Failed to properly diagnose and treat people Dinching disorder According to new figures specially shared with the BBC, the UK is wasting billions of pounds in a year. Experts say that many of the estimated million people living with this situation are “ghosts in the system”, whose life is being distinguished by poorly managed extremely suicidal climbing or frantic, irregular height.

After experiencing the mental health crisis, Emma revealed bipolar disorder in the early 30s.

When she was 32 weeks pregnant, her grandmother died unexpectedly, sent her to “deep lower”. She says, “I felt terrible, but the delivery team does not take me.” “He said that my symptoms were not serious.”

When Emma gave birth, the extreme climax of her pregnancy was replaced by an unexpected high. She felt amazing in the days after her child’s birth – but she did not sleep and her behavior became rapidly uncertain.

A few weeks later, his mood was fluttered again. When her child was three weeks, Emma took an overdose.

It took a week in the hospital to return to his liver celebrations. But even after that, she was out of the hospital for a year before the diagnosis of bipolar disorder, and the drug was given correctly.

“If I was correct care, and during my pregnancy, I could avoid taking that overdose – 100%,” she says.

This was not Emma’s first experience of poor mental health – she spent her adolescence and received separate antidepressant by looking at doctors. No one had ever suggested that he could have bipolar disorder.

Experts have told the BBC how most of the people living with bipolar disorder in Britain have “weakened, undivided and left to try and survive in a system that has failed them”.

The majority, like Emma, ​​is eventually diagnosed with bipolar disorder, initially incorrectly determined antidepressants, which makes their symptoms worse rather than improve. Experts also say that there is a lack of continuity of care from GPS through psychiatrists.

Their warnings come when specially shared data with the BBC shows that the cost of the situation in the UK is now an estimated £ 9.6bn in a year. This is equal to more than £ 300 per taxpayer.

The breakdown includes NHS costs, such as GP services, psychiatrist appointments and A&E seizures for entry. It also includes economic costs, such as the need for family and friends to provide lost days and informal care in the work.

But this does not include welfare payments for those out of work, or cost for police services working with people in crisis.

“It is almost £ 10bn figure really quite conservative,” from Professor Judit Simon, Medical University of Vienna, who worked to generate numbers with BBCs.

“If this is a government that really wants to try to bring down the welfare bill, bipolar disorder should be its complete priority, in fact the target disorder to move the dial.”

Data shows that 372,000 people with bipolar disorder are currently out of work and are claiming profit in the UK.

Experts say that for a healing disease, this number can be reduced.

Psychiatry Professor Professor Professor Gudwin at Oxford University says: “If you want to cut the cost of a disease, you need to reduce the hospital entry and emergency care. If you do not focus on entry into the hospital, you waste money.”

This is the lack of correct care that Rosie says that she was arrested at Stanstad Airport for jumping safety barriers during a mutilated episode in the early 20s.

“I was completely confused,” she says. After his arrest, Rosie was taken to A&E and locked in a room. She waited for more than 12 hours, while a specialist was found in a mental health unit.

Like Emma, ​​Rosie had been dealing with mental health issues since childhood, but it was only after being in crisis that her situation was recognized. This particular period of psychological frenzy was triggered by the breakdown of a relationship.

He was admitted to the section and hospital for three months, after which he finally started finding a combination of drugs working for him.

Now 29, Rosie says that he still has a high and low period, but says that he is much more stable and is able to work part time.

“I failed,” she says. “I have been told that my symptoms were a matter of a textbook for bipolar climbing and high – energetic, grand language, irregular – but no one considered this diagnosis for me until I was fragmented.”

In South London, at Maudsle Hospital, its most ill, is a intensive expert care program for its most ill, most regular bipolar patients. The purpose of the service is to try and stop patients who kill the crisis point.

Similar to services offered in other European countries, hospital offers group sessions for patients and their families. Classes help patients understand when an episode can begin and contact the service after watching the initial warning signs.

They can then participate in an outpatient clinic and adjust the drugs. The relatively cheap program has seen a decline in the hospital by 80% fall as the intervention is intervened before the crisis.

Prof. Young states that the costs associated with bipolar disorder can be halved with more expert care programs.

“Undoubtedly, expert treatment can contribute to many people to bring back to work. And we know that work is very good to help people overcome mental ill health episodes.”

However, many experts say that patients still face postcode lottery whether they can see a psychiatrist.

Caroline Chev-Gram, a GP and Professor of General Practice Research at Kail University, says that those who are completely unhealthy will be raised quickly by the crisis teams, but people with “low fluorid manic episode” can recall referrals for experts for diagnosis.

“There is a high range of referrals,” pro chu Graham says. “People have to be quite unwell before being seen in expert services”. She says that GPS may be reluctant to refer to patients – even if they strongly doubt that they have bipolar disorder – they will be rejected for fear.

“GPS may think that I will not even consider the bipolar because if I mention it to the patient and then I cannot see them, I am a little stuck”.

Prof. Young states that bipolar patients require long -term specialist care.

“But it’s disappointment here – even though there is strong evidence that expert care improves the results for the patient, and spends less to the state, yet there are very few bipolar expert features.

“It’s a tragedy.”

A NHS spokesperson said that bipolar disorder could often take time in diagnosis as it affects everyone differently and the symptoms were similar to other mental health conditions.

“NHS employees are working incredibly to reduce the waiting time for people to diagnose and care.

“Employees are treating one lakh more people than six years ago and are working to change services along with this demand – this includes strengthening community services, testing new 24/7 open access mental health centers and rolling mental health crisis lines.”

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