As patients struggle to access face-to-face appointments with their GPs, figures show that more than 300 people a day are attending A&E departments complaining of depression – a sign both of the deepening mental health crisis and the inability of the NHS to cope with it. The Telegraph has the story.
NHS Digital data show that, in the year to March, “feeling depressed” was a patient’s main complaint in 114,000 attendances at NHS emergency departments in England – an average of 312 a day.
Mind, the mental health charity, said it was “deeply concerning” that so many people across the country needed emergency care for this reason.
The data refers to chief complaints, which a clinician views during a patient’s first assessment as the main reason that led them to seek emergency care. It is not an official diagnosis.
Feeling depressed was the 28th most common reason of nearly 150 recorded for attending an emergency department nationally in the last year, coming above puncture wounds, back injuries, coughs and sore throats. …
Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, in the North West, saw the highest number of A&E attendances for people presenting with feeling depressed as their main symptom (4,785), followed by University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, which recorded 3,950, and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, with 2,525.
Different figures show “depressive disorder” was listed as the first suspected or confirmed diagnosis in 83,500 A&E attendances at NHS trusts across the country in 2020 to this year, making it the 25th most common diagnosis of hundreds recorded.
A patient with this diagnosis may not necessarily have been listed as “feeling depressed” in their initial assessment.
Leila Reyburn, the policy and campaigns manager at Mind, said: “It is deeply concerning to see so many people feeling so mentally unwell that they need to go to A&E. This is supported by data which shows an increasing number of people, including children, being treated by the NHS in a mental health crisis.”
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It’s a religious cult, and being a die-hard Covidian well… it takes a heavy mental-toll. Here’s a serious disciple practising his art.
https://twitter.com/ArtValley818_/status/1438318902082158592?s=20
Perhaps he reads the Faucian Bible every night?
“Then I saw a great white throne atop a white fluffy cloud where[Bill Gates] was seated up on it surround by cherubs in white lab coats and stethoscope’s. The earth below shuddered and the heavens fled from his presence, as truly there was no place for them.”
– Pfizer Revelations 20:21
And below a link to a previous advocator of double-tapping. One of the many penny on the dollar vaxxoids… and a highly-respected social influencer. Fully MSM indoctrinated, and has never heard of Bells Palsy, or its impact on thousands of recently COVID vaxxd.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/0wsUZcrZICex/
These people will not pushback against the WEF Great Reset ever, so just like the French Resistance of WWII at best we sceptics must remain a thorn in the NEW NORMALs side.
HOLD THE LINE
http://preussi.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Arbeit_macht_frei_in_Theresienstadt_05-scaled.jpg
This is not much of a surprise since making people depressed and ensuring they have little to look forward to is now government policy.
I feel compelled to note that doom and gloom is one thing at which the Scotch Nazionalists truly excel. They cannot see a glint of silver without saying “Aye, well, but where’s the cloud?”
Perhaps not unrelated, the Scotch fertility rate in 2020 plummeted to a sporran-shrivelling 1.29, in the bottom 5 in the world.
Miserable, terrorised people don’t have children.
You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be barren.
The New Scots: McZahawi, McPatel, McSunak, McJavid, McKhan, McMohammed, McHussain.
Nor do atheists. An even lower rate among atheists in Austria, one of the few places to measure it, last I heard. Either way, the West is doomed, and probably China.
This is not just GPs fault. Mental Health services have been absolutely decimated by the restrictions. A&E is still the only place people are signposted to if they are in a crisis and feeling suicidal.
I don’t know why the down vote, this is absolutely true and has been for years. I would like to relate to you an incident from a few years ago when I was working as a triage nurse. A patient came in with a support worker and said that he was feeling suicidal. Just by looking at his demeanour and talking to him for about 10 minutes I was seriously concerned, as I worked in urgent care adjacent to the main A&E all I could do was get him round to A&E and ask them to refer him to the crisis team. If I had been mental health or learning disability nurse then I could have possibly put him under an emergency section, as it was I had to depend on the mental health services. I heard nothing more until I was called as a witness at this person’s coroner’s inquest. 24-48 hours after being assessed by the mental health team he lay across a railway track and took his own life. What is worse he had recorded the conversation between himself and the mental health team, and he told them exactly what he was going to do, and they still discharged him.
Until there was a specific unit set up, the police regularly brought in patients to us under section 135 or 136 of the mental health act. We also saw teenagers who had deliberately harmed themselves, usually having scars from previous episodes. I asked one person why, and their response was that it relieved their anxiety or other negative thoughts.
You see a lot if single downvotes at the moment. A troll methinks.
Depression is not a joke. It’s a poorly researched, possibly deathly illness people not suffering from it like to make jokes about.
>this person’s coroner’s inquest
Which i bet said “Nothing could’ve been done”, “lessons will be learned” bullshit etc
Actually the two mental health nurses were going to be reported to the NMC by the coroner for neglect, however, as it was a few years ago I don’t know what happened about that and I cannot remember the names so I can’t check the NMC register. What I do know is had this patient told me what he told those mental health nurses I would have raised the alarm immediately.
The downvote comes from some pillock on here who dishes them out regular as clockwork.
Not surprising with all the deliberate fearmongering around the bogus claims of Covid and Climate Change.
With the older generating having lived through the cold war, Cuban missile crisis, IRA bombings etc. perhaps the younger generation are not as emotionally tough?
I wouldn’t necessarily say that the younger generation are less emotionally tough; for the past 18 months there has been a relentless onslaught of fear-mongering and fear porn and it is not surprising that some people have succumbed; my heart goes out to them and it has often been a concern at our prayer group.
There are at least three groups of culprits here:
As someone who has been mildly depressed this year and at least once years ago, I do not use the word depression lightly.
But just like people saying “it is freeezing” when the temperature drops from 19C to 14C within a day in autumn, I hate people using the word depression when they are feeling down.
But I guess if you feel bad enough that you are prepared to go to A&E and be prepared to enter the system of the NHS, then you do need help, even if it is just to talk to someone who takes your situation serious.
Perhaps the government has purposefully assaulted the human mind.
peple are angry and frustrated, havibng lost control of their own lives.
Because of the terrible virus?
because of the government.
I think you may been too polite. If Dr. Peter McCullough was right yesterday in calling events a coup, it is now ‘the regime’.
‘Regimes’ used to be what other parts of the world had …
Regime is a better word, you’re right, especially given the Kim Jong Johnson regime.
If these problems are mainly the effect of the lockdown policies and their repercussions, I would think that the next round of “shocks to the system”, including rocketing heating and food costs, among many, will be piling Pelion on Ossa for many people, and will thus increase the number of mental health problems.
Cultism is an attack on your mind, an attack on your means of survival.
And many more leave A & E every day with depression.
“Before you diagnose yourself with depression, make sure that you are not surrounded by arseholes.” – Sigmund Freud
Top tip: If you’re going to A&E because you’re depressed, go there on foot or on a bicycle.
By the time you arrive, chances are you won’t feel depressed any more.
Also, GPs cannot treat depression. There isn’t a single drug they can prescribe for depression that will not make things worse. They will either screw with your liver, make you fat, make you dead inside to the extent that you seem like a psychopath, or they will simply give you wasps inside your head (hello Venlafaxine).
Special K sounds like it might actually work.
The whole “mental health” industry is one massive scam. The main purpose of antidepressants is to make lots of money for big pharma (sound familiar?) – people get hooked on them for years, turned into zombies and barely-functioning automatons in many cases.
That and whatever flavour of empty talk is in vogue at the time (CBT at the moment), plus locking people up, have for years been the mainstays of what the mental health profession laughably calls “help”. In recent years they’ve added “social prescribing”, a fancy name for palming people off onto assorted community groups…
No wonder people are feeling depressed. Locked down – some of them on their own with no outside space – for extended periods of time, bombarded by hideous fear messaging from the MSM (not to mention advertising) at every turn, worry about the fear of losing their job and being unable to provide for their family, worry about being forced to have a state mandated medical intervention the safety of which won’t be fully known for any number of years hence, if ever, considering the control group has been all but eradicated…..I could go on.
The NHS has ALWAYS been rubbish at tackling mental health problems – they seem to regard the mind as entirely separate from the body and really not worth bothering about, and mental health is the cinderella speciality in terms of NHS funding.
As for GPs – government needs to give them a VERY simple message. “See patients or don’t get paid”. Not see ‘more’ patients face to face – just see patients full stop – unless of course someone actually wants an online appointment, which frankly seems to me to be no use to anyone.
It would also help if GPs would prescribe anti-asthma medication for asthmatics but neither NHS nor now private ector GPs will do so
“Inability of the NHS to cope with it”.
Saved the NHS did they? Stupidest idea ever to cause widespread stress and depression for a low consequence infectious disease, thus lowering people’s immunity (not to mention decreasing exercise).
A friend who works for the local ambulance service told me this a while ago. They are extremely busy but mostly with mental illness. Apparently the paramedics have been told to try to keep people out of hospital because that is where they will catch Covid!
Hmmm, what could be causing this depression? Prolonged Lockdowns, wearing masks like we are scared to death of each other, locking kids out of school, making them wear masks, taking a vaxx that doesn’t work and may be the cause of thousands of adverse events and deaths, the threat of further lockdowns, mask wearing and having to have a vaxx passport to access places, food shortages, petrol shortages, blood vial shortages, equipment in hospital shortages, no face to face gp appts, a 5 million person waiting list for non elective surgeries(hips, knees, hernias cataracts etc). A steady stream of brainwashing from MSM. Gee I wonder what is causing so much depression.
Statement of the obvious: –
Pressing down on anything or anyone causes a depression.
Repressors kick the underdog down, then label it sick for being down.
Depression is a normal result of being repressed.
The abnormality is in the repressor, not the repressed.
Symptomatic treatment does not cure because it leaves cause un-tackled.
Taking-it-on-the chin aided and abetted by witty humorous understatement relentlessly eliminated over last 10 – 20 years.
Those things were Brits’ ace when faced by tyrannical repressors
I had a day in hospital last year with a nervous breakdown/major panic attack. I’m better now that I understand what the Government is trying to do in its quest for Digital ID’s.
I wear a mask because I’m scared of you and me, but not Big Brother.
”With depression”? Really? Depression is bad – but A&E?