Nhs mistreatment

[green123Participant]

My local mental health services really don’t know anything about ocd. I’m planning on leaving if they don’t refer me to specialist services after 9 years of neglect. They just make my mh worse and at this point I’m better off on my own. No one in my town services or greater Manchester mental health by the looks of it really understands intrusive thoughts and I’m really worried about other people in my town especially vulnerable  people who are convinced they’re ocd is real because every step of the way I’ve had to stick up for myself that my thoughts arnt me and I don’t want them. I was on a waiting list for 4 years for therapy and I got someone who did psychodynamic therapy on me without my knowledge. It took me months to build up trust bc of the abusive things some nurses have said to me in the past. I made sure he knew what intrusive thoughts and ego dystonic meant. After months of back and forth of him telling me I think deep down your scared to tell me, I tried to tell him and told him about intrusive thoughts I hand in the past and ones that wernt my main theme but we’re bothering me at the time, his response to I’m having intrusive thoughts that I don’t love my bf was to say it sounds about right bc I didn’t talk about him in therapy and after things I had a complete mental breakdown. I’ve been trying to get them to see how harmful this is to ocd patients for many months but they just don’t care I put in a complaint but it was done by his colleague who I had an argument with before and everything was brushed off and said it was completely okay that he did this. And that he made up a psycho analytic theory about my non existent trauma and how my intrusive thoughts are a defense mechanism.
I am really worried about other ocd patients in my town that there can be this low standard for ocd care. Is there anything else I can do to raise this up with someone who can understand?

[green123ParticipantParticipant]

I just don’t understand how he couldn’t see that would be an unacceptable and devastating thing a patient could hear when they first tell them about their intrusive thoughts, and how he didn’t have the intelligence to think maybe she dosent talk about her bf bc she’s avoiding talking about her intrusive thoughts and went straight to she dosent love him. It just proves how massively they don’t understand ocd patients and the disorder.

[green123ParticipantParticipant]

Now they’re denying access to my mental health records

[wannabefreeParticipant]

Hi there, I  am sorry you are being treated like this.

When I  worked in the health service many years ago, it was caring and friendly, a good environment  for everyone. Then it got so that a lot of the people who worked there seemed to really not like people at all… Bullies became managers… Some care assistantsused their authority to e ert power ovef othefs, including patients.

It was almost like they went into the work for the sense of supefioeity over othefs, maybe making up fof their own la king sense of selfworth.

Staff who were short in staure, still managing to look down on everyone else.

I actually  left due to other staff’s  treatment of me.

Some of them will have all the a ademic stuff, and yet be totally crap at communicating and helping us to come to terms with our difficulties…

It’s  sure not easy is it?

Wannabe

[wannabefreeParticipant]

A good book is ‘feeling good the new mood therapy’ by dr David Burns.

A really good read.

Wannabe

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You can contact the OCD Action Helpline and Email Service to talk to or email someone who understands OCD and how to get support from the NHS.

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• Assessment and Diagnosis
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• Getting a Yes from the NHS
• Good Quality CBT with ERP
• Making the Most of Therapy
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• Preparing for a GP Appointment
• Primary Care for Adults
• Secondary Care for Adults
• Treatment Options
• Treatments Not Recommended for OCD
• What to Look for in a Therapist
• Your Journey through the NHS

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