“Waiting times increased in some cases from one year to three years. Many children are now being told they do not meet the threshold for CAMHS, despite being suicidal or restricting their eating to dangerously low levels.
I left CAMHS with a heavy heart because the plight of the many children in the UK needing help for mental health problems is now not dissimilar to those children I met 25 years ago in the Romanian orphanages.
With record numbers of children and young people now coming forward help in the wake of the pandemic, it is absolutely vital that CAMHS is properly funded to enable it to help all those in need.”
This is a painfully sad article, are any parts of our medical services receiving the funds that it should since the Tories got into power?
CAMHS is absolutely appalling. I was severely depressed at 17 and they said I wasn’t unwell enough for a referral. I couldn’t even go to school. I had to go to A&E and threaten suicide to get that referral.
I honestly believe adolescent mental health in the UK would be improved by closing down CAHMS, and revoking the licences of many of the practitioners who work in it.
Offering mental health care to young people, making them jump through hoops to access it, including talking about incredibly painful things, then denying them that care because of staffing levels (or whatever) materially damages them, not just in that moment but for the rest of their lives. The lesson they learn is that seeking mental health care is futile and painful, and they will take that lesson with them into adulthood.
Headline gore at its finest.
I mean, it is about as grammatically ambiguous as you can get and it is also a play on the worst headline format available, the “Here’s why”.
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“Waiting times increased in some cases from one year to three years. Many children are now being told they do not meet the threshold for CAMHS, despite being suicidal or restricting their eating to dangerously low levels.
I left CAMHS with a heavy heart because the plight of the many children in the UK needing help for mental health problems is now not dissimilar to those children I met 25 years ago in the Romanian orphanages.
With record numbers of children and young people now coming forward help in the wake of the pandemic, it is absolutely vital that CAMHS is properly funded to enable it to help all those in need.”
This is a painfully sad article, are any parts of our medical services receiving the funds that it should since the Tories got into power?
CAMHS is absolutely appalling. I was severely depressed at 17 and they said I wasn’t unwell enough for a referral. I couldn’t even go to school. I had to go to A&E and threaten suicide to get that referral.
I honestly believe adolescent mental health in the UK would be improved by closing down CAHMS, and revoking the licences of many of the practitioners who work in it.
Offering mental health care to young people, making them jump through hoops to access it, including talking about incredibly painful things, then denying them that care because of staffing levels (or whatever) materially damages them, not just in that moment but for the rest of their lives. The lesson they learn is that seeking mental health care is futile and painful, and they will take that lesson with them into adulthood.
Headline gore at its finest.
I mean, it is about as grammatically ambiguous as you can get and it is also a play on the worst headline format available, the “Here’s why”.