Trans boy, 17, who killed himself on mental health ward felt ‘worthless’

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1. I expect the suicide rates go very high soon enough, life is extremely stressful recently from every single angle.

2. Sad. The % of depression and suicide are unfortunately really high within that community. I hope something can be done.

3. Mental health services for teenagers are just awful – CAMHS is on its knees, and in many places is making things worse,as teenagers have the opportunity for mental health support dangled in front of them, which never materialises as there’s not enough capacity.

   This poor kid, it’s just awful.

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5. Christ. Healthcare in the UK has become difficult enough to access for just about everyone, so I can only imagine how desperate and hopeless Charlie’s situation felt. Tragic and completely unacceptable.

6. The mental health aspect has to be looked at more closely. This kind of stuff could be prevented if it wasn’t for the mental health denial and stigma created from within

7. Unfortunately, anti-trans activists will see this as a further reason to continue their campaign to keep conversion therapy legal; they’ll say he killed himself because of trans people confusing him, not because of, for example, the colossal and increasing transphobia in our society. I have seen people saying this on twitter already unfortunately.

8. I wonder what would make a trans kid feel worthless in this country…

9. I wonder if Sunak already has a joke to tell about this poor boy in the commons or if he’s gonna get an aide to make up one for him.

10. Damn almost like every week a news article having something to do with 1% of the population would make you feel worthless, this is why I actively have started tapering off the Internet for anything outside of gaming or YouTube, just runs yah down

11. Poor lad. My heart goes out to anyone who cared for him.

12. The NHS can’t deal with mental health if it can’t be solved by throwing tablets at the problem. It’s been a problem for the last 20 years at least.

13. Nobody cared when I felt useless at 17 and even less people care that I feel useless at 25. The crocodile tears only come on when someone actually kills themselves yet nothing changes.

14. This is absolutely awful. And if he’s was autistic like the article suggests then was he actually a complex case or did the broad mental health support that’s not designed for autistic people just not work for him??? Either way it’s digusting and it feels like he didn’t really stand a chance.