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Disturbing report on CAMHS
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Apologies for not seeing this until tonight, but according to the BBC News website on 24 September 2018, CAMHS is 'not fit for purpose'.
"Children with mental health problems
are not receiving treatment until they are in crisis and sometimes
suicidal, doctors have told the BBC.
A letter leaked to Panorama reveals at least one area's child and adolescent mental health service (Camhs) to be rationing care.
Leading psychiatrist Jon Goldin described the service as "not fit for purpose".
The government said it was investing an extra £1.4bn in child mental health."
Trigger Warning: Beware, halfway down the report is a disturbing 12 second short video.
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I've never experienced CAMHS before personally as I was apparently not bad enough for it (I presume as I was/am just anxious and not a danger to myself or others) but I have heard really bad things about it.
It's really rubbish we deserve better everyone does x
Firstly, the £1.4bn of funding is spread over 5 years. Although, it's concerning to know that the government is relying on some 2004 reports as part of their approach to mental health policy - there's definitely more recent reports and research on it! How this plays out per person is unknown though, because stats for mental health doesn't go back many years in the UK. It's said that funding has gone up 4% so far, but if I had to guess, I'd reckon that demand for mental health services has probably increased faster than that.
There's a debate on at the moment - although ideally we'd like to have stellar mental health services available to every one, we probably have to prioritise - which one do we put first? Is it better to roll out basic MH services to everyone in the UK, or improve the existing network of MH services we have?
Regarding employment, we're in a very strange place right now. There are several vacancies as people are leaving the psychology industry, but then those who do want to enter find that they are underqualified, and that there is little support once you're in! And of course, once the industry builds a reputation for being an awful place to work, potential applicants are warded off as well.
There's a lot of questions out there, and not many answers.
it’s so sad to see waiting times so long becasye it’s such a vital services but there just simply isn’t the funds put into it
Was just reading this. He had regular intrusive suicidal thoughts and got told he would wait 40 weeks so he went private and they ending up getting in contact with him two years later.
Which was like 6 years ago is obviously really bad and only getting worse. And if only getting worse like when will it get better. But suprising reading because when i was bit younger i tried to kill myself for the first time, (i had no help before and it looked like came from no where) but then i started seeing CAMHS literally from the day after that, for every week, but had no treatment cause was going onto age of adult services in less than a year so maybe why. I don’t know. But either way i was really grateful for that as was even aware of the underfunded. But anyway i just wanted to share that as i think look so much on negative experiences with CAMHS.
But is onyl when people act on their feelings they get help, cause seems like even if theyre in crisis and suicidal thoughts still not getting help which is really sad.