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A journey through cancer.

A journey through cancer.

Hi, im new. I was diagnosed with mental illness 20+ years ago. I find it very frustrating that i cannot get any legal help to fight misdiagnosis, many stories there all law firms wont touch mental health unless your rich to pay them off up front. So Drs & nurses can do what ever they like with you knowing there isnt any way i can legaly fight back. I dont deny mental health issues but do dispute diagnosis, especially when i am a victim of crime & cops put me in mental health & mental health call my injuries delusions ignoring my evidence( x ray ect)

In 2008 i got diagnosed with cancer. I had 3 months chemo no help at all. The mental health clinic was supposed to arrange a cleaner while i was sick but my Dr (medical officer) didnt arrange it said to me i cant expect to be treated like the Royal family. I was left without any support from family & have very few friends so i was left to my own devices to get food & didnt clean as i was too sick I had to live in a mess. I could tell you things you wouldnt believe!

With my difficult relationship with staff in mental health due to my argumentative stance on their constant mis-diagnosis my relationship with mental health has descended to a mutural hate with most of them. I am now the subject of bulling by male nurses & ridicule to provoke me into loosing my temper, raely i bite but with all the stress from PTSD & cancer & other issues sometimes i find it hard not to stand up to the bullies. Always results in alerts on my computer record to encourage more difficulties for me, is a modern mental health nurse bully tactic.

Even now i still am often illtreated & if i complain i am given a union cover up. I dont like to complain but whats a guy supposed to do with a cold war between the bully nurses & me. You would think that being a cancer patient the bullies would lay off but they dont. I had to fight for my life in fist fights many times on street & with nurses where they just ignore my frail fragile state being chemothearapy sickness. Some even say i am not a cancer patient, but i am to tone down my fraility.

So now i dont know how long i have to live, i may have 20+ years or just a few. I slowly die alone never having had a love life. It is a burning to see my sexual health die as i slowly aproach death. I sit in silence alone every day. I dont get along with anyone, all the difficulties i have had since childhood i can't bare much more!

But i have to man up & toughen up this is the truth of the cold world we live in. I once asked a female nurse who hates me to make peace with her, i was then subject to an attempted assault by male nurses if it wasn't for my 6 month remission for cancer i would have been locked up in a locked ward. I now am terrorified of health care workers, like i say there are 2 types of patients, citizens & inmates. One cared for, the other often abused ganged up on by both health care workers & citizen patients.

I try my best to be positive, love like, forgiving, nice, thoughtful & respectful & i try to make the best of my life. But i am often frustrated by my own torment exacerbated by lonelyness & yerning for love.

I pray & hope for something good to happen!!!

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In response to: A journey through cancer.

Re: A journey through cancer.

Hi @Seeker

It's nice to 'see' you back in the Forums. It sounds like a frustrating cycle again. It seems like there is an option for support (the male case manager) but it's not something you're comfortable with. Can you ask PIR to clarify why you can only have a male case manager? I think asking the question is a reasonable request.

In the meantime, you can keep visiting this community and connecting with others, if that's useful?

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Re: A journey through cancer.

lost my long post in system @Seeker

trying to retrieve it.

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Re: A journey through cancer.

Mods @NikNik

In my profile page there is an autosave draft for this thread that I "lost" about 15 mins ago.

I usually can retrieve it by pressing a new reply on the relevant thread and then there is hypertext asking to Load or Discard autosaved draft .. but this is not coming up.

I think this is an important post and I dont want to leave @Seeker hanging. Can you help me find it in the system please.

Apple

In response to: Re: A journey through cancer.

Re: A journey through cancer.

Hi @Appleblossom

Are you saying you can still see it in your autosaved drafts on your profile?

If so, you can go to your profile and the autosaved section and press on the title and it should take you to the thread you were posting in and load what it has saved.

Let me know how you go.

Nik

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