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Author	Barnboo28
Comment	OP you summed up how I feel every bloody time I read or hear one of those ‘your so loved’ or ‘time to talk’ messages - no matter where it is (or especially now every single so called celebrity decides it their ‘mission’ to share their experiences of overcoming anxiety or depression in a matter of weeks!). All the chat about reducing the stigma has made me feel even worse because it’s ‘I was so low and now I’ve turned my life around’ - like you I’ve been like this since I was a child and don’t really know what a normal life is or should be, longest job I’ve held down is 4 years before a full on breakdown. Onto the charity side - without going into too many details (for no reason other than to make it a quicker read), I actually worked for Lifelink for just under a year. The actual counselling staff were all incredible and genuinely wanted to help but omg I was disgusted by how things were run by the completely incompetent management - money wasted here there and everywhere, counsellors not listened too (particularly because they were forced to ‘resolve cases’ within 4 sessions - maximum due to funding was 8). Fundamentally run by people who just don’t care about the people they are meant to be helping and not listening to the staff who truly can help people. The NHS is so overwhelmed and under resourced that they award contracts to the likes of lifelink in I’m sure good faith but it all comes down to cost cutting and they would rather ‘treat’ ten people with ‘mild’ issues who with a little bit of CBT or group therapy will feel better and fill out an evaluation form to say so than five people with ‘moderate’ issues ( lifelink are not meant to take on anyone with ‘severe’ issues for funding reasons or at least that was the case when I was there - distress brief intervention would be more likely referred to for ‘severe cases’). Honestly it was so corrupt & the bullying I both witnessed and experienced disgusted me and in truth made me so bloody sad that they get away with it. Numerous people complained to the board of directors but nothing was ever done. Phew felt good to get that of my chest.
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Created	Fri 28th Jan 2022 12:31am
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OP you summed up how I feel every bloody time I read or hear one of those ‘your so loved’ or ‘time to talk’ messages - no matter where it is (or especially now every single so called celebrity decides it their ‘mission’ to share their experiences of overcoming anxiety or depression in a matter of weeks!). All the chat about reducing the stigma has made me feel even worse because it’s ‘I was so low and now I’ve turned my life around’ - like you I’ve been like this since I was a child and don’t really know what a normal life is or should be, longest job I’ve held down is 4 years before a full on breakdown.

Onto the charity side - without going into too many details (for no reason other than to make it a quicker read), I actually worked for Lifelink for just under a year. The actual counselling staff were all incredible and genuinely wanted to help but omg I was disgusted by how things were run by the completely incompetent management - money wasted here there and everywhere, counsellors not listened too (particularly because they were forced to ‘resolve cases’ within 4 sessions - maximum due to funding was 8). Fundamentally run by people who just don’t care about the people they are meant to be helping and not listening to the staff who truly can help people.

The NHS is so overwhelmed and under resourced that they award contracts to the likes of lifelink in I’m sure good faith but it all comes down to cost cutting and they would rather ‘treat’ ten people with ‘mild’ issues who with a little bit of CBT or group therapy will feel better and fill out an evaluation form to say so than five people with ‘moderate’ issues ( lifelink are not meant to take on anyone with ‘severe’ issues for funding reasons or at least that was the case when I was there - distress brief intervention would be more likely referred to for ‘severe cases’).

Honestly it was so corrupt & the bullying I both witnessed and experienced disgusted me and in truth made me so bloody sad that they get away with it. Numerous people complained to the board of directors but nothing was ever done.

Phew felt good to get that of my chest.