Trying to get the NHS Mental Health Services emergency funding

woodbine said:

We are lead to believe that more and more money is being poured into mental health services in the UK, I suspect the other side of the coin is that during the last year or so more and more people have needed help and will continue to need help, but if i'm honest I'm not a great believer in chucking money at anything. sometimes I think we need to spend the money that's already there in better more effective ways.

Forgive me, for this is my first time using this website and I  Don’t know if this is the correct way to respond to people. Let me explain a little bit about why we’re doing this. I got the idea to start this initiative when the NHS phycologist doing my evaluation for getting help from the adult mental health services told me that the current system is the way it is due to lack of funding, while explaining to me why they operate the way they do, after I told her the system they operate with seems as though it is very unhelpful and how I’m not sure I can actually get help from it. And although that is a recent interaction I have had, underfunding is not a recent issue. In twenty-seventeen I lost an NHS child Mental Health councillor because the office she worked in in my aria way shut due to lack of funding (her own words) and the new office was to far away from where she lived. Not to mention that the new office was shared with non-Mental-Health-related services. And wether or not funding for NHS mental health services has increased year on year, the point is that it is clearly not enough. Through out raising awareness about this I’ve also seen other mental health professionals and had one mental health professional tell me personally that what the NHS Mental Health Services really need is funding. 

@Tori_Scope thank you for telling me how to respond to people. Unfortunately I don’t know if I’m on track to get help from adult mental health services. Like I said, I’m currently getting evaluated and am not sure of the type of help they will determine I need. Although, unfortunately even if I am on track to get given help, I’m not sure that the current system can help me. You choose one issue you experience to work on and are given a set number of appointments to get help with it. At the end of these appointments, wether you’re better or not, you’re removed from the service and need to rejoin the year long waiting list if you want more help or help with something else. I experience a lot of different issues which are very complex. At best it’s going to take me ten-ish years to get all the help I need and at worst I’ll enter a cycle of not getting enough help through out my set appointments to fix the problem and all the progress I made in those appointments being undone by the time I can get more appointments, this cycle only being broken by me no longer seeking mental health help, which should never be the case for anyone.