Originally Posted by
earthbound_misfit
I find it amazing that people can work full time and still get mental health help! Obviously you can as people have said but I can't believe it cos round here they would definitely say you are too stable!! I don't know what qualifies for help tbh - I'm considered to stable/capable for any support yet I only get out of bed a few hrs a day, often cannot leave the house, feel suicidal daily and dissociate severely at points (hence being careful about leaving house). I am allowed therapy at some distant future point but no support/cpn or anything. It's really frustrating as the main reason I want help is so I can be ok enough to work - I can fit my everyday life around my problems/cope somehow but can't do that with work.
Sorry for rant... rly bad place atm
I lived in Newcastle for a year and the only time I saw a MH professional was when I ended up in A&E, and even then they'd just send me away after half an hour or so, and then I got to see a psychiatrist and the early intervention team when I scared my GP, but as I said that took a year... and I only saw them once
I now live in York and from what I hear it's just as hard to get help here.
do a degree it's a bit of a postcode lottery, but it's also sometimes a case of just sort of pushing for help until you get it I think...