Originally Posted by
Crystallorri
I thought it very interesting that this topic came up as I received a call from my niece on Friday evening and she is in a seriously bad way right now. Unfortunatley she is in London and I am here in Ireland and judging by the condition she was in, she is likely to be 'sectioned' beofre I get over there to see her.
Most of her issues started after smoking cannabis etc. She has never touched alcohol ever but used to smoke this and the medical profession feels this is what set her symptoms off.
She has a lot of emotional stuff to deal with too and found my sister when she died and has never dealt with this. What I meant in my earlier post about treating the whole is precisely because of the way my niece has been treated.
They constantly say she is self harming but she is not, not in the real sense of self harming. She believes she has insects etc inside her skin and she is trying to get them out.
Because this behaviour doesn't fit neatly into a box, they give her the label that almost fits.
Instead of getting her counselling and helping her come to terms with the emotional stuff, its a case of pump her full of medication to calm her down and then talk with her but by this stage, she is so out of it on the medication, she cannot remember or feel what she did that started her off in the first place.
Sorry to rant on but I need to get this out of my system...I am helpless to help her as the rest of her family...father, stepmother etc have washed thier hands of her as they don't understand the illness. Her son is gone now to live with his father in case she harms him (never would!) and she has lost everything. Who is there to be an advocate for her? Where is the support she needs most? Where is the medical profession - answerable to thier mistreatment of someone that they do not have time to handle one on one?
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