Hi, hope this doesn't turn into a rant as I am absolutely livid. After waiting around 9 months, ds who is 15 finally had a camhs assessment today. We described his issues, including severe self harm, no friends due to isolating himself, suicide attempt last month and just in general he cannot function normally due to his mental health. Most recently, 2 new issues arose: we noticed he has been taking alcohol from our shelves and that he has been losing a lot of weight, which he swears is unintentional but I found a notebook in his room with a list of foods he eats everyday and their calories beside it. Also written down was a 'diet plan' where he aims to eat less than 600 calories per day. I am absolutely terrified for him and I've only outlined above his 'main' issues, if I were to describe them all I'm sure it would take up several paragraphs.
So we went CAMHS and described everything. They told us 'some people are naturally reclusive and introverted. Your son is one of them,' to which we replied by explaining his self harm and suicide attempt and they just told us 'here we do not have a child with a mental illness. Just a very introverted, shy boy with little confidence. But that will be better once he reaches sixth form!'
They won't help with his eating issues as he has a BMI of 18.5 and it needs to be under 18.5 to even be considered for eating disorder help. Didn't even get offered any sort of counseling. We can't afford private and we don't know what to do anymore, we really thought CAMHS would help us.
Anyone have any experience/recommendations for us?
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CAMHS refusing to help severely depressed ds15
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elstan · 28/11/2015 13:15
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