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Welcome to our article, Health safety net fails.
Dear readers, in life we need rules to follow, but sometimes those rules do not work out, in
this article we want to talk about the health safety net. The health safety net
is run from the government health authorities, but because of its rules, it may fail to help those people that need help most.
The most likely
people that will be affected, are those people that need mental help, because
this is where it can easily fail. So, we want to point out, that it is not easy to
access mental help, because of the rules in the mental health act, so, the
patient will suffer before he can get help. Now, we are not saying that the
mental health act is to blame, because it needs to work that way for different
reasons. However, we are writing this article, from the point of view of the
patient and his family, because they are forced to go through hard times, so,
we are complaining about it. In the hope that one day, a better health safety
net can be set up, where it is easier for the sick people and their family to
access. Anyhow, let us look at what is available to use today, when we need
mental help, which are the most difficult to access.
Better health
safety net is required.
From what has happened to my family and is happening even now, I believe that a
better health safety net is required, because we have problems when we need mental
help. I am saying this, because I have been through myself a few times, and
I can see that this is happening again to my family and friends. Anyhow,
this outside help that we are talking about exists, but it should be readily
available, to those people that need mental help. You see, there are times when
the rules to get mental help are too strict, for this reason it fails to
achieve what is meant to achieve. Now, let us look at the set up, and the
reason why this happens.
You see, in most
countries like Australia, this help is provided from the government, this could
be the federal government, the state government or the local authorities. Of
course, there are private doctors and organizations that provide this help also; but they
cost money. So, here we want to talk about what the government of the day
provide for its own citizen; whether this help is free, or you must contribute
to use it. Anyhow, this can be different from country to country and from state
to state, but any good government must have this health safety net in place, to
help those people that need help, therefore, it should be readily available on
demand to anyone that needs help urgently; but sometimes it is hard to access,
for many reasons.
Therefore, the
health safety net fails to provide what it is supposed to provide, in our case,
medical emergency and mental health; this failure to provide medical help, can
have real consequences for the people that need help. Now, if this help is for
physical reasons, it is easier for the people around to decide what help they
need; so, in this case they ask to see a doctor, because it is easy to see why
we need help.
But what about if
the person needing mental help does not know that he needs help, even when
their families and friends ask them to look for help, they don’t admit it and
keep making themselves sicker, like when a person has mental health problems,
you see this is where most times help fails to take place.
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Hospitals can solve
these health problems.
We know that hospitals have been built to solve these health problems, so, the best place to look for help is your local hospital, because hospitals can solve all the health problems, since there are all sorts of doctors and specialists to help you; but even though they are there to help, sometimes it is not easy to get admitted and that becomes a problem that is hard to solve, so, in a way they fail to do what they are supposed to do.
Having said that, let us leave behind these cases that require
medical attention for physical reasons, as they are obvious to the on lookers
when a person needs help, for this reason, he can receive medical help soon and
solve his problem. But what about those cases of mental illness, when we look
fit, but we are not, that person has got to become very sick before he can receive
help.
This is most likely
to happen, when we have mental health problems, because to spot the need for
help is hard to see, but the need for the patient to see the right doctors is
important. Most times these cases are sad cases, because people around the sick
person may think it is funny, how that person acts; so, instead of finding a
way to help that person, they may laugh thinking that that person is trying to
be funny, when that person cannot think straight, and half the time he does not
know what he is doing, this person needs help like the other sick people,
because he doesn’t know that he needs to be seen from a mental doctor to get
better.
Perhaps it is the
stigma that we attach to mental health people, that prevents the on lookers and
the sick person to try to see a mental doctor. Whatever is the case that sick
person needs to see a doctor, and it would be good if all parties involved
accept that easily, because this can solve the problem. You see, when we need
mental help and the patient doesn’t ask for it directly, the health safety net can
fail. The patient needs to ask himself for help to receive help. Other people
cannot be involved, that is the main problem.
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When we need mental
help sometimes.
Anyhow, I am writing this article about mental health, because things have happened in my family and my close friend family, therefore, we need to find help. But that is not all, because I have reached the stage where I don’t know what to do, I cannot think of anything useful or interesting to say, because these mental health problems in my family.
As we have said,
when we feel sick, we to go to see the doctor, but that is not always the case
for people that have a mental health problem, because they may not even know
that they have this mental problem, or they are ashamed to acknowledge that
they have it, but that is not the only problem that we have here, because the
biggest problem is to gain access to a mental clinic and specialist.
Now this is another
reason why the health safety net may fail to help, the mentally sick people,
are living their lives beyond their control. So, whatever they do may not be
what the normal people would do, but the mentally sick people may not even
know, that what they are doing may upset other people, they are not aware of
what they should do to act normal, because this is a problem beyond their
control, so, let us see what some of those people do, when they live their
lives beyond their control.
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Sometimes life
events are beyond our control.
In my lifetime, I
have been involved with a few cases of mental illness, some from my family
members, and some from close friends. From what I have seen, I believe that
these mental life events, most times are beyond our control. Anyhow, I am going
to write here how I have seen these cases, and what I have learned from them: To
do that I have chosen two cases which I know what has happened; to write about them
I believe that I must write two more articles in hub pages, because I want to
keep them separate, otherwise it would be hard to understand the situation of
each case.
Anyhow, we can say,
that every time that there is serious mental illness in the family, or even in
a close friend family, there is chaos around the place, and it cannot be
avoided. You see, people that have a mental illness do strange things, they are
hard to control, because of the simple fact that they may not know that they
are sick, they keep doing strange things and most times they isolate themselves,
they start isolating themselves, because they start to notice that the people
around them, are suspicions about what they are doing; if anybody says anything
to them, they will try not to answer that question, or answer it in a snappy
way without thinking what they are saying; there are times, when they can
become aggressive towards the people that talks to them, so, the people around
them will notice that; so, they will try to tell them to see a doctor, to find
out what is wrong with them, but whether they go to see a doctor is another
matter. Sometimes they go to see the doctor, but when they are there, they will
talk to the doctor about things that worries them, but they will try to avoid
anything that might suggest their mental condition, by doing that they believe
that they have been seen from a doctor and they are okay, so, any help that is
available to them cannot be used, because they are denying the state of mind
they are in, for this reason help fails to arrive for them.
But that is not
all, you see, the hardest thing to do for the people around the ill person, it
is that they cannot enforce anything at all, it is very hard to see when a
loved one is sick and you cannot help them, because the ill person cannot
accept that he/she is sick and should look for help.
There are a lot of
questions that we can ask, but the most important one, is how we can force the
sick person to see the right doctor, and admit that they are sick and need
help, so, they agrees to see the doctor and accept treatment; you see, today
even if you are mentally sick, you can live free in the community; because even
if the doctor know that you are sick, the doctor can only force treatment to
those people that are so sick and they don’t know what is happening around
them, so, they are at risk of injuring themselves or some people around them.
That is why help
for the mentally sick people fails to take place, and presently it is failing
us again; I will write a few things in more details when I write more articles
about mental help, because I believe that I have said enough in this article,
so, see you soon, in our next article of,
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