Posted by deniseuk190466 on March 19, 2007, at 13:45:21
In reply to Isn't the NHS great?, posted by Ines on March 15, 2007, at 8:35:35
Hi,
I'm not one for giving support or encouragement either because so often I feel so discouraged but just wanted to say I know how you feel.
When my depression first flared up again, I was fortunate to have a good job with good private medical health insurance but since I lost my job (due to my depression I'm sure) I've had to rely on the NHS.
The GP who supposedly specialises in psychiatric disorders at my local surgery is arrogant, he tried to insinuate I had a Personality disorder by saying "but you are always like this when you come and see me". When I mentioned the long waiting list for me to have CBT (So far 1 year and 7 months) he said that I was lucky to be getting it at all. He also insinuated that I should just learn to accept the way I am.
I went to a Day Care centre hoping that this professor there might be able to help me. He was the most unsympathetic, cold Dr I have ever been to see. He kept drumming his fingers exasperatingly on the table, he told me that I was addicted to the mental health services, he told me that I wasn't depressed I was just a very unhappy person and then he said that a lot of cancer sufferers accept their cancer, give up on treatments and go away and try to get on with and enjoy the rest of their life, he was implying that I do the same. What he failed to appreciate is that I can't enjoy life when I'm like this!
I just wanted you to know that you are not alone.
Denise
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