What thing would help people's mental health

[PassingStranger]

Just wondered, when people say, they didn't get the help they need, or needed for their mental health.
What does this actually mean?

Does it mean, there's a lack of affordable professional help available.
People have to wait too long for help, there's no help???
I'm interested in this, what would help people?
What missing?
What do people need.
I've heard the expression didn't get the help they needed, so what is that?

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@LoudlyProudlyHorrid It sounds lovely, but probably difficult to achieve.

Mental health care in the uk is so underfunded and desperate. Services are stowed off and waiting lists are long. The help people often need is medicine and talking therapies such as CBT, DBT,Psychotheraph etc. Social care is also in the gutter so it’s very hard for people when they don’t even have the basics in life.

These are exactly the things that help me personally

It's a very long view but I work in perinatal MH and what would make a massive difference is babies being born into stable homes with emotionally resilient parents who can provide secure attachments and model good relationships and emotional wellbeing.

It really does start at the very beginning - so many repeated patterns of emotional neglect, poor living standards, poor relationship choices etc etc in our patients, it's quite depressing to see things carry through generations.

There's no importance placed on intervention or support at the very start of life and so it rolls on and on

In 2021 I had a mental health crisis. I called the mental health team and crisis team numerous times a week begging for help as I know I was in a bad place and if something didn't get done something would happen, my ex then fed our oldest a pack of lies and our son called me all the names under the sun so I thought what was the point and went to my mum's grave and had medication that I took the wrong dose. My best friend had seen a post id made and knew where I was and got my other half who got me to hospital. The next morning I was told I could leave and I was handed a leaflet and told to phone these people if it got bad. It was the numbers I had been calling for weeks. I just laughed. I saw the mental health team once I was on the mend with the right medication but it could have been done quicker if they had more people helping the people that are begging for help instead of waiting till they actually do something silly.

Also it helps if the people on the phone for the crisis team don't say they aren't sending anyone out as she is just doing it for attention. I ended up sectioned that night.

Funny remark.
I think.its common knowledge that mental health wasn't talked about very much in the past.
Now there's much more awareness.

Sensory issues, no thoughts just overwhelm and visceral reactions.
Neurodiverse minds have different wiring making different connections, and often can have processing delays
Synesthesia
I could go on, it's not as simple as thoughts cause all behaviour
CBT can be great for certain things but is definitely not suitable for everything.

Yes, I really relate to this. Before I was diagnosed ND mental health practitioners would ask things like "What do you think is going to happen in (whatever situation) that you feel anxious about?" and I couldn't even really get the question as there wasn't anything that I thought was going to happen. It's just the sensory overwhelm of the situation made my body feel terrible anxiety. The nearest I could get was "I feel anxious that it will be really loud and people will be really close to me" and they would not accept that as the answer. I don't know what would have helped though, maybe more physical calming techniques. I would have felt more supported if they'd at least believed me and not rolled their eyes.