I keep noticing lots if threads saying oh my CPN is rubbish or the crisis team is bollocks and don't help etc.
But on numerous occasions all the good things Mental Health Professional do go unnoticed and uncommented on. So for alot of us going into new services and do research we only read negative views and get frightened so I thought maybe we could start saying some of the good things Mental Health Professional have/are doing for us.
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My Crisis team have been really supportive and have always been there if I rang and I'm not on there services. They have even seen me when I haven't been with them and arranged medication reviews with there consultant and my CPN.
What's your good experiences?
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my cpn is so supportive hes a little star i trust him with my life.. and on the whol i cant fault my crisis team they do listen to me and try and keep me out of hosp as much as possible and work with me for the best outcome
My GP is fantastic, she lets me talk as much as I need and sometimes my appointments have been 40mins long when i know they are meant to be 10mins. She always works hard to keep my out of hospital and tries her best to put in extra support for me during a crisis, even when i refuse to see the crisis team.
My old psych (who went on long term sick leave last year, but is back now) she is great, I had a 2 hour session with her once when I was really bad, the appointment was only meant to be 30mins I think, but she let me talk and she was going to find a bed for me in a hospital during this appointment as I was extremely suicidal, but i said I was going home for the weekend to see my mum and sister, so she let me go to see them as I said it may help.
My two counsellors I used to see at a place for young people with emotional problems, were both great. the second one had to take me to hospital twice after I had turned up to the session having OD'd and she called an ambulance for me and came with me, even having to talk to the medical staff at AandE because I was unconscious.
My old therapist, even though at times I hated him because he kept saying i had to put aside my suicidal feelings while I was in therapy, he was really supportive and didn't get angry with me, when it was clear I was struggling and wasn't doing the homework he had set, he also saw me for longer than expected because I wasn't doing well. I have now ended things with him now because I wasn't ready for therapy, but he was a good support.
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All my mh teams have bent over backwards to get me into the best hospitals/housing that they can, not just the cheapest or easiest.
One professional especially, has been incredible. He took me as a patient into the hospital he runs when no other hospital would take me, i had to get sent away though because of something i did, but 2 years later, i was in trouble and phoned him up, he came to see me and broke his neck writing a risk assessment to get me back into the unit/housing he runs, i was pregnant and high risk to myself and others, so wasn't easy, but he did it.
He kept me going on Christmas day by spending hours on the phone with me. I still talk to him, he still spends hours on the phone with me even though i haven't been his patient since June 2012.
Also, a consultant psych who let me stay on a ward to give me my baby the best chance of staying together. Without her letting us do that, we would have been separated from when baby was born and i would have ended up in a hostel somewhere.
I love how many positive threads there have been recently.
Like Oliver, I've had GP appts that last over 40 mins, (which always makes me feel awkward coming out and seeing the queue of poeple :s) including one who was a GP at my parents town when I registered as a temp. patient so she didn't even know me, and still sat with me for the best part of an hour talking. The worst bit of that was my dad in the car waiting for me thinking I'd only be ten minutes. :p
I had a nice nurse when I was kicking off in A&E who was still polite to me and then was like "wait, let me do the back of your gown up" and was really kind even though I'd been a complete nightmare.
There's a mental health advisor at uni and I went to see him once and he was like "do you want a chat?" and I spend over 2 hours in there, even though I knew he must have been busy and I'd completely disrupted his morning. Same with my department support advisor, I've spent a lot of time there too, and they're always really good about it and just let me talk when I needed to.
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My old psychiatrist was amazing she believed me and treated me like I'm human, she'd realised I'd been misdiagnosed and mistreated by my previous psychiatrist and worked really hard with me to get me sorted and she's done just that I'm getting the correct medication and a supportive treatment plan even though she's left now she passed it over to my new psychiatrist and the treatment has been just as good but it's thanks to her that I'm getting the help I need.
My current cpn is amazing, he's supportive, non judgmental and treats me with respect, he tackles my issues gently but with enough challenge to make a difference, he's just brilliant.
Generally adult services have been great with me they've treated me properly and have been brilliant whereas camhs mistreated me and sometimes were outright horrid to me particularly the doctor I was under but that's in the past and adult services have made up for that.
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My counsellor is amazing. She always makes me feel listened to and supported. She holds my hand when I get upset and even though the organisation she works for are only supposed to offer up to a year of therapy, this is the third year she's been seeing me because she wants to help me.
My DBT therapist is also amazingly supportive at times. She really goes out of her way for me. She always phones back when I telephone her even on her days off and one time she called me on a Saturday to make sure I was okay.
When we first started working together she said I could phone her over the weekend during a really difficult time (She got in trouble with her supervisor for it) but I didn't call because I wanted to respect boundaries.
She's bought me food from the corner shop when I've felt faint, she's gone for walks with me to the park when I've had flashbacks and she stayed with me until 7pm one time until my partner collected me to make sure I was safe and didn't hurt myself.
I will always be so grateful to them for what they've done for me even when they really haven't had to.
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not a mental health professional, but the welfare lady at my uni has been great and my uni in general have been. My uni let me take a year out when it was clear I was really struggling, I was meant to return the next year, but got sectioned for 3 months so they let me take another year out, now I'm back and they are being so supportive. The welfare lady has offered to see me once a week as she knows that at the moment the only support I have is my GP, so she lets me talk to her and she helps me with everything she can. The uni counsellor also had to take me to A&E after I OD'd and then she had to go home so she called the uni academic registrar who came and sat with me until about midnight even though she had work the next day and she wouldn't leave until they had done tests on me and moved me to a general medical ward.
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My GP is wonderful she's always completely honest with me, even if it's something I don't want to hear and she always puts things across so well so that I can understand properly. She's so understanding and when I was really unwell she somehow managed to arrange a meeting with my whole care team and the psychs at the hospital in ten minutes.
J my SW is great, we clicked straight away, she listens and actually takes in what I say. I can be completely open with her and I know she has my best interests at heart. Whenever I phone her up, normally in crisis, most of the time she's out on visits but she always gets back to me the same day and helps me as best she can.
A my OT is really nice, we can talk for hours and she never judges me, she really seems to understand me, she never makes me angry ever, she always want to help. She always sees the good in me and can see all the potential I have and all the hard work I put in.
R my group worker is awesome, she goes above and beyond to help and she really, really gets me, never judges me, liaises with my main care team so well, advises me and well she really does care. I love her to bits.
Despite not having the best of times in A&E, the security there are always so nice even if I've kicked off and certain nurses and HCA's have been so kind and understanding even when I've lost it.
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One of my care-coordinators with the EIP was amazing. I was changing schools and was very nervous about it, so she did a test run of the bus route with me at 8 in the morning, and arranged a tour of the school during the summer holidays. She also came to visit me in a hospital about 2 hours from where she was based, just to check how I was doing. If I was at home and really struggling, she'd come and see me up to 2 times a week. The EIP in the area does days out for various sports, and even though my care-coord was scared of horses, she came with me to a horse riding day, and also tried to persuade the PCT to put money towards me taking riding lessons (though the PCT sadly said no).
She was moved from my district to another in the end, but when I was discharged from the EIP, she came over to say goodbye, even though she hadn't been involved in my case for about a year.
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My new care co-ordinator is brilliant and has a lot of time for me. He's very understanding and appreciative of what I'm going through.
My GP of three years still gives me plenty of time and wants to know how I am doing. He's always very understanding and competent at his role. He's saved my life a number of times.
A&E staff, police officers and paramedics have, overall, been consistently amazing with me. Very kind, understand and supportive.
My old psych was amazing too, he completely understood what my problems were and gave me lots of time.
My therapist is so understanding, non-judgemental and funny. She was the one who finally understood me and fought to get me the help I needed. She knows exactly how to structure appointments and what to say to really benefit me and gain my trust, right down to the little details like avoiding words like "psychiatrist" which scare me!
Brilliant idea for a thread. I was admitted as an inpatient for the first time this week and everyone from the ward staff, to the CMHT that referred me to the crisis team and care co-ordinator when I left have been fantastic. It's obvious they're over stretched but they've been brilliant.
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My old counsellor was amazing. She really helped drag me through a difficult time in my life. She went above and beyond. The same goes for an old GP of mine, about 8 years ago. She was there throughout a very tough time and would often spend a long time talking things through with me in our appointments, much to the frustration of the receptionists/other patients. She was fantastic with all of her patients.
My psych has bent over backwards over the last week to keep me safe without making me go inpatient. He is not exactly happy with the situtation, but is conscious that hospital could make things much worse. He is very good at reading me, even when I'm not prepared to discuss certain things. I'm really glad I have him on my side (at the moment; that could change!).
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My CC literally saved my life and my mind in the short 4months that I have known her.
She sees me 2-4 times a week when I'm unstable and really help me loads with psychosocial stuff.
Also when I'm very paranoid or psychotic I still trust her which is good because I loose trust easily when I get like that.
She is really amazing. I often think about buying her presents to thank her but that would maybe make me seem a bit crazy.lol.
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she's always completely honest with me, even if it's something I don't want to hear and she always puts things across so well so that I can understand properly. She's so understanding and when I was really unwell she somehow managed to arrange a meeting with my whole care team and the psychs at the hospital in ten minutes.
