I attended the meeting @Snowie there were actually a fair few people there, which for some reason I was not expecting. There was also the team leader 😩 who I originally gave this 2 page letter to and was told no. I certainly wasn’t expecting him to be there and wasn’t sure I’d be able to share my thoughts on the matter with him there. But I sat, I listened. A number of other clients expressed how they found the changes very difficult, but eventually managed it. The topic then came up for a more open discussion and that’s when I decided I’d share.
I shared around my long history of trauma and how trust is difficult, and how I need consistency and predictability. All the changes I’ve had in the last year. I said that this change in SW is anxiety provoking and destabilizing. The regional manager and the team leader both shared some of their reasons why they do the changes, some of them I can see how they may make a little bit of sense, but I do still stand by the research that I did and everything I read clearly said that consistency is so important in trauma and mh recovery.
one thing that made me angry and upset though, when the team leader was talking, he looked at me and made the comment that it’s ‘not anxiety provoking’. I looked at him and interrupted him and said I’m sorry but for me it is really anxiety provoking.
In the end they both said that the service is always client lead and if changing SW was not right for me then I didn’t need to. That made me angry too cause that’s not what I was told by the team leader months ago when it first came up.
so at the end of the day a positive for me. But it was a horrible experience, to be invalidated like I was. I wish I had been able to speak with my SW afterwards, but she was out and she isn’t in Thursdays or Friday. She’s working Sunday, but I won’t see her but she will call. And then she isn’t in Monday. She’s in training tues and Wednesday. Really been feeling her absence lately.
@Jynx @tyme thought you might both like to read this update too
