As someone who has been suicidal earlier in my life, I feel the orange button scheme is not even a token gesture of help.
I remember what it felt like. While in the grips of feeling the worst I ever did there would have been no way I would have felt motivated enough to leave the house, go to the Corby Cube or to a library to look for a staff member wearing an orange badge to have a 'compassionate conversation'.
Our NHS mental health support needs to help people long before they reach breaking point.
It needs to be more than simply medicating people and pushing them out the door.
We need more trained therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists to deliver tailored support that lasts as long as needed. Not simply a limited number of sessions.
Community support needs to be supplied in an accessible manner, to include those who would prefer online as well as inperson group support. During covid it was no problem for our local NHS to supply online group support, but since then online options have all been removed.
Currently the support for people being discharged from local NHS mental health treatment is incredibly limited and is predominantly pushed upon the 3rd sector, such as Mind crisis cafes. Using charities that are already oversubscribed and under funded is the future plan for this support going forward for the NHS. As long as this is the case, lives will be lost.
"Like"not really appropriate ... but I applaud NNJ yet again for covering important issues in our area.
As someone who has been suicidal earlier in my life, I feel the orange button scheme is not even a token gesture of help.
I remember what it felt like. While in the grips of feeling the worst I ever did there would have been no way I would have felt motivated enough to leave the house, go to the Corby Cube or to a library to look for a staff member wearing an orange badge to have a 'compassionate conversation'.
Our NHS mental health support needs to help people long before they reach breaking point.
It needs to be more than simply medicating people and pushing them out the door.
We need more trained therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists to deliver tailored support that lasts as long as needed. Not simply a limited number of sessions.
Community support needs to be supplied in an accessible manner, to include those who would prefer online as well as inperson group support. During covid it was no problem for our local NHS to supply online group support, but since then online options have all been removed.
Currently the support for people being discharged from local NHS mental health treatment is incredibly limited and is predominantly pushed upon the 3rd sector, such as Mind crisis cafes. Using charities that are already oversubscribed and under funded is the future plan for this support going forward for the NHS. As long as this is the case, lives will be lost.
A sad indictment of modern life.
Unemployment .. single households.. rising cost of living .. depressing news from home and abroad .. social media .. loneliness and depression …
What a cruel sad world we live in 🥲