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Say you have someone like me, who has a major social phobia with particular emphasis on dealing with telephones (which I blame on call centre work driving me to breakdown, twice) and needs a structured routine. What do you think would be the best way to handle this?
If you said "multiple rounds of telephone tag, followed by sending people around unannounced!", then congratulations. You're obviously an NHS mental health professional. If you said "anything but multiple rounds of telephone tag, and sending people around unannounced; perhaps maybe sending a letter with a specific appointment date to allow the patient to cope". Well, you are not suitable for a mental health post, on account of having too much common sense.
Don't get me wrong. The NHS is better than pretty much every other health service on the planet (although it is beaten out by the health service on Omicron Persei 8) just due to merely being available to ordinary people without threatening bankruptcy at every turn, especially for physical health matters, but at times its mental health side is woefully clod handed. Sadly, I think that some parts of it have not moved beyond "mental health matters can be cured by wishful thinking and just bucking your ideas up", and is miserably underfunded.
Surely reaching out for help ought to be able to be easier than this. No wonder it is easier to just suffer.
If you said "multiple rounds of telephone tag, followed by sending people around unannounced!", then congratulations. You're obviously an NHS mental health professional. If you said "anything but multiple rounds of telephone tag, and sending people around unannounced; perhaps maybe sending a letter with a specific appointment date to allow the patient to cope". Well, you are not suitable for a mental health post, on account of having too much common sense.
Don't get me wrong. The NHS is better than pretty much every other health service on the planet (although it is beaten out by the health service on Omicron Persei 8) just due to merely being available to ordinary people without threatening bankruptcy at every turn, especially for physical health matters, but at times its mental health side is woefully clod handed. Sadly, I think that some parts of it have not moved beyond "mental health matters can be cured by wishful thinking and just bucking your ideas up", and is miserably underfunded.
Surely reaching out for help ought to be able to be easier than this. No wonder it is easier to just suffer.
