't called them myself, it had been my parents.

They are always different people, which is the fault of the system, not them I guess, but they never know my history, nor do they seem to remember that I've used them before. I'm just not a fan at all.

I will stop ranting in a second, but my uncle also has had dealings with crisis, and they were just as bad. At one point we called them because he had been out walking for 72 hours without food and drink, was refusing to come home, and thinking that he lived in a house where he hadn't lived for 22 years, and so trying to break in, in order to kill himself, in his home, rather than the street. Crisis told us that he was fine, and we should just get him to his next psych appointment, 5 days later. We couldn't get him home, let alone to a doctor.
The next day we called his psych direct and he got sectioned. It's just a poor service, in my experience.

13-05-2009, 10:08 AM	#5
what_the? continual crisis Join Date: Oct 2007 I am currently:	I hate, hate, hate crisis teams, I've seen them in two different areas, and they've been just as rubbish in both. Sure, they kept me as safe as possible, but they did it in a manner that was just like I was wasting their time, like because I hadn't seen all the situations that they had, I couldn't possible know what a "true" mental health crisis was. Sure, because what I was doing seemed pretty crisis at the time. I think that they are just really arrogant, and I always get the same questions that other people seem to be asked, even on the time that I hadn't called them myself, it had been my parents. They are always different people, which is the fault of the system, not them I guess, but they never know my history, nor do they seem to remember that I've used them before. I'm just not a fan at all. I will stop ranting in a second, but my uncle also has had dealings with crisis, and they were just as bad. At one point we called them because he had been out walking for 72 hours without food and drink, was refusing to come home, and thinking that he lived in a house where he hadn't lived for 22 years, and so trying to break in, in order to kill himself, in his home, rather than the street. Crisis told us that he was fine, and we should just get him to his next psych appointment, 5 days later. We couldn't get him home, let alone to a doctor. The next day we called his psych direct and he got sectioned. It's just a poor service, in my experience.
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