system failure

@Eden1919 you're not alone. I read as much as I could but please know you're not alone and someone had responded.

*sitting with you*

Hi @Eden1919

Thanks for letting us know what is happening for you. I'm sorry that you are going through all of this and that the mental health system has let you down. It sounds like you are really struggling at the moment, with little support. The doctor doesn't sound nice and doesn't sound like he knows anything about mental health.

Please know that we are here for you through all of this.

Hearing you @Eden1919

If thoughts and prayers can help I'm sending them your way

Can you get back to the psychologist? It's sounds as though they mean well and are trying to help

@Eden1919I wish I had some way to help, my friend. 😢🤗

If you could get a therapist who would do anything and everything they could for you, a genie-from-the-lamp figure who could grant you any wish so to speak, what would you ask them for?

@RachSANECEO @moderator Last year we had a bunch of MPs who showed up on here for about half an hour to show their supposed support for mental health organizations. Is there any way we could get them to show their faces on a more regular basis?

THESE are the stories they really need to hear! Here-and-now crisises like @Eden1919 's!

Right now we have a news frenzy going on in NSW about whether psychiatrists are getting paid enough or not, and the state MPs are playing right into the game that the therapists have set up. Everybody wants to argue about whether $300,000 or $400,000 per year is fair for a psychiatrist, and ignoring the fact that, either way, we're paying these people hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to throw people like us back out into the street, and tell us: "Your on your own!"

The people in power need to hear these stories, so that they know that the problem isn't underpaid psychiatrists; it's a cruel psychiatric industry of bad character! Instead of paying these heartless people more money to stick around and keep telling their patients to bugger off, we need our leaders to start hiring good, sympathetic, helpful people who are actually going to help us when we need it!

The MPs need to be here. They need to hear these stories. And so do the media.

@chibam @RachSANECEO I just survived nearly 4 weeks shuttling between 3 hospitals and many wards with a complex mix of post-surgery recovery, fall and heart scares, and bipolar relapse. The 2 weeks in public general medical wards because no psych beds were available were the pits, and the other patients were in dire straits.

We desperately need more psych beds at major public hospitals and amenable ED departments with trained compassionate staff.

Hugs to you my friend @Eden1919 I hope today was better for you. I hope you're not worrying about restarting your uni course while you're still unwell - or do you think it would help?

@tyme

Thank you everyone @chibam i agree completely the psychiatrist are already earning more than some of us will ever see in our lives and all so they can ignore us and treat us like crap when we are struggling. this doctor i saw tried to discharge another person i know when they were in a coma he said to their partner as soon as they woke up to discharge them no assessment didnt care how they got there he doesnt give a rats about anyone and even one of the nurses said he was a terrible doctor and yet i am sure he is being paid the big bucks to treat people like that. he has basically made ed a non option for me because he will just dismiss me no matter what is happening. he basically told me i was being dramatic and to just suck it up and live with it.

i am still really struggling and my mood is really all over the place like really badly and idk what is happening my friend with bipolar said it could be a mixed episode and i mean that might make some sense as to why i feel like i am both on a high and a low at the same time but yeah idk what to do i feel at a complete loss and i am trying my best to make it through each night but it is hard when you dont sleep and the night drags on and on anyway i feel terrible and things are shit.

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@Eden1919 wrote:

he has basically made ed a non option for me because he will just dismiss me no matter what is happening. he basically told me i was being dramatic and to just suck it up and live with it.

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I watch that show "Air Crash Investigators" sometimes.

Did you know that, because of plane crashes caused by tension/arguments between the flight crew, the airline industry created a "no pairing" register for pilots? If your a pilot who doesn't get along with another pilot, and you don't think you can cooperate with her/him sufficiently to be able to safely fly a plane, then you can just file a no-questions-asked request to have yourself and this other pilot logged in the "no pairing" register, and the system will never pair the two of you up together on the same flight.

Maybe us patients need a similar register for doctors. Just a little chunk of data that sits in the computer system, that automatically blocks it from ever assigning us a session with whatever doctor we've deemed a "no go" for us.

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@Eden1919 wrote:

@chibam i agree completely the psychiatrist are already earning more than some of us will ever see in our lives and all so they can ignore us and treat us like crap when we are struggling. this doctor i saw tried to discharge another person i know when they were in a coma he said to their partner as soon as they woke up to discharge them no assessment didnt care how they got there he doesnt give a rats about anyone and even one of the nurses said he was a terrible doctor and yet i am sure he is being paid the big bucks to treat people like that.

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This whole conversation has reminded me of this clip from "The Golden Girls" that came up on my youtube feed a long time ago. It's a clip of Bea Arthur raging at a pompous doctor who basically told her she was wasting his time when she came to him really sick.

Maybe you've seen it? It's pretty iconic.

If not, here's a link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0Z2NyT3UJ4

It's pretty sad, actually. This clip must've been filmed in the late 80s or early 90s, and it's still just as true today as it was way back then.