Dr Caroline Innes 2021-05-25 Person 1 5 0

I started seeing this “Dr” in around 2009.., I was quite blatantly bipolar! Quite obviously suffering from the higher poles. All Innes did was write notes. Little interaction snd no care compassion or empathy. She referred me to some form of pointless talking therapy which was a waste of my time as much as the practitioners. I can’t even stress how much this didn’t help and how ill I had become at this point. At no point did this doctor communicate what she thought was wrong with me either.. NOT ONCE!!! I’m then sent to a “sleep clinic” bearing in mind I was having periods of not sleeping for days on end; I was high as a kite. With psychosis. Again the most pointless and damaging period of my life. I left her services as I was getting worse and worse. She actually told me on a few occasions there was nothing wrong with me! Yeh clearly nothing wrong with someone suffering bipolar. It took the next psychiatrist a leather of 2 sessions to call bipolar! Since then it’s been well managed and most of the times I have been unwell is when I’ve had to use northgate services. The damage this woman did to me is unreal! How she missed bipolar is negligent and dangerous. I can’t express how unwell I was. The unfit for purpose services she referred me to pointless and a waste of resources for someone with bipolar. The way she talks to patients and treats them doesn’t belong in the NHS. . I can’t wait for the day she leaves although it’s a worry she sets the standards for other MH practitioners within the northgate team! Once she is gone I will no longer have to pay out for private care and travel far just to avoid her. I couldn’t work, function or anything under her care! How I’m dead I don’t know. Yes the bipolar was destructive but she most certainly prolonged my hell and suffering and I’m nothing less than disgusted there are “professionals” out there like her. I don’t think I do a good enough job at articulating how bad she is.