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They only contact your doctor if they feel they need to. It's up to you to get the evidence.

I did try, but the only doctor that is near me is my GP and they kept making up excuses not to give me anything. My other doctors wanted me to travel out just to go and get a bit of paper and because they're so far, I couldn't manage it. The only things I had were copies of a couple of letters between doctors, my medication, and letters asking me to go for treatment. I don't have anything recent because as of filling out my form, I was still due to see some new specialists and start some new treatments, and as of the consultation a couple of weeks later I was still awaiting anything to have come of it all

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Ezme39

My friend has just been taken in an ambulance. He was drunk, but I thought he was okay. He hit his head and we all left him with his brother, who called the ambulance. I feel like I should have done more. I'm the medical student; I shouldn't have left. I know he's probably fine and it's a precaution, but I'm going out of my mind with worry right now.

Reply 2882

Andy98

Original post by Ezme39

How much did he have?

(I know a fair bit about drunkenness :colondollar:

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Reply 2883

Ezme39

Original post by Andy98

How much did he have?

(I know a fair bit about drunkenness :colondollar:

)

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About 2/3 of a litre of whiskey :frown:

we didn't realise until after because most of us had only had a few glasses

Hello all

Saw the psychiatrist at the crisis team this morning.

Was offered the choice of mental health act assessment or see the crisis team twice a day to observe me taking new olanzapine, possibly with the view of going back on clozapine if that doesn't work, possibly hospital anyway. WTF. Not fair. Feel coerced into taking medication I don't want and don't need. As soon as they stop monitoring me taking it I'll just stop again anyway. Hate the bloody weight gain with antipsychotics.

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Reply 2886

username861942

Original post by john2054

However it is my experience that sometimes these nurses are the worst ones to determine who is well, and not. Leave that to the doctor's thanks!?

Personally for me, I would feel more comfortable with a social assessment rather than a purely medical one as for me I think it is important to determine not only if someone is suffering from a mental disorder, but also if a section 136 detention is in their best interests. Personally, I feel that health professionals such as nurses and social workers are in a better place to make that decision (for example, an AMHP makes the final decision if someone is to be detained under s. 2, 3 or 4 of the Mental Health Act). I think that doctors are not the only professionals who can determine who is unwell and who isn't. Thank you for your views - it's good to hear another side :smile:

Reply 2887

Midnightmemories

Very quiet on here today... hope everyone's okay :hugs:

Reply 2888

Sabertooth

Original post by Noodlzzz

As was previously mentioned, I would talk to your uni about your situation. You may be able to postpone your exams until you feel better.

Are you getting any help from services? Taking medication? Maybe reviewing this might help as it sounds like you're really struggling :hugs:

Thanks for the reply Noodlzzz. I actually went to the disability office today and the woman there wasn't really helpful. She gave me a form to fill out asking what the problem is and what accommodations I want (no idea :/ ), but also told me to get an appointment with a university counselor to see what they think. Seeing one next week which is after my 2 upcoming exams but I'm feeling so down right now that I feel like I'd still fail even with any accommodations made.

I'm really sorry to hear about your experience with the psychiatrist/crisis team. I know what you mean about the weight gain,

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. These drugs can be so horrible to take especially when half the time (or so it seems) they don't actually "work". But if that's what will keep you out of hospital perhaps take the olanzapine anyway? hospital is awful too. :console:

Reply 2889

Rum Ham

Really proud of my mum today.

She passed her theory test :smile:

she failed it last week due to her nerves but instead of giving up for a while, she booked it quickly and sat it again today and passed with flying colours and even bet my hazard perception score my three points :tongue:

Really proud as she couldn't drive for years due to her mental health and she wanted to learn to drive so much but never had the confidence until now. She still struggles with some nerves with driving but is improving with every lesson and is now one step closer to passing. Just goes to show, you're never too late to learn a new skill or follow a dream :h:

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Airmed

I travelled 15 miles to a hospital appointment yesterday only for it to mostly be a waste of time. Now I have a massive bruise on my arm from the blood tests, started crying over my weight when the doctor mentioned it, and in my tiredness forgot to take my antipsychotic last night.

Oh and I have my useless pyschiatrist tomorrow.

:colonhash:

Reply 2891

The_Lonely_Goatherd

Original post by Spock's Socks

Really proud of my mum today.

She passed her theory test :smile:

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PRSOM

Go her!

Reply 2892

Midnightmemories

Original post by Spock's Socks

Really proud of my mum today.

She passed her theory test :smile:

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PRSOM

Well done to your mum :smile:

Reply 2893

Anonymous #1

why is everyone so much more important :hmmmm2:

now dont take this the wrong way, ik im not important.
im insignificant and useless and a waste pf precious resources but srsly ppl are eurgh ._.
ok ik u have ur issues but like that isn't a reason not to talk to me :laugh:

and lol then i feel bad when u drop some bombshell cos im stressed about work and it seems so pathetic in comparison :laugh:

just fed up of being expected to be there at everyone's convenience yknow :h:

everyone is being so *****y inrl as well :lol:

ONE person is happy for me :rofl:

a whole one person i 'deserve happiness' apparently, well i woudnt go that far but at least she isn't killing me with death glares bc of my grades :ahee:

yknow if u spent as much time on ur work as u do being jealous u could do just as well.
idek why ur jealous, u wouldnt want to be me. and i dont say that as in 'boo hoo i have it so bad' bc i dont as i am constantly reminded by like everyone with their impending catastrophes and im just sat here like lol
so yes, whever u want to speak to me that would be great everyone, unless u dont and unless maybe i acc omg go for once :eek:

shock bloody horror.
maybe i am busy or need someone to talk to
ever thought of that world :lol:

but nah it's fine im everyone's spaniel it's great :borat:

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purple-duck

Original post by Anonymous

why is everyone so much more important :hmmmm2:

and lol then i feel bad when u drop some bombshell cos im stressed about work and it seems so pathetic in comparison :laugh:

just fed up of being expected to be there at everyone's convenience yknow :h:

everyone is being so *****y inrl as well :lol:

ONE person is happy for me :rofl:

a whole one person i 'deserve happiness' apparently, well i woudnt go that far but at least she isn't killing me with death glares bc of my grades :ahee:

shock bloody horror.
maybe i am busy or need someone to talk to
ever thought of that world :lol:

but nah it's fine im everyone's spaniel it's great :borat:

I think it can be quite difficult to reply to anonymous peeps sometimes - or to get replies etc. - I'm not sure if it's simply that it's harder to work out who the person is/link their replies and what's going on with them, or if it's sort of that that makes it harder to make some sort of relationship with the poster? I'm not sure :eek:

Anyways - realise it is frustrating though posting and not getting a reply :frown:

Know that when I first started posting here sort of felt a bit blanked :colondollar:

Think it's just that some people can be a bit shy, and also just that as I said, it's harder to reply to someone "new" (even though I realise you are number 1 :king1:

But anyways.... - Sorry you're feeling a bit of a "spaniel"/part of the scenery? Particularly IRL as well :frown:

Can relate to feeling a bit "everyone else has all these catastrophes but I'm doing alright-ish :hugs:

I think it's difficult but is important to try not to compare stuff to others - if you're not feeling well then that's still bad, whether there are people worse off or not - and I'm sorry that you are :eek:

Don't go! I know I've found this thread really useful in the past (Howdy guys :hi:

(not posted in ages :colondollar:

) ) but yeah - have you considered making an account just for posting here? Could even have the account on another browser (Internet Explorer? :biggrin:

) - and then wouldn't have to log out/log in when you want to post here, but just open the browser you'd use to post here? Don't know how often you do post here/realise that that shouldn't be a necessity for posting here and getting some help, though it's difficult I guess.
At the same time no-ones obliged to reply to things either I guess? But yeah - obviously not nice feeling a bit ignored :hugs:

Hope you're okay :h:

Sorry for the long message :colondollar:

Reply 2895

purple-duck

Original post by Noodlzzz

Original post by Sabertooth

Big

you two - and to all others :eek:

(only caught up on this last page - if anyone wants to write up a tl;dr of the past few threads then that'd be ace :tongue:

Though you should probably be spending your time doing something else :tongue:

)

Not to the same extent, but can sympathise with weight gain stuff - mirtazapine made me put on so much weight :s-smilie:

Off it now and glad - irritating though because having lots of sleep was ace, just food cravings and the fact that sleeping lots means lower metabolism I guess/less moving about meant putting on weight quite quickly.... *ramble*

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Hope you guys are all okay :hi:

Might disappear again but :wavey:

Will try leave this tab open and see what happens :eek:

Reply 2896

Airmed

Really not ****ed for my psychiatrist tomorrow. He's useless. But hopefully he listened to my CPN about the dosage increase.

Reply 2897

Anonymous #1

Original post by purple-duck

Thanks for that response :hugs:

i should have specified really but it isnt this thread tbh, im not that bothered about this bc this is for ppl with like well idk but like it is inrl.
idk why im so upset over it really :rofl:

like it has been like this for 7 years so idk why it is bothering me now lol.
everyone just has their cliques and like idk i guess left out would be the word but im not 5 so there we go :laugh:

i just idk, maybe im jealous :/ maybe i thought people would be better friends than to just **** off when people outperform them instead of being happy for them as i would be.
And with regards to 'more important' i mean bc people have issues that are more important, but oh they make this so blatantly clear: 'cant talk rn busy' like yeh i get that, everyone gets busy and stuff sure but like it is all the time with like everyone like yknow it winds me up after a while. And then i feel bad saying that bc inrl and on here or wherever else people have like crises or whatever and like so i feel bad saying that but half the time i think it is bc they cant be bothered bc so many vague excuses. and then i feel bad bc well meh too identifiable to inrl ppl if i say that but yeh.
And yeh i feel like a spaniel. i just wait for everyone all the bloody time, like and when they appear it is like cheers for the bloody effort. And everyone is so bloody oblivious, like to look at me u wouldn't suspect a lot and i dont think ppl really do tbh, like i think anxiety and shyness can manifest in an almost aloofness so ppl think im the opposite of anxious when in actual fact im just trying to avoid that particular situation of ygm. And no-one knows/really cares about nightmares and palpitations etc because well it doesn't affect a)them b)my grades c)how i intereact with ppl so why would anyone care.
in fact why do i care cos it's not like anyone has died or my house got bombed or im moving to another part of the country :borat:

ppl think they know everything and they know nothing.

Sorry that that was such a long reply :redface:

ty for responding x

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Reply 2898

Anonymous #60

I am really struggling to tell anyone about my mental health problems, does anybody know of anyone of any other ways in which I could communicate them, besides verbally. Nobody (not even my family know anything about this).

Reply 2899

purple-duck

Original post by Anonymous

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Oh sorry

No that's my fault - I know that previously people have become annoyed/felt a bit ignored sometimes on the thread so sort of was responding to that :colondollar:

Any new people been wanting to sort of get back in touch with over the summer and such/perhaps just sort of the fact it's been like this for 7 years is just making you feel a bit fed up? Don't know, sorry been happening so long though.
Nah understand feeling left out - particularly with people you know already I guess? Or people you'd *like* to know? Definitely find that with some societies and also just friends from school I'd like to be closer to - though part of that is just my fault/more just me being ill has made it more difficult/scary to try and force myself on people and to get closer, don't know though - is definitely frustrating - and yeah think is sort of a mix of jealousy for me sort of - I'm not sure whether jealousy is always bad though/is sort of a negative word but is fine to be that? Or not :colondollar:

I *think* it is/don't like being negative so am hoping for my sake that it's fine :tongue:

Aaah that makes sense :smile:

Yeah

Is confusing.
Yeah :frown:

yeah can understand that, I don't have an anxiety disorder, but I think as a talkative introvert-y-person that people can assume that I'm quite extroverted or whatever, when actually I quite often want to disappear and hide away wit hdepression and stuff.
I'm sure they will affect grades and life in a way? Maybe not directly? But if they're impacting on your mental health - or even just sleep then will have an affect? and obviously if matters to you then should matter to others too?

Because they're not nice to experience either!

No don't be! :eek:

Realise I haven't got many proper responses, but :hugs:

Hope nightmares and stuff subside soon :s-smilie:

Are you in contact with your GP about stuff like this?

Original post by Anonymous

I know that others here have written letters to family members to sort of outline how they're feeling - one person comes to mind who I think said they wrote a letter and left it for one of their parents along with a flyer/pamphlet about depression/MH?
I think I first opened up to family about it by just facebook messaging my brother with a sort of short paragraph, with an added in thing of asking him not to tell parents - but obviously that is up to you.

I only recently told my parents this summer, and did that over the phone initially which sort of helped - I wrote a small script with my mental health coordinator from the Uni's support services, and sort of half went off of that. I think it's definitely helped, particularly if you can set ground rules on what they're allowed to ask/how often and stuff imo (I was worried about losing my privacy by telling them)
Just not *having* to lie when they ask how I am or whatever is quite a bit of a relief?
But yes - I'd maybe suggest a letter particularly as you can then sort of rehearse everything you'd like to say/let them know exactly what you want, as well as not having to tell someone directly about it.

Sorry you are struggling so much at the moment :hugs: