My experience…over the past 8 years…. Is that emergency care and also those sectioned cannot benefit from private hospital care despite us having private health insurance. It’s not how the health service operates. If he was well enough to be in a private hospital ( yes ironic….) we would be able to benefit from private insurance.
We have used many many many different therapies ,therapists, psychologists , psychiatrists but…. If there is no place to provide structured and recovery ( hospitals are not rehabilitation clinics IMO) then it is what one of the nurses at the state hospital said to me is a ‘ swing door policy’ for many of the patients. Desperate and sad.
We are fortunate to be able to pay for some things but in the long run this has not helped …..mainly because the private and state sector share information … or are the same people but we just get to pay them
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Tragically for us and many/others by law they can be treated against their will with ECT. We believe this has caused significant memory damage and cognitive problems. This was a high functioning person who had kept a job for a long time …..and now is unable to support himself day to day,what it does mean is that he cannot benefit from most talking therapy’s because his memory does not work to recall the strategies .
I do have a legal case trying to deal with the ECT treatment ….
Diagnosis to medicalise is for us another problem. the pharmaceutical industry is big business!
I am curious if your father prescribed ECT…?
I guess what should happen when someone is discharged and what actually happens are often very different things.
In all a dreadful service that is very short staffed and underfunded compared to physical health .
Eg the local state hospital has just 28 beds…
Sorry and apologies to all other hags and tartlets for the derail that started with someone trying to jump onto the rails….
Thank goodness I have a sense of humour!