No mental help

justjoined

Hi I made an appointment for a recurring hospital appointment I need to start going to for my scans and injections but can't go because I've got OCD, when I started seeing somebody from the mental team last year, I made an appointment at the hospital thinking I would be better enough to go, but nothing changed the medication didn't make me better and I cancelled my hospital appointment.

I got a letter saying I was discharged from the mental team I don't know what to do. They wouldn't send me for CBT at my local NHS unit a mile away which is what I wanted to do and I don't know why because I went about 15 years ago and it was starting to help before my sessions finished, my tumour is getting bigger and hurts some of the time when I sit down because its on the outside aswell as the inside its a slow growing aggressive one which I had removed but it grows back but there is nothing I can do about it.

anisty

This is just typical treatment from mental health. I really don't know how they get away with it.

You need to call your GP surgery and get an appointment (a telephone one is ok if you can't get out) and say what has happened.

In fact, for speed, you could even email your gp surgery with what you have written here.

With a brain tumour, i should think the gp will get things moving for you fast. Your gp will contact the hospital to say why you cancelled. They might even be able to send a nurse up from the surgery to chat to you, see how you are and what you need.

justjoined

I don't have a brain tumour I have a rare aggressive tumour in my perineum which is why it hurts when i sit down.

it was pip who helped me get help from the doctors after my assessment with them they rang the doctors for help and the doctor organised the mental health team to ring me. The mental health team rang me and asked me questions said they would see me, then rang me back and said the doctor said he wouldn't until i had taken medication because it was too bad to see me without it, so i took medication and a man then a woman trainee came to my mums house to get updates on the medication but never giving me advice on how to get better, so i think he was just to give advice on the medication

i got a letter saying i was discharged the letter said i hadn't seen the trainee and hadn't taken the medication then i got another letter saying i had seen the trainee and had taken the medication and was discharged and i never got to to for the help they said i could even though the first lady had arranged that it wasn't a medical place so wouldn't affect my ocd and i could sit on a towel and my mum could go

justjoined

i just want to get better and don't know what to do because its getting worse

anisty

I would still advise you to make your GP aware of what has happened. They are the ones who should be able to work out what help you need and get it arranged.