MH Patients Lot far Cry from Jolly Mr Fry's Media Depiction
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2010-10-07 18:59.Wonderful isn't it. You get really very unwell patients requiring calm , support and stability shuttled round the country away from their families and friends due to bed shortages as NHS spends millions on promoting massively duplicated Mental Health '1 in 4 ' Awareness Days, Week , Months , etc - guess no-one has told the people responsible for commissioning beds about that 1 in 4 stat - and as people who require different types of mental health therapy are stuck on waiting lists for years because they can't access available therapy services in another NHS Trust just down the road!
This is the reality of the shabby and under-resourced local mental health services ordinary people with mental health problems and their families and carers have to contend with for all the glossy happy shiny and successful media representations of mental health trotted out by the likes of Rethink and Mind's Time to Change campaign and that ever so smug because he probably can afford to go private anyway, Stephen Fry .
And this is before the cuts really start!!!