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Managing thoughts of suicide & self-harm

Hopelessness and the Terminal Mental Health Patient.

Hopelessness and the Terminal Mental Health Patient.

Patient Failure

How do you deal with being kicked out of the private sector when in crisis? Being blamed for your “failure” as a patient? Being treated like vermin in the ED? How do you continue to pick yourself up and dust yourself off when you have a terminal mental health disorder. Private hospitals and private shrinks are only interested in the “ perfect Pollyanna patient.”and won’t take you as a patients. You are offered nothing but an overwhelming sense of utter failure. To exist at this point in time without our purpose, without a map, without the skills to read it and help get yourself not to be lost. The spirit is broken and lost and it has reached a point where this little jumpy dumpty can’t be put back together All the kings horses and all the kings men have a prior engagement attending a new big pharma junket and not available right now.

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I'm so sorry to hear about your experiences in the mental health system @Fawkes

Stories like this highlight the real gaps and problems within the system, thank you for feeling able to share this. I don't have answers, I wish that I did, but I can sit with you and listen and assure you that you're not alone

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