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"From my personal experience, just a brush with mental health issues for both me and my family members, [there] seems to be a lack of [the] personal touch at the beginning. With the first contact, like, it's so hard to grab people that are having mental health problems because they...read more
"They found a growth. He had to have a scan and they found this growth and they dismissed it... I had a friend who worked in the hospital... [the] senior night nurse came along, saw his notes, saw this tumor on his spine and called the consultant. Within an hour, he was...read more
"We've had 32 or 34 different carers come from the same agency. And, no, there's no liaising. There's no communication... it's all over the place. "
"When I got unwell, the GP actually said to me 'You have no reason to be depressed. You have food, you have a roof over your head, you have no reason to be depressed.' It's like okay, well, there's no point in me being here. I'm just gonna go and...read more
"Our daughter has autism, severe anxiety and PTSD. She's currently in a low secure unit. We saw her yesterday for the first time since Christmas Day because of lockdown. Social Care are just awful, the way they treat us. They don't involve us. They don't follow through on their promises....read more
"I had a sister who was in a care home. As soon as you walked in, you could smell things that you shouldn't have. And it wasn't her fault. I mean...she did actually [get a] room for herself, but others were put together. And it's never been anything like the standard of...read more
"I remember in hospital on my medical notes [it said] this patient needs help to do basic needs...[But] the nurses who were looking after me, when I'd ask them for certain things they would look at me like 'Well, just get up and do it.' I mean, one got to the...read more
"CAMHS have actually made life much more difficult for us
They actually have aggravated every thing that [they] were supposed to help with. Their services are so poor."
"I had a car accident, about 20 years ago, which really damaged my spine. And I got support from my GP. But after about three years of struggling, his answer was to give up work and go on disability... I didn't get offered any rehab
I felt like I was just...read more
"There was a time a few years ago when I had some scans because of this lump in my neck. And basically for two weeks [I was] thinking I was gonna die. And then he was just like 'Oh no, it's just a cyst.' But at no point before...did they kind of...read more
"I've had postnatal depression as well. And especially when I had it with the twins, it took me a year to actually get some help. And to get some medication for it. Because my GP wasn't listening to me and neither was my home visitor."
"I went through different care homes...they were treated like the lowest of the low. It depends on who's on shift. If you've got a nice care assistant or a nice nurse or a nice manager and they happen to be in, then things are okay. But some people were leaving...read more