MENTAL ILLNESS DISCRIMINATION STIGMA - IF YOUR BORDERLINE NO CRISIS RESPITE/HOSPITAL

So absolutely appalled.

I'm sorry but something has to be said about these services mental health services when someone is hanging on by a thread to life and Mental health services Catt teams and such see such ones and just send them home, telling them to use DBT strategies, distraction or go to sleep!

What sort of Helpful Treatment is that!

I have to say that DBT does work as a resource to help those with Borderline Personality disorder, and coping with emotions. But there are limits to its effectiveness.

DBT IS NOT A REPLACEMENT FOR CRISIS CARE/INTERVENTION SERVICES SUCH AS HOSPITAL INPATIENT TREATMENT, OR CRISIS RESPITE.

When People are in serious serious acutely suicidal states they NEED INTERVENTION!

INTERVENTION IS NOT SENDING THEM HOME TO A DANGEROUS ABUSIVE ENVIRONMENT  TO LATER COMMIT SUICIDE !!!!!!!

How many lives must be lost to suicide for so called professionals to realise that stigmatizing Borderline as a diagnosis and putting people in a box where they are not given the help they are needing is dangerous to both the individual involved, and playing Russian Roulette with lives.
Also that Clinical Staff will be held to account if anything happens to an individual who is turned away from mental health services.

In my own personal experience the level of risk has been increasing at night especially my train tracks are just up the road from my house, and I know the train timetable off by heart.
There have been a few interventions by a friend, and the police last night to stop me suicide on the tracks.

But It shouldnt be up to Police should it?
They do not have the training to deal with mental health! but more frequently they are being called out by organisations such as Tautoku - suicide help line and lifeline, and other concerned individuals.

A common complaint also comes from Ambulance officers that they are going out to more and more unwell individuals in the community who need intensive crisis support and are not given it so they are sent home to attempt suicide, or complete suicide.

After the Police talking to the Catt team last night on the phone it was worked out by the Catt team for police to Leave the individual myself at home and go off.
Now the Catt team had not even assessed me carefully they just made a judgement based on a so called diagnosis called Borderline personality disorder - which is similar in diagnostic criteria to Complex PTSD.



Yes the Catt team made the wrong wrong call.....it was left to the police to stay present with me till the last train passed for the evening!

I have not even received a followup phone call from the Catt team. Nothing!

Yes they say we have appointment to see you in a few days but a few days is an eternity to someone who is seriously acutely suicidal. Who is seeing herself laying in visions on a train track., and body parts scattered all over the tracks/
there was a car accident the other day which I witnessed just after the tracks, and I had visions of my suicide and emergency vehicles picking up my body off the train tracks.

What I am experiencing is very very real for me. The fact that its not being taken serious by my Catt team in the Wairarapa really astounds me.
I am trying to get together others stories of not being heard and given crisis intervention treatment in respite or hospital now to see how widespread the problem is as I have a hunch that its extremely widespread, and this is one of the reasons why people suicide at such high rates!

I wonder why a journalist has not got on board with this and exposed the mental health services for what they really are. That is band aids!
but they are not coping with the deep injuries inflicted on people.

and they are injuring ones more and more by the lack of care and concern that is received by the individual!

It is really disgusting that even a proper assessment of an individual is not filled out by the Catt team. They think you can turn it off and on because to them its behavioral. It is not !

A person is at risk in the community because they are seriously suicidal and acute and mental health will not do anything but provide phone support - but that individual needs to ring Tehika first and wait for a call back.

You cannot tell me that's an intensive crisis intervention response!!!!

So a few questions

Who is actually accepted into crisis respite services/ hospital intervention services?

What differences are there from someone with bipolar to someone with Borderline personality disorder, how are they treated differently by the so called system?
is borderline personality disorder actually viewed as a mental illness or a pain in the butt to services?

Why are there so few Crisis respite beds available especially in rural areas of NZ?
Wheres the funding going?

Is there anywhere in the country where a person who doesn't live in the area can get emergency hospital treatment for mental unwellness?