Mental health in the NHS: 'My son wanted to die; we begged for help but there was none'
A fairly upsetting article.
Quote from Sane charity:
“The psychiatric system is in meltdown due to the long-term relentless agenda to close psychiatric beds to save costs and treat everyone, however severely disturbed or in crisis, under the care of already overstretched and demoralised community home- treatment teams,” says Marjorie Wallace, chief executive of the mental health charity Sane. “It is no coincidence that the suicide rate has more than doubled for patients being treated by these teams in the last few years. At Sane, we witness daily the impact of the failures of the psychiatric services on patients, families and front-line mental-health professionals. In many places, it has led to a situation which is both cruel and inhumane, with unnecessary suffering on all sides.”
This tore me up a little:
"... a health worker told Mrs Jones she thought Matthew was “playing games”. ... “A few days later, my little boy was dead,” "
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