Experiences of A&E for self-harm injury?

[Struggling33]

Were you treated sympathetically? What happened? Did they make you have a psychiatric assessment?

I already have both a psychologist and a psychiatrist. The former already knows I’m struggling currently and has arranged a review with the latter for this week. Are they still going to make me have an assessment in A&E? Will they just accept that?

Hey, I recently went to minor injuries after self harming. The nurse was very kind and patched me up. I was due to see the doc from the mental health team later that week so they were happy to let me go. I said I was feeling ok ish.
hope ur ok, it’s really crappy when ur feeling like this but I totally understand

Thanks so much for replying. Am glad you were treated well.

Hoprfully I’ll be let go too as already have psych review pending.

@Struggling33 how did u get on? Where u treated ok?

Thanks for asking. In the end I got away with not telling them. I just said I cut myself on a broken glass (which is totally true) and nobody asked any more details.

I told my psychologist the full story today though and it was a very positive appointment. She seemed optimistic that there are lots of strategies we can use to better manage emotional dysregulation. I’ll tell psychiatrist tomorrow too.

Didn't want to read and run - sending some physical and mental healing vibes for you ✨️

@Struggling33 glad your ok. Have you done DBT before? Apparently that’s helpful, my psych is doing a referral for it but don’t really know much about it.

Thanks so much @AnotherCountryMummy .

@Struggling33 I have a PTSD diagnosis and am doing EMDR. I had the psychiatric review this morning and she thinks my emotional dysregulation is a result of trauma, so I’ll continue with treatment for that and review again in a month. Thanks for the suggestion though. I may mention it next time.

Different experiences :

sometimes kind (anaesthetic and stitches)

other times barbarically - no local and painfully stitched up with awful attitude from dr

… really depends on the day