There has been a lot of talk about mental health funding and facilities it needs in the UK.

Over the past few days, there has been a lot of positive talk within the media surrounding the future of mental health patients in the UK.

Mental health funding and facilities in the country are almost non exsistant in terms of therapies and treatments and the forever growing list of sufferers is increasing year on year.

The Huffington Post printed an article that said that “Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt recently announced a plan that aims to see 21,000 more mental health workers recruited over the next five years.

Put together by Health Education England; it’s hoped that the recruitment of thousands of additional nurses, therapists, and consultants over the next five years will benefit an extra one million people who need support from mental health services by 2020-21.”

This is encouraging news for mental health patients as the current system for patients with mental health is non-existent, and with 1 in 4 people rumored to be suffering from mental illness in the UK, this is appalling.

My personal experiences with the Mental Health team are terrible; you have to wait months to see someone then you finally see a CPN and they tell you that you don’t have an illness such as bipolar.

The Psychiatrist only saw me twice in the year that I was on the mental health team and told me that I might have Adjustment disorder and a personality disorder and that they can’t rule out bipolar, despite the CPN ruling this out.

The Psychiatrist told me that he couldn’t be sure because they haven’t seen you enough.

What’s worse is the fact that they give you a written report and end up getting that wrong as well, and then they tell third parties about you without your written permission.

After 11 CAT therapy sessions, I was released from the mental health team, and my GP said that this was because of NHS funding cuts.

I was put back on the mental health team back in May and told by an assessor that they would be in touch within a week. It’s now August, and I still haven’t heard anything.

With more NHS funding available and more staff recruited, hopefully, more treatments will become available as it’s clear that the current therapies and treatments aren’t working.

Fewer people would have mental health problems. Why isn’t mental health treated the same as any other illness?

Therapies and treatments should be available in NHS hospitals not being hidden away a back street run-down buildings or old run-down hospitals.

When you walk into a hospital, there should be a sign directing people to mental health facilities.

I’m hoping that with the new plans that the government said that they would put into place actually happen and we will see people recover as a result of new therapies, treatments, and medications due to more research on mental health.

As for acceptance, mental health still has a way to go; many people are still bullied, criminalised, and fired due to their health.

In 2017, this shouldn’t be happening, but the reality is that it is still happening and by 2020-2021, let’s get this stigma put to bed.

What are your thoughts on mental health funding and facilites? Do you think they are adequent enough?

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