Mental Health Service In Scotland - The Lived Experience - A Short Video

13th September 2023

Adult mental health lived experience video transcript.

[As two people sit down on a bench the following words appear on screen: As part of our audit, we spoke to people with experience of adult mental health services. Here's what some of them told us']

Voiceover 1 as quote appears on screen [not person’s real voice]: If you live in a rural community or outside of a catchment area you have no services available. You try to access the services where they are available but you’re up against a brick wall.

Voiceover 2 as quote appears on screen [not person’s real voice]: I do really like working with my clinical psychologist but in terms of getting the support in the first place, and the waiting times, I found that very, very difficult and it was not a good experience for me’.

Voiceover 3 as quote appears on screen [not person’s real voice]: Mental health services should be available to everybody when they need it. I wouldn’t go around with a broken leg for 20 years, it just wouldn’t happen. Mental health should be treated the same as any other part of your body, which just now it isn’t’.

Read the full Audit Scotland report HERE
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