Stress or something worse?

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Originally Posted by DanAbnormal

I seem to go from slightly annoyed to full blown smashing things up in a nano-second. At first I talk to myself to calm myself down, things like, "It's just a game dan, walk away" or "It's just a peice of metal/plastic" from this step to smashing up I'm not sure what happens upstairs which is why I'm seeking help so that I can identify these problems and in the end avoid them altogether.

And all credit to you for that. From what others with experience have said, the help that you can get will allow you to recognise that slightly annoyed state sooner and slow things down a bit for you to take control and prevent it escalating.

I have no doubt whatsoever that you will conquer this!

The most important thing is though Dan:

Did you break my processor chip?!

Dan am I confusing you with someone else or have you mentioned (on the forum) several other incidents? ie. one in an airport? If so then I really think you need to stress to the GP that you need support. TELL (not ask) your GP that you want to be referred to someone who can help you with this. Am I right in thinking that this sort of behaviour has been going on for a long time?? You could be suffering from something like Bi Polar which has many levels of severity and is treatable.

Best of luck and well done on wanting to do something about this... the support is out there, unfortunately you might have to push to try and get it.

BTW NHS Direct won`t be able to help you unfortunately.

Originally Posted by Speedy Claire

Dan am I confusing you with someone else or have you mentioned (on the forum) several other incidents? ie. one in an airport? If so then I really think you need to stress to the GP that you need support. TELL (not ask) your GP that you want to be referred to someone who can help you with this. Am I right in thinking that this sort of behaviour has been going on for a long time?? You could be suffering from something like Bi Polar which has many levels of severity and is treatable.

Best of luck and well done on wanting to do something about this... the support is out there, unfortunately you might have to push to try and get it.

BTW NHS Direct won`t be able to help you unfortunately.

I have Bipolar, could be along those lines, as said already..TELL the Dr you need help!

[dizzyblonde]

wot a crap doctor. Go see another one in the surgery. And keep going until you get one that will actually do something for you.

[ophic]

I'm tolerant and have fairly long fuse, but having to go see a second doctor cos the first one was incompetent, would make me want to beat the stuffing out of him instead.

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Originally Posted by Speedy Claire

Dan am I confusing you with someone else or have you mentioned (on the forum) several other incidents? ie. one in an airport? If so then I really think you need to stress to the GP that you need support. TELL (not ask) your GP that you want to be referred to someone who can help you with this. Am I right in thinking that this sort of behaviour has been going on for a long time?? You could be suffering from something like Bi Polar which has many levels of severity and is treatable.

Best of luck and well done on wanting to do something about this... the support is out there, unfortunately you might have to push to try and get it.

BTW NHS Direct won`t be able to help you unfortunately.

+1, only mentioned NHS direct as they have to report. They won't be able to offer a referral, but last time I called them when I was suffering depression, they were great in giving me more details and expanding on what my doctor had said. Just a bit more support until next week.

Originally Posted by gruntygiggles

+1, only mentioned NHS direct as they have to report. They won't be able to offer a referral, but last time I called them when I was suffering depression, they were great in giving me more details and expanding on what my doctor had said. Just a bit more support until next week.

Thats brilliant that they were able to offer you some support... maybe it depends on the area you`re living in but our NHS Direct is to put it mildly a load of crap!!!! I think there`s now talk of disbanding this service as it hasn`t proved very effective

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Originally Posted by Speedy Claire

Thats brilliant that they were able to offer you some support... maybe it depends on the area you`re living in but our NHS Direct is to put it mildly a load of crap!!!! I think there`s now talk of disbanding this service as it hasn`t proved very effective

Yeah, it's pretty good here.

I think the reason most hospitals have been so bad the last 10-20 years is because the government has seen fit to put business professionals in charge that have little or no understanding of the needs and hence, we have hospitals with too many doctors, not enough nurses, very few sisters and awful hygiene.

In the NHS direct, they have put health professionals in charge and I think that this is one side of the NHS that needs business brains behind it. It is essentially a call centre environment and so needs to be handled differently.

SO, yet again, the government have got it all ar$e backwards!!!

Also, I mentioned in a different thread last week I think that if you are unhappy with your doctor it can do the world of good to complain. Make and official complaint and stay with that practise. They will not risk any further complaints from the same patient so you can be sure to get proper attention and also, if they don't know they are doing, or have a doctor that is doing something wrong, they will not know to change it.

Totally agree.... if the NHS was run by business professionals with a nursing background then I`m sure there`d be a 100% improvement in standards of care.

If anyone want to make a complaint about their GP or any aspect of the NHS then this is the organisation to get in touch with

http://www.pals.nhs.uk/cmsContentView.aspx?ItemID=932

They`re extremely helpful and offer a range of advice. I recently lodged a complaint over a local GP practice who I`ve had various run ins with through my work. My complaint has been taken very seriously and it looks like something might actually be done to improve patient care within this practice, this is all thanks to PALS