Not Coping

@Birdofparadise8 it's good that you have a plan in place and are reaching out here. Great that you have an aunt that you can talk to about things. Sounds like you are making good decisions about your MH and what to do. I know it can be hard but talking about it can be a good way to cope with it. Take care RiverSeal

• @Birdofparadise8 yes, I have had intervention with acute care. They are not very supportive. Under resourced, or understaffed, I don't know. They visited one time and then scrubbed me from their case load. They keep palming me off to catholic care and anglicare and things like that. Strange, because the psychiatrist at hospital urged me strongly to NOT let acute care dump me, even after the standard 6 weeks, and I've continued to reach out - but apparently I'm not needy enough!!
• It's insane!

Omg they did the same thing to me @Kyle1

Yeah will do thank you @RiverSeal

I was not too fond of the acute care team @Kyle1

I had two meetings with them, and they just said you need to do therapy and said to keep reaching out for help if I need it.

They didn't even believe I was depressed and said I was a low risk even though I had very strong suicidal thoughts just because I didn't look sad. I could go to work, ballet and uni.

I feel like they are under-resourced. Did you put a complaint in? I did, and the feedback I got was that they are a new branch of the service trying to work things out and will pass the information on about what I said.

@Birdofparadise8 I have not figured out what do ...'cept keep on keeping on, or just surrender to the whale's belly. I seem to vacillate between the two, with both delivering their own shades of gloom.

Other people are sometimes good tonic.

@Kyle1 sorry, but I'm a little confused about what you're trying to say.

The whales belly. That's a reference to Jonah from the bible who was grieved and taken to the depths of despair...

@Birdofparadise8

Ah okay @Kyle1

Wishing you a good night, Laura! 💚🫂

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