The Travesty of The British Mental Health System

Many people in this country have mental health issues but private care for

mental health is incredibly expensive so rationly someone with a mental health issue

would approach the NHS for psychiatric help however this would be a horrendous mistake

because unlike the non mental health sector of the NHS which is the hospitals and the

general practice every mental health patient is treated as a problem and not a patient

they are psychiatrically examined but the examination is simply for determining whether

they should be sectioned under the mental health act or not. This is major and grand step

from seeking mental help for basic mental ailments and hoping for psychiatric therapy

through discourse or being prescribed the correct medication for whatever mental illness

the patient who they see as societal problem needs. The mental health section of the NHS

sees all patients as those who should be evaluated and if they do have mental health issues

directed straight into mental health homes under section and then coerced into mental

health community treatment orders. Whilst under section a patient will kindly spoken about

the opportunity for an appeal against a section. This seems like a positive however it is

not. The evaluators are independent but share the same education as the NHS pyschiatrists

who wish the patient would stay under section and share the same education sentiment

the patient is granted representation but each appeal is a formality because the NHS

psychiatrists have the respect of the independent evaluators. They will formally display

what appears as a balance argument but this is just for appearance and their decision

shall always be that the patient shall stay under section. Another major part of the problem

is that people who seek the NHS for help cannot afford private mental healthcare which

far better for the patient than the NHS and as they can't afford private mental healthcare

they can't afford expert representation only pro-bono so theyre representation has

limitations and this favours the NHS teams who wish that the mentally ill shall remain under

section.

Although the NHS mental health section is an NHS subsidiary it is different the pyschiatrists

nurses and staff believe that keeping patients under section is the best way for dealing with

issues of mental health however this is wrong. private mental health care specialists with better

educations believe in regular appointments and give willing patients the opportunity and comfortable

space for detailing their issues. NHS psychiatrists are disrespectful make absurd assumptions

and ignore what the patient themselves say and make their own decisions this means NHS mental health

patients are given treatment they do not want sometimes given treatment for diagnosis which is

reached by ignoring the patients responses for a psychiatrists questions.

The worst thing about NHS mental health care are community treatment orders where pyschiatric 'patients'

must unwilling meet with NHS staff for mental treatment based on their deductions which are not what the

patient needs or wants treatment for and getting off a community treatment order requires a successful

appeal which are rejected formally and as a formality. Some stay on community treatment orders for years

a patient may display muted symptoms but may stay on medication for a long time surely with little mental

health symptoms a patient should be let off a community treatment order after a short while

especially while on low dosages. I guess a person may deduce that the mental health subsidiary of the NHS

would like consistently monitor their mental health patients whether under section or not simply

because of the general consensus and complex that people have of patients with mental health problems

There is a mental health awareness day but more must be done.

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