>>5053349Tl;dr, you are absolutely correct. And it’s a problem most people don’t see or realize is a thing.
It astounds me as to how my doctors treat mental health. The majority of them would make a joke about it and then order some drug to completely knock them out without treating the actual condition and then refuse to order drugs to stabilize or they would order restraints and nothing else. Then the patients stay there for multiple days without treatment in a single room and we wonder why we need to knock them out on a daily basis. I do “request” drugs from my doctors and get them medicated when necessary or do non-medication things in order to occupy their time but I’m also one person on one shift. And this is just emergency.
When I worked inpatient psych on a locked unit, it was heartbreaking. I will never work that unit again because there’s literally nothing I can do to help someone. The people who work in those units are doing things they aren’t trained to do, like therapy, because there is no money in hiring the correct people and having them around 24/7. Once you get a patient stabilized and out of the unit, they have no way of getting care so they do something on purpose to come back for treatment. It’s a revolving door of seeing the same people until they either get put on a really long hold or they just…stop coming back. And very few ever made good recoveries.
Yeah, there are those who were down on their luck and got care which was great and happy to see. But there are so many more psychotic patients I get that live on the streets because they don’t have the right drugs, care, and can’t get it in any way. Hell, even with good insurance getting outpatient treatment can take weeks if not months. I wish we cared about good therapy and treatment for mental heath as much as we do about physical. Some of my doctors don’t even think that mental health is a real thing.
