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Trying to advocate for better mental health treatment. Love animals - 3 piggies (Smudge, Timmy & Albie 🐾🐾🐾) LLB (hons) #autistic
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I watched my Dad get nursed by staff at the Royal Marsden. An NHS ward where he was treated with respect and dignity at all times. I am so thankful for that.
But why is mental health care so different? Why should we fear for our life being amitted to a psychiatric ward?
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CAMHS: you are unable to talk so we are discharging you
CMHT: you are too complex so we can't help
Hospital: you'll 'threaten' to kill yourself whatever we do so we are discharging you
Me: serious attempt nearly ending my life
Them: why didn't you tell us how bad you felt?
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So many of us are speaking out about the harm caused by the mental health services. We go to these people in our worst hours but are left worse than we came in.
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2019:
Member of PD team following me on Twitter.
When I had a closed account.
The obsession is worrying
Why are mental health service employees following patients on Twitter?
Typical BEH
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At 14 I was situationally non verbal
16 I was seen by camhs for depression & anxiety
18 I was diagnosed with an ED
22 I was told I may have APD
24 I was told I may have EUPD
26 I was diagnosed with ASD
30 I was diagnosed with PTSD
I'm 34 and still have no NHS therapy
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Mental health services: we cannot offer therapy if you are seeing someone privately.
Me: I have stopped seeing anyone privately so I can get help from you.
Them: sorry we don't have anything to offer you
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What started as a small tweet about the ridiculous blanket bans the ward had in place, morphed into something huge. A mixed sex ward is NEVER a place for anyone. I don’t care if it ‘helps calm the men’ or ‘some people prefer it’. It’s 2019 and nobody should be forced into that.
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I have just spent a week on a mixed ward. I have PTSD from a past SA on a ward and also have ASD.
Due to the way the ward was laid out, I could not get meds, get food, have visitors, speak to staff, leave the ward, see a Dr, get a drink without having to walk through mixed area
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@Shadsonthebeat
Thank you on behalf of all of us who have been that female in that position. I have always found the Police to be so much more supportive than MH services. Thank you!
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Living with trauma is being hyper vigilant every second of every day. It is exhausting and never seems to end.
And the people one would expect to turn to when mentally unwell are the people who caused this trauma to begin with.
So where do you turn?
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Last week I tweeted about the negative conditions I was being treated in and someone from twitter called the ward.
7 staff members including a Male came into the room I was sitting in and tried to confiscate my phone.
Apparently me tweeting was ‘illegal’. I asked which law
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Hard to read about msyelf and really hope mine,
@AQuinnUnbroken
and other horrific accounts of SA on wards will bring change to the way we are treated on psychiatric wards
Rivkah Grant, 34, was targeted by an NHS staff member and sexually abused, while Stephanie Tutty, 28, made similar allegations.
@AQuinnUnbroken
, alleged she was sexually assaulted twice – once when she was forced to sleep on a male ward and a second time on a mixed gender ward.
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@clare_bwell
Same. Plus my account was closed. The staff member actively followed me on Twitter
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It is extremely hard to get a conviction for an assault as a mental health patient.
We are not believed because of our mental illness.
Why is it so different for physical health. Why is the treatment punitive in mental health settings?
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How sad is it when the mental health services are the ones who push you over the edge?
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I resisted. I told them I hadn’t done anything wrong. I asked to see a Dr to discharge myself.
I can’t tell you how I felt after this. I was intimidated in a way no person should be. I am a young girl, I have autism and PTSD - informal and no history of violence. SEVEN staff. 7.
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I sparked a huge debate last week on here which I wanted to continue - but was forced to stay silent
To threaten anyone the way I was threatened by mental health staff last week is a sign of a ward with bad management, and a mental health trust with no morals.
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This was sent to numerous people in my mental health trust and to the local hospital where I had been admitted after an OD
This was 6 weeks after I had been sexually assaulted by a colleague of theirs. I have never 'threatened' to hurt msyelf.
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It is so awfully scary reading about yourself in the news. But if it helps just one person, it will be worth it. I went through hell, but if it means there is change in mental heath services, it won't be for nothing. Thank you
@Rebeccasmt
and others who helped us share our story
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They threatened to restrain me 7:1 to confiscate my phone.
I was an informal patient. But even under section someone has to have a very good reason to take something away from a patient
Twitter is my life. My phone is my world. Yet they thought they could take that away from me
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Thank you to
@Ermintrude2
@BipolarBlogger
and various others for the support last week. I know a lot of people were worried when I went quiet, but I had to in order to be able to get out of that place and be able to keep logging the different issues I faced whilst being there
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Polite request to Health professionals/police:
Please👏🏼stop👏🏼tweeting👏🏼 intricate👏🏼details👏🏼of👏🏼incidents👏🏼of👏🏼patients👏🏼under👏🏼your👏🏼care!
We know you do a good job and thank you. But these Tweets can be used to identify someone and also it’s your job to do these things?
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News: thousand of sexual assaults and rapes reported on mental health wards.
Public: silence
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Feel guilty filling time lines with the story that has just broken by Sky and the independent. But I have been silenced for too long. Please please someone listen and make changes. We should not feel scared to seek help.
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@MollyScott93
When you have been abused and mistreated by an organisation in a number of different situations I think you have the right to ‘speak ill’ of them. I agree that there are many employees who are great but that doesn’t make up for the ones who are abusive.
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Just to say that if ANYTHING at all goes wrong in you care, write down the name and position of the person involved. Keep a diary of who has said what and when. Dates and times are important. It’s sad that it has come to this point that you can’t trust anyone
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I wish my Tweets did justice to what happens in
#mentalhealth
services. From the useless crisis team experiences to being sexually assaulted on a ward by a male staff member. And the sad thing? It’s still continuing. To me and thousands of others. And they expect me to sit quiet
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I feel so awfully sad for those people who have been unable to speak out, those who have spoken out and been ignored and those who have been silenced.
Less than 5% of abuse is reported. Even fewer go to court. I'm the 'lucky one' to have seen some form of justice.
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You are scared out of your mind to tell someone on a locked ward that something has happened to you. You have no way to escape and the person could come back and do worse. You are disbelieved and ignored and you then question yourself.
@Rebeccasmt
our research found 77% of service users and carers found it difficult to raise concerns: services did not listen; concerns about repercussions; and the very process of raising concerns were all barriers.
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Don't think they ever actually apologised to me! It is sickening that it has to be the media who mental health trusts answer to, not patients or families who wants answers.
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Thank you to all who have responded and RT. It means so much to me to have the support from you all. Now for the real challenge: to get this in writing and allow people to see the mental health system for what it is
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20,000 sexual assaults since 2019
And what changes are being made to safeguard us?
I put my story out there in hope that my story would bring about change. I don't know how much more we can take.
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The place you have to be in in your head to harm yourself is indescribable. Yet we get laughed at, shouted at and punished for it.
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@Shrink_at_Large
This is happening in my area
1. Dialog + is apparently the answer to everything
2. 'key workers' with little or no background knowledge
3. Short term and you 'can always be referred again' = years of waiting to be put back into something you shouldn't have been discharged from
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The reality is, this isn't the worst of what I have read in my notes.
Opinionated, mysoginstic psychiatrists and other mh professionals giving their opinion on my trauma.
The Mh services that gave me trauma, continuously traumatised me.
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How are we at a point that the news about SA on mental health wards is not news. That we are in a place where we have either gone through it or seen loved ones/friends go through it.
If this news was about patients on a ward for physical health would you be more shocked?
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I can see everyone is struggling with the loss of
@jlpatient77
and I just want to say that whatever the stupid crisis team say, whatever crap the CMHT have given us all - we have each other. I feel so lucky to have you all on Twitter. Please stay strong. You mean so much to me xx
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I am really thankful of the help I receive now. Not actually from mental health services. I have people who are here to support me for my needs. They know me as Rivkah and they listen to me. The majority of the time this allows me to function. Without this, I am unable to cope
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I'm in a Care Home because the mental health service are so abysmal that they could not support me in the community. Having autism and mental health diagnoses made it impossible for me to live in the community without help. So 24 Hour care is where I am at. I am 34
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Guilty! He was found guilty. It's over. Imprisonment, sexual offenders list and possible deportation. Very very confused but relieved
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I’m at a loss. I have never felt so alone in my life. I am relying on Twitter at the moment to get me through and I feel so lucky to have you all supporting me through this horrendous time. I can’t stop going through what has happened to me again and again and again
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The last things I was able to say to my Dad was that I would be strong.
I hope I am fulfilling my promise by speaking out rather than hiding.
I miss him so much. He was such a loving person with the biggest heart.
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Just seen the most lovely
#GP
. A locum but works at my practice once a week. He did the referral letter I needed whilst I was sitting there. So many time I’ve been to Drs and they have just brushed my concerns away. I feel lucky to have had at least 1 good healthcare interaction
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Not going to continue reading my notes frm 2016 right now.
All I can say is that trauma is ignored by mental health services.
No such thing as trauma informed care and never has been.
It is my fault that this all happened to me.
Classic EUPD asking for help
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And believe me, I had no desire to stay on that ward. I wanted help. Why is that so difficult for a psychiatrist to understand? What is their role exactly?
This was sent to numerous people in my mental health trust and to the local hospital where I had been admitted after an OD
This was 6 weeks after I had been sexually assaulted by a colleague of theirs. I have never 'threatened' to hurt msyelf.
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Who else agrees that 7 staff members should not come into a patient on a psych ward and try take their phone off them just because they are venting about the experiences on a mixed-sex ward on Twitter. (NB - if you don’t agree with me, please unfollow!)
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I miss my Dad so much
He fought so hard for me over the years.
I hope I am making him proud up there
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Closing Twitter for the night.
Thank you so much for all those who have shown support for what has happened/ is happening.
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Feel very lucky that have managed to get my PIP sorted finally. Hopefully it will be helpful
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Those seven staff members threatened to restrain me to take my phone off me. I was tweeting the horrific conditions of the ward. I did not breach any rules yet they treated me like a criminal. I have never felt so unsafe. Locked on that ward and I was scared
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@autisticpuffin
Same sort of medelling they did to me with the walk in centre. This need to control every aspect of our lives is indicative of their issues much more than it is of ours. I am so sorry. This must be awful to read. 'professionals' who just don't like patients getting help!
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I don't think we have a choice in how much trauma takes over our lives.
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I need to be able to get my voice heard better. Apparently my law degree is not enough. I want to be doing advocacy. Ensuring people don’t get treated badly. Law is my favourite topic and putting it with medical ethics is just a match made in heaven. I have to do this!
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The sad truth is that we do have to record things. If we don't, we are gaslit and lied to.
C/W Suicide
"The trust’s recording of the four-minute assessment call was deleted, as it asserted that procedures were properly followed. But Ellie had made a recording of the call on her phone."
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Also the constant change of names of mental health Trusts, closing down wards and the reopening them with different names. These don't change the way you care for patients. Moving a problematic staff member to a different ward does nothing. Lip service is all
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@Rebeccasmt
Urging patients to report sexual abuse to the police is great. Except that:
- Most victims are not listened to
- it happens behind closed and locked doors
- mh services ar poorly staffed and most working there will not put themselves out there to report against a colleague
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I the end, you know that you cannot ask for help.
I am so thankful I am now in an environment I am supported as Rivkah. I am treated as a person. Very few people get this care and I spent years being gaslit and ignored. Goaded and made fun of by 'professionals'
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I think the best therapeutic work for me right now is to go through my notes from over the years and give my feedback on them. This then allows me to be heard.
So yes this is my plan now. It feels the only way I can work though the trauma.
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How are psychiatrists allowed to get away with blaming the patient? Are medical patients yelled at daily for being physically unwell? Would someone be kept in a medical facility for 8 weeks, begging for a medication change, be ignored and then discharged and blamed for no change?
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I can’t stop crying. I feel like such a bad person. All I can feel is the need to end my life. But the guilt of what it would do to my parents is too much. I just can’t do this anymore. The constant flashbacks, reminders and triggers. My face is sore from crying
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I just keep going over and over what I have done so wrong to deserve the care that I have been given. I rarely get to this point in my head because I see no point in the ‘why me’. But in reality I don’t understand it all. My life has become one big mess and I can’t escape
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BEH were 'deeply sorry' for what happened to me. But never bothered to write that to me. Only once Sky broadcasted what they had done did they feel able to apologise. And yet my care has been absolutely horrific since the assault. Abused, ignored and treated like sh*t
Don't think they ever actually apologised to me! It is sickening that it has to be the media who mental health trusts answer to, not patients or families who wants answers.
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I’m jealous of people who say ‘I’ve decided to admit myself to hospital for a short while to help me back to my feet’.
Me - I’d prefer to die than go back to one of those wards.
How do people get help in hospital?
And what is so bad and wrong about me that nobody can help me?
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All staff on mental health wards should spend ‘a day as a patient’ before they are allowed to work. Maybe then, and only then, they will understand how degrading and horrible it is to be a patient with little rights.
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My Dad used to make crazy menorahs with lego. Everyone used to come and see it in our street. My brother built this with a train going round in his memory. Missing my Dad so much 😢
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I was silenced by the staff on Trent Ward under
@BEHMHTNHS
. Threatened to have my phone taken away from me. At one point I did have my phone taken from me with no legal reason to do so. These practices are what made the SA possible.
Feel guilty filling time lines with the story that has just broken by Sky and the independent. But I have been silenced for too long. Please please someone listen and make changes. We should not feel scared to seek help.
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Not only do we go through the pain of trauma, but we go through the pain of not being helped for said trauma.
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Can you imagine this actually happening on adult mental health wards? You’d be lucky to have access to a working bath, your OWN belongings that help your condition or someone to speak to about the way you feel.
Here's an example of our "Calm Down Methods Menu". Given to patient's on admission and used in our care plans and Positive Support Plans as interventions during crisis 🙌💥🌈
@GMMH_NHS
@GmmhJo
@Safewards
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The difference between mental health care and physical health care.
Physical health: how are you Rivkah?
Mental health: check her social media and keep us updated what she says on there
2019:
Member of PD team following me on Twitter.
When I had a closed account.
The obsession is worrying
Why are mental health service employees following patients on Twitter?
Typical BEH
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Prior to this assault in 2016, I had been admitted twice in my life to the local mental health wards. A total of 5 weeks in hospital before the hospitalisation where I was assaulted. After that I didn't know how to cope with the trauma.
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Oxevision is the worst thing I have heard come in to mental health wards (and I have seen and stuff). I was sexually assaulted by a male staff member. If he had access to videos of me sleeping I don't think I could live with that.
“Technology is promoted to improve patient safety and ease pressure on staff but not as a tool to improve compassionate support for patients... For me, the reality was that I felt unsafe, uncared for, scared and alone”
Brilliant blog by Sophina on her experience of Oxevision
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How many of those who have abused patients/ service users whether sexually, physically or emotionally have just been moved to different locations or moved on to private practices?
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It is hard bringing up all the memories from over the years.
What would make it easier is if the mental health trust listened to me and gave me the help I needed.
But no. That would be too much to ask
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To the person on here who called the ward I am on about my tweets (which by the way there was nothing wrong with) I just want to say thank you. Thank you for ruining the only place I have ever felt happy to be properly open about my mental health struggles.
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Got all my stuff back! Feel a bit more in control. Plus MY MUM IS BRINGING MUFFIN AND FLUFFY TO THE WARD!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I spent months in hospital after the assault and after the court case. And never was I understood as a victim of abuse. It was always 'attention seeking' or 'EUPD'. I don't have EUPD. I have trauma, autism and mental illness which I have never had the correct care for
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@amysurvivor
Because they believe they are above the law. And CQC are useless. They say a along as bedrooms and bathrooms are separate it’s ok. But they don’t realise that in order to go out of the ward, see visitors, get food/drink etc you have to be in mixed or all-Male area! Loopholes used
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Contrary to the earlier Sky news introduction, I do not have two kids. Three guinea pigs, yes, but certainly no kids.
The 10pm news will be correct.
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Just applied for LPC with LLM. I need to move on with my law. I want to do this so much. I have to
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I was moved from one ward to another. Was treated like a criminal. Threatened with my belongings being taken away and called an attention seeker. Days after the assault.
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This is one really amazing response I complained about the fact that they were selling cages not even big enough for a guinea pig for rabbits. These are now off sale. Thank you!
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@DrRaviJ
@DHSCgovuk
@NHSEngland
Thank you for continuing to fight this. Whistleblowing is the most exhausting thing. The NHS is so beyond repair right now and cover up culture is at the bottom of this.
It feels like we are at a point where poor care is expected and anything better is a gift!
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I was supported by outside agencies including the police and eventually the lovely solicitors from
@LeighDay_Law
At no point have I received support from the health services that caused the SA.
26 charges out of 1,374 and even within those charges, help is not given
Revealed: Scandal of 1,374 hospital sex attacks – and just 26 charges.
@catrubens
calls for a mandatory regulatory scheme for healthcare workers, as is the case for doctors and nurses.
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I will never forgive the abuser.
I wil also never forgive the staff on the wards that 1. Allowed it to happen and 2. Who treated me like I was a piece of dirt afterwards.
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@PsycheScribe87
I would have to make a complaint to the service and any complaints I have been made have been shoved under the carpet and affected my 'care'
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