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“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.”
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“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 being thrown on the scrap
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“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 prepare me in any way.”
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“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.”
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“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 from one job and coming onto another
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“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 on a stretcher going to
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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 don’t necessarily want to talk
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“Before I was diagnosed with my cancer, I was admitted as an emergency… I was treated as a drunk. And everybody said to me, ‘Oh, do you drink?’ I kept saying ‘No, I don’t drink.’ And then one of the registrar’s said to me. ‘Are you sure you haven’t got a bottle of sherry hidden underneath your sink?’ How absolutely
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We share people’s experiences because we want people making decisions to hear from people who live with those decisions every day. But we know some of this experiential content can be difficult to watch. If you’ve been affected by anything you’ve seen, heard or read here please consider getting in touch with these organisations that can
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We share people’s experiences because we want people making decisions to hear from people who live with those decisions every day. But we know some of this experiential content can be difficult to watch. If you’ve been affected by anything you’ve seen, heard or read here please consider getting in touch with these organisations that can