I cannot help but feel that this is yet another 'buck passing' scheme by professionals. We can all find information in books and off the internet but what human beings need, young and old is the power of connection. The power of connection however is not to be had because the system is run by finance and therapists and professionals need to be paid...or do they? We learn today that people have to wait years for specialist treatment in Wales and indeed I was told by my own Psychiatrist that people have to be in extreme states before they are seen by the service. For years before my own diagnosis I would spend ages in Cardiff Central library in its older incarnation looking at books in the Mental Health & Psychology section to try and work out what was wrong (right) with me. I was told by my own GP in 1997 when I presented first of all with Unipolar Depression that the services were so stretched that they would not be able to see me and therefore it took another 11 years for me to become an acute/emergency case before I was seen. At 21 years of age I was told by my first Psychiatrist (I've had 2) that I was 'Highly Sensitive' and I suspect that a majority of young people today are highly sensitive but they are being told by the adult professionals to go and look it up in a book. So it is go and do your homework, all over again. Everyone needs Counselling, even those who think that they are Mentally well, if just to have their illusions shattered. There have indeed been certain books that have been a help to me in my recovery but if you want to know what they are....you'll have to pay me for the knowledge because until society changes, a society run by market forces, we are going to see more and more young people being sent off to the library (if it hasn't closed down) to go and diagnose themselves.
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