Your experience with crisis/home treatment team

[Dreadfulness]

I saw on Friday psychiatrist who organised HTT to see me. HTT called me yesterday and someone came to see me. We discussed about things that were bothering me and how I feel like taking overdose. Anyway, she discharged me and told to contact my cpn next week...

That's awful.
I have friends with experience of HTT and it hasn't been any better for any of them.
No idea how they seem to screw up something so important.

Sorry you are going though this. I sympathise as I also have similar issues

Yes its pity. I felt like she already knew before coming in that I will be discharged. It's not nice when you feel really unwell and self-destructive.

2 years ago when I was psychotic I smashed up my kitchen in a rage & the police were called. I had a knife but broke it in half in my rage.

The police called the crisis team and they were crap to be honest. I wasn't sectioned or medicated and was told to shut up and ''stop being rude'' when I had so much energy I couldn't stop talking.

They didn't see that I was psychotic, I'd been wrongly diagnosed with full BPD, so they just thought 'typical Borderline' and weren't very sympathetic.

It wasn't until Istarted DBT 2 weeks later for the BPD that i was diagnosed as psychotic. The DBT therapist said, I can't treat you for Borderline when you clearly don't have it, you're actually psychotic, and called the psychiatrist who realised I was very paranoid and put me on risperidone straight away!

Oh yes, and I lost my career as a Staff Nurse :(

I will say that the MH services were pretty crap (the misdiagnosis and especially the Crisis Team). The Police were amazing - very empathetic and knowledgeable in how to cope with people with MH issues.

Now I have been diagnosed with Depression with Psychosis and 'traits' of BPD. I'm on long term anti-psychotics and high dose anti-depressants.

When I have problems and phone the Crisis Team they are very different in their attitude now I have a different diagnosis.

I'm glad you at least have a CPN you can talk to. I don't have a CPN, I just see the Psychiatrist 3 monthly. I've begun to feel unwell again lately with things that have gone on, I can phone the Crisis Team if I need to but I'm not sure I have any faith in them or want to talk to them, I'm not sure if I'm ill enough anyway.

I can't call the crisis team. One has to be referred. I have cpn but so far she hasn't been great help. Well. We will see.

My crisis team have been great overall.
A few days after my first od they were going to discharge me as I was back at work; that was the only time I felt they were less than helpful as I wanted ads straight away but they decided I could wait another day as the phsychiatrist was already fully booked. After my second od (that day) they were /are fab. I expect to be discharged to the CPN soon but can always call them in future.

My experience is shit. Utter shit. I wish I could say something positive.

They'd call or visit DP every evening which was a life saver for me then as I was working shifts and terrified about how he would cope. He hated the fact they were usually different every time so he'd have to go through the same story over and over. One came and basically saw the car, DPs collection of stuff and me (not a stealth boast!!) and would ask him why he could be depressed with all that?!! Due to my shifts I wasn't always there but was when two of the senior nurses (?) came one night. One talked to him and the other chatted to me, she just said 'and how are YOU coping?' I just lost it and burst into tears as no one had ever asked before. For that reason alone I thank them. They did want to refer him to a psychiatrist as what he'd gone through and how he'd coped was something they'd never known but the psychiatrist seemed to want to use him as a case study. Great if it could help others but I didn't want him being a guinea pig and suffer due to that. He cancelled it himself for the same reasons. They were a pain in the arse for him but saved my sanity in a very dark time.

Cpn called me and will visit me this afternoon. I feel rather calm but at the same time bad.

Sorry to hear you're struggling Dread

I live in the SE of England and it's shitty shit shit here. Some nice people but no power to do much/they just refuse to do much and they never turn up at pre-agreed times then get snotty if you're not in (i'm a lone parent so do have a lot on and can only see people when DS isn't there as he can understand a lot more now and I've explained all that but they still roll up late or when I'm not in). And the communication between different people like the Psych's, the CMHT, GPs etc seems to be crap like chinese whispers.

Hope things get better for you soon.

This a new cpn. I have seen her few times when I have been rather well. She wasn't too much help. But I will see how she is when I have a crisis at the moment.