I work in Mental Health and have just finished the training! Absolutely heartbreaking and infuriating because it was totally avoidable! His mum is an inspiration (i'm not sure I would be as brave as her) and i'm sure she has and will continue to change "healthcare" practices with their story! My main concern is that people with autism and learning difficulties are still inappropriately on acute mental health wards to fill beds rather than giving them the treatment they need. I fear this part will only change when we have a similar incident that shines a light on this and other bad practices motivated by the money for beds colture!
And I think the worst thing is that it's not even the psychiatrists and NHS staff themselves who are the worst criminals in all of this. I think the bigger problem is that systemically there's a culture (not just in NHS) of seeing neurodivergent people in incredibly negative and dehumanising ways. This is the reason there's a mandatory training on the topic in question: To nip the problem in the bud, highlight the global ignorance hiding in plain sight and stop the next horror story from happening.
The mandatory training is a Waste of doctors and nurses time and his family are very selfish to impose this on all healthcare workers. There are other patients that can be attended to during the time spent by doctors and nurses in this course. A total of 36 hours wasted for each healthcare workers. This is an isolated case and should have been dealt with by the local hospital. This is not what he would want to be remembered. They took the time from millions of other patients who are still alive and needed care. What a selfish family.
I ended up on a wheelchair for nearly a year at 32 yo, because the GPs that I had been trying so hard to explain my symptoms to, dismissed me because I couldn't articulate myself very well as an autistic person and as someone who struggles with mental/thought co-ordination. 15 years of trying to get GPs to take me seriously, but they dismissed it because of the way I sounded silly and rambling, until I landed on wheelchair as a result of the illness I had been trying to get diagnosis for. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NEEDED !!!! Neurotypical people can never understand due to lack of experience how we feel like we are communicating from behind a glass and really need help to communicate properly
Your opinion that it wastes healthcare workers times is why you need this training. I implore you to speak to your TL and take some time off work and seek emotional support. This opinion you have is a sickening one and I truly help you get help
Infuriating that this fine young man had his life and future ripped from him so unnecessarily.
I work in Mental Health and have just finished the training! Absolutely heartbreaking and infuriating because it was totally avoidable!
His mum is an inspiration (i'm not sure I would be as brave as her) and i'm sure she has and will continue to change "healthcare" practices with their story!
My main concern is that people with autism and learning difficulties are still inappropriately on acute mental health wards to fill beds rather than giving them the treatment they need. I fear this part will only change when we have a similar incident that shines a light on this and other bad practices motivated by the money for beds colture!
Absolutely disgusting x
This is rampant in the mental unhealthy system, especially autistic and traumatised survivors of child abuse, misdiagnosed and not listened to.
And I think the worst thing is that it's not even the psychiatrists and NHS staff themselves who are the worst criminals in all of this. I think the bigger problem is that systemically there's a culture (not just in NHS) of seeing neurodivergent people in incredibly negative and dehumanising ways. This is the reason there's a mandatory training on the topic in question: To nip the problem in the bud, highlight the global ignorance hiding in plain sight and stop the next horror story from happening.
It seems that Dr Monica Mohan, the neuropsychiatrist responsible for young Mr McGowan's death, is still employed by the NHS.
The mandatory training is a Waste of doctors and nurses time and his family are very selfish to impose this on all healthcare workers. There are other patients that can be attended to during the time spent by doctors and nurses in this course. A total of 36 hours wasted for each healthcare workers.
This is an isolated case and should have been dealt with by the local hospital. This is not what he would want to be remembered.
They took the time from millions of other patients who are still alive and needed care. What a selfish family.
Wtf?
I ended up on a wheelchair for nearly a year at 32 yo, because the GPs that I had been trying so hard to explain my symptoms to, dismissed me because I couldn't articulate myself very well as an autistic person and as someone who struggles with mental/thought co-ordination.
15 years of trying to get GPs to take me seriously, but they dismissed it because of the way I sounded silly and rambling, until I landed on wheelchair as a result of the illness I had been trying to get diagnosis for.
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NEEDED !!!!
Neurotypical people can never understand due to lack of experience how we feel like we are communicating from behind a glass and really need help to communicate properly
@@ElectricBlanket1122 So GPs and other doctors need this training? Ok.
Why does anyone else need it if they don't prescribe medications?
Your opinion that it wastes healthcare workers times is why you need this training. I implore you to speak to your TL and take some time off work and seek emotional support. This opinion you have is a sickening one and I truly help you get help
@ChaosTheBattleLLamma 8 hours of my time wasted for this too.