My Experience With The Crisis Team (it’s not good) | Borderline Personality Disorder 

I agree and I am a mental health nurse who can see that the system is totally rank and unfit for purpose.

There is Emotions matter support group I’ve been going to some of the group calls/meeting an it makes me feel less alone. Knowing I’m not the only one suffering. The people who don’t have it don’t understand it an there dangerous with the way they treat us with Bpd.

I'm in support groups online for bpd ran by pll with bpd

Their shit,

Same thing happened to me. I came in after an attempt. I was psychotic, self harming in front of the staff there and just begging for help. What I really wanted and needed was to be admitted to hospital so I could be safe but all I got were some benzos. It was traumatising and still effects me 2 years later.

Just dont let apathy cloud your heart, thank you for your apology, but its actually quite patronising

It is your journey. Our journeys are so personal. I believe my bipolar diagnosis is incorrect and my ADHD was actually what was happening. I would never stop taking my bipolar meds because what if I'm wrong? I am still flexible, especially with something as serious as bipolar (I was diagnosed with bipolar 2, not bipolar 1) I hope you get to a psychiatrist soon to get evaluated so that you know if you are bipolar. I wish you luck on your journey.

The meds can make it worse, especially if you have body dysmorphia and self esteem issues. I been begging for DBT as it’s the only thing proven to help BPD. I’ve been diagnosed with schizophrenia, schizoaffective and bipolar 1 by different psychiatrists. These clowns don’t know what they are doing.

That sounds so stressful but I am so proud of you for standing up to those wankers!! I cannot wait to watch your content if you decide to make some!

Hi is your channel available please ?

Fully love what you’re both saying here 👍 Sadly the type of person accurately described here, who goes into mental health work simply to appear virtuous, does exist. They are exactly the type of person who is ok with the type of behaviour necessary when putting empty key performance indicators, such as waiting room time, before actual patient care, essentially “cooking the books” to make themselves look good. These people need to be recognised for what they are and removed from their trusted positions, since they often are fine speakers adept at gaining admiration from others and thereby act as influencers. They are also exactly the type of person who may be behind the paradoxical inversion, extant within mental health services, of the hypocratic rule of first do no harm, since their prime aim of getting into mental health care was to make themselves look or feel good, or to get a pay check based upon studies undertaken for those reasons alone. Understanding problems as complex as an individuals mental health issues, which are impacted by other complex issues, is not for the faint of heart and not for people who don’t like to find out they don’t know, which is absolutely a necessary process of learning, it’s a totally unsuitable field for anyone wanting to feel good/ look good. I’ve noticed that, despite the recent trending “mental health” movement, we’re seeing and hearing opinions, within the wider community, so outdated and prejudiced that it reminds me of fundamental errors we challenged in the 1980’s (I’m old 😂). In my mind it is material that the first treatment for BPD was developed in the 1990’s by a woman with BPD, and it is material that the departments responsible for providing that treatment and others for BPD paradoxically emphasise that it’s important for the patient with BPD to take responsibility for themselves while failing to provide said treatments for their clients, and in the context of the backsliding regarding attitudes in the community, I think it’s material that the mental healthcare services are many peoples guiding light. Not only do some trusts in the UK not provide treatment for BPD, I’ve caught their practitioners seemingly deliberately pushing towards BPD as a misdiagnosis for likely multi-event ptsd, likely because they haven’t got a service for multi-event ptsd, but as they don’t treat BPD and the PD dept engage in the circular “thinking” described above, it makes a handy dumping ground for other things they don’t have depts for. It’s a mixture of protocol/policy issues, lack of funding and treatment and likely the type of “wrong person” described taking stewardship of all of the above. I’d also validate what Gloria said about self harm, I’d suspected their policy would feed into it, further muddying their diagnoses I would add. I realise this vid is 2 years old, however all the points raised are more relevant than ever at this time. The mental health services need to accept that they should have taken responsibility over this situation, before current issues it is facing in common with every other service and individual, became so bad. Lack of funding was never an excuse, a lack of honesty is and always has been the problem, and they not only fail to challenge ignorance, they take full advantage of and feed into it.

I’m so sorry we share a life, we deserve better!!! You can never have too many friends 😁🥰🤗

The thing is is that the crises center is not designed to be a psychiatrists office. Just like an emergency room is not designed to be a doctor's or specialist's office. A crisis in mental health is when someone is intending on harming oneself of others in that moment. I believe that her autism, which she is diagnosed with not caused her to need a support worked or professional (who understands autism to explain to her what the team was trying to communicate. We autistic people takes things very literally too. The woman wasn't implying for her to harm herself. That was her literal interpretation of it. When she did talk to another crisis worker, we tend to explain things in a skewed way, misrepresenting the situation (not intentionally, but because of emotional disregulation.) I was even in a mental hospital before I was diagnosed as autisic and had expectations of the staff that were not fair or emotionally regulated. They were just keeping me in a safe environment. It was my psychiatrist who was supposed to fulfill my expectations. I have myself also (unknowingly - until looking back) explained things about other people in a skewed way, due to emotional dysregulation. She doesn't express her communication difficulties (which are part of autism) where the person she is talking to is not clear on what she is expressing, so it is difficult for her to help her. After my autism diagnosis, I was able to look back and clearly see these situations as they were. I was shocked to see that my perception and communication difficulties caused me and others alot of stress and frustration. Of course, I thought "...but if they knew that I was autistic", which is s valid reaction, even to someone who couldn't have known.

For sure. Bad object introjects get worse when we are in a bad place.

I am a mobile crisis counselor. Thank you for your post. People need to see there is more then bad experiences. Like you said, we really do want to help people. Thank you for making that clear to all. :)

You can't just book an appointment with a psychiatrist in the UK. You have to be part of secondary services usually and you only get into secondary services usually by being seen by a crisis team.

No, they moved me to a different area because I’d been there too long and it’s policy to not have people waiting in the waiting area for longer than that time set. That’s how that hospital worked. It wasn’t during a pandemic considering it was 2018. I’m starting to think you didn’t watch my video. I assume you’re part of the nursing community and got offended so decided to leave this very dismissive and passive aggressive comment. Just because you don’t believe what I say doesn’t make it not true.

@@GLOsLife I have worked across many hospitals and my comment was it’s difficult for space in A&E normally pre pandemic and the policy you are referring to is not accurate so I have no clue why you would say that other than that you where misled. I am not being passive aggressive at all I wish you the best and I am hope you are well. I have for sure reflected on the comments you have made in your video and will take them with me to my own practice however some of the comments are flippant. It sounds like you want empathy to your situation and you have it from me if you want it however empathy works both ways. Look at the positives from the situation, the speedy referral made during a busy A&E, the follow up care etc. It’s your RU-vid channel though and you are entitled to your own opinion or to rant which is what this sounds like.

I hear you, it’s complicated for both parties & I appreciate you taking your time to watch my video and take something away from it. Everything I have said in my experience is 100% factual, even if it seems false or misinterpreted, it’s what the hospital had told me. I hope on the future we get a better government, who funds the NHS properly so we can all be better

Try living with that level of astronomical pain and misunderstanding and you’ll see.

@@n0b0d1-rc6dz which doesn't change a word of what I wrote...

@@n0b0d1-rc6dz try living with that amount of selfishness and self pity and you'll see: Perceiving problems, making problems when there are none, even when people do 'anything and everything' for them. Taking and taking. But however one looks at it, nothing of what you write detracts from what I wrote.