Paramedics visit a patient struggling with psychosis – BBC
Mental health patient struggles days after release without basic living essentials
The paramedics handle this so well ๐Paramedics Shyr-Nai and James visit a patient struggling with psychosis. After recently being discharged from a mental health hospital they have been placed in accommodation without basic living essentials. #Paramedics #London #EmergencyServices
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31 Comments
i feel the same way as him, i can't live on my own and it really affects me mentally a lot.
Certainly not eating properly can make your symptoms worse. Theres nothing in his apatment, even a tv would be better
Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.
Hey, that's me! I didn't know they were filming this shit.
I live in a charity run supportive housing project for the formerly unhoused and those living with mental illness. Its a beautiful apartment that's well taken care of with a 24 hour nurse on staff, day staff, excellent security and in a nice, downtown neighbourhood. Most people live here for years. Living on their own, most would end up back on the street. Supportive housing by those who understands the needs of mentally ill people is the difference between them being able to have a normal life and a completely nonfunctioning, homeless one. We need more of these kinds of housing projects.
Again, this is why we need a 4th emergency service, mental health.
Whats ment to happen? How is that guy not going to turn to crime? Its the same with refugees, I can hear the crys of handout bashing already but itll cost less to help then leave them to there own and look surprised when it turns to shit.
And far far less $$ than gets thown and the ultra wealthy in tax breaks.
Its very sad
I get that this is most likely propaganda but this does seem a hundred more times humane than how it goes down in the US. Assuming this is genuine care, I hope more people in the mental health system would be like this. Society has failed the struggling and they suffer with the lack of understanding and more specifically the lack of community.
This is why I stay away , I stopped all my meds cold turkey, and all my therapy and Drs , because they kept changing my meds and I was a huge mess for close to a decade , I live in the US and simply took my mental health completely into my own hands , I got tired of constantly trying to get help and trying to get my life together, meanwhile being medically gas lit and getting no where, I got tired of it all and I now could care less , it's sickening how absolutely horrific the mental health system is , and there truly no help
So sad ๐ข.. and how sweet and compassionate the paramedics are
English paramedics are angel in general, English people are the nicest people in Europe. I studied in London and lots of English people helped me, Thank you so much.
This hurt to watch.
If it wasnt for my parents i would've been in the same position, i hope he finds peace
Im so happy for him he had enough clarity to know this is not okay. People with psychosis usually blame themselves for being given such an impoverished place, it would be so so sad if the governments placed critical people like this so they deteriorate on purpose.
Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against Suicidal, depression and anxiety. Saved my life.
In America, you are thrown out on the street after 72 hours, unless you have good health insurance…. in which case they try to keep you, over medicate you and bleed your insurance to pay their bills.
This angers me so much. I'm so so grateful for the paramedics, they were absolutely angels. However. Nobody with psychosis or any other mental health issue, who has just come out of care, should be placed in accomodation without a bed made, without some food, without a decent cooker. It's barbaric and completely inhumane. We need proper funding for mental health care (in-patient & out-patient) NOW.
"I've found it is the small things, everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keeps the darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love. "
mental health care should always be free, no exceptions. That's how it works that you fall by the wayside because there is no support available because the government doesn't want to put money into people they can't make any money from, these people are just rejected like throwaway items. . It's a worldwide problem. Unfortunately, society has only been made accessible to participants. This is what we need to fight for and not just when someone in your environment is confronted with it. It can happen to you at any time. ๐ this should be discussed in the EU, NATO top
It used to be that when people came out of longer hospital stays they would go into some form of supported housing, either halfway houses with 24hr staff or buildings with office hours support, both fully furnished with bills included and a house pack (bedding, towels, kitchenware, loo roll, a food parcel, and some basic toiletries). From there they would readjust and over time the support became more of a light touch from a housing perspective and the mental health team kept up support. Now there's nothing, there's often a waiting list for beds on a ward!
Yup imagien this as a 17 year old care leaver being ignored by care leavers team… now 24
As someone who has experienced psychosis, it warms my heart to see empathetic first responders. I've only ever had horrible experiences with EMTs, and have only felt safe with actual police. You'd be surprised at the amount of EMTs who will literally laugh at you while you're highly distressed. Which is insanely dehumanizing when you're literally mentally fighting for your life.
Thatโs really sad ๐ I hope he is ok
as student nurse studying MSci Adult & Mental Health (Dual- Nursing) I would like to offer my deepest apologies to that man for the lack of care planning, because of this the patient believes he unable to cope because they gave him insufficient tools to do so. I can only assume the hospital trust was more interested in bed occupancy because discharging a patient into those conditions is barbaric and I hope the paramedics did a safeguarding referral. I can guarantee that discharge was not in line with the trusts discharging protocols.
Heartbreaking. It is not new this part of recording. Well its still happening. Shocking, people are not number. ( Protocol on protocol / rules on rules – human being are varnished )
Mental health is horrible from someone that has been threw it and come threw it and not feeling that you can tell anyone how you feel and family not really knowing what to do when your in a bad way bless him hope he got some help
Absolute disgrace, tax the rich!!!
It is sad, it's like people with mental illnesses don't matter. The states are the same way. They really just don't care about us. Thank you for your service and God bless you all โ๏ธ๐๐๏ธ
God bless that poor man. It's absolutely inhuman the way people with mental illness and their families are treated in the UK. Paramedics are angels here.
'Care in the Community ' in action peeps
Seems like paramedics these days have better understanding of and more compassion for mh sufferers than they did 10+ years ago, I'm glad to see this.