Amy has complex PTSD, but has seen a psychiatrist once in 10 years

As a child, Amy was often violent attacks. At the age of 15, he was threatened with a knife. Now complex PTSD has been diagnosed, she is isolating with her mother at home for more than a decade, seeking strict help. He has only seen a psychiatrist once.

NHS stuck in a long waiting list for mental health treatment Amy says, “I was self -creating and feeling suicidal and no longer wanted to survive.”

She has jumped in the list for years despite knowing by the crisis teams in her local hospital and GP surgery.

Amy is one of thousands of patients in England who is caught in a backlog of mental health care.

Special analysis for BBC by charity richink mental illness shows that a Stark between mental and physical health care – and widening – inequality. For treatment compared to people with physical conditions, 12 times more patients are waiting for more than 18 months.

Despite the four emergency ambulance callouts this year, Amy remains in an uncertain waiting list for serious mental health treatment – which has no time and no clear way out of crisis.

She says, “I have just been asked to wait and services are struggling.” “Sometimes I really feel angry and shout and cry all day because I can’t move forward with my life.”

Amy finally came to a college course last year, but was asked to leave after a crisis.

“I think I am going round and round in circles and ends in the same position every day,” she says. Amy’s mother no longer works, so that she can be taken care of.

His story shows the harsh reality behind the data: to highlight life while helping.

While the physical health waiting list in England is rapidly decreasing, mental health backlog is not rapidly coming down and Amy remains higher higher except for weak people like stuck and unable.

“This is an essential Wake-up call,” Bryan Dow, Raythink says as Deputy Chief Executive of Mental illness. “Long delay results worsen. It becomes more expensive for their treatment. They end in secondary care, which is more complex – and they fall beyond work and become more dependent on benefits.”

The analysis uses data from monthly data of NHS England. This includes only adults with severe mental illness who have waited for over 78 weeks.

To join the waiting list number, they have to be referred to by community mental health services for further treatment or evaluation. Those waiting for medical treatment for mild anxiety or depression are not included in these figures.

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For the month of May, 14,586 patients were waiting for mental health treatment for more than 18 months (78 weeks), while waiting for physical health operations or appointment compared to 1,237 people.

Dr. of Nafield Trust Health Think Tank. Bake Fisher said that the government has progressed on the pledge to recruit more than 8,500 mental health workers, but said that access to people referred to mental health services “was” not as prominent “in recent planning and guidance” as was to reduce the physical health waiting.

He said that the part of the health expenses leading to mental health was determined to decline in the financial year ending in April.

In fact, this means that departmental funding was favoring physical health services.

“Mental health problems affect young people,” Sri Dove says. “It creates heavy health understanding and vast economic meaning to prefer mental health access.”

A new mental health center in East London is offering a fundamentally different approach – which can look like “good” mental health care.

Open to walk-in patients without appointments, it provides initial intervention in a well-welcome location. Effects are already visible – a advisory psychiatrist of the center, Dr. Sherz Ahmed says that the waiting list has already fallen clearly.

The hub has three advisory psychiatrists and several mental health experts who can offer surrounding care. The team is stable here.

Dr. “We want to interact quickly,” Ahmed says. “Once we understand the problem, we can indicate people in the right direction – avoiding that vicious cycle.”

Here, this is not just treatment. This is the continuation of care that helps the most. He says, “Reaching the same physicians that your story knows everyday, it makes a lot of difference. It creates faith.”

“I come every day and play the pool,” Moyna says, who is living with schizophrenia.

“Sometimes I watch TV, listen to music – and feel better.”

He credits the hub, which helps him to avoid relaxes, and reduces his need for hospital care. In order to get support and care in the time of crisis, he does not need any more appointment, and it is all within his neighborhood.

This feature is the first of its kind, with small beds. It is only one of the six of the six plan planned by NHS England from Birmingham to Sheffield, York to Kumbriya.

The hubs, which are difficult to install and therefore are unlikely to be very low, are able to grow much, unite the voluntary field and NHS.

The cost is limited with psychiatrists and infrastructure. Most other employees are volunteers and the East London site is provided by a charity.

Despite rising calls for a lower cost, these such as high-affected hubs, such care, remain a distant expectation for thousands of people like Amy.

Health Minister Stephen Kinnok accepts the reality of mental health care in England: “For a long time people have been disappointed by the mental health system and this has led to large backlogs.”

He says that the government plans to deal with problems.

“We are seeing more people present with challenges, and the way of dealing with it is transferring support from hospitals in the community,” they say.

In mental health care, “it is all prevented” connects Shri Kinnok. This is how he wonders that the government can help reduce the waiting list. The gap between mental and physical health waiting has increased since the government came to the government.

Last month, when Amy’s mother was discharged after staying in a small hospital, she was given an advisory appointment for her physical condition – an uncontrolled heart problem – a few weeks later. Conversely, Amy continues to wait.

“We don’t know how we are going out of this situation,” she says. “I want to get a job and want to go to college and such things. But we are both living this life.”