Anyone here from this area?
I would like to know if there are any services i'm unaware of, or if anyones had successful treatment here?
I'm guessing the majority of people on here are American though, i've been reading a lot of posts and stuff but im new
Hey welcome to RYL
I'm not around Hampshire but generally the mental health care service for uk is CAMHS in my personal opinion they're annoying me at the moment, btu they have helped lots of people, they have clinics all over the country to my knowldge, your GP can refer you to them .
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I've had 'help' from the Child mental health services and now have been referred to adult services but they have told me they can't do anything as my diagnosis can't be made official as i'm not 18, so they're refusing to give me DBT.And i was told i would be prescribed antipsychotics to help with dissociation/psychosis but they messed me about a lot and now i'm left with nothing again. :/
Oh that's so bad they said they can't do anything ! how old are you if you've gone to adult but aren't 18... I think you just have too keep going to your GP and puching them to get something sorted out for you
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I'm 16, 17 in march.
I've been messed around by them a lot!
My doctor is really nice - i was screwed over by a psychiatrist - he told me i was lying/come back in 2 years/its not my fault if you kill yourself and so on.
so he got me a second opinion, i was unofficially diagnosed with BPD by a woman who was really nice and she said she'd get me DBT and antipsychotics but then since then i've been told i can't get treatment because of my age and because for some reason they always think i have a drinking problem.
I don't drink excessively, the closest thing i have to a drinking problem is that i do drink when im upset but it stops me from bashing my head/hand on things and knocking myself out/breaking my hand so i dont see it as too much of a problem, and im sure that if i had treatment i wouldnt drink to help myself.
It's just so frustrating - my college student liason officer [who i talk to a lot] has been writing them letters for a long time expressing concern and they have disregarded everything and lied about me to my doctor.
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oh that is so crap! im sorry they're being so useless even if they can't get you drugs they shoudl still ffer you counseling at the very least.. keep talkng to the people you do get on with though..
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Yeah i will :)
It's just really depressing seeing as i spent years in the child services with no help too, apart from a month or so of useful psychotherapy.
i know that antipsychotics are different, but they did put me on antidepressants at a time when i was drinking every day!
it just seems that they always try to blame my problems on other things - drinking and eating really, i got told i had an eating disorder but really didnt.
i don't want to be annoying and go on about it though, im sure people have had much worse!
i started a thread about the incompetence of mental health services on a different forum and it ended up with people who were about 50 talking about how they were sectioned 30 years ago and i was lucky and refused to accept i had problems, and i ended up saying stupid things so im a bit wary of making myself sound too selfabsorbed or whiny in case that happens again.
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I'm even further West - the New Forest, so like 'Wontbetakenalive' don't know about services in Gosport. What's confused me is why you were transferred to adult services if you are not yet 18 and are at college e.g. in full time education. You should still be treated by child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), which is what happened to me. I was seen by Brookvale Adolescent Service (part of CAMHS) until I was 18 before being referred to adult services. Maybe they don't have that provision in Gosport, in which case, they should!
Oh no i just deleted the football post because i felt stupid, then it deleted my reply that i'd been typing :(
Basically, when i left school they kicked me out of child services and referred me to adult services.
It may well be that they don't have the provision because I know other people of my age who go to the same place i 'go to'
And they are receiving help!!!?
i dont understand it.
I have this 'friend' who claims to be bipolar [its wrong to judge but i honestly dont see it, she just seems oversensitive and i know thats a hideous thing to say but i honestly dont mean it in a patronizing/disregarding problems type way, she just seems like she never grew up, and again, i dont mean that in the way it sounds] but anyway, she,in my opinion but also many other people i know, including the college counselor i see[how unprofessional of her!] have mentioned that she is so much less severely ill than i am, yet she has been prescribed medication and 2 different kinds of therapy, while i'm once again left in the dark.
I mentioned this on another forum and people took it completely the wrong way but i honestly don't mean to be ignorant or belittling when i say this, but; could this be because borderline has less of a well planned out treatment plan to bipolar and BPD is notoriously hard to treat with therapy?
Obviously I know that everyone is different but it does seem likely and understandable that mental health professionals would much rather treat easy cases than complicated ones, especially as i have had 2 and a half years of a range of unsuccessful therapies.
i sound illiterate and judgemental and ridiculous :(
In my opinion, there remains a stigma attached to BPD and, in particular, that it's 'untreatable.' That may be why you are finding it difficult to get treatment, though with the new treatment guidelines - can't remember what it's called - something like 'BPD - No Longer a Diagnosis of Exclusion' - it shouldn't be.
Yeah, thats what I was trying to say, in a bit of a confusing way.
Especially as i'm 'underage'
To be honest, I think its highly ridiculous that the age at which you develop it is usually early teens, yet you can't be diagnosed.
I do understand that 'your personality isnt fully developed' until you're 18 but to be fair, people do tend to develop at different rates and it is a bit stupid that, in the eyes of the professionals, the minute you turn 18 you can be diagnosed yet a week before you cannot.
Personally i think there should be a different way of doing it, maybe some kind of IQ tests, well not to test intelligence but mental development, although i can see why that would be hard because part of the disorder is a problem with self identity.
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I think perhaps you shouldn't be comparing yourself to other patients. I've done it in the past and it doesn't get you anywhere. You have to remember that whilst you may talk to the other patient and think you know what therapy they are getting, you don't know the whole picture. Only their doctors do, and they have their reasons for prescribing medications or therapy. You can't really say "Oh but they aren't as ill as I am" when you don't have all of the information.
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back, everything is different…
you once called your brain a hard drive, well say hello to the virus.
Don't be sorry! It's just I know how frustrating it can be thinking "Well why are they helping that person more than me?" etc and it doesn't get you anywhere, especially when you don't know the full picture.
The best thing to do would be to see your doctor/psychiatrist and let him know you feel like you aren't being supported and you want some more help/therapy/whatever. Doctors need to be led by their patients.
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back, everything is different…
you once called your brain a hard drive, well say hello to the virus.
Mmmm, I need to go see him anyway so he can check if the bones in my hand are messed up.
but last time i was there i got hysterical and cried/screamed/punched the wall because i'd read something on his computer and it was something the therapy team had said about me and they were lying.
To be honest i'm a bit stuck.
The woman i saw even said 'im so sorry we cant do anything for you'
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