I've heard about this in the sense that my partners CPN warned her that it may be in 2 years she'll be forced to stop seeing her not through retirement but the re-organisation of how mental health services are delivered.
It wont effect me because I don't get support any more, but I can imagine it would shake up other people who have become reliant on the same people within services.
I am unsure of what to make of it. It certainly sounds like they want people to fit into risk/diagnosis boxes and this just isn't going to work in my opinion. I mean, when I was first unwell my psychiatrist wouldn't give me one diagnosis but rather said I had issues with depression, AN and OCD. And that the amalgamation of the three created the severity of my problems. I don't see how I could be catagorised based on that!
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