CMHT discharge

[mypip]

I'd like any good sense and opinions. I'm being discharged from the cmht back to the GP, I hear stories that if you are stable- ish they will do that despite still being unwell, unstable and so on, and it's the manager not the psychiatrist. I've been 2/3 years with them, I'm a 59 y male.

I was discharged from the cmht last week by the consultant, though he said my GP can refer again to his services later on if I relapse or deteriorate.

Hello mypip

How are you feeling about it? Do you find your GP supportive?

Services are so, so stretched at the moment. I hope you are feeling alright.

I have found peer support to be helpful, but I do sometimes feel as if I have to "be my own care co-ordinator" when different bits of services do not seem to know what each other are doing. Probably because they do not know what each other are doing, and I find it disorientating and difficult to keep track of it all.

yes my gps are supportive, they say, as I do that I'd benefit from cmht services, we've each written to them.

I'm in a similar situation. My cpn essentially told me that unless I'm a risk to myself or others they cannot care for me. My suffering or my family's suffering isn't enough to warrant nhs involvement.
My cmht are shit anyway so I'm not sure I'm missing out on much.
It's a crap situation. All I can offer is sympathy.

I am sorry tychosnose, are you seeing a consultant still?

I've begged to be discharged but no luck still stuck on cpa despite having been out of hospital for eight months. I came out with daily home treatment team visits but now just see cpn regularly and have an open psychotherapy referral and psychiatrist every few weeks.
I'm shocked that anyone would downplay recovery and maximise symptoms to get benefits and therapy as I'm desperate to be well but know that to remain stable I will need to be on medication and live with the side effects for the rest of my life.

It's tricky, but as one who is on the waiting list for a care coordinator, regularly suicidal and self harming plus picked up on a s136 at least twice a month I need people to be discharged so I can access support.
It is crazy that the cost of keeping me 'on the waiting list' would more than pay for several care coordinatorservices but that it sadly the case

That's awful for you willowcatkin i don't know what the answer is but its hell when your in the middle of it.