IN regard to your post about the suicidal man who was told he had to wait for a counsellor, I just wanted to say the system is an absolute joke!
Someone very close to me went though this a few years back and after multiple visits and being on waiting lists he went to the on call doctor to say he was afraid of what he would do to himself and begged for help.
The doctor’s response? ‘Do you live alone?’ The answer being no they then responded with ‘so you will have somebody to call an ambulance if you need one.’ Disgusting!
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