Weekly News #23

'I tried to get help for my suicidal daughter more than 100 times - but they called her a waste of space'


Source: The Mirror

Desperate mum Mandy park begged for help more then 100 times over 9 days before her daughter took her own life. Mandy's pleas were dissmissed and ignored by a mental health worker. They said that her daughter was an attention seeker and a waste of space. Hours later Hannah was found dead at home at age 20. 

Heart broken Mandy was heartbroken and physically sick when she read some o the comments that where said about Hannah. Mandy said ''it's beggars belief that anyone could treat another human that way".
“Hannah changed overnight from a happy young ­woman to a ­totally different person. She was my world.
"I love and miss her. She had so much to live for and to give. If she’d got the right treatment she’d still be here.”

The Mirror states
In the UK the number of ­women taking their own lives has grown steadily since 2011.
But while mental health issues make up 23 per cent of contact with the NHS, it received only 13 per cent of the funding.
And since 2011 the number of beds for mental health patients has fallen by 8 per cent.
Last month Mandy, a former ­support worker for deaf children, was awarded £260,000 in an ­out-of-court medical negligence settlement from Southern Health Trust.

The article states that Hannah made serval sucide attempts throughout the 9 days but was denied admission to the hospital on all occasions.

I chose this story because it links to my previous weekly news which was about a old married couple who committed sucide because they didn't like the way the world was heading. I think that the mental health hospital should be sued for every single penny they have because how could they not admit Hannah after her mum continuously went to them pleading for help, so for them to turn back and tell Mandy that her daughter is an attention seeking waste of space is just disrespectful. So in my eyes the mental hospital killed her.

This is a representation of issues which is negligence, mental health and suicide.




















Comments

  1. Unknown5 March 2017 at 20:19

    good story and use of comparisons, perhaps you could talk about other representation groups like age and gender.

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  2. Ellie6 March 2017 at 10:38

    To improve try to include other representations within this article and perhaps include a comparison to another article which might represent issues regarding mental health differently.

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