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Navigating Mental Health.

OrwellianSenior Contributor28 July 2019, 10:27 am AEST

Navigating Mental Health.

Alternate Title - Being someone else more acceptable.

I do not know who to be. If I want to engage with any mental health services it seems inappropriate to be myself. When I try that my messages get censored or modified. The things I am going through are not valid and those who run the services inform me that what I think and feel is not acceptable.

It is these things which are making me get progressively worse. The system is geared toward those in charge who "know better" so they obviously know what is best for me.

No - I will not take the pharmaceuticals which these professionals seem all too willing to push on me. I have taken them before and had very negative effects.

No - I cannot attend a hospital. I am excluded from them other than paying money to provide their services.

I feel that the services are saying one thing but pushing me in another direction. It is obvious to me that this industry relies on certain statistics rising so that more funds can be extracted for it's growth. So this being the case I know that this way of operation is not by neglect or accident.

I feel that I have very little control over my own affairs or existence. The one thing where I seem to have some is on intervention with a possible serious illness, but I cannot even talk about that.

I know this will probably be deleted, but I am writing this more to myself and so some of the minders know I am on to them.

"Let's hope there is intelligent life out there somewhere as there is FA down here on earth"

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OrwellianSenior Contributor03 Aug 2019, 3:58 pm AEST

Re: Navigating Mental Health.

Thanks @Faith-and-Hope

It is not that easy. To see someone I have to go interstate to be seen. The local Private Hospital only does procedures which are very profitable. They know the correct priorities for health care is to maximise the income for doctors and shareholders.

Much of my mental health has been caused by the local public health service. I have a letter which excludes me from going there. It probably is not valid anymore but that is irrelevant. Going there would be too traumatic. The local GP's will also just charge a fee then send you there too.

I rang the Health Line. They wanted my location so they could send an Ambulance based on the symptoms. No thanks. The costs of an Ambulance are incredible. Having no income now that is a luxury I cannot afford.

As I said I am getting used to the pain now and in a way it's almost a comfort.

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OrwellianSenior Contributor18 Sept 2019, 6:44 pm AEST

Re: Navigating Mental Health.

I did find someone to see and have been having weekly appointments with a therapist. We have developed a good level of trust and can talk about a variety of subjects in an open manner. It is a pity the majority of mental health workers are not so honest.

Last week he told me my sessions will have to be cut right back now. His hours have been reduced so he now has to cut hours he sees patients. I was quite devastated by this news.

I rang the body which funds the service. I told them I was upset by the cuts. They told me there had not been a cut, in fact there had been an increase in funding. This was news to me. It turns out they have recently raised the hourly rates of the therapists. So technically it was correct. However those funds now have to be spread over a larger footprint. So my services have been cut back. I was offered other services, which I do not want. It took long enough to find a safe place and now that has been threatened.

Seems they only take note of numbers on spreadsheets, of which I am one. Maybe I should add myself to other statistical data.

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