Help with a article on self harm, appreciate any help

[Slavecharolette]

My name is Aimee, and I am writing a article about mistreatment of self harmers. I'm just looking for any stories people on here might have of mistreatment, by GP's, Psychiatrists or hospital staff. I would appreciate any help you guys could give me. If you are comfortable posting something here then please do, if not my private email is skywolfe@hotmail.com feel free if you would like some more privacy. It can be completely confidential.
I would love the help, thankyou for the support.

The website where the article will be posted is called "No Borders Allowed" and is at http://nba.alrightstill.net/. This message has been aproved by the moderators on Recoveryourlife

[Stellata]

All the best with your article. :)

I can't help, but I just wanted to wish you good luck.

[sopranonut]

Once, I was in hospital for a reason unrelated to sh. I was being treated ok, the same as everyone else.
The next day when the shift changed a health care assistant came on duty and she helped me to wash. At that point she saw my arms and looked at me. She recognised me and said 'have i seen you before?' i replied that she may have seen me in a&e or on another ward. She switched straight away and started treating me horribly. I'm sure she went and gossiped about it with the other staff.

Later that day i was in excruciating pain, the most pain i ever ever experienced so i was shouting and crying. The nurses came over and told me to stop making so much noise as i was disturbing the other patients! I said i couldn't stop because the pain was too much, please could i have something for the pain? they told me to 'stop prentending to cry and being attention seeking'!! It was the worst experience ever i was seriously ill and because of my mental health history they thought they had the right to treat me like crap. Later on it was discovered that there was a reason as i had serious medical problems and the pain was real, i wasn't making it up.

I was going to make an official complaint, but i was so glad to be out of there when i got home that i just wanted to forget about it. Plus, i wasn't really mentally stable enough then to go through that.

Is that the kind of things you wanted to know? I have plenty of other experiences of being treated like crap in a&e after cutting or overdosing, but can't think of any specific ones right now.

Good luck with your article!

[Slavecharolette]

thankyou so much, that is exactely the kind of thing i was looking for. I am still writing, and researching. do you have any other experiences you wouldnt mind sharing?

[tweety pie 84]

ive pm'ed u