Tw do a&e staff and paramedics get annoyed

[Tellmewhy77]

When people come in with self inflicted injuries etc due to mental health

Are you safe? Do you need help?

Not in my experience no. Always been very nice and understanding to me.

No, as someone that works for ambulance service we have dedicated mental health professionals and so should every emergency department. I hope you’re okay. Nobody would ever get annoyed. Everyone would just want to help

No. They get annoyed with people who have coughs, colds, backache they’ve had for 5 years. That sort of thing but not really MH related issues. Most of my family members moans are about how many people are in the dept and how many have been waiting for a bed over 24hrs

I agree with @Nugg i think if in the past they had a different attitude towards mental health it isn’t like that now and they recognise mental health is just as important as physical health.

In my experience, A&E nurse REALLY unsympathetic... paramedics, two of the most sympathetic people I have EVER encountered! Hope you're OK.

a lot of reasons people need medical
help is in some way self inflicted - drinking, DIY, obesity.

So no I treat people hopefully with dignity and respect however they come about their symptoms.

We do however get annoyed with people who are rude to us or aggressive when we’re trying to help.

My friend works in inpatient mental health care and had to take a patient to A&E due to self harm. She ended up reporting the nurse because of how she spoke to this patient. And this was how she spoke to the patient in front of my friend, so god knows how she’d treat someone who came in alone.

Yes I’m fine thank you hope you are just a general question

In my experience working with young people, yes occasionally they have been. However, they still did their jobs and provided the medical interventions necessary, just not with a very warm or sympathetic manner. On the other hand, many health professionals have been sympathetic. They are under a lot of pressure and I think occasionally their impatience with self-inflicted injuries will show.

I'm a Paramedic, never considered being annoyed at someone self harming. I actually trained up to do some extra wound care modules so where it's suitable/appropriate they can be closed at scene without needing to go through the A&E experience.

Plenty of things to be annoyed about in the ambulance service but self harming whether it's as a coping mechanism or attempt to end life isn't one of them.

Nope. They're genuinely ill and genuinely need help. The only "annoyance" would be folk there with no mental health problems for things that can be sorted at the pharmacy/GP (or even just with a paracetamol or plaster at home!!!)

I was semi annoyed but just had to laugh at one job we were allocated to recently "feeling very stressed about impending prosecution for wasting emergency service time". Genuinely a patient called 999 with that complaint and we were allocated to go see them.

Ive heard a nurse refer to it as selfish. I think thats probably trauma speaking from having to deal with the aftermath and it was a long time ago so attitudes have changed substantially. But it cant be easy for medical staff to attend to those situations. Many must have some form of PTSD.