Nobody wants to help me

[pulisa]

At IAPT level you are North I reckon, I'm South. Some people love near that border anyway as it will be passing through SOT in the busier areas. So, over to the South you've got Healthy Minds who are in the Rethink network, and connected up loosely to Changes.

That's just Level 2 & 3 though. Once you get to Level 4 it's the CMHT's and I bet there is only one of them, and above that it's going to be places like Bradley for the in patients or the one over at Stafford.

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I got told that myself once my CBT time was up. It's just about pathways, lists, buckets, etc and once you've been through X you seem to get dumped out the other end with nothing.

It's particularly ludicrous with your daughter who needs much more than we do. It's scary that those that need it most seem to have the least provision.

I know you don't watch programmes about this stuff but I was watching one about a place you probably know about, St Andrews. What a disgusting, vile place little better than Bedlam. There were a couple of ASD young adults on there and they way they were treated The parents were fighting to get them out. It would have made you very angry.

To be honest, Terry, I know about a lot of the stuff that goes on behind the scenes in these places and no matter how exhausting it gets trying to support my daughter I'd rather do it myself rather than entrusting her to dubious specialised "facilities". Fortunately I am in a position to be able to care for her at home but I appreciate that other parents have no choice.

Basically if you lie in the grey area between mainstream and special needs you're on your own.

Sorry, Sloth. This thread shouldn't be about my problems.

[Sloth]

You can search for your local IAPT provider here:



From that you may get a web address, as most seem to have local websites, but it's easy enough to Google them from there. Your local NHS trust and local authority websites will also have them listed.

Some info on IAPT:



The alternative treatment to CBT I mentioned is Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) which is something they designed rather than an older mainstream therapy but it draws on psychodynamic therapy from what I recall:

Thank you for the links. The IAPT search led me to the addresses that I'd already been to twice, unfortunately. The DIT treatment you mentioned is another path I could try. I hope something works out and I finally end up somewhere that at least tries to treat me.

Good luck with all this, Sloth. There's a hell of a discrepancy re what is theoretically on offer and what is the stark reality when it comes to mental health services but I hope you make some positive progress and get some decent professional support as soon as you can.

I appreciate your frustration. You do have to do all the leg work if you want to get the best and most appropriate treatment though and you need to keep hassling the relevant department when things go quiet..

Thank you for the support. It certainly is apparent that I need to do all the leg work myself. You would think that with people in such a vulnerable and unmotivated state, there would be more willingness to find the appropriate help for them. But the NHS is what it is I suppose, we all just have to make do.