“There needs to be a nationwide awareness programme for all NHS staff, to educate them about dissociative disorders. Diagnoses need to be more obtainable within the NHS; people's lives should be placed ahead of funding restraints and bureaucratic red tape. We need minimum standards of care and treatment agreed and implemented within the NHS to end the current nightmare of the postcode lottery—not just guidelines that can be ignored but actual regulations.” Mental IllnessPsychiatryDissociative Identity DisorderDissociationAbuse SurvivorsPsychotherapyMental Health StigmaTraumatizedDissociative DisorderDissociative DisordersMisdiagnosisNhsRegulationsMental Health ProfessionalsMental Health BiasMental Health SystemMisdiagnosedNational Health ServiceHealth ServiceNice GuidelinesMental Health TreatmentNhs FundingPostcode Lottery Book:Living with the Reality of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Campaigning Voices Source: Living with the Reality of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Campaigning Voices
“While there are now fresh moves to revise NICE guidelines on CFS/ME in the United Kingdom, these advances are likely to have been hindered by the scale of epistemic injustices experienced by patients with ME/CFS (NICE 2017). Of the valuable participants in the ongoing discourse about ME/CFS, it is patients who are not only the most vulnerable but have the most to lose.” InjusticeBiasAuthoritarianismChronic Fatigue SyndromeMyalgic EncephalomyelitisMe CfsHealth ServiceStigna Author:Charlotte Blease
“Sometimes I wonder why more of us ain't dead.” Health Service Book:Neighbors and Other Stories Source: Neighbors and Other Stories