They should also say "not that we'll do anything if you persuade them to come in" on the ads. The list of people who have been little or no help:
My dad's GP - eventually referred him to the emergency mental health team* but has done nothing else except mess up his prescriptions
The emergency mental health team* - talked a good talk and did put him on antidepressants which at least stopped him saying that he wanted to die. They got him a CT scan too which led to ...
The mental health team that are apparently specialists in ageing issues - diagnosed him with multi source dementia but have done nothing else.
The various mental health nurse teams* who came round to check he hadn't killed himself but didn't do anything.
The district nurses who seem so horrifically overworked I don't want to be mean but have been little help and do as little as is humanly possible which currently is nothing.
Social services - the amount of useless they have been cannot be described in words. They come round, ask if he can do everything, he lies, they tick a box and leave. HE'S GOT DEMENTIA YOU IDIOTS.
Some of my family - let's not go there today!
* all the teams are overlapping and have very similar names, I've given up trying to keep them straight in my head.
I plod on with no help - well none that doesn't come out of a bottle hating the lot of them!
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