Yes, I completely agree. The amount of times I've seen a psych, poured my heart out and then been left for another 3/4/5/6 months with zero support for another chance to pour my heart out and be left again. It's hell.
Unfortunately that's how a lot of CMHT's work and it's extremely difficult to get help with day to day living. There are very few services that help you improve your functioning, waiting lists for therapy are extremely long and technically a psych's role is to prescribe meds and only 'manage' your care, making the big decisions but not generally having much direct input.
They should get help and I think often the professionals understand and agree with this. It's just the services are not set up to help. Inpatient is such a horrific & untherapeutic environment that it's a last resort but there is never anything to replace it.
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