Mental Health in Primary Care

 Primary care is the first point of contact you would normally attempt to make use off instead within the community at large, this means the doctors and community nursing settings incorporating community care in a local cottage hospital type service, however this is not available in all areas of the community. 

I feel the need to blog about this topic as I someone who is affected with mental health/illness issues, and they are Complex PTSD and Autism and the main issue with the primary care settings are that not just in North-East Essex where there seems to be a lack of awareness or the support of an appropriate support staff member around. 

What is going on in our community settings seems to be either a root and branch slaughter of cost cutting of services at the expense of people in the community who need these services.

Should you happen to have mental health issues such as the ones I have identified with the doctors can be very apprehensive and frightening places,  and despite the breathing exercises which take the edge off, however you would like to know that there is a mental health nurse advisor around that you could at least talk to calm your nerves, or to at least to talk through some reasonable adjustments that would help benefit your own set of concerns or issues. 

However, we know that unfortunately this is not the case and from speaking to a specialist who I see for my EDS that they are finding they are not being treated as they wish to be treated. 

What we are asking for is reasonable adjustments in line with the equality act. 

By this we mean allowing people to view a room before they use it, making sure they are near a door and exit, not using a small room if this may start triggers off in individuals, allow individuals to talk to a mental health nurse before there appointment to tell them what their needs are or suggest a time when the surgery or place in the community is quiet and working with people to achieve better outcomes with the individual.  

In the end the choice is yours either end up in trouble over the equality act or work with us and do not tell us to leave because you do not want to change your attitude is not the best way to getting the right outcome.