Ccdd.org.uk Website Review

as a professional footballer for 17 years, the last 13 of those whilst suffering with complex depressive disorder, i encountered many social. and personal difficulties. the combination of an undiagnosed illness and being emotionally illiterate, meant i developed coping strategies. that were totally destructive and compounded my depression. the consequence of this was that, whilst being extremely successful in my profession, i lived a duplicitous life of external lauding and internal loathing, a quite disgusting concoction. it was only after 2 suicide attempts that i was admitted to psychiatric hospital, where i finally received an accurate diagnosis. my recovery is on-going, “small steps” being my and the charity’s motto, and it is with increasing self-awareness that i am able to manage my illness and not allow it to manage me. i have subsequently set up the clarke carlisle foundation for dual diagnosis foundation in order to fund a purpose built dual diagnosis treatment facility. such a facility doesn’t exist as of today, in the world! the nhs system, as energetic as it is, still asks sufferers to choose which condition to treat first, even though they know that independent treatment is utterly futile. we have a 4 year plan that culminates in the opening of this facility, which will revolutionise the blueprint for mental health care in general. in tandem with this, we are developing a system that will give instant access to talking therapies. this will totally eliminate the waiting time that is currently imposed on the population, and hopefully alleviate the burden on crisis centres and the nhs services.. dual diagnosis usually refers to a co-existing (co-occurring) substance misuse and mental health disorder. this specific definition. applies in relation to the proposed service – nice guidelines 30th november 2016. it may also be used to describe a number of comorbidities including physical health problems. this definition is outside the brief of the