Wokingham Community Hospital

Wokingham Community Hospital 2024-05-22 Person 1 5 0

Because I didn’t have right person understanding me and given me wright support needed ! Iv done many Talking therapy in past met my need ! I stop therapy and reply to find The right person! To support and help me !

I think it’s wrong how you have to wait six months to reply for to talk in therapy again because the worker I had wasn’t right for me and my needs and ! So yes, I finished my talking therapy early because I didn’t feel that it was meeting my needs and support me ! Didn’t feel like I was getting any were

Wokingham Community Hospital 2024-05-22 Person 4 5 0

It was good

Boost my confidence

Wokingham Community Hospital 2024-05-22 Person 3 5 0

Am a stay at home mum to two small children with no childcare assistance - I felt my therapist found this to be an inconvenience and showed a lack of empathy or understanding when they were ill/upset etc. There were also a number of times where the information in my emails to them weren’t read properly resulting in miscommunication

More understanding of my home situation and working together to work with this rather than against it.

Wokingham Community Hospital 2024-05-22 Person 1 5 0

was made to feel insignificant and un worthy. felt more like a number being pushed through the door than a human being

Everything.

Wokingham Community Hospital 2024-05-22 Person 4 5 0

My contact person was fantastic and listened and I felt she understood. However after that I felt i went round in circles. She first suggested Cruse but I had already had 6 sessions with Cruse a couple of years ago. Then she suggested three other agencies but after looking at their websites I didn’t feel they would be able to help. So apart from the first conversation I cannot say that Talking Therapies has helped me.

I thought that Talking Therapies would deliver just that - therapy. Instead my experience is that it is more of a postbox or triage service. I would find it difficult to recommend it.

Wokingham Community Hospital 2024-05-22 Person 3 5 0

I did not like the Silvercloud material. I wanted to talk more and be on the computer screen less.

Less reliance on Silvercloud. More regular appointments. I think I needed more counselling about my upbringing and family issues rather than the talking therapy which I found a bit wishy washy.

Wokingham Community Hospital 2024-05-22 Person 2 5 0

i found the format over the phone difficult, when i said i found it difficult to identify feelings i feel that wasnt taken into account

not cut off after 7 days as i found finding the motivation ro reply to an email difficult due to struggling with the service

Wokingham Community Hospital 2024-05-22 Person 2 5 0

The "therapy" actually made me feel worse about myself. Part of my issue was tiredness, insomnia and not able to "turn off" at night, this affected my memory and sometimes I would mis-remember appointment times, and as a consequence of my symptoms making me late for an online meeting, I risked losing the therapy. Sessions WERE cancelled because my job had over-ran and I hadn't realised, because I was fatigued. So, the WORSE your symptoms are, the MORE likely it is you will get treatment denied. How about THAT as reinforced negative feedback? On top of that, I was told that they wouldn't be able to treat my insomnia UNTIL AFTER I had managed to control the behaviour that was directly contributing to... my insomnia. By which time, of course, I wouldn't need treatment. Is this how CBT works? Really? You make people feel inadequate, and don't address their issues until the patient has worked out how to do it for themselves? I'd go so far as to say that this attitude, and methodology is harmful to the mental health of vulnerable people.

A complete reappraisal of methods, and sanctions. A recognition that people suffering from issues affecting self worth, and memory, as well as time perception and priorities are exactly the kind of people who need support, not threats to remove it. I'm quite analytical, and I was also careful NOT to research how CBT works, because I did not want to be one of those patients who has read a bit, thought they knew what to expect, and then was critical of the therapist. I STILL haven't researched CBT, I put myself in your hands, blindly, if you will. So, I can't decide whether what I received WAS CBT (in which case, I can only say that it is NOT suitable for treatment of trauma induced symptoms and habits), OR it was administered in such an awful way, that it, from my personal experience, brought the whole concept of CBT into total disrepute. It lacked any understanding of what patients are going through, how they struggle to balance life, work, health etc, and only focused on the negative aspects, amplifying the daily failings people, even "healthy" people experience. I'm inclined to label CBT as a "Fashionable" treatment, one which might have helped a few, but ultimately appears to blame the patients for any failings. And that, in my opinion, disqualifies it from being a "treatment" at all.

Wokingham Community Hospital 2024-05-22 Person 5 5 0

Saved my life twice now. I felt so lost

Less waiting time please especially when I’m just using sliver cloud

Wokingham Community Hospital 2024-05-22 Person 5 5 0

I connect well with my therapist Whenever I don’t have much to say she always manages to get out of me what I want to say She gets me and understands me

No