BBC1 - Britains Mental Health Crisis

The problem with mental health is as someone posted earlier, it isn't always that obvious until you have experienced it first hand, then it is painfully obvious just how serious it is.

It is also one of these services that is only affective with close one on one treatment and thus is time consuming and expensive. People just don't understand how it can effect so much of the system if left to fester and grow.

It's hard for most to fathom how someone's mind can become the thing that is unwell, there needs to be some understanding of how bad it is, constantly fighting your own thoughts and urges, just how scared someone can be that they are not in control of there own body and feelings. The feeling of isolation and fear is exhausting and dangerous, and when I say left to fester it really does fester, it sits in there minds and grows and slowly seeps in to every part of there life. The sooner the public become more informed and aware of how serious it is the sooner it will have the support other health services have.

I feel for any one suffering with mental health issues, it can be a lonely painful experience. The more people understand the less flippant they would be about it.
 
^well said that man.

We need to get rid of the stigma that mental health has, and to remove the notion that being able to get up, clothe yourself and go to work/school means your fine and able to cope.

Sometimes i can see the benefits of physical disability over mental disability, at least people see it and give you some synpathy.
 
My uncle works in a mental health hospital up north. Doesn't talk much about it.

I think it has not helped the industry for the pharmaceutical industry to start defining everything as a disorder and a mental health issue. It doesn't help genunie suffers of problems when people who are just moody are a head of them in the queue. I think like social services it's very gynocentric and men get the least quality of care. But this is just an outside observation not from experience. Just from hearing stories about it.

If I go to my doctor and say I need to speak to a psychologist because of trauma he won't be able to help very well. What he can do is feed me ssri drugs and mark me as a job well done.

There is some good documentaries on this topic. One is psychiatry an industry of death and the other is making a killing the untold story of psychotropic drugs.
 
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