Do you want to get better?...........the outcome.

[Pickle165]

i wrote a blog on the 23rd july wanting people with mental health issues feedback on the question asked to me by a support worker...do you want to get better? which i took quite insultedly as i feel it implys i like my poor lifestyle and this awful world of anxiety and depression. when we spoke again and after getting feedback from here i asked her what she ment? anyway to cut a long story short i felt we had very different views on it as she believes some poeple like being anxious and depressed! (quite clearly she does not suffer with it) she also got quite defensive when i told her i had reaserched it on this site. i arried at my next appointment at the mental health clinic with my docter and she was present in the room with out even asking me would i mind. once again to cut a long story short she went running back to my docter and told him i had been discussing private things on facebook! im not even on facebook!!!!!! i expalined to the docter i was just researching becouse i didnt understand and i felt at this point he was very much on her side (they all stick together dont they!). i felt so anxious and imtimidated that everything i wanted to say went blank and i felt like a naughty little school girl being told off, i could almost feel her smirking at me. i neglected to mention to the docter that on our first meeting she was in a way kind of unprofessional when she blurted out "im not a taxi" when i feel it would have been better had she of said " my job description does not allow me to transport you from A to B".....where do they find these people????? i have done nothing wrong and have not disclosed any names, towns or anything personal. im thinking maybe she was a tad ticked off that i dare to question her.........what do you think?

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You never gave any information on here which breached confidentiality on her part so i dont know what her problem would be, as far as disscussing your own issues if your happy to share private issues then that would be your decision so again no confidentiality has been breached. End off!! Tell em that from me haha. Please dont give up if you are truelly uncomfortable ask for another practitioner and take someone close with you to you next appointment maybe to help you stand your ground and get across what you need to say. Jeez i cant believe how negative you seem to have it so far. Keep at it though gilr dont let this make you give up!! xx

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She sounds very unprofessional and uncaring, I would question her, and I would make a point of pointing this out to her how uncaring she is, she probably won't care and then that would prove your point, then you could report her to her superiors. Some people have no idea. Good luck

[Leta]

I would complain and ask to change the doctor and support worker. You are human being and deserve to be treated well and profesionally! They should help us but not make us feel even more anxious...

[F_Shadow1]

Hi Sam, that's horrendous I can't believe they are even allowed to practice if i'm honest. As others have said you've done nothing wrong and you shouldn't be made to feel this way; as you say, your support worker obviously hasn't got anxiety herself, otherwise she'd know that carrying on like this would exacerbate the anxiety! You did right to question her now, so you don't have any more sessions with her which would have likely been a waste of time. I hope you can find an alternative route, best of luck with it all

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Slightly confused. Whose confidentiality are you supposed to have breached? You can talk about yourself to anyone you like there is no breach there. If you have the confidence put your concerns in writing to her manager, perhaps copying in the doctor pointing out where and when you feel she has been unprofessional and as a client you request a different support worker as you feel this relationship has been tarnished by her behaviour. Again you may want to point out that it is she who is the supposed professional yet acted anything but and therefore you have no confidence that this relationship can go forward in a manner that it is positive to your well being. Question why you should then have to suffer because of this. Before signing off your letter state, don't request, that you expect a reply within seven days otherwise you will raise a formal complaint. Good luck.

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You absolutely have the right to discuss your own mental health in whatever way you want.

It was wrong of her to react in that way, and very unprofessional.

Regarding the 'do you want to get better' question, I feel she may have been amateurly trying explore some of the functions of your anxiety and depression. There is a good theory behind this, in that some people have developed ways of coping that are inextricably tied up with their symptoms, be that anger, anxiety, depression, OCD, whatever. The symptoms are seen as an outlet or a way of coping with stress, trauma, inner chaos. This is important to explore but in a much more professional way than she did. If this were my support worker I would view her as inexperienced and under-trained. You deserve to see a professional, experienced counsellor/psychotherapist above and beyond the support worker, who is giving you a very poor service, and in my opinion potentially quite destructive service. A formal complaint would be very much justified.

[joycestokes]

Hi there joyce stokeshere, yes i can see what you are saying ihave too come across this situation. sometime i have had to make complaints ifelt so bad, so yes i can see your point. best regards to you. joycestokes x

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Found this link on Anxiety UK website - might be useful.

anxietyuk.org.uk/get-help/m...